The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-13

milk washes this down, but in an hour
and q half she takes a couple of COB
lets of clear cold water and considers
herself as having Toasted. After the
play, at a supper given in her honor,
she will daintily pick a chickens wing,
eat her salad leaves with salt and
round out the festivity with an olive,
for well she knows the penalty of In
diligence in an old-fashioned square
meal, and her eyes saw how the svelt
and serpentine Miss Jessie Milwood de-
veloped, after two seasons in America,
a plumpness that was the reason of her
whole loss of prestige on the New
York stage.
Pound in Time.
"Of course groaned a pretty and
popular actress who discussed the sit
uation with regret and animation, "the
very young girls don't have to follow
so severe a. regimen, and Georgia Drew
Barrymore is not yet obliged to keep
scales in her bath rooms and pinch a
bag in her back hall, but eventually
she must come to it; and what all our
doctors advise is to take the pound in
time that saves nine. That is where
we have learned wisdom over our sis
ter professionals, who never took to
training down till the tide of flesh had
risen very high and could only be sub
dued by mighty self-abnegation and in
variably injury to ones looks"
''What always amuses me-" went on
this leader in her profession, lis the
pleasant tradition, cherished among
play-goers, that when an actress ar
rives, and her salary gets almost too
big for her bankers to manage, that her
years of luxury begin. The meaning
or true luxury, which is soft lying, easy
hours, plenty of sweet leisure. chance
to exercise your hospitable soul, never
arrives until the actress leaves the
stage and takes to private life. AS
long as she is before the footlights, as
she prizes her salary and popularity.
she must maintain her looks and her
youthfulness, and she can't call in cos
metic, wigs. etc, to help her out.
sham Beauty an Bad style.
Sham beauty is no more tolerated on
the twentieth century stage than sham
satins or green baize oceans. The ac-
tress' looks must be as real as the con-
touriere, whose name is stamped in gilt
on the waist belt of her Paris frock.
Take a front seat at the theater. If
you like. and powerful opera glass
and stare at Annie Russell, or Mary
Mannering, or Olga Nethersole, and see
how much sham there is in their APP
pe arance and how very little cosmetic
is used. Meet any of these women on
the street in broad daylight and you
can see how fine is the grain of their
skins, how dazzling their teeth, how
rich and shining their hair, how deli
cate and graceful their figures, white
and faultlessly manicured their hands
and how, even from the bows on their
walking slippers to the monographs on
their cobwebby handkerchiefs, their
costumes echo the very last word in
fashion-but, phew! how much all this
has cost.
Those reed-like figures speak of diet
in season and out; those fiat shoulders
and straight spines mean sleeping on
hard beds with never a downy pillow
to invite easy dreams. Those round
waists and slender hips are the result
of faithful horseback or fencing exer-
else, whether you like exercise or not.
and those satin skins mean baths and
massage and steam treatments, and
that fine~hair must be examined and
washed scientifically twice a week.
Why, the least bohemian creature in
the world is the woman who Is quail
flying for starship or who heads a big
stock company. Cigarettes and late
suppers have no place in her life, be-
cause IL requires eight hours sleep to
keep her skin clear and her eyes bright
and because she has got to keep a
weather eye out for wrinkles. double
ehins and gray hairs. She must fur
thermore, bend her intellect 10
thoughts OF corsets. the new couture,