Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-29
THE YALE CULT.
Six Thousand Beauty Worshipers ThrOnG
the Auditorium Madame Yale the
Magnet - A New Era Opening in
Physical Culture-"Father Time"
to BE Outwitted-A Sketch of
the Career Of the Great
Be uty Sci n tfst.
From the Chicago Tribune.
Six Thousand beauty wor.hipers Thr,

Could the Auditorium have been conscious Of the
fact that the High Priestess of Beauty Culture,
Nine. YALE announced to appear within its
walls Monday afternoon it would certainly have
groaned I'm dismay and braced Its granite pillars
for the ordeal As II was, the great tower seemed
TO look down in dumb establishment upon the sea Of
plumed and beribboned hats squeezing and cram
ming themselves into the entrance.
Five thousand Is the seating capacity Of the
house; but another thousand made use Of every
inch that could afford tiptoe standing room while
other disappointed thousands argued with the oh
durate doorkeepers and went away with the small
satisfaction of having had the last word-for. be
1t remembered. the crowd was Of feminine gender.
Every grade OF the social scale sent its represen
tatives testify to the universal love Of the beau
tiful. The fppant society belle, the specialized
blue stocking, the mOthery housewife, the prim
old maid, the new woman, the old woman, the
rich, the poor, met with common want.
And the six thousand were satisfied with the in
toxicating draught OF beauty. The three hours
spent in almost mute admiration. 1t seemed
that the twelve thousand eyes and ears being so
engrossed left no consciousness OF hands Tor ap-
plause. 1t was only when the curtain, slowly de-
scending, touched the floor and shut from view the
last inch Of the beautiful woman. that hands came
again to the attention Of their owners. ThA they
asserted their rights enthusiastically.
Preceding her lecture. Nine. Yale impersonated
Helen of Troy in three pantomme tableaux, and,
like the fair Trojan completely conquered all who
gazed upon her by the magical power Of grace ana
beauty alone.
gasp of wonder crept like wave the
house from the orchestra to the topmost balcony
as the entranced Queen appeared amid the shrub
berry OF the garden 1t a queeny, golden
head, indeed, that bore the sparkling diadem, and
the sweet, upturned face expressed childlike won
der and delight. rose-colored robe Tell away
from the exquisite arms and shoulders and out
,-t,t, and
with each other.
The marvellous power of expression that lies in
the we'll trained human form wonderfully
demonstrated in the second tableaux. where the
disconsolate Helen is on the walls watching
her beautiful city in flames. With her back to the
audience, her hands hanging idle and her head
dropping, without movement or gesture, the
white-robed figure expressed utter detection.
The beautiful penitent's surrender before King
Priam perhaps the most touching OF the three
pictures. and half lost in a mist of tears The
too quickly descending curtain received a decided
murmur of disapproval followed by very deter
mined and insistent encore. 1t was an impressive
sight this great throng drawn together to worship
beauty with its eyes fastened in hungry eagerness
upon the satisfying visions of Mime. Yale. 1t must
have strongly moved the compassionate heart OF
the little woman, for when she advanced to begin
her discourse her beautiful face illuminated
with a tremuous smile of tender sympathy, and
her hearers that the attainment of physical beauty
was a possibility to every one OF them.
THE very fact that God has implanted in your
breast a desire to be beautiful Is sufficient proof
that you were intended to be beautiful. II you
are not it is because the seed has not yet been
developed"
As If to disarm any grained critic who might
insinuate that fine feathers largely RESPONSE
BILE for her charms. Nine. Yale appeared for the
second part of her lecture in a simple Diana cos
tune consisting of a short white tunic, gathered
together at the waist with silver girdle. white
tights and white slippers.
A dainty fairy figure tripped out to ask approval
with the half timid grace of fawn. and long
drawn ''Ah!' showed the keen satisfaction Of the
audience 1t were a difficult enough task to de-
scribe the separate beauty of hand and foot, deli
cately tinted cheek rounded throat, gently swell
ing BOSOM slender, supple waist and tapering
limbs but to describe the ensemhle-where are the
words? They leave jarrng sense of insufficiency.
Music alone can fifty portray the lifting bird
like grace and delicate spiritual meaning of