The Washington herald., 1906-12-02

1t is not so very many weeks since I
went TO a luncheon given in honor of
a young actress who was playing in the
company of a very well-known and ex-
quisitely charming woman star at one
Of the theaters here 1 was immensely
surprised at the guest of honors figure.
on the stage she was certainly more than
plump. and of she was quite as certain
ly of the lath family. She saw surprise
in all our faces. and she told tales out
Of school.
Miss Blank" said she, has been
growing stout for several years. Every
summer she goes abroad 10 some flesh
reducing springs, but in spite of exercise
and diet. she gets positively fat before
the winter IS over. She makes every
woman in her company pad We have
to let out our waists and stuff our clothes
till, if We can't look larger than she
does. at least we're not enough thinner
10 make her seem stouter by contrast.
She is very lovely about it, but firm. The
public, she says. pays TO see her. not US,
and she must look her best I'm so pad
ded every night now that I feel like a
featherbed. but she asked me last night
to add an inch to my waist If she takes
on much more flesh. 1 don't know how
we'll manage We're carrying so much
cotton around with us now that if the
fire department knew it. they'd certainly
Te after US"
That same woman star has hit upon a
scheme for giving herself the center of
the stage in her newest play. that I Won
der none OF the critics has objected to.
She is, as I said before, the most delight
ful Of actresses, and OFF the stage the
most charming Of women; but she has
allowed vanity to spoil the strongest
scene in he play 1t is n love scene, and
her leading maxwell, he's really a CO.
staT-plays it extremely well; but never
once Is the audience allowed TO see his
face. The actress plays up stage. so that
in order TO face her he must show his
back TO the audience. It's beautifully
done, but when l saw 1t. nothing in the
world but fear of being put out of the
theater kept me from standing up and
screaming, For goodness sake. turn
and let Us see your face.
It is daily more evident to me that peo-
pie are not so familiar with the Bible as
they ought to be. and as they used to be
overheard a very well-known journalist
talking to a woman who writes a little.
at a tea room the other day:
How is your story coming on?' he
asked
Very well" said she: "and your
work?''
oh" said he 7 am p busy as usual
making bricks out of stTAw."
Il certainly had d near Scripture sound.
but what he meant by it, it's not given
ne 10 know
There are some women in this world
who won't stop at anything I have re-
Gently married friend over on Capitol Hin
who decided, when the fur wearing sea-
son arrived. that her mink neckpfece
wasn't becoming 10 her. Brown. she said.
made her look sallow; so she determined
10 turn that mink into lustrous black
lynx She bought a package of dye and
set to work. Somewhere on some dump
ing ground now. there is q piece of stiff
and unpleasant looking skin. Ii has q /
Few hairs on it Of a rusty darkish hue, |
bat mostly the boilinS dye took them off /
80 ~caN AtAN fttyth a. buk Sllt AlAlt Ltll ]
her husband I have no doubt that he /
really believes the black collarette she is /
wearing is that made-over piece Of mink. /
He may find out differently when the /
bill comes in; but. then, a man ought not 1
TO marry if he isn't prepared 10 stand /
finding out things.
I shall never forget my first converse /
tion with the president Of my college /
says a real estate man. "Prexy was as /
unbending as the monument and lots of 4
fellows went through that college without /
more than a bowling acquaintance with /
him. We all knew Mrs. Prexy a little bet
ter. for she used to send every freshman 4
a bunch Of temperance tracts, and we had 1
10 write notes Of thanks, and go to tea TO |
show her we appreciated the attention, /
and that her views were ours. Temper
ance was her hobby. and to this day thou