The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-16
By CLARA MORRIS

Now. when girl has beauty she longs to
adorn it-she Graves, she hungers for delicate
ranent, for God has made her So Nay. she suf-
fers, and is repealed by cheap and tawdry things;
cramped and narrowed IS she by her sordid
life. that for her all the beauty OF the world is
contained in luxurious raiment She would stand
unmoved before a glorious painting, saturated
with sunlight, full Of air, with wide, open bowy
places. No thrill Of awed delight could come to
her before the stern high loneliness OF carven
stonc-but her poor little soul would CULVER with
rapture over the graceful sweep of splendid
feather. and her heart will beat double time with
JOY at the mere touch OF the soft almost living
warmth Of fine furs
II, then, beauty only reach her through the
medium of clothes. think how precious q thing
to her must be gorgeous wardrobe,
The Price of Success.
Then, when such a girl, pretty clever poor.
lands in the front row. third from the left Of the
line its toss-up whether she remains right
there till her round smooth throat becomes lean
and scraggy, whether some chance, some jack.
nthe-boX trick, losses her into the middle OF
the stage and sudden, headturning popularity.
1t seems strange that these people who go
often reach success by luck, never remember
that luck, like good rule works both ways
and never. never prepare for the inevitable
change.
In her strange new affuence, the girl who has
made "a hit" develops needs amazingly. The
cab habit is acquired in a week In less time
she knows the Joy of walking on 1.-The sweet
sunny side of Broadway" wearing a hundred
dollar hat She who IN the old days asked
nothing better than silver of any old kind
OF soap for her bath in the family zinc.lined
tub can no longer use soap at ALL but ONLY
almond meal-so delicate becomes the fayorite's
skin. while her hot aromatic baths, her stmu.
iatinG spice, or cooling fragrant rose, baths are
as necessary as they are expensive 1t Is dead
easy" TO acquire habits OF luxury but try break
ing them once! They are far more likely to
break" you.
OF eXtravagant giving-for every actress is a
breadwinner for some one beside herself
Did you ever watch the fight Of an arrow
sent aimlessly into the air? 1t will describe a
perfect arch rushing upward and strengthening
tselr out horizontally and Mt the apex OF the arch
1t VIII seem for the part OF second to be sta
lonary Then the point slips to the downward
rush--the completed arch and obscurity for the
arrow! And that is the life OF most actresses
II is Just during those years of popularity and
nigh pay, the years that correspond to the sta
iionary arrow that the public imaglnes its
iavorite star 10 be cutting wide swathe in
SAFETY deposit circles, at least putting aside
many large round nest eggs" But instead of
that she is adding about forty per cent to her
expenses by taking husband
IT he has brains enough, she turns him into
a sort of gentleman courier to purchase tickets
check luggage and Jolly newspaper men Some.
times he is not up TO more than running errands
or training her dog, whom he will teach to sit
up ana peg almost as we'll he can do It him
self. And when evil days como her sole effort
At economy consists in eliminating that husband
from her list Of expenses. She drops him over
board
If it is folly 10 live right up to ones income.
II is sin to live beyond it, Most actresses