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infant has much to say in regard to his
career and the country wants to know
it Mrs. Thurston was aware that the
fagots were laid for her son by his ue
voted but sanquinary sire.
' New York women are said to be the
most beautiful in the world. Their
reputation has been acquired by the at'
tention the individuals pay to their pos
sibilities The plainest woman has he
best points and her worst ones. The
arti3t shows her superiority to her day
laborer of a sister by artlessly empha
sizing her points and concealing her
defects. The sylvan beauty has noth
ing but her birthright. Mcney, style,
anatomical and physiological knowledge
of the best masseurs keep the face and
figure free from wrinkles and embon
point. Fatti and Bernhardt watch time
as the sentinels of a baleagured city
watch the enemy. For more than fifty
years their enemy has watched them,
but is still twenty years away from the
citadel. Patti and her veteran maid
watch his approach ana when he is
ready to matte a sortie they fire the
mine which blows him higher than a
kite. Here is her ladyship's campaign
for summer and winter: Patti's system
of beauty is massage. When she was
young it might have been something
easier. But for the woman of fifty who
wants to look thirty, massage is the
best. Patti's maid begins every morn -ing
after breakfast and works until
time lor madam's luncheon. She
smoothes out the wrinkles of the hands,
massaging them until the plumpness at
the wrists melts away, and the knuckles
alone are pudgy. Patti's figure comes
in for its share of rubbing, It is made
shapely and firm by the vigorous treat
ment of the rolls of fat that are bound
to accentuate themselves upon the skin
of a woman of middle life. But after
the evening performance comes the hard
work. When Patti is ready for bed her
maid hands her a candle and a mirror.
With this La Diva goes over her com
plexion inch by inch looking for wrin
kles. After "Lucia di Lammermoor"
there is a crease between (the eyes that
looks like a frown and makes Patti older
than she wants to be.
Setting down the candle, madatne bids
the maid to go to work. Slowly the
finger tips travel over that wrinkle
again and again, until not a trace of it
is left. The neck next gets its share of
rubbing. Madame has to aid in this
herself. She does it by exercise.
Twenty times she lifts her clinched fists
upward, twenty times outward and
twenty times at the sides. This gives
the throat work and strengthens it.
The maid rubs it and gets it into firm
shape.
Mrs. G. P. Huntington's celebrated
law suit to fight the bill of a masseuse
who wanted an exhorbitant sum for
reducing Mrs. Huntington's neck until
it would fit the diunond necklace Mrs.
Huntington had always worn developed
one fact that massage does reduce the
2esh of the neck. The throat was made
smaller. Society women have remem
bered the testimony of this suit, and
have made their maids work upon their
throats every night for months, until
the throat took on the slendor contour
of a girls.
And here is a debutante's precocious
knowledge of her points and another
girl's: "I am a pretty girl.' said a cer
tain beautiful New York debutante this
winter to a plain' angular friend, "but if
I had your possibilities I should be irre
sistible." "Tell me how," said the plain angular,
girl friend.
"Your qualifications are Buch. You
have sandy hair, your complexion is
white, your eyes are pale blue, and your
neck is as long as a swan's throat. Ob,
If I were only you."
"What would you do?"
"I should have my hair treated with
brilliant fluids until it lay in coils of
gold over my head. Yours is washed to
death and done up in braids. Braided
lead isn't as pretty as spun gold. I
should darken my eyebrows. Don't
faint. I should vaseline them at night
until they got heavy and black. I
should bleach my face and keep it as
white as a nun'3 face, and my lips should
have doses of alcohol and sharp presses
of teeth until they were red. I should
maybe 'point them with a touch of red,
like a Japanese lady's mouth. It would
look like a rosebu nestling in a face as
ethereal as Evangeline's. In a ruddy
brown you would etartle people, and in
black chiffon you would frighten them
with your glory. And Edith for
heaven's sake don't, don't show your
shoulder blades! It cuts me to look at
them. Dress that throat of yours with
folds and ruchings and let the skin
glimmer through."
"There is a woman whose name is
connected with society events every
where who has a recipe for keeping
young. It is to be massaged nightly
from head to foot, with different prepa
rations. A soft cream for her face, arm8
and throat. Spirits render, her muscles
strong, and she has a dip of coid water
to make here as hardy . s a girl.
Richard Mansfield's new picture is in
Zehrung's window. His head is thrown
back and he looks up at his ideal of
what the theatre ought to be. He has
quite lost the gentle and unassuming
grace with which he stepped into his
career. Perhaps it was taken while he
was lecturing before the curtain, a habit
which adverse criticism in the news
parers has discouraged. In this city,
celebrated for its appreciation of the
stage, his curtain lecture would find
attentive hearers. Mr. Mansfield and
his wife are hard workers in their pro
fession. They are talented, handsome.
The last time they were in Lincoln the
company was very good. Mr. Mansfield
gives his personal attention to the
smallest details of the presentation of u
play. And the result is satisfactory to
a very unusual degree to the audience.
Moisture has started towards Ne
braska from two directions. Capillary
attraction is elevating the streams that
feed thu Platte and the cloups are open
ing their reservoirs upon the richest Boil
in the world when wet. Next year's
crop looks large at the present time.
The snow that fell the early part of the
week was moist and there was a lot of it.
Julia Marlowe Taber is playing
Shakesperian roles in New York. Duse
went to see her one night and her en
thusiastic applause and cordial appre
ciation showed that she too realized the
greatness of the young woman who has
long been recognized by the discerning
as the foremost actors on the American
stage. Duse's tribute to Marlowe was
the tribute of the greatest living actress
to the most promising.
The foregoing is taken from the dra
matic columns of the New York World
of March 13, Altho' the World's dra
matic criticism occupies a modest place
n the estimation of the New York
critics, John Dennis makes no egregious
mistake, He knows he is not great
enough to contradict them so he keeps
in the procession. Mrs. Taber's work ia
of such a character as easily to disap
point an audience trained to consider
Clara Morris, shrieks and facial acting.
Julia Marlowe's new York triumphed i9
heightened by the fact that her previ
ous appearances in that city, through
a combination of unfortunate circum
stances, have been unsuccessful. She
has conquered her audience in spite of
prejudice and previous servitude,
At the Broadway George C. Miln
the former preacher, whom many Lin.
coin people know personally, is playing
Julius Caesar, tie is as extinct as the
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