The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, March 29, 1891, Image 9

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Newspaper Page TextPART TWO. (jAV CARRIE CARELESS DESCRIBES THE EAST- R GAME OF BMND GIRL'S BLHFF. A few Remarks Upon a Bill W hich is Before tbe Minnesota Legislature, ani a Startling Discov ry Concern l"g It -The Medical Ce: tiiicate Which E?ery Theater-Goer Will Have to Wear. { Copyright , 1891.) Easter revelry is on the air, Easter games are everywhere. New York, March 28.—Bii dman'sfcuff, under the new came of bliudgirl’s bluff, is is in our midst. Tnis is the way it is done. The pretty bluffer is blindfolded by means of a long black mask which effectually keeps her from gazing underneath. She is t en seated in the middle of the room, while the company, joining hands, slowly walk around her. High above her head the bluffer flourishes a weapon not unlike the shield which the darkies down south use for protection against flies and mosquitoes. As the mystic circle silently passed around the blindfolded enchantress, the latter brings down er wend lightly upon the head 3 of any one whom its aim may con cern. He quickly catches it, kisses the barni of the Queen of the Mask, and takes lis place on the throne, where he in turn swnvs tne scepter. Should a yung woman he touched with the wand she embraces her ex-queeu. and tries her own hand with the wand. Tue game is made interesting by the an nouncement that should the queen fail in three strokes to touch one of her subjects, she is presented, later on, with the court jester’s paper cap and bells. And should aiv subject be so fortunate as to be three time3 chosen, she is given a jubilee and is swarded a gilt crown, or, prettier still a tioer one. At Eastertide the girls are all smiling and peasant and blossomy. Why? Becaus the. can now re el in all the little delights that arc near to the feminine hearts and person. Charley s nds a sweet vase of flowers, Mr. Featberton contributes a poem written by I iuiself, and Mr. Bestfellow suggests a lovely Easter day outing, it is sure to be a gala time v r the girl who is full of life and who enjoys some measure of popularity. Bun-lons of an afternoon aro no longer sinful, for the time for the mortitication of the fkoh is past. Decollete gowns are de manded of an evening and the young spring buds are blooming in nil the extremes of present styles. Yet sad as it may seem to t. os? who reside in a region of uncloudv gai- ty, there is a s.ction of our own free linU threatened by a cioud which wili dim the hoiizon of many a man and throw more than one woman out of an occupa tio \ Has no one noticed that if Senator Hale’s bill pa-ses the legislature all women will be excluded from the stage in Minnesota? The theater will have to lie conducted on the C'lb use principle of having men play the female parts; and all the women who have beer, earning an independent livelihood on the stage must ta o to the typewriter for assistance or get them to another state. The law which the proper senator has intrcduced reads thus: It shall lea mis deireanor for "any female person” on the stage to "expose her nether limb or limbs dressed in tights, so called, or in any man ner whatever so that the shape and form of her nether limb or limbs are plainly visi ble” At first reading this would seem to ex clude only the wearing of tights from the stage, but closer attention and a prayerful research iuto oiio’s moral strictures brings cut the fact, which is startling, though plain, that the whole world of women must forsake the Minnesota stage for the nonce, i r until the presont fashion in dress is changed. Uf course, you see why this is so. Any w man who has had the courage of her fashi liable conviction exalted to such a high degree that she could wear the new tailor made gowns will understand at once that the stage, which does not countenance anything short of the extreme style, must ba Eh women from its boards until .the aw permits them to dies, in accordance with the fashion. If a woman cannot dress "in nny manner wha'ever so that the shape or form of her nether limb or limbs are plainly visible,” she cannot wear the couvon.ional street giirb. That is certain, for everyone knows that in the contracted skirt, dictat and by fashion, there is no se cret made as to the shape and size of the members which support a woman’s body. 80 go d-by, ladles of the Minnesota stage! xou a e going to leave us now—if the bill passes. You may be able, occasionally, to coma on when comic parts permit the wear ing of a barrel to hide your proportions, or the adoption of a crinoline to conceal the tn ans by which you walk. In the latter case the crinoline must be heavily weighted to prevent an accidental bobbing up when the heroine flings herself about in the emo tional scenes. Aext, we shall hear of some dear old sen ator who, seeking to guard the seclusion of the female leg. will introduce a bill making it a misdemeanor for a mantogazeata woman’s leg as it is revealed to him upon tna avenue of a rainy or muddy day. He Wi '‘ c institute it ns a misdemeanor for a him to cross a sloppy crossing behind a ln y • It w ill be another misdemeanor to walk up tbe avenue of a wiudy day when there are womon taking their constitutional open that thoroughfare. And it will be made a felony for any one, be he man, woman or ohild, to gaze from club windows overlooking any corner difficult to pass w t f!n the elements are boisterous. There is another clause in ttie bill which, “ ana 'yted, shows the nicety of thought which may at times find access to the mas culine mind. Mark wbat it is; "so that the shape and form of her nether limb or limbs are plainly visible." Plainly visible! this distinction involves a little question of eyesight. Things that are plainly visi ble to yon and me, may not be plainly visi ble to oar next door neighbor unless he has his lorgnettes. We may be able to see clearly with the naked eye. He sees, as through a gins, darkly, unless he puts on vf “ e *'lClws.” vV mote or a beam may obstruct one man’s sight, so that a woman seems to locomote along as upon two wheels. To another she looks as if she pro pelled herself cot unlike a man. The physiological fact that eyesight ▼ftriesmay lead to legal restrictions and re quirements not unlike those which govern applicants for admission to army and navy positions. A man, on entering the the tr in Minne sota, should the Hale bill pass, will bear °Pon his person a certificate reading some what like one of these: Name. Marmaduke Missnancv. Eyesight. Myopic. Figures’ on stage not plainly visible, even from front row, onless he wears his eveglaso Directions. Seat'him anywhere in the house. Confiscate his eyeglass. Hire him no lorgnettes. Perfectly safe without them. Another certificate will read: Name. Augustus Ahthere. Eyesight. Perfect. Can see anywhere. Eyes are better than Sam Weller’s, tor they •re capable of acting as a "pair o’ patent double million maguifyin’ gas microsoopee of hextra power.” Directions. Put green gig lamps upon him, and, thus handicapped, seat him where i he canno cast side glances at the stage. Another will read: Name. Boresome Ba’dtop. Eyesight. Gone, hut subject to sadden spasms of returning life. Directions. —Seat him i:i tbe front row, but ■et an usher to watch bim.g Should a spasm illumine bis countenance.or a thrill of joy seem to chase itself across him, clap bliuders upon him and let the bouncer be called. Armed with regulations, requirements and restrictions such as these the stage would be reasonably free from eonaminat lng influences and the audience would have a chance to grow a large crop of Comstock ian morality. Questions of bribery might and would arise. The oi culists might, by promise of gleaming dollars, be led to declare an eye sight poorer than it really was. But tie courts would deal severely with such cases. No bald-headed meu would be allowed upon any of the juries, because tbe press hag created a prejudice against them, and it is feared that in a question involving the front row of orchestra chairs, a bald headed jury mau might be unduly influenced. Carrie Careless. A TEXAS G.R . IN NaW YORK. Some of the lights Which Amuse and Interest Her. (Copyright.} New York, March 28.—At home I was wont to consider myself, and am sure I was regai ded by others, as a person of refine ment; but here I’m afraid I am looked upon as a sort of superior savage, an amiable and aini.sing barbarian. They move about so quietly; they never appear to draw a deep breath, or have a sudden or violent emotion. 1 seem to want room, to be always bumping my elbows— both my real elbows and my verbal ones. I am losing confidence in my most familiar and trusted f rtns and expressions. I catch m vself searching warily in my mind for suitably diluted terms, and cautiously qual ifying my voluntary statements. if it’s like this in Gotham, what would it he in the modern Athens? I think they would muzzle me, hobble me, shoe me with list, and the cushions on my elbows; then connect me with a tire and burglar alarm and hope for the bast. I feel it in iny bones that I shall grow desperate some day, and hit s mebody’s crazy-bone, or step bard on someone’s corn; and we’il see if I’m the only one with nerves to feet, or a voice to express my joys and sorrows with. This being held a sort of wild thing will do its deadly work, and 1 shall break out and give them a taste of my quality. The primitive idea of man the warrior and woinau the love and comforter seems quite obsolete when you look at a very large class here. There are inch armies and armies of clerks, small salesmen, assistant bookkeepers, and such; men with small salaries, pale cheeks, narrow chests and neat white hands; and moving among and beside them the other armies of women; business women, working women, literary and pro fessional women; stout-hearted, self-reliant, capable; earning a living for themselves, andofteu for husbands and families, too. It is a sort of knocking about of accepted traditions, the romantic order of things in verted. I have been going about among the shops. From the dry goods stores, these great ba zars of silken and luxurious attire, alluring ornament, dainty perfume, and all those terrible and irresistible engines for the bat tery of beauty, gauds, ornaments and rav shments to delight the heart of a Josephine or a Rose du Barry, to unman Semiramis, and win a glance from Boadieia herself— from all these I got away comparatively safe and whole. But when I oame to the Japanese store I was captivated, enslaved, enchanted! Ido so love Japanese fixings! The lightness and delicacy, the pharp, angular, refreshing grace of their construction, the impudent drollery of their conceits, the outrageous, yet good-humored sarcasm of their grot esques; and the supernatural horribleness of their two-by-nine monsters, all tickle and delight me immensely. I fell under the fascination of a collection of birds, snakes, bugs, animals and goblins, in plaster, fur, feathers and scales, averag ing about the size of a small ink bottle, and weighing an ounce or so apiece. From this gay and festive company, this gang of wild, scampish, demoralized cynics, this Hecate’s rout of leering, jibing zoology, ethnology, ahd faiicy-run-mad, 1 only escaped away when I had beggared myself and both my companions. I bought a crocodile (with a leer) that gives me the most delightful jumps; a skeleton sea-serpent that would be a more effective means of reform than a whole inebriate asylum; an ape, a porcupine, a hippopotamus (with a sneer), a dog of some revised and improved breed, a parrot of most villainous and depraved countenance, a swaggering insolent and dissipated owl, a fat and contemplative toad; a | ie who knows the History of the Beginning of Things, has discovered the Whence and the Whither, and solved the problem of the W herefore (all for 20 cents, too) besides several others that I don’t think would translate Into En glish at all. But the darling of my collection is a five inch dragon, so utterly frightful and ap palling that all the ugliness of the others sink into mero insignificance iuc imparisou. His scales, that stand up along his serpen tine back in horrent rows, are little shells; his head is plaster; those eye3 which he doth glare with are chiDu; and he lolls out a little red muslin tongue from between hooked and grabful fangs, and surrounded by a grin, the unspeakable malice and soul less venom of which (though I well know it to be purely Pickwickian) makes my flesh to crawl, my heart to slow up, mv temper ature to go "down and my hair up, every time I encounter it. O, he is bewitchingly horrible! Never, sure, did plaster and red flannel wear such looks of cool devilry. He cost 85 cents, and by virtue of his higher price, as well as bis superior gifts, is regarded by me —and by all of them, too — as the choice and master spirit of the as sembly. I never lack for sensations now. I sit facinated before this gathering of em bodied sins and follies, crimes, mistakes and failures, gay effronteries, sluggish indiffer ences and sullen despairs. I beliove that under their uncanny influence I could write a wild, uncanny tale; one that would curl your hair, and leave it permanently kinky. I’ve been going to theaters, too. I have seen Bernhardt in "Camille” at the Garden theater. What a curious commentary on social in stitutions and conventions it is, if you will but think of it a minute; the great Sarah, portraying with aii the resources of her art, all the charm of her genius, the loveliness, tbe winning grace, sweetness and devotion cf a woman belonging to that class which all good, well-regulated women condemn. Her young, ardent and sincore lover (who is a handsome fellow with an attractive, ingenuous face, well suited to the part) loves, adores her; be flies to her eu raptured, at her final permission to come; his voice caress s her, his eyes worship. He pleads, entreats, with ail the eloquence of passionate love; aud with her hai.ds clasped in his, his glowing, ardent young face bent cage: ly almost against hers. And at this scene—amid such surroundings and between such lovers —look on dozens of in tensely respectable and inflexibly moral peo ple; papas and mammas who would be hor rified at tbe bare thought that Amelia SAVANNAH, GA.. SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 1891. I w uld permit Eugene, who is not her en ' gaged lover, a singiu small kiss. They are seemingly quite as much moved and inter ested as though they bad a right to be. When ‘‘Camille’s” female friends and their admirers come in a supper is served, and great hilarity urevails, these persons, the e irreproachable persons, laugn quite naturally at the jests and w itticisms. \\ heu "Camille” sacrificed herself—in a very un pretiy and French way—for "Armand’s” good, they wipe their eyes aud noses, and when she finally dies tney snuffle outright. No if —nr, I mean, which or, rather, how . No, 1 give it up. Of Bernhardt's art, power, and grace and charm it seems to ma theie could not be a question; though I confess I was not more impressed by them than I have sometimes been in more obscure actresses. She ii a woman of taste, an artist; her dresses ore not more costly and magnificent than ex quisitely harmonious and becoming. The old jokes upon her thinness will co:taiuly have to be retired now. She is no longer thin at all. Then 1 went to see Booth in “Hamlet.” Booth, who was always, of ail who tread the stage, my ideal, my prince of actors. It isn’t necessary to be invdious because you admire one actor or actress more than oth ers. What is it Paul says about “one star different from another star in glory?” That’s it. One is greater in someone respect, aud another in some other; and the scholarly refinement of Booth’s conceptions, the delicacy, the beautiful repose and majesty of his renditions, al ways charmed me to the last degree. When.as "Hamlet,” he instructs the players, 1 always thiuk how h mself is suggested as tho opposite of the ranters ho condemns; he is always so I eautifully controlled: ex pressing so much with his splendid eyes, his speaking features, a single eloquont gesture, an attitude, an inflection. Now, It may not be because he is older, but only because I am older; but it seemed to me I looked in vain for much I bad seen in his "Hamlet" six years ago. Face, figure, carriage, and above all, spirit, seemed aged and listless. The conception was the same of course, the dignity and g ace wore there; the fine eyes, the fine voice; but tbe glance and the tone that electrified the whole house when he cried: "Nay, I know notl Is it the king?” or touched every heart when his despair bade "Ophelia” “Get thee to a nun nery” were lacking. I noticed, too, with astonishment, that the house was ab ut half full, and of the eighteen boxes only one was occupied. But when I get homesick and stifled with oity life, and long for the opeu skies and prairies, Igo to some good stirring play; something beloved of the people, with a fine, good-looking, well-made hero in it, physically invincible, mentally and morally infallible, and with a fetching way of hold ing the heroine’s face in the nollow of his band, up against his breast, as you would a little tender babe’s after he has smashed windows, laid out the villain, fjnd gone through firo and water to rescue her. There is plenty of good, bumptious, swash buckling eloquence in this sort of play, a villain who has somebody "in his power,” a good old man with “a secret •” and a pair of lovers with "a barrief" to their union. There is usually, too, a fine dog, often horses, some good singing, and plenty of noiie and excitement; and I find it a very fair substitute—when a good play of its kind, like “The Still Alarm,” with its fire engine and beautiful white horses—for a gallop across the plains, or a 'rassle with a pony with preconceived ideas of things. Alice MacGowan. LEMON ELIXIR Its Wonderful Effect on the Liver, Stomach, Bowels, Kidneys and Blood. ‘ Dr. Mozley’s Lemon Elixir is a pleasant lemon drink that positively cures all Bilious ness, Constipation, Indigestion, Headache, Malaria, Kidney Disease, Dizziness, Colds, Loss of Appetite, Fevers, Chills; Blotches, Pinnules, Pain in back, Palpitation of Heart, and all other diseases caused by disordered liver, stomach and kidneys, the first great cause of all fatal diseases. 50 cts. aud f 1 per bottle. Bold by druggists. Prepared only by H. Alozley.M. D., Atlanta, Ga. Lemon Hot Drops For coughs and colds, tako Lemon Hot Drops. For sore throat and Bronchitis, take Lemon Hot Drops. For Pneumonia and Laryngitis, tak Lemon Hot Drops. For consumption and catarrh, take Lemon Hot Drops. For all throat and lung diseases, take Lemon Hot Drops. An elegant and reliable preparation. Sold by druggists. 25 cents Der bottle. Prepared by H. Mozley, M. D*., Atlanta, Ga. - President National Bank, McMinville, Tenn., writes: From experi ence in my family, Dr. H. Mozley’s Lemon Elixir bas few, if any, equals, and no supe riors in medicine for the regulation of ttie liver, stomach and bowels. Dr. H. Mozloy’s Lemon Hot Drops are superior to any reme dies ire have ever been able to get for throat and lung diseases. W. H. MADNESS. Easter Offering for Men, Boys and Chil dren at Appel G Schaul’s new quarters, 159 Broughton street.— Ad. Tbe Sunday Morning News Will be found regularly on sale at the fol lowing places: Estill’s News Depot. Conner’s News Staud. E. J. Kieffer’s Drug Store, corner West Broad and Stewart streets. T. A. Mullryne & Co.’s Drug Store, Weet Broad and Waldburg streets. St. J. K. Yonge’s Drug Store, corner Whitaker and Duffy streets. McCauley & Co.’s Drug Store, corner New Houston and Drayton streets. W. A. Bishop’s Drug Store, corner Hall and Price streets. — Adv. The handsomest store in the United States. Appel & Schaul, 159 Broughton street, next to Sternberg’s jewelry estab lishment.—Ad. Artists’ Materials, all kinds, at 11. T. Tay lo’r 135 York street. —Ad. Kayton’s Oii of Life, the greatest lini ment in the world for all aches and pains. —Ad. ____ Appel & Schaul have moved into their handsome new quarters, 159 Broughton street, with an entire new and fresh stock. 159 Broughton street.— Ad. Many letters are received by the P. P. P. Cos. from patients, say In? they hod used such and such a blood purifier and sarsaparillas, mention ing their names and stating they did no good, and they did not get well until P. P. P. (Prickly Ash, Pose Root and Potassium) was tried. These letters we started to publish, when the various manufacturers wrote us fearful letters, and we discontinued same, but P. P. P. (Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potassium) is triumphant on every occasion, and has made a host of friends m cures of Syphilis, Rheumatism, Sir ifula, Blood Poison, Dyspepsia, Malaria and Female Complaints.—Ad. CLOTH Iff (A EASTER A_T COLL ITS Come and Look AT THE WHITE WINDOW 11ST THE WHITE HOUSE 149 - Broughton - Street. RAILROADS. Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad. FLORIDA TRUNK LINE—TIME CARD IN EFFECT FEBRUARY 3. 1891. GOING SOUTH—READ~POWN. OPING NORTILdtEAI) CP ~DaU^ - ! ilT da“ : Daily. | Dally. 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Solid trains Callahan to Tampa and Orlaudo. Close connection at Tampa with So. Fla. R. R. for Port Tampa, Key West ana Havana Close connection at Ow.-nsboro with 80. Fla. R. R. for Lakeland and Dart jw. Close connection at Tavares with .1 T. and K. W. Ky. for Sanford and Titusville. Pullman Buffet sleeping cars on night trains. Through short line Jacksonville to New Orleans, Jacksonville to Thomasvtile, Montgomery and Cincinnati. Tickets sold and barrage cheoitsd through to all points in the United States. Canada and Mexico. Send for best map of Florida published, and ror any information desired, to D. E. MAXWELL. G. M. A. O. MACDONELL, O. P. A., Jacksonville. RHYME Onco upon a time, when Jenny Wren was young, and birds built thoir neats in old men’s beards, and in daysot old when knights were bold and a spring out lits c onsisted of a coat of mail, a good broadsword and a choice vocabularly of such soul searching swear-words us “By my Ilalidom,” "By St Dunstan,” “Dy the Beard of Mahomet,” and so on— folks didn’t take much stock in store clothes. In the days when a ready made suit was about as inposing as an Ulster on a Broomstick. All is changed now. The first-class Clothier is distin guished from the merchant tailor by no difference at all except the Clothier’s low price. THIS, MAYBE, IS “EVOLUTION.” why goods. Kronstof's lammotli Millinery House. WE ANNOUNCE M SPRING AND SOB, 1891. The most elegant stock ever displayed by any one house in the country, and rivals with the best establishments north. One hundred thousand dollars is the value, and we are crowded way up to the roof with the finest Millinery Goods. The choicest novelties from Europe have been secured, and only the finest and best goods in the market will be offered. Pattern Round Hats and Bonnets imported or exact copies from Paris and London. Real French Flowers in endless varieties. Untriramed Hats by thousands in all shapes and grades. Ribbons of all kinds. Gold and Silver Lace, Velvets, etc. Our trimming department of fifteen first-class trimmers is in charge of one ot the most celebrated designers north. We shall retail on first floor at same prices as we wholesale up stairs. Milliners and merchants supplied at New York prices and same terms. Our Ribbon Sale continues as here tofore. S- KBOUSKOFF 1 , 151 Broughton Street. SHOES. ON TOP OF THE HEAP. Lend us Your Ear; We Will Return it As soon as we have illustrated the magnificence of our display of SUMMER FOOTWEAR. We carry the largest stock, greatest variety, latest shapes in Leather, Cloth and Patent Toppings in A, B, C, D and E Widths. WE EXCEL IN FINE SHOES. Our stock of White Satin and White Kid SLIPPERS FOR WEDDINGS Is complete. Come and see the beauties at the GLOBE SHOE STORE WE mu EBP On the most Popular, Satisfactory and Cheapest line of FURNITURE, MATTINGS, WINDOW SHADES AND BABY CARRIAGES In the country. Our many new styles are now on Ex hibition in our spacious Warerooms, 186, 188,190 Broughton street. M. BOLEY & SON, PAGES 9 TO 12. CLOTHING. REASON. Why LEVY’S goods are so in vogue, BECAUSE ELEGANCE, VARIETY PERFECTION ' OF FIT ——AND—— LOW PRICES are combined and the public have rapidly GRASPED THE IDEA. SEE OUR OJSL mtomh SPRING SUITS, SPIIG HATS, NECKWEAR, ETC. It Will pay you to visit us. B. H. LEVY & BRO., B. H. LEVY & BRO., B. 11. LEVY & BRO., B. If. LEVY & BRO.