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THE BALL TOSSERS TALK.
THEY SAY THE COMING SEASON
WILL. BE ONE OF INTEREST.
Does the Public Went Good Bell?
John M. Ward Thinks So—Brush,
Powers, Talcott and Van Cott Ex
cress Opinions.
{ Couvrioht, 1993.)
New York, March 11.—The outlook for
base ball for 2 893 U brighter than it has
been for five years, and this may be taken
for all it is worth. To be sure it is the cus
tom of mauagers and players to say every
spring that “the game will take a fresh
boom, 1 ’ “things never looked brighter,”
etc., but they have never made such pre
dictions with as much reason and right as
this year.
Just why this is so will be told better in
the managers’ ani plavera’ own words.
Put, taking everything iuto consideration,
it is hard to believe anything else. There
are three main reasons on wtich to base the
assumption.
First—The presidential campaign is over
with, and, little as some may think of it,
the tase ball season is as miiail affected by
this quadrennial event as the theaters and
business generally.
Second —There is only one association of
clubs —the National League—and competi
tion will lie less and the interest in the
great contest proportionately greater.
Third —There will be only one champion
ship season. The experiment of two sea
sons was tried last year and, as every fol
lower of the game can tell, it w as not a suc
cess. Une team bad it all its own way the
first series, and another club in the second.
The season was much too long.
BBDSH AND THE BOOM.
He Also Promises to Do eome “Broom
ing" and “Grooming” in Cincinnati.
We have labored over this business con
siderably the past six months, and if bass
ball doesn’t take a mighty big boom this
summer I will be very mnch fooled. Every
objectionable feature that the directors
have believed has handicapped us in past
years has been speedily and completely
done away witn. Exorbitant salaries,
double championship series, competing as
sociations, the rule with regard to contract
jumping—everything has been dealt with
summarily, and now we start in a season
of honest, conscientious ball playing, with
no fear of outside interference or trouble
among clubs because of greater salary in
ducements. In other words, we mean to
give the public the kind of ball they saw in
1888, and for several years before that.
They’ll see more hard hitting, more base
running and larger scores this year, and
the games for this season will be more ea
ter taiuing.
We propose to make a bid for ladies’
attendance this year, too. There was a
time when box parties at the ball games
were as swell and usual affairs as box par
ties at the theater. Too much profession
alism, however, hurt this very desirable
feature. Id England tho ladies are as
regular enthusiastic attendants at the
cricket games as the men. That’s what
we want in this country. As to which
team will win the pennant, that is already a
foregone conclusion—Cincinnati, of course.
Charley Comiskey will again captain and
manage the team, and before he takes his
men south for practice I may be able to an
nounce some important additions to my
cine. Tbe Reds are out for the flag this
season and no mistake. Ttiey have had it
flaunted in their faces long enough. Next
fail it will float from the flagstaff at Ex
position park. JonN T. Brush.
JOHN M. WARD ON NEW RULES.
He Believes They Bhould be Made
SWhorever They Seem Expedient.
I think tbe result of the ooming season
depends largely upon the success of tho
New York and Chicago teams. If they are
playing good ball and their cities support
them well, there is every reason to believe
that the season mil be good all over the
country. Base bstll would prosper better
without any New York club than with a
poor one, for other clubs and the base ball
patrons in general get their stimulus uot
only from the Giants' good work but from
tbe Influence of the metropolitan papers as
well. It has been my observation that the
cities that have won the championship one
or two seasons have dropped completely out
or lost interest in the game to such an ex
tent that they did not support their club.
They have reached their limit when the
pennant has been wou, and that seems to
satisfy them, instead of stimulating them
to keep up the support of their home team.
It has been the case with Buffalo, with
Providence, with Detroit. It had its effect
in New York and was too much for Chicago,
and in the association Columbus, Louis
ville and Bt. Louis are other evidences of
what I say.
The quarrel among tbe clubs themselves
and tbe disappearance of the favorites from
New York and other of the leading clube
also had much to do with dampening popu
lar enthusiasm. Now I believe the public
has tired of poor bail and has bad enough
of it, and I will support a good olub.
We will give New York aa good a club
this year as possible under tbe circum
stances. Yon know there has been a cut all
along the line, and there may be some
trouble in getting tbe boys to sign. These
gentlemen who are supporting base ball in
New Yors are not dependent on what they
out of It for a livelihood, it is true, and
yet they are not exactly In It for their
health, either. They have been going down
la their pockets year after year and paying
for tbe losses without a murmur. It is
nothing more than fair that once in a while
they should be allowed to end a season with
something to their credit. We players owe
It to them to meet them half way and share
the burden of keeping up the game. 1 be
lieve rnoet of the men understand this and
will sign without protest.
Chicago has got to bave a cracking good
team this season if she wants to maks it
pay. The world’s fair will take many people
there, but there are other attractions as well
as base ball to see, and unless tbe team is of
exceptional excellence it won’t come out
any better next Meptember than it did last.
The centennial killed base ball in Phila
delphia in '76 for tbe same raison.
With regard to Kelly I can say that he
has been sent a blank contract to fill out
and sign. The amount of salary wo can
afford to pay him has been filled out by us,
however. Kelly is a good man, and I want
him if be will come. He likes to dally and
hang off awhile, but I think he will sit on
cur bench this season. With regard to the
proposed rule of putting the pitcher’s box
back further, I am not in favor of moving
it more than sor 6 feet anyhow. If they
find that the pitcher is unable to get the
ball over the plate at that distance it may
be necessary to increase the size of tbe
plate. For this reason the committee on
ru.es should be empowered to make any
changes at any time which the actual play
■bows to have become expedient.
John M. Ward.
I look for a complete revival in base ball
affairs this season. I cannot see how it can
be otherwise wish the changes that have
been made. With John M. Ward as our
captain the New York team can bold its
own, and speaking for the game in general
I bui glad to see that there will bo more
equality among tbe teams of the league than
was the case last season. All the star play
ers will not be iu one or two nines, and this
is as it should be. Base ball is tbe groat
American Rarne, and I waat lo see it kept
so, and will do ail in my power as president
of the borne learn to promote the interests
of the national sport.
Cornelius Van Cott, President.
POWERS 13 CONFIDENT.
He Looks for the Old-time Enthusiasm
Again This Year
1 look for a genuine old-time, excit
ing base ball season this year, just such a
one as we used to have ten years ago, be
! fore salaries were *o large and good players
so plentiful. The west was successful
! enough last year from a financial siand-
I point, but he east got hit hard. Then, too,
New York’s bard luck cut c nsulerable of a
| figure in the geueral depression, for, you
! may talk as you like, woen tbe Giants
are leading the race baseball Is more \ ros
perous ana tbe interest is greater. When
they are down in tbe middle or toward the
I tail end of tbe percentage list, the interest
lags. lam an old and close student of tbe
f rtunes and changes of base ball, and I
know this to be the case. Chicago, Boston
i and other cities will iaugh at such a state
ment, but it is a proven fact ail the same.
If 1 could have got the team 1 wanted
I last year, tbe result would bave been far
j different. With such an excellent manager
and player and drawing card as John
| Ward at tho head, the Giauts ought to be
winners this year, and If the men with
whom Ward is now negotiating are seoured
they will to winners in a canter. Mike
Kelly is one of these, and I hope he will sign
the contract to play here. Aside from his
excellent playing qualities, be is a popular
man with the base Pali public and with the
team. His very presence and his incessant
good nature have stimulated the Boston
team and pulled them out of many a hole.
I believe he’ll wear a ‘’New York” shirt
this season.
Chicago had hard luck last year, too, and
the weather was largely responsible. For
an actual fact, from the opening of tbe
season, early in April up to July 4, it rained
all or part of every base ball day when
the Chicago* were booked to play on their
own grounds. Game after game was post
poned or called on account uf rain. This
handicaps and discourages a team, and even
“old Anse" lest heart, as well as temper.
After July 4, however, they pioked up and
played great ball.
As to the salaries, lam in favor of a re
duction all along tbe line. A few years
ago, when a man got $3,000 a season he was
the talk of the country. Now that is con
sidered a meager sum. On account of the
two associations last year the undersigned
player could use one against the other in
the mat er of salary, and go with which
ever offered the biggest pay. Now, with
only one association to deal with, he will
be glad to eigu even at 25 per cent, reduc
tion.
Doing away with tbe second champion
ship series is another good move. Last
year tbe season began the middle of April
and lasted until October. This year it opens
about May 1 and closes early in September.
There were 154 games last year; there will
be 132 this. That makes the season long
enough to satisfy the appetite of tbe most
desperate fan.
I cannot see why New York should not
be a pennant winner this year, and why
base hall in general should not prosper with
old-time suocess. F. T. Powers.
TALCOTT AT THE FAIR.
H's Words Will Inanire Them With
Hopes for a “Yelling" Season.
If my judgment does not go wholly
wrong this is going to be the most prosper
ous season base ball has known in years. I
don’t speak altogether from a box-offles
standpoint, either, when I make this state
ment. I mean it Will be, as the orilies say
of anew play, an artistic as well as a
financial success. Better ball will be played
this season and the contests will be more
exciting, and fever heat will be the prevail
ing temperature.
There are several things that go to back
up this bold declaration. In tbe first place
tbe relative strength of the twelve teams
will t>e more even than It was last year.
During the season of 1892 there were a
number of teams that were little better
than amateurs. The election of anew
president will have a good effect. Avery
important matter yet to be decided is tbe
distance which shall separate the pitcher’s
box from the batter’s this season. Some are
in favor of placing it in the center of the
diamond. This suggestion was advanced by
41r. Richter, editor of the Sporting Life,
Philadelphia, and ho has won many over
to bis wav of Chinking. The theory of this
is that it will lessen the speed of the ball,
and give tile batter a fairer show. In re
cent years tbe game has been between
pitchers entirely, and much of tbe old-time
excitement produced by hard hitting has
vanished. Mr. Richter believes if there
was more slugging, resulting in fewer 1-0
games, there would be more fun and deeper
interest. (Japt. John Ward of our team be
lieve’* that the pitoher’s box should not be
immediately placed farther back than
five feet—or eight, at the most—from tbe
present position.
Another wise alteration in the rules is the
doing away with the flat bat used in sacri
fice hitting. Bpeakiog fjr the Giants alone,
I believe they will lie conquerors this year.
With John Ward, and the prospeot of other
good men for the team, there is every rea
son to believe we shall be in, and stay in
from post to finish.
As to salaries, I must say that Mr. Ward
signed for a very small sum—much less than
be has played for iu many years. I cannot
say how much it is, but it is a very humble
stipend for a man of Ward’s worth. He
has looked at the matter in tbe same sensi
ble light that he views everything, aud
for this he deserves great praise. The
men whom he will engage will be
asked to sign contraota at salaries that
would bave sent horrors over them last
year, It’e a case of flßb or cut bait, how
ever, this year, and I believe all of the men
prefer to fish. 1 cau say this much, $2,410
will be a big salary. Tbe seas >u is only six
mouths’ long, and"s4oo a month is not such
a miserable sum, after all. When Ward
told Mike Kelly this, the king laughed, and
said: *‘Why, say, Johnnie, that wouldn't
buy my cigarettes.” But “Ket” was joking.
I think he will be a Giant this year, lie
wanted to come to us last season, but we
couldn’t take blm at the time be could come.
8o far as I now can venture to prediot
the Giants will, besides Kelly, be made up
as follows: Pitchers, Amos Rusie, •• Silver”
King and Ned Crane; catchers, Boyle, Mc-
Mahon, Ewing aud Doyle, the last an emer
gency man; first base, Roger Connor of last
year’s Philadelphia team, or, if we can’t get
him, a man equally as good: second base.
Ward; third base, Keller; short stop, Ful
ler; right field, Tiornan; center field. Lyons;
left field. probably Burke of last year’s team.
That would make a nine hard to bent.
While Ward’s loss will be keenly felt in
Brooklyn, his place on the diamond will be
well supplied by Daniel Richardson, who
leaves Washington to go to Brooklyn In
exchange for Joyce, last year's third base
man.
Speaking of low salaries, Tony Mullane.
the pride of the Cincinnati team, has
signed for $2,100 to play in that city again.
This, with Ward’s salary, shows how the
star men in the business look at the matter.
They realize that this year is to be a test
one in base ball history, and that to make
the game a succest after the fashion of
former years they must put their shoulders
to tbe wheel and not let a matter of a few
huudred dollars stand In tho way of their
laboring for tho upholding of the natioual
gome of America. E. B. Talcott.
How’s Your Wife?
Does she feel poorly all the time, suffer from
lack of energy, at and a geueral "no-account”
listless enervation? She needs a tonic Some
thing is wrong with her blood Kuu for a doc
tor! Not at all, my dear sir. Get her a bottle
of I’. P. P. [Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Pot
aaH.um!, the very best Woman s Regulator and
Tonic extant, it reaches the source of trouble
quietly and quickly, and before jou know it.
your wife will be another woman, and wilt
bless the kind fate that brought P. P. P. to her
notice and relief. Our best physicians indorse
and recommend It, and no well-coDducted house
hold where pure blood an l its concomitant hap
piness is appreciated, should be without it. For
sale by reputable medicine deal trs everywhere,
Mr. Randall Pot*, too retired druggist of
Mudison, Fla., says [ Dec. 3. 18811] be regards P.
P. P. [Prickly Ash. Poke Root aod Potassium]
us the best alternative on the market, and that
he has seen more beneficial results from the
use of it than any other blood medicine.
Exhausted vitality, nervousness, lost man
bool, wean scanted by overtaxation of the
system wilt 1,.- cured by the powerful P. P. P..
winch g v hea th and strength to the wreck
of toe system. —ud.
TIIE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 1893—SIXTEEN PAGES.
LOIE FULLER IN PARIS.
WRAPPED IN ELECTRIC SPARKS
SHE DAZZ-.ES TH i FRENCHMEN.
It 1 ays to Bea Dancer—Sfce Maßo9
a Small Fortu; o hvery Month With
Her Tors.
ICopyrtiht 1
Paris, March 11. —The 1 arisian career of
“La Loie Fuller”—os the F'rencb billh ards
make her known—is worthy the attention
of tbe student of human nature. It is not
without its parallels in America, and that
fact gives it additional interest. The story
may he told in two parts, of which the first
shall be of her success.
Happy, triumphant—these are the words
which describe her as I saw her in the dress
ing rooms, which may be called her perma
nent residence now, at the Folies-Bergere*,
just before her “turu" last night And
well may the young woman be happy, for
in addition to such solid remuneration as a
salary of rather more than $2,500 a month
in the Folies-Bergeres clone, and a three
years' contract, twelve months in the
year (for in the summer season this
theater has its best artig.s appear
at the principal watering places) Miss
Fuller his that satisfaction whic h a certain
great philosopher decided is to be the ulti
mate reward of the good. She has carte
blanche for the development of her art!
And she has developed it wonderfully, so
that those who have seen her only in
America would hardly know her here.
“Why 1" exclaimed the beaming danseuse,
"all 1 danced in when in America was two
dresses, a white one and a pansy, while
now I wear four every evening, dance dif
ferently in each, and with the use of the
electric lights show eighteen effects. On
my first appearance here they more than
doubled my salary, aud told me to give
any orders 1 pleased to enable me to make
rny dances yet more attractive.
THE LITTLE DANCER IS INGENIUB.
"I am thinking up new effects, new steps,
new combinations of colors all the time and
I feel very sure I shall be able to keep a
long way ahead of my imitators. In a week
or so I shall introduce four new dances, for
I bave lately had the assistance of M. Au
drati, the composer of “Miss Helyett." This
geutleman came to see my performance one
evening and was so enthusiastic over it that
he sent me at once four of the most delight
ful pieces of music imaginable with tbe re
quest that I try them. They are all beauti
ful.
“Then you would not believe how busy I
am from morning tonight. There are the
sittings I give for my pictures. lam beiug
painted at tbe studio of Miss Louise Ab
bema and I pose for my statues. The first
of French artists is at work now on my life
size in marble for the world’s fair in Chi
cago, and another, an Italian, equally fa
mous, is doing me in the same way in bronze
—you see Ada Rehan will not be the only
American woman to be represented in
statuary at the exposition.
• ‘O, I cannot possibly begin to tell you how
pleased I aui with my success,” wanton
Miss Fuller. “Y r ou see, it was so unex
pected a jump, from 4.0C0 francs a month
to 8,500, with 25 per cent, of the gross re
ceipts of the Thursday matinees. And then,
too, 1 receive at least 1,000 francs for each
of my atternoon performance in sooietv,”
and she showed me a check sbe bad just re
ceived for her appearance at Minister Cool
ldge’s reception.
Then Miss Fuller digressed Into tbe realms
of absolute professionalism and talked of
night’s receipts, of percentages, of adver
tising, of traveling expenses, and of tbe
relative money bolding capacities of the
principal theaters in America and in Eu
rope, in a manner to show that if the serpen
tine dance was a chance discovery it at
least bad a discoverer with brains to get
out of it all that there may be there. Miss
Fuller is to go to Russia on a twenty days'
trip in April under the management of tbe
Folles-Bergeres.
HER FAVORITE PHOTOGRAPHS.
At this point I succeeded in getting her to
pick out from a huge packet of tier photo
graphs a few of her favorites. They were
“The Dancer in Repose,” “The Marriage
Basket," “The Spanish Step,” “The Ser
pents,’’ “The Steamboat’s Screw" and "The
Butterflies.” There is a certain onomato
poeia about the French word for butterfly
(pailion) which makes the name of this step
even more appropriate.
Declining tbe lady's kind invitation to re
main and watch her dances from behind tbe
scenes I hurried to tbe front of the house.
The Kolies-Bergeres, or the Rollicking Shep
herd Girls, as it would be eailed in English,
is a huge variety theater, in tbe Rue Rleber,
about three blocks off tbe grand boulevards,
reached easily enough, if you kuow Paris
well; otherwise, take a cab. Descending
from the boulevards by way of tho ltue du
Faubourg Montmarte you strike tbe Rue
Joufiroy-Mane. Here a great burst of
electrio light, which brightens the somber
neighborhood for bloeks around, and you
read the name of tbe big theater and of
the dancer blazing in gasjet letters on its
front. Of course there is a orowd at ths
door, but the first thing that strikes an
American as strange is the list of prices on
tbe sign over the box offioe. You can buy a
‘ ‘promenoir’’ for as little as 2 francs (40
cents), but tbe seats cost at least 4 francs,
and tbe boxes “sell themselves,” as a
Frenchman would say, at from 20 to 35
francs each. Theso boxes contain from four
to six seats. The paradox of it is that seats
bought in advance are more costly
than those bought on entering. It would
seem that a theatrical proprietor would dis
criminate in favor of Ihe customer willing
to pay for a seat in advance, but the French
think that the first choice is worth some
thing.
When the tickets are secured there is an
other ordeal. At tbe entrance is a big desk
with always three,never any more.never any
less, gentleman',y attendants Iu full evening
dress, to take your tickets aud pass you
through. Once inside you ure in tho midst of
a hurrying tbroDg in a vast, brilliantly
lighted garden, for a veritable winter gar
den ts the first of the two great halls of the
Folles-Bergeres; it is ths first one in which
were played all those exciting billiard
matches last summer between Ives and
Slosson and the Frenoh champions. The
theater itself is further on. I would like to
have the same liberty of description for the
two places and those who frequent them as
Guy de Maupassant takes brilliant advant
age of in his best novel, “Bel Ami.” But
such things are only permitted in Frenoh.
Tbe facts are that the Folies-Bergeres is a
larger Harry Hill’s and Tom Gould's com
bined, aud would not be allowed to exist a
moment in New York.
There are rope nettings stretched over
tbe beads of tbe occupants of tbe orchestra
Beats, and a lofty tumbling performance Is
tbe attraction tbe last thing before the
event of the evening, the appearance of the
Americaine,
THEN COMES “L’AMERICAINE.”
All of a sudden tbe lights die almost out.
The frequenters of the establishment know
that this is a preliminary to tbe perfect
darkness which the serpentine dance re
quires, and all over the place resound the
imitations of most hearty “smacks,” aoms
of them very realistic indeed. A second
more and the darkness is iu tense.
Another, and, tbe focus of nine electrio
lights, Miss Loie Fuller stands in the
oenter of the stage a living, glowing, vari
colored poem. Beaded by a thiok wig of
rich chestnut hair, and aided by the decep
tive illusions of tbe electrio lights, her face
is really almost pretty, and the distance and
those deceptive lights make her form divine.
Bhe moves; in the form of a respectful
salute she attacks any prejudices her audi
ence tnay have, for since the advent of the
serpentine dance respectable people oc
casionally drop in at the Folles-Bergeres.
Her fairly good figure clad in those deil
oious, light, flowing, fantastic streams of
silk becomes a ravishing creation of de
ceived fancy—every one knows how tbe
senses are deceived by rapid motion —aud
one would swear she had the form divine of
a goddess.
Hhe is golden—no. tbe picture is a purple
one, but almost before the eye has decided
that she is neither in gold nor in purple the
left i.le ot the tumii g, revolving, gyrating
tableau has tec >me, by the studied manipu
lation of those flushing lights beaming upon
her from ail directions, a m ,*.ange of green,
pupie, old gold and a i.fixture of peae-ck’s
tail aud rainb'w which defies description,
while tbe right side—it was the right side a
second ago—is an equally surprising and
pmtty kaleidoscopic cm til nation.
By the waving of her arms, holding in
each hand a fold of her light gauzy silk
dress, or, to be more correct, draping, she
give* the effect at a huudred harmless, play
ful serpents disporting themselves for the
pn a-ure of tbe onlookers. There is little or
nothing of what might be called fleshiness
about this portion of the dance —not a sem
blance of high kioking. It falls entirely
within the realms of the delicate and beau
tiful, making deman is only on the refined
and artistic in tha spectators. The first two
minutes of this Parisian attraction might be
called merely very clever posing with
electric light effects. It is a wonder that
Carmeuclta never adopted this adjunct.
OFF AND ON IN A BLAZE OF GLORY.
The stage suddenly opens, or gives way,
and Miss Fuller falls out of it or down
through it, at least that is the in.pression
the sudden turning off of tho lights gives
right in what seems to be the middle of the
act. In a moment sbe reappears. Flashing
full upon tbe stage again the lights reveal
the daucer iu what look like the robes of
an iaiporlant Japanese functionary. Hhe
parades down the front, and one hear3 tbe
French spectators call out to each uth*=r
their expressions of approval of the charm
ing picture that presents those fai; y gar
ments waved to ana tro to hide and display
a woman’s figure. Ascre cf cleverly con
ceived movements are shown under tbe
brilliant flashing of the electric lights and
tbe applause is long and loud as the vivid
illustration of n elody. light and inoti >n
combined again fades from view with the
turning off of the blazing streaniß of the
miniature aurora borealis, to which the
dance, if such the pertorraance can be
called, owee almost its entire charm.
This time it is the “i'a)>eeyou,” which is
the nearest I can come to spelling iu Eng
lish the euphonic French word for butterfly.
What a picture it is! A great, glorious
butterfly, its wings epread, all but takes its
feathery, fluttering career right there be
fore you on the stage. Tbe Frenoh specta
tors cell to each other all over the house,
“magniflque!” “Tres gracieuse!” and
“Splendide I”
Again the soene is a dark one and again
the pointed burets of electric light flood the
stage, and the enchanted webs of silk, the
•killed hands and tbe trained manipulations
of the successful performer throw their
spells, and onlookers float from what seem
to be the winding spirals of the Eiffel tower
to the sunny meadows where plash tiny
rivulets, haunted by many bued papillons
and dazzling wlDged dragon flies, to the
ocean side with Its booming surf. There is
more than a suggestion of tbe huge, sound
ing waves, with their changing shades and
white crests, and the flokle flight of the
dainty butterfly is so well boras out it be
comes all but a reality.
The lights are not shut off this time. The
danoer dies away in the dim retreats at the
rear of tbe big stage. One last pose she
makes, gathering the filmy wisp of gauze
that seems as if it might have been spun
from a spider’s web, iter last and lightest
costume of the evening, in Doth her hands
and holding tbe veil like texture close
against her form, she throws her head baok
over one of her ehoulders in such a way
that her face is presented to the audience,
though her back Is toward them. Miss
Fuller has to content herself with thanking
her applauding audience in pantomime.
18 IT A SUCCESS, AFTER ALL?
Now this all sounds like a great success,
and yet there is another side to tbe story, as
I intimated at the start. Alter It is over
one has a chance to obtain the deliberate
judgment of tbe spectators. And they are
not apparently enthusiastic. The general
expression might be summarized somewhat
thus: “It is rather pretty, but it is disap
pointing.” I could find no well informed
person who pretended to understand the
engaging of Miss Fuller for three yearß by
so conservative a management as that of the
Folies-Bergeres has always showu itself
to be.
How can a “disappointing" performance
be a success for so long a time? lam re
minded of tbe success c,f Carmencita in
America. She bad ber ardent admirers—
and so has Miss Fuller here, no doubt—but
it Is unquestionable tbat the overwhelming
majority of speotat. rs felt and expressed
disappointment after her dance was over.
Do they go back to be disappointed over
again? Oris there a charm in such per
formances which survive the disappoint
ment? These dances simulate the play of
the emotions, of the affections, of love.
There la a disappointment iu love, but
nobody ever gets enough of it. Have these
sensuous dancers copied passion so closely
as to gain the secret of its haunting per
sistence? If they have they should be
oredited with a genuine scientific disoovery,
and no man should begrudge them the
money they make out of It.
Robert K. Turnbull.
THS WOMAN OF FASHION.
Variety and Freedom In the Mode of
1 o-day.
( Copyright , 1893.)
New York, Maroh 11.—Certainly the
New York woman grows more independent
daily. This fact never before impressed me
so deeply as It did yesterday, when 1 stood
in the midst of a large number of my sex,
all crowded into the parlors of a club that
bad opened its doors to them that after
noon. They were well-dressed women for
the most part —rarely had I seen so
many pretty gowns together—and yet every
woman had asserted her Independence.
There was merely a suspinion of the hoop
skirt, and there was but little empire. One
saw a commingling of all tbs Louis, tbe
1830. and the empire that was a little
confusing and withal very pleasing.
Great puffed sleeves frowned down on
helplessly drooping ones; great flares
of skirts half encircled shrinking, clinging
ones; big hats softly drooped over "loves”
of tiny bonnets, and thick feather boas
greeted fluttering ribbons In tender fashion.
It was a very pretty duster of color that
stood in one crowded corner, and I sat my
self down in a great chair, brought forth
my implements and proceeded to note the
dresses in the group, while a small woman
hovered near, regarding my proceedings
with a timid, yet |admtring air, and with
frequent interpolations on how lovely it
must be to write.
There were exactly three grays in the
group, each a very pale, soft gray. One
was made with gray bengallne, one had a
very prettv V at the back and in the front,
ontilned with a rich pearl trimming and
fringe. The third had a black velvet ruffle
on the skirt, a black velvet crush belt, black
velvet sleeves; a beugaliue yoke, over which
were cross bars of flue jet, joining collar
and high belt.
Next to the first pearl gray maiden a
woman stood clad in blaok velvet, plainly
made, with a rich brocade yoke of white at
the neck. Then a costume of old rose ben
gallne had a great deal of wide guipure de
gene at tbe neck, and sleeves of striped silk
that looked as if they had got there by mis
take, for they didn’t resemble tbe gown a
bit. Their color was a sort of faded gold,
and the stripe running through was
black. Then oame a beautiful spring cos
tume of pale blue material, closely corded
in blaok and with blue silk sleeves, its
owner wore a pale blue hat with blaok vel
vet and blue plumes, and possessed a re
markably pretty complexion.
There was also a most brilliant damsel in
a fawn dress, whose skirt had three bands
of bright green yelvet at its foot; bright
greeu sleeves and bodice made very strik
ing effect, whioh was slightly softened,how
ever, by gauze epaulets of very pale green,
run through at tne edge with fine green rib
bon. A full velvet band carried down over
the hips Into a cuff at tbe back also helped
to soften the almost startling effect. Bo
many gowns bave these pretty effects
at tbe waist line, or slightly below
it, They look very pretty when finished at
tbe back in a big puff, loop or bow. Of
co rse, they are prettiest in velvet, though
effective in silk also. 11 has come to be al
most a duty to gracefully conceal the join
ing of bodice aud skirt in the costume of to
day. We dare not allow any one to dis
cover that there Is suoh a thing as a junc
ture unless we wear the tailor-made gown.
We must carefully conceal every sugges
tion of separation at this point and make it
appear as tf the dress had grown naturally
and gracefully upon us, as if no
contaminating touch cf dressmaker had
ever been laid upon it. It must repre
sent the culmination of a purpose, the reali
zation of a dream, or be the personification
of a fancy, else it has no attraction for tbe
average woman, or man either, for tbat
matter. Thus we see so much of the belt,
the bodice, the short jacket, the full fold —
they all help to produce the desired result.
Last in the group of fair women came
the girl with the plaid silk—such an im
mense plaid with such vivid coloring that it
almost took one’s breath away. It was
made very prettily, though, particularly at
tbe back, where three plaits, turning toward
the middle at each side, were drawn to
ge her below the waist under a loose gold
belt.
Almost every other woman in all tbe
room? that I we t thr >uz'i had some sort of
jacket arrangement connected with her
costume. Ail sorts of jackets were they,
short or broad, or narrow or pointed, or
embroidered or pag-ementeried, or tightly
caught or loosely flying—still they were
jackets, and they added jauntiu ss io the
gowns in all case?, particularly when from
within the jacket peeped out a fancy vest or
loose front of gauze or thin material in pale
color.
The guipure laces are growing so popular
again that <no sees them on all sorts of
home or house or afternoon gowns. They
certainly trim a dress wonderfully.
Bef re we leave the absorbing topic of
dress to take up the still more absorbing
one of bonnet, let me remind you that all
the dresses you order now must be of sim
ple, unpretentious character, because, for
one reason, it Is Lent, and for another, it is
not well to trust capri ious Dame Fashion
to any extent just at this juncture. She is
ready at present for almost anything, and
we do not want to provoke her to sudden
and ri isastrous changes. Therefore, for a
neat house gown, try this simple one of the
Louis Fhilippe, made from a combination
suiting, plain material and border—skirt
slightly full, bordered with plain bands
above the embroidered border; the waist
is simply gathered tightly into a close fit
ting belt of material to match the skirt’s
baud. A yoke of embroidery is put in, and
where it joins the bodice proper two folds
o? tbe same material as the belt are laid ;
they continue around the shoulder, even to
the back of the dress, where they finish in a
point. At the front the plaits ure drawn
into a point by a big buckie.
Or if you want a quiet walking dress
nothing is nicer than a fine ribbed material
made into a plain skirt, with two broad
bands of passementerie, or embroidered or
contrasting material on tho skirt. Tha
bands must be put on so far apart that tbe
upper one reaches tbe knee. Then a bolt of
this same border catches the slight fullness
of tbe plain waist, and narrower bands of
the same material form cuffs. Although
this dress is so very simple it is remarkably
pleasing when worn.
A dress for a rather young girl can be
made altogether plain and tight fitting, with
five bands on tbe skirt, the lowest one nar
row, and each one thereafter gradually
widening. This also has a plain, wide belt
and a tight-fitting bodice.
But I know you ape more in
the bonnets. All women are. It takes
three times as loDg to decide upon the
make-up of a tiny article but a few inches
in diameter as it does to decide upon a gar
ment ever so many ysrds in width. These
three dainty bits that I must tell you of are
smaller tbat usual, which fact only makes
them more precious in our sight. Ona has
a brocade crown and is trimmed in front
with folds and knots of black lace, from
which spring small, straight loops of pale
green ribbon. That’s all there is to it, and
yet if you saw it, you could not help desir
ing it at once for your very own.
TheD another has au emerald-green gauze
crown, with broad ends right across the
front, made of fine fancy straw; right in
the center is set a big bunch of tea roses,
from which rises a full green aigrette. If
these two creations are small, the third is
positively tiny, Ulliputiau. It is green, also
—the favored color—has a perfectly flat
crown, and in front two small velvet wings
that projeot over the hair, one at each side;
between them is a small velvet rosette, at
each side of the rosette a single rose, with
no stem or leaf, and sticking up from the
rosette two fancy pins, one at variaiics
with the other. 8o very simple is it that
you are surprised to discover what a jauuty
air it assumes upon your head.
If you are blessed with plentiful looks of
a good length, there is anew and a very
pretty ooiffure to be had for the fussing
with it. It requi-es a great deal of fussing,
however, and a great deal of carsfnl manip
ulation to bring about the desired effect.
The style is 6o difficult a one to describe
that the ske’ch of it will give you a better
idea than a description. I cau tell you that
the loosely braided hair is coiled
once about tbe head, that a portion
of it stands in a loop at the top
of the coll and another portion in a
smaller loop at the bottom, tnat innumer
able little small curls droop from the ooiffnre,
and that some ribbon loops and bows are
also wound in with it. But I shall not at
tempt to tell you just how to hold your
headfirst, how to take the second position,
how to gather and dispose of the strands,
and all tbe rest, for I am certain you would
be none the wiser when all was said. Take
the model, a mirror, and a deft assistant,
and try it yourself.
Eva A. Schubert.
CHINAMAN WITH RED HAIR.
Held in Abhorrence by Countrymen
Becauee Hla Queue Isn’t BlacK.
From, the San Francisco Examiner.
Chinatown, San Francisco, boasts of a
great rarity iu a full-blood Chinese who is
probably the only red-headed one on the face
of tbe earth. And what is more, the Chinese
has a light complexion and blue eyes,
and he is cross-eyed. Miah Go, as is the
freak’s name, was born in China of Chinese
parents about thirty years ago. He is
shunned and disliked by the great majority
of his oouutrymen. “Sheepeye” is one of
tbe nicknames applied to him because from
the Chinese standpoint bis eyes resemble
those of a sheep more than those of a human
betDg. Mißh Go lives in one of the dens of
Spofford alley, and is never seen in close as
sociation with other denizens of China'own,
excepting when he goes to certain stores to
dispose of cheap trinkets, by which
means ha acquires a living. The reason of
the Chinese beiug held iu such disfavor
was explained to au Examiner reporter
by Wong Woh, a fortune teller, who daily
occupies a portion of tbe sidewalk on
Washington street, above Dupont. "Very
many years ago,” he said, “there was an
other red-headed Chinaman in China. He
lived there soloogag) that no one now living
had ever soeu him. Chew Fut was his
name, and he was tall aud fair of com
plexion. From, some cause, not pleasing In
the eyes of one of the numerous gods, Chew
Fut was known of all over North China,
where he lived and grew to manhood. One
day it was disclosed to a few of the faith
ful that this particular Chinese with tbe
red hair must die, but it was not explained
by the dlety why. It is not known to this
day why the order was disobeyed, for no
steps were taken to end the life of Chew
Fut, and so a fearful vengeance was
wreaked on the people. A terrible earth
quake occurred, and the waters of the sea
overflowed the land, engulfing thousands of
inhabitants, who were carried out to sea by
the receding waters and drowned. The
red-haired Chinaman was lost at the same
time, and it is believed was transported
direct to the infernal regions, where he
must always suffer fearful torture."
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