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WOMAN’S WORLD.
A Few Things of Interest to the Fair
Sex.
What Pala Lips Indicate—Opals the
Fashionable Stones of the Season.
What Constitutes the Quality of
sty i e _The Sun Efficient in the Treat
ment of Certain Diseases- Some Sug
gestions in Respect to Flirting.
Other Matters Well Worth Sending.
Malting your own dimples is the latest
The woman who must have dimples
rr .lie has only to invest in the dimple
making machine, patented by a* woman
v \, a a n eye for beauty and with a
speculative turn of mind. She, of all
others, ought to be rewarded with one or
more of these fetching marks of beauty,
provided she can endure the torture of
her own device, which is a kind of mask
arranged with screws and wooden points
that press upon the cheek or chin where
the dimples ought to be. This is worn at
night, but just how long it must be ap
plied to produce the desired impression is
not said.
In spite of universal superstition, opals
art t 0 be the fashionable stones of the
reason Their ever-varying tints rival
the rainbow, and are always fascinating
bee nise they are never twice alike. A
new design in an opal ornament is made
w imitate a butterfly. Kubies form the
eyes and diamonds the body, a gorgeous
tr ue to fasten pretty lace. A most beau
tiful necklace is made of round opals the
the size of a pea, strung together with a
small diamond between each one.
Just what constitutes that most desir
able quality of -‘style” is very hard to de
termine. says the New York Tribune.
W.j. ther it is inborn only, or whether it
nun be acquired, is a veay important
question, as it is a possession that many
women deem of greater importance than
beauty itself. Ask any average woman
whether she would rather be pretty or
'■stilish,''and she will choose the latter
miaUiii ation almost *avariably. It 13 the
intangible something that gives grace and
distinction, whereby the wearer of a cot
ton frock may look better dressed than
the woman clothed in silk and velvet,
and. if in rich attire, will outshine all
rivals.
English women do not often have
"style. *’ “I would like to show you the
gowns lam sending to England for the
season." said M. Worth to an American
costumer, as lie threw open the door of
his own special atelier, where a dozen or
more of the .most superb dresses were
carefully displayed on wire "foams” for
the last‘critical survey of the artist, and
fora "private view” to a few privileged
clients -You would never know them
acain." he continued ruefully. "My dear
countrywomen lack style awfully, and I
have not half a dozen customers in Lon
don that I can trbst to do my gowns
justice.”
To come back to the question as to
whether or not style can be acquired, it
may be said that in a certain measure it
can be. Carriage, for instance, has an
immense effect on style, and , that cer
tainly can be cultivated. A dowdy
woman rarely has a good poise of the
hi a<l and neck, and never walks grace
fully. and although grace and style are
not at all synonymous, it is impossible to
have the one without a certain amount of
the other. As grace or carriage is suc
cessfully taught by those w-ho under
stand theprindple.no doubt style also
might be analyzed and growing girls in
structed in the why and the wherefore of
this most coveted characteristic.
The bora flirt, says the Commercial
Advertiser, is not dangerous. She may
appear so, but in reality her little coquet
tish, fascinating ways are not the. culti
vated wiles of a siren, but are as natural
to her as Breathing, in all probability
"'hen her eyes first opened upon this
world she smiled at the do tor, and
through her babyhood and childhood up
to the time she was considered a woman
that guileless smile wrought havoc with
every man who came within the circle of
i.s sunny influence.
She doesn't think she is flirting. She
is men ly enjoying herself. Men have
always paid her a certain amount of
homage, and that she intends to have up
to the day oi hi r death. The born flirt
need not be beautiful ; slit need not be
eicn pretty; but if she possesses that per
sonal magnetism that couuts for more
than symmetry of contour men will adore
and she wilt let them to the end of time.
All women dubbed flirts are certain to
oome in for a considerable amount of un
kind eritiiism from those who do not
ntmei's and them. The uncons ious flirt
wd!. however, after awhile disarm her
woi-s- enemy, for if time is taken to study
the little lady, the strange phenomenon
"u be discovered that she flirts oust us
tnu h with women as with members of
the opposite sex. Her pretty ways are
irresistible to men and women alike, and
so sic- goes on smiling and magneti ing
“ :l "ho come within her power, and those
wan came 10 censure, remain to praise.
Hut nli! what a different character is
the deliberate flirt, the woman who co
quets with intent to kill, who lets flirta
tion run into romance, and then with one
s.ronv blow destroys a man's hopes just
jo. .he suite of seeing the card bouse she
hus built up scatter ltitoi.s component
par s before her very eyes. She is the
I ” of woman who separates husbands
an i wives, who sows discord in hitherto
'®PPy amilies, who enjoys making
sweethearts unhappy and younrer wo
'! envious, she is a schemer who plans
o ' campaign deliberately, not a little
SMi-ausher who uses her weapons on ail
Ide flirt by design is a dangerous per
-oves t 0 wound - She delights
■ ie cries of those who have been
°- v the darts from her havoc
ail“ Her victims are fewer than
( 'ye Hint come to the net of the born
hu t tlieir suffering is real, their pain
• i I lie natural flirt will go on flirt
■ Mi her own husband after they
nri ' . <H 1 Ir * !lrr ied twenty years, but the
' i "n, i( chance or design brings her
...m whose name she is asked to bear,
! ' r wastes her time on him, but
-s around for someone else's husband
I'factice her wiles upon.
r , ' v ? s n Poorly dressed young woman,
\Sixth avenue, says the New
t M ;‘i tribune. Her arms were full of
■ sand on top of them she was car
it 7mu, fat bub - v - an;l trying to shield
, 1 lb ® ram and wind, that whirled
f aen With less to carry, aimostoiT their
Ui, 1 " a3n ’t a nice wind at all, and
I "Oman tried to hold an old um
i t 'iVun 1^0 k ab . v ’ s fuce, although it
w ' , . Ib,;a along eamo another young
Mir -' ! she was in a brown study, but
•i * ‘“' O' l at the woman a second, took
I !iUttaUon and stopped. Then she
in - 11 “tr a step. The woman somehow
l.,V I,l \ e “ l 'pt in her mind, for all of a
tlni 2, ,ui ’ned <iuickly, and hurried
h,, , l"'crowd after the woman with
--•do. bundles and baby,
sh,. . j l l Put up that umbrella for you?’.
e lu . ' into tho baby’s mother's
tr ,' ' la Jter turned and there was the
he, I' ised look on her face that any
. could want to see.
and | ;'l 1 1 "°uld. for the baby’s so heavy
J u,, u t want him to get sick.”
the an,,- baby, isn't he?” returned
ttonr..;. 1 .Putting the umbrella into the
it ~, ba ud, then she gave the baby
■ I la t on the cheek. The baby
blinked solemnly, and the girl turned
again on her way.
Itwasn t much, but several men who
nad seen the performance looked after her,
°P. e man said to his companion,
lhat s the kind of a heart for me.”
Only the vulgarian scents hpr pocket
handkerchief, says the New York World,
inere is a daintier way of being sweet.
Eau de cologne is the one toilet water
that never goes out of style. There are
two choice colors—lavender and violet de
.aooniais. The lavender is used for bed
and table linen. Any other use is the
blunder of ignorance. This particular col
ogne is rarely to be had out of the gates of
1 aris. It retails there at $5 a pint, but
two tablespoonfuls in a tub of water
"will smell somebody up all dav," as they
say m French.
Another source of sensuous delight is
na *f a P'nt of benzoin thrown into the
tub, making a milk bath. This tincture
is only 10 cents an ouuco. It cleans the
skin and tightens it. which makes it pop
u,lar.wifh flabby old dandies and withered
old dames, and it leaves the fiesh exhaling
the odor of refinement, so to speak. Bath
bags are always satisfactory, although
ver>_ expensive, the suspicion that the
maid or somebody used it forcing the ex
quisite to provide a fresh one every day
Orris or almond meal with shaved soap
and oil of roses or violets is the usual
filling.
A person, says the New York Recorder,
can eat, drink, sleep and be served better
in the household of the Empress of Aus
tria than in any other in Europe. The
reason is that she is the best royal house
keeper ia the 'world. She receives per*
sonally. reads and acts upon reports from
cooks, butlers, keepers of the plate and
keepers of the linen. New methods of
preparing or serving food are adopted
only at her suggestion. Cooking devices
which have become inconvenient or anti
quated are abolished only at her sugges
tion. Changes in the personnel of the
establishment are made, for the most part,
only in obedience to her orders. The kitch
en in which the food for the bluest blood
of Austria is cooked is a huge one, with
all the arrangements at each end for pre
paring fish, flesh and fowl ior the table.
Fifty chickens can be cooked at once on
one of the big, whirling spits. The broil
ing and baking and frying occupy a small
regiment of servants. Twenty-five male
cooks spit, season and stuff the meats.
As many women cooks prepare the Vege
tables. the puddings and the salads. A
dozen or more boys carry the birds, fish
and :oints from the kitchen to the carving
room, where long line of carvers slice
everything laid before them.
Dr. Thayer, of San Francisco, says the
New York Press, has come to the conclu
sion that the sun is the most efficient of
all surgical methods in the treatment of
"capillary aneurisms, varicose veins, in
dolent and eating ulcers, apathetical can
cers. birth, India ink and powder marks,
hemorrhoidal and erectile tumors, mor
bid growths, as warts, moles, small wens
and all parasitical skin diseases.”
Dr. Thayer is candid enough to admit
he is not the first to discover the surgery
and dermatology of the sun. Some years
ago a London surgeon, by using the sun’s
rays, presumably with a lens, removed a
wine mark from a lady’s face, and de
stroyed a malignant growth in the same
way.
With weak lungs, let the sun fall on
he chest for hours. If internal tumor or
ulceration is suspected, let the sun burn
through the bare skin directly on the
point of disease for hours daily. There
will be no doubt left in the mind that
there is a curative power in the chemical
rays of the sun.
Women especially need to make system
atic trial of the the sun’s healing and re
juvenating powers.
For that nervous depression which re
sults in sheddiug hair, iu sunken features
and ushers dread tuberculosis, tumor and
internal intiammatiou, sun is the specific
—sun and rest together.
For the chillness which causes blue
hands and bad color, resort to the sun;
let it almost blister the skin and circula
tion will answer the attraction.
For grazing hair and baldness try the
sun on the scalp for lesser periods, ten
minutes often repeated. And the woman
who wants a cheek like a rose should pull
her soia pillows into the wiudow "and let
the sun biaze first on one cheek, then the
other, and she will gain a color war
ranted not to wash off. The sun draws
the blood to the surface better than a hot
bath, and exhilarates rather than weak
ens.
“It gives one the oddest thrill to hold a
handful of loose, unset pro, ious stoocs
just ai if they were pebbles, - ’ said a fair
cosmopolitan to the New York Tribune.
“Not long siqce, in London, I went into
C. eg G.’s, which, you know-, is one oi’ the
most famous places in the world for rare
jewels; and wni.e I was talking with a
clerk about the resetting of some old
family relics. Lord A., who is a great
iriend of mine, came in. After some
casual conversation he asked me if I
would tome with him into an inner room
to look at some pearis tie was thinking of
purchasing. There we found Mr. C., one
oi the heads of the firm, and the
pearls were produced and discussed,
and finally a couple were decided upon.
•Could you not let Mrs. X. see your unset
stones?’ asked Lord A. after everything
had been settled. ‘I will be her security,’
he continued, .okingiy. ‘Most certainly.’
answered the obsequious tradesman, po
litely, unlocking w-tiat proved to be a door
into'a huge sale, but which looked like
1 art of the paneling of the room. He
ushered us into a small room in the safe
itself. It was carpe ed with green baize
and had no furniture, the walls being
filled with rows upon rows of drawers,
each with its own special lock and key.
“ ’Here you have wealth enough to buy
a kingdom,’ said Lord A., and i could not
repress a cry of astonishment and rapture
as Mr. C., with apparent carelessness,
opened drawer after drawer, and showed
me the glittering contents. Kubies, dia
monds, pearis, sapphires—all the long
array of prei ious stones and all assorted
according to siv.6 and quality. -VVouid
you trust me to take up a handful of
those diamonds?'l had the audacity to
ask. T simpiy long to know how it feels.’
Loth men seemed much amused, the
jeweler gratifying my question without
hesitation; and as I felt the heavy, glitter
ing thiiic-s slip through my lingers, I felt
the thrill I spoke of in the beginning.
•You look as if you were in a churchl’
laughed Lord A. 'The expression on
your face is absolutely reverent’—and.
oddly enough, that was just the way 1
felt.”
Pale lips, says a Paris writer in the-New
York Press, belong to anemic persons—
persons whose blood is poor. Ask your
physician for some tincture o: iron which
agrees with your constitution; and do not.
follow the example of us Parisiennes. I
fear that the oeautiful Americans would
smile at the universal way we have of
coloring our lips, ever so lightly, with
artful little pencils of grease carmine,
which is wtftranted by the perfumers not
to i ome off. In Laris one’s lips must be
rod; ns rod as cherries. Tho gentlemen
desire it. Well, they have it!
In fails we believe that the future may
be foretold by laying the cards. It is not
everyone can lay the cards; and even
among the adepts some, a few, are more
successful than all tho others put to
gether. Among the most richly patron
ized and most respected is the venerable
Mine. G • tl'f true successor of the
famous Mine. Normand, long since dead.
This aged lady, who lias passed her .<oth
vear, still keeps verdeur d'esprit, a just
ness of appreciation and a memory which
are astonishing. Most of all. she lias kept a
wonderful complexion and a face almost
completely free from wrinkles. This she
attributes to a habit shacontraoted in her
earliest youth, of never washing her fare
except in water very hot and drying it
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, APRIL 20, is>>4.
with a fine towel rubbed horizontally—the
direction affected by most wrinkles. She
adds to the water of her toilet a few
drops of benzoin (benjamin), which
closes the tissues lightly: and she
touches soap to her face only twice a
week.
Oh. soap! whether it be ala rose or
violet, ala peau d’Espagne or from Eng
land or Castile, what an enemy it may be
to the satin, to the peach bloom of a
beauty’s skin. When soap is used, let it
bo the pure white of Castile or Mar
seilles. prepared without perfume and
without color. It is so simple to perfume
one’s self after washing!
Hot water, really hot, says Mme. G ,
is the most precious preserver of the com
plexion. Cold water, so agreeable in
the summer, brings with it a reaction
which involves a redness of the face. Hot
water produces exactly the opposite
effect. It pales the face, while malting
the tissues supple. She quotes the lines
of Alfred de Musset, to whom she w-as a
friend in her youthful days;
Ah! que la paltur
Est and un bel usage
Jamais le visage
N est trop loin du coeur!
(Ah, of what beautiful use is paleness!
She face is never too far from the heart)
for, the poet means, with the play of emo
tion. color will t ome to the pale face.
"Yes,” exclaims the venerable oracle,
who is now old, but was once young, and
who has seen three generations of pretty
w omen ruining their faces with all man
mer of appliances. "Yes, be pale, with
your great beautiful eyes! You will al
ways find occasion enough to blush natu
rally!”
HOLWORTH’S “PCRITY.”
THE MYSTERY OF AS ATELIER.
(Copyright.)
"It is pretty odd to have happened
right here in New York, isn’t it? And
rather romantic.”
"And you never saw her face at all?”
said Caldwell with an accent of wonder
as he knocked the ash from his long,
black cigar.
"Never!” returned Holworth emphat
ically. “I have no more idea what she
looks like than you have. I would give
#SO to have one look at her. But I am
afraid I never will see her face now. I
got my model, however, and one
that suited me to a dot, so I can’t com
plain. But it’s a strange experience,
isn't it?
“Tell me the. whole thing again,” said
Caldwell, leaning back and putting his
hands in his pockets. "Now that the epi
sode is closed, as they say in diplomatic
circles, 1 should like to hear all the de
tails over again.”
The two men were sitting in Delmoni
co'son a Sunday morning so bright that
one almost had to view it through smoked
glass. They had concluded an 11 o’clock
breakfast. Philippe had removed the
debris of the chicken. Maryland style, and
the Spanish omelet, and they were enjoy
ing their smoae and brandy and soda.
Holworth, nothing averse, proceeded to
comply with Caldwell’s request.
"You know how anxious 1 was to get a
eood model for my statue.’” he said.
"But as I wanted a woman of ideal
physique, that was no easy matter. First,
because there are not many of that kind
of women, and secondly, because those
who are would not be likely to
be models. I wanted a woman in the
bloom of youth yet in the full flower
of development. A suaver type than the
Venus of Milo, but with the same touch of
superb womanly dignity. My statue was
to be called "Purity,” and i wanted to
create a woman iu marble that should be
faultlessly perfect in form, absolutely
nude and yet so sweetly chaste as not to
suggest nakedness. I wanted a woman
whose physique should breathe modesty.
If Adam had been a sculptor he would
have had his model at nand in Eve. But
lam not Adam and there are not many
Eves around New York, and if there are
they don’t tumble over one another in
their rush for a sculptor’s studio. I have
had phenomenal luck in getting one, and
it is no wonder that she should be invested
with all this circumstance, which proves
her rarity and exclusiveness.
“Well, I advertised for what I wanted—
a woman of faultless figure to serve as a
sculptor’s model—hoping the impossible
might occur. It did. But I wish you
could have seen some of the women who
answered that advertisement. I wonder
what their idea of ‘a laultlcss figure’
could be! After a few days, however. I
got this typewritten letter. There was
no clue afforded by it, as you remember.”
"Let me see it again, if you have got it
with you,” sai l Caldwell.
Holworth took several letters from his
breast pocket, and running through them
selected one. which he passed over to
Caldwell. He waited as his friend care
fully read the following note:
"if 1 can serve your purpose as a model
I will pose for y ou on the following condi
tions : You wi!U see from the fact that I
am willing to accept your word that you
will fulfill them that I suppose you to be
not only a sculptor but a gentleman,
namely a man of honor. These are the
conditions:
"In the first place, I must remain heav
ily veiled as to my head, not only on m.y
arrival at an I my departure from your
studio, but also, and particularly, during
the time I pose. I shall also be gloved.
“Secondly, .you must promise that you
will make no attempt to dis over my iden
tity, and that you will not men
tion me in any way until I am entirely
through the posing. I can assure ou thai
th slightest violation ot your promise in
this regard would lead me to discontinue
posing at once.
•• thirdly, from beginning to end of this
business you must regard me as a mute.
L'o not expect me to speak one word, for
I shall not. Y'ou can give me any di
rections that are necessary, but you must
say anything that would call for a reply
from me.
"Fourthly, unless it is impossible to se
cure the pose or turn that you wish in
any other way you must not touch me.
1 should tuppose that with a little pa
tience, and b,y being explicit in your di
rections you could get the pose you want
without having to touch meat all.
"Fifthly, anil in a way this oonuition is
as important as the rest, you must pay
me #5 an hour. This last will furnish the
key to the others. You will not need to
be very keen to deduce that I am led to
do this work entirely for the pecuniary
i onside. atioo, and that lam conquering
my aversion to it for the sake of this
greatly needed money.
"If you will solemnly pledge your word
of honor to sacredly observe these condi
tions. I will tome to your studio
on the day and at the hour
you may appoint, and you can
see whether I will serve your purpose.
Naturally, I believe I have a figure which
will meet your requirements or I would
not consent to this preliminary. In case
you accept the conditions iusert the fol
lowing “Personal” advertisement: ‘No
blesse oblige. Pas moins, la Purete,’ fol
lowed by the day and hour when I am to
come to your studio.
"After you have seen me. should you
conclude to engage me, write on a piece
of paper the days and hours when you
wish me to come. If there is anything to
be said by me, I will communicate with
you in the same way in which I have
now done.
••One more point, not quite so essential,
but which I would like, if possible, to
have agreed to by you. is that I shall not
have to pose more than one hour a day,
and that this be not later than 3 in the
afternoon or earlier than 11 in the morn
ing."
Caldwell shook his head and grinned as
he handed back this very explicit state
ment to Holworth, who replaced it in his
pocket. Then he resumed his narration.
"Of course you can see as well as i
that this woman was no professional
model. As she herself said in the letter,
it was evident that she was doing this
rather reluctantly, solely for the money.
The letter, too. shows that it was written
by an intelligent woman. But what 1
wanted was a good model, and if she
proved that I was perfectly willing to
agree to her conditions. So I inserted
the "Personal” advertisement. 1 confess
my curiosity would have led me to do
that, even if I had been pretty certain
that she would not do at all I wanted to
see what kind of a judgment a womanlike
this could pass on her own shape.
■I got this letter Monday, and put my
‘Personal’in the next day's paper, tap
pointed 2 o’clock the following Thursday
as the hour. This would give her time to
tee it, and it was a more convenient hour
for the woman.
It was not five minutes past 2 on Thurs
day when I heard the beli ring. I had
told the servant to usher the woman who
called at that hour into my studio at
once. As soon as I heard the bell ring I
began to fuss around, as if I were occu
pied with something. It was my role to
be absolutely business like, and show no
curiosity in the matter.
"She came in, and after a step or two
into the studio stopped without any sign
of greeting.
“I bowed slightly, and said in the most
indifferent tone 1 could assume: -I pre
sume you are the model. If you will sup
behind this portiere and get yourself
ready, and then come out and stand on
that platform with your back to the
corner, I can tell in a moment whether
you -will do.”
"Then I went on with my work, after
pulling back the heavy curtain for her to
pass through and pulling it to again, very
closely. I had taken as sharp a look at her
as I could. Madame Mystery wore a
round, stiff hat, with a broad, straight
leaf to it. Over this was drawn one of
those close-woven black veils. Around
her neck was wound a long, loose black
scarfe. Not a feature was indicated, not
even the shape of her head. She also
wore one of those long cloaks, which dis
guise the figure so much. Her shoes
were heavy English walking shoes, one
or two sizes too large for her, I was sure.
Her gloves were heavy, tan colored dog
skin, quite loose.
"Well, I-waited until she came out
with the keenest desire to see her figure,
which she had so shrouded and disguised.
She took more time to get herself ready
than a model would do.
"Finally the curtain was noiselessly
parted and she walked rapidly to the
platform aod placed herself upon it. She
made me want to laugh at first, for she
was certainly a comical model for the
nude. She had retained her hat and veil
and gloves. I could tell that she was
blushing, for even her neck showed red.
“But. Caldwell, her form!” Holworth
rolled his eyes upward and made a de
spairing gesture vritli his hands. Then
he took a pull at his brandy and soda as
if to get force to describe it. He took a
long draught on his cigar, and as he blew
out the smoke in a sigh of rapture, he ex
claimed, ecstatically: “Such a form! I
have never seen the like of it iu Uesli or
stone. Never! It was faultless, The
proportions were perfect, the curves the
most subtle lines of beauty, and such full
ness and delicate maturity to it, yet with
that sense of firm, elastic youth fulness.
And to this perfect shape she added the
charm of a skin like satin and as white
as snow, a delicious, warm, dead white,
and the texture of it like the finest kid.
I glanced at her feet. They were long,
slender and with an exquisitely-arched
instep, and the nails were rosy and per-
fectly shaped.”
Holworth looked at Caldwell as if over
come by the beauty of the human form
divine, which he had conjured up. Cald
well laughed and the sculptor said:
“I tell you. old fellow, i nearly lost my
head. 1 had got a goddgss. X could have
gone on my knees to her. I would have
given her fifty dollars an hourl But I
was too eager to have her pose for me
not to be very careful not to alarm her or
violate any of herioniitions.
“So I said; ‘That will do. 1 find that
you will answer my purpose very well. 1
shall be glad to engage you on the terms
proposed, and I pledge you my sacred
word of honor to observe all your condi
tions. When you are dressed 1 will give
you a slip of paper with the days and
hours marked on it w hen I would like to
have you pose.
“She stepped down from the platform
with alacrity, and almost ran behind the
portieres. She took some time to dress
herself. \\ hen she reappeared 1 was
writing, and without hardly looking up I
said, indicating it with a nod of my head:
'There is the paper. Good afternoon.’
“She picked it up hurriedly, and walked
out without any other recognLion of my
remark. 1 felt that she was dis uising her
gait, too, for she took rather long strides
for a woman.
“The next day I got. the second letter,”
said Holworth. passing over another
which he had taken from his pocket.
CaldweU read this second typewritten
communication from the incognito.
“Since you wish me for this purpose, I
will come at the times you have ap
pointed. You can give me the money at
the end of each week. Remember that a
single violation of your agreement will
spoil all, for I cannot trust you, should
you forget oven one of them. I cannot
pose for you more than a mouth.
“She came as regularly as clockwork,”
said Holworth. "1 lived rigidly up to m.v
contract, and paid her the money at the
end of each week. Live dollars an ho r,
you know, is pretty good pay lor a model.
Most of them arc satisfied with 50 cents
or *l.
••I potm.v statue pretty well in hand by
the end of the month. There was to be
the final posing. All through the sittings
the woman had not j iven utterance to a
word, not a sigh, even. Think of a wo
man holding her tongue like that. I didn't
talk any more than necessary myself, but
worked, making m.v hay while the sun
shone. Bui on the last sitting but one, as
it drew to a close, I did say to her:
‘Y ou must let me express m.y extreme
satisfaction with your posing. If my
statue is a success, it will bo largely
due to my having had a model such
as seldom tails to a sculptor's lot. I feel
that it is impossible for me to anyway
equal the original. Don't be alarmed.’ 1
went on, for she got up and retreated to
the inner room at once, “I only say this
on. e for all, out of pure gratitude.'
“The next morning I got a third note,
and that was the last.” said Holworth.
It was very brief. It ran: "I think you
can do without this last sitting, and so I
shall not come again. I wish you all suc
cess with your statue, and shall feel a
pleasure in thinking that I have helped
you to potray to the world your admira
ble conception of woman purity.’
“And you did not get any idea of her
face or hands at all!” mused Caldwell.”
‘•Not tho faintest.” replied Holworth.
“The same thick veil was always care
fully arranged on the same broad leafed
hat. She may be an angel of beauty, and
she ought to be. with that marvelous
form. But it is quite possible that she is
ugi.y enough to have made her veil a bless
ing’ in disguise. I judge from her shapely
feet that her hands must have, been beau
tiful, and 1 am almost certain that she is
a lady. But I have got my statue, and
when you see it, you < an imagine whether
I have been too enthusiastic in the praise
of the glorious form on which it was mod
eled. She dropped from the clouds, and
she may have returned to them—with my
hundred and fifty dollars. If she knew
bow welcome she was to the money! But
she has disappeared, and probably for
ever, though i should know that exquis
ite form among ten thousand,”
Well, women are not accustomed to
wander around in Lady Godiva’s riding
habit, though they have shapes like those
that roam in Mohammed’s paradise,” said
Caldwell laughingly, -so you are not
likely to recognize tier in this way. How
did Miss Van der Voort like your having
this lovely model?” he added, pleasantly.
"She was too much interested in my
success not to like whatever would help
iton,” replied Holworth stoutly. "I would
have liked to put her head on it if it had
been possible, for she has a sweet, lovely
thoughtfulness which would have carried
out tho idea perfectly. Hut lam content.
1 was luckier than I believed possible. You
are going to be an usher for me at the wed
ding, aren’t you, old man?”
“Oh, yes. 1 shall assist at the imoia
tion. Though it is wo other fellows who
will feel that we are the victims on that
occasion. You are carrying off the prize,
i To morrow fortnight, isn't it?”
i "Yes." replied Holworth. -I am a
lucky fellow. I have made a statue which
will make my reputation. 1 hope, and I
! have won the woman who helped to in.
spire me with the idea of such a portrayal
of womanly purity, lama luckygman.”
Hoi worth’s wedding came off in due
time. Caldwell, who was a rich young
fellow and very devoted to Holworth,
hud meant to give him a woddingpresent,
an exquisite little bronze figure of a nude
nymph, which was a scarfpin. It cost
#l5O, and when he went into Tiffany's one
day to buy it, after a' day
or two, after he had remarked it,
he found, to his disappointment, that it
had been sold. He asked who had
bought it, and the clerk said: "Miss Van
der Voort. She means to give it to Mr.
Holworth, I believe, as a wedding pres
ent.”
• Ah!” thought Caldwell to himself,
"then he will got it from a source which
will make him enjoy it more than he would
if I had given it to him.” And so he
bought a beautifully enameled silver cig
arette case.
The llolworths went to St. Augnst’ne
for their honeymoon and then to London,
where Holworth arranged lor his statue
“Purity,” which had been accepted for
the show at tho Royal Academy. It
aroused the warmest encomiums of every,
body, and was the sensation of the year,
despite its American origin.
Caldwell chanced to meet Holworth
soon after his return to America. It was
their first encounter since the sculptor
had experienced the pleasureof wedding
a lovely girl and becoming a famous mau,
for his “Purity” had unquestionably
made him that. The two friends went
again into Delmonico s for a small bottle
and a smoke.
“1 congratulate you heartily on your
great success, Holworth,” said Caldwell.
"Nobody could be better pleased than I.
And have you ever heard anything of
your wonderful model? You must feel
grateful to her.”
"I shall feel grateful to her all my life.”
said Holworth. with a sort of serious
warmth. “But I have given up ail hope
of ever discovering who she was. And,
iu fact. 1 do not care to make any effort
that way now. I have got my statue.”
And then he changed the conversation.
Sometimes between truth and false
hood there is only the dividing line of a
tense. What Holworth said was literally
true. John J. A. Beacet.
SNAKE SKINS AS TIES.
They May Become a Fad Among the
Swell Chappies.
From the New Y'ork Advertiser.
Just several shades removed from the
chameleon fad is the idea of wearing
snake skins for neckties, but the fashion
is growing in Baltimore. It promises to
become quite the proper capor to ho seen
in immaculate morning suit of the latest
London cut, with the tanned cuticle of a
three-foot reptile neatly tied around the
snowy “choker” collar, or whatever
other style of linen neckwear happens to
be the rage.
The fad will never become violent hero,
for line snake skius coma high, and the
crop may tbm out so as to let the West
Virginians who iua::e a business of catch
ing the possessors of variegated outer
coverings, create a corner in the market
and coin a fortune. Baltimore has swells
enough to take up tho fashion, and, if
they do as they threaten now, "Bill” Mc-
Queen can retire with a competency in
a few months.
To be in the swim nowadays and have
the swagger thing in neckties a man must
not only a wear a snake skin, but the cuti
cle of a "rattler” of about 30 years of age.
The peculiar color of the rattler, when he
has passed in his checks and gone to
snake celestial spheres, is what makes
the skin more \auable ihan when his
fangs are still doing the poison business at
the old stand
The necktie must be that of a snake of
age, stan ting and lamily, for a young
scion or the houso of rattler doesu't seem
to possess all the qualifications as to color
and durability of hide tho hea 1 of the
house can lay claim to. Presumably it’s
because a snake of three decades or so
has been through about all the different
kinds of dissipation known to the reptile
world, and his physical hide is cognizant
of no more compunction than his moral
nature.
Then an old rattler is generally larger
than a young chap, and a tie about a yard
in length is bound to bring more in the
market than a whipper-snapper snake
could show before he reaches his ma orit.y.
No olher kind of a snake indigenous to
this section of the country would answer
the purpose half as well as a rattler, be
cause but few varieties attiiin his length
and Falstaltian girth, except the copper
head an 1 black snake, and their colors,
while brilliant enough during life, are not
of the right shade after the tanner has
had his innin s A copperhead skin as
sumes too much of a (lull brown to har
monize with odd ideas in neckwear, and
the black fellow -well, his hide might an
swer for a seedy individual's mourning
tie. but nothing else.
The rattler's color, when all the fight
has been taken out of him, and the re
mains have been subjected to the process
that prepares them for men s furnishing
use, is something on the very dull gold or
ecru order. The black rings show dis
tinctly, and they lend the old effect that
has so captivated the swells. Then
when back and lining have been put on
the skin the tie is ready for use, but
they’re worth an even *3 any day, count
ing #2.50 for the skin, which is the aver
age price for a rattler of 30 years’
standing, including all the trouble the
catcher and tamer combined have had to
take.
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From the Pocatello (Idaho) Tribune.
Last Friday was a balmy spring day.
Late in the afternoon a drizzling rain blew
up, carried on a wind directly from the
south. It was of peculiar whiteness, and
after it had passed, everyone who hap
pened to have been out in it. and who
wore a dark suit of clothes or a dark hat,
noticed that hat and clothes were covered
with thousands of tinv white spooks.
Later it was noticed that every window in
town looking to the south was also cov
ered with white spots.
“It has t een raining mud,” said every
one who noticed the phenomenon at first,
but later some of the curious tried tast
ing the spots. They had a distinctly
salty flavor, and an analysis made later
by druggists proved that they were salt.
The question now is, where did the salt
come from? There can only be one
answer- from the Great Salt Like,
nearly 300 miles south in Utah. It must
have’been a warm day over tho great
dead sea, when a strong south wind
swept over it. catching up the salty vapor
and sweeping it north to Idaho, and
finally bespattering the clothes and win
dows of the good people of Pocatello with
the salty spray.
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