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Show ' 1 t . . ..... ,1 M'"' '! - ..o vi I; . c : '"rj Mwi I; i - v . ii Urtull 1 The few Arr.erleans who have had a chance t cu.ivatd Duso', ehortly discovered dis-covered that tie, though as a rulo ln-filfTerent ln-filfTerent to her personal appearance, has one Innocent vanity. This concerns the great Eanora's hair. h Is Inordinately proud ot her hair, which is black and ellky and luxuriant, snd cared for more tenderly than her velvet voice or her lofty' art.' She is more pleased with a subtle compliment directed at her tresses than She la by the most ardent adulation over her act-In act-In ar. There la more than one rumor among the actress' friends that her maid la Under bond and pain of Instant cUscnla-sal cUscnla-sal if she does not report and promptly puU out, every morning-, any white hair that may have made Its appearance over night, and that once a year Puse goes to Paris to see pictures and theaters the-aters ostensibly, but la reality to visit a famous hair specialist who keeps her black tresses under scientific care and supervision. . '' ' ZIrs. Stevenson's Fad. Not' the most careless observer can fail to note, on meetlnr the widow of Robert Louis Stevenson, who was a rather famous beauty in her youth, that she assumes none of the airs of a faded debutante. She is an, elderly, dignified, gray-haired woman who presses for comfort and not for style, and cherishes no vanity whatsoever except for her tiny and most exquisite feet. - At all times she wears the daintiest of high-heeled high-heeled black satin slippers with ornamented orna-mented toes and silken hose of the most expensive quality. But Mrs. Stevenson's charming: little feet give her no more innocent pleasure than Mrs. Humphrey Ward derives from her wonderful complexion, or Mrs. Edith Wharton enjoys In her stunning Paris gowns. Mrs. Ward Is a fairly handsome woman wo-man her photographs do not do her Justice and not Bonguereau himself could paint her dazzling skin of milk and rose tints, which, despite her matronly ma-tronly years, la stiU innocent of wrinkles. wrin-kles. Mrs. Ward Is as considerate of her complexion as Duse is of her hair. She wears winter and summer, in fair weather and stormy, beside an open window, for she well knows that oxygen oxy-gen and moisture are life to the human cuticle. When a big novel is on and hard work Is the order of the hour., Mrs. Ward lives a good part of the time on bread and milk only, and those of the freshest quality. Mrs. Wharton's Gowns. x On the other hand, Mrs. Wharton Is totally unlike most modern women of brains In that she is singularly coquettish, coquet-tish, dainty, extravagant and bashful in her clothes. She has little or no thought of herself, and her appearance Is that of at nervous, rather delicate woman, but she Is peculiarly careful In her selection of gowns. Her taste is for French dressmakers. and though her. books suggest a dreamy personality, oblivious of the details of life, and a lover of great simplicity, she is in reality real-ity a patroness of the longest and most sinuous trains; largest sleeves, most dazslinf sequins and complicated general gen-eral designs. Seen In ordinary walking dress, Mrs. Wharton would be passed by unnoticed, but in evening gown her appearance simply challenges attention, and she Is not at all indifferent to compliments on her Judgment in selecting her lovely 1 frocks and her grace In wearing them. |