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Show receipts went over 12,000 it is said Fanny Davenport western toar in Sai-dou's Sai-dou's Cleoyatiy is the most profitable tour she has ever known . It is among the probabilities that Miss Davenport may produce In English next season Paul Blanchard, recently played here by Sarah Bernhardt. Roland Retd whose success last season In his comedy "Lend lie Your Wife." will be remeiu bered, has a new play by Sidney Roen-feld. Roen-feld. This eoraedy was favorably re eeived during its run of six week i. New York City and was prononnced U be the best work of the co author i f The senator, Mr. Reed recently played a very successful week in Philadelphia The second aditlon of "The devil's par-Ior"has par-Ior"has been revised and new specialties introduced. Interest in this bright little lit-tle comedy does not drag, because It U new and ant of the general rnn. The Japanese gymnasts, the Russian orchestra orches-tra and three iore of magnificent wax groups afford an entertainment certainly certain-ly one of the best ever oflered at popular prices. The twenty little darkies who appeared in the dance Afrlcain in "Sin-bad" "Sin-bad" at the Chicago opera house during the summor run, hearing of its return to-morrow evening, all aplied at the box cilice for reinstatement in their various positions. They came up In a body, and most of them still wore the blue Siubad yachting caps and the nni forms biouRes with brass buttons with which Mr. Henderson presented them last summer. ii:E WinlAVS liiilll!) I. is not until 1709 that Mine. IW-atu-ier began to "receive," at 17 line Mount Blanco, Palis. That house and her pavillion, or lodge, at Clichy, eoou become be-come known as the favorite rt sorts of republican rank and fasliiou. She was then in the zenith of her beauty. She played with considerable skiil on the Diano and harp, and dancing was a I great passion with her. It was her bewitching be-witching evolutions in the shawl dance, invented, by the way, by Nelson's Lady Hamilton, which suggested the dance scene in "Corinno." Mine do Stael says: It was Mine. Recamier's dancing wtiich gave me the idea of that which I have endeavored to depict. I ha charming charm-ing woman, so celebrated for-iif grace and beauty,- offers an example of so touching a registration, so complete a forgetfuluess. . M. Uecamier was now at the height of his financial p'rosperity and ho lavished every luxury upon his beautifal wife Balls and dinner parties were ;iven at the house in tho Rne Mount Blunce, and there, as well as atJClichy, where Mmo. Recamier resided with her mother and received only her most intimate friends, 9ho reigned supreme, not merely as the queen of fashion, but as the object of personal admiration from the leading men of her time. Nous en etians amoureux, said Jnnet to his wiTe, lime. d'Abrantes. The armies of Italy and of Sonbre-et-Meuse, hostile in all besides, fraternized in this common idolatry. Lncien Buonaparte wrote her rnlienloiig letters addressod from Romeo to Juliette Bernaudoita showed his devotion in a stiff, laborious ruanuar; Masseua wore her whito favor on his aim throughout the siege of Genoa; Fouche, while conveying con-veying to hor well-pleased ear that le premier consul vous trouve charmante, ficcius not to hi.ve neglected; to say tender things on behalf of his own repulsive re-pulsive self. The prince of U'urtem-berg, U'urtem-berg, the prince of Mecklenbnrg. Sehweriu, Metteriuch; Adriam, Prince do Laval, a returned emigre oind the very perfection of a grand signenr: and Wtitiiien de Montmorency Acre all tiie train of lime. Recamier's worshippers. worship-pers. No wo.aau ever passed through such adventures as she did in. the con-duet con-duet cf her successive and contemporaneous contempor-aneous llirtations, and yet the world, with all Its jealonsies and envies, with all its delight in utilising success and contaminating excellence, passed her by as nnas-aiiable. They Sit on One Foxit. The wouieu have a great propensity for sitiing oo one foot in a .re- f cer Tii wen hh in the soeiiision of iT,eiF own homes. It's a great failing of the saxt obeerves a w liter in the Indianapolis Journal. The ordinary observer would never notice, probably, because their skirtG come too low to tell whether two precious little feet or one are dangling dow n, bn if, when one gets in a car, he will just casually glance along the line, ten chances to one he will find one ycuug lady at least who to all appearances appear-ances is a hero of the battle of Gettyr-berg. Gettyr-berg. They do it so skillfully and deftly that nobody but a woman is likely to detect them at it. It is done when she first siis down. Just- as she is abont to sit eho gives a qui k little hitch, which motion is employed em-ployed to bring the leg np to the seat, and then the rest of the performance proceeds as usual, t'hns, like the Turk : at his pipe or the tailor at his work, she rides comfortably from the starting place to the destination. There are many advantages in this mode of sitting and few disadyautag3. It economizes Epace in the crorvded seat and makes room for one more passenger, so that the gentleman who graceonsly rises to give up his seat to tho lady who has just entered finds to his astonishment that there is still room for him after she has settled down to riding position. The only disadvantage is that fre. quently a lady may tear her skirt when she gets up to leave tho car. Or, worse still, she may catch her shoe heel in the dress or other garmont and trip herself. her-self. A lady arose from a Pennsylvania car seat the. other da7, and there seemed suits the contraction of the abdominal walls immediately above the pelvis known as the waist. , It Is then clear that the diameter of the waist Is inversely in-versely as ,the diameter cf the p?his, and the differential of diameter is greatest as the transverse diameter of the pelvis exceeds the anterc-posterlor. A charming fin de siecle novelty is the photographing of the hands of women. wo-men. Uoou the score of beauty this very new custom has good' reasons Poets bave spent phrases upon the beauty of the perfect hand of their hero-lines. hero-lines. No novelist of the class given to descriptive detail would omit to mention men-tion admiringly the hand of the leading lady of his story In an enumeration of her charms-be it long, translucent and tapering, or chubby, soft and warm, says the Yonng Ladles' Fashion Bazar. Since the giving of a woman's hand has always been symbolic or the giving of herself a symbol that has laid mora than one or even twice in the history of mankind since it has ever been the prlv ilege of the subject to kiss the hand of his queen, of a knight of old to kiss that of his lady, of a modern lover to press thai of his beloved in his own; since, Indeed, a fine hand Is so trnly beautiful, whether it contains fonr acei or four fingers, and since temperament at least if not each small particularity of character, char-acter, Is expressed in il, the hand is certainly a sufficiently important feature fea-ture of one's make np to be preserved "counterfeit presentment. The photographing of hands originated origina-ted as a general costom In London a bout a year ago, Hands had been reproduced repro-duced in outline by tho camera befora that time. Whon Air. Heron Allen made cMioinaiicy a fad a fad now defuncthe de-functhe incidentally presented pic tures made from photographs of some well known hands to illustrate his writings writ-ings upon palmistry. The hand of a deini blonde I', as a a rule, the prettiest of all hands. The taper of the fingers is most beautiful. beau-tiful. Such a hand is slim, without being be-ing bony or two nervous. The possessor of such hands are usually of an animated animat-ed disposition, of sensitive nature, but given to occasional emotional aud unreasonable un-reasonable moments and to periods of melancholy. The hand of a prouounced blonds la apt to be excessively thin and of apparently appar-ently to delicate formation. The long, slim hand ns a rule, whether it belongs to a blonde or a demi blonde, indicates a variable disposition subject to lime of excitability. The hand of the decided brnnette Is short and plump, and bespeaks an amiable, ami-able, contented, housewifly disposition. She is of confiding nature alert and intellgent, but allowably vant and some time unaccountably irritable alM des- pendent by turns. - J- The phoigraphs of hands appear most effectively upon black circular of oval surfaces. A cup, a flower, a piece of brie a brae, anything simple and dainty held in the fingers, may enhance the artistic eff 'ct, Chat about Plays and Players. Rosina Yokes company is playing in San Francisco. Rudyard Kiyliug has dramitiz 'd his novel "The Naulahk ." It will soon be produced in Eng and. William A Brady has made a financial success of Harry Lacy's production. 'Jack Royal of the 92d." Clement Scoit the noted London dramatic critic contemplates a (our around the world as a lectnrer. The receipis for the last week of Mr. n illare's engagement at Hooley's seven performances were $10, 134. Mile Clara Qualitz the clever dan-seuse dan-seuse of the Slnbad company, was recently re-cently married in San Francisco to Lee Harrison. She will retire from the stage. Francis Wilson will soon replace "The Mery Monarcn"wIth his new opera entitlod " The Lion Tamer." niusto by Richard Stahl and words by J Cheever Goodwin. Kate Castleton, supported by Lena Mervllle, Joseph Ott, and a competent compe-tent company will soon appear in a new farce comedy called " The Dazzler.'' Jchn L Sullivan will appear in a new play called "Broderick Agra, ' at the Bush street theatre, San Francisco, Dec. 12. The play Is frem the pen of Duncan Harrison. Hattis Harvey will give a dinner at her father's cafe some day this week in honor of the birthday of her friend Mary Curtis, who plays to be a tuggliug and pntlmg going on under her dress. In a moment there was a long, ripping sound, and she Wl fallen Hat on her lace in the bottom of the car. When she arose to her feet to go she trailed abont two yards of rs:1 braid after her. Narrow Waists. , We are repeatedly told that a narrow waist la a deformity produced by artificial arti-ficial compression, aud that the just model for the healthy, uortual woman is the robnst and matronly Venns of Milo. Now the anthropologist knows that this general assertion is not true as applied to tho civilized white woman. It is especially characteristic of the highest types of women of the Iudo-Eoropean race to have wide hips and narrow waists, up to the age when adipose tissue fills to greater uniformity of ont-liue ont-liue the graceful curve which is so generally gen-erally admired. It is well kuown that the form of the pelvis differs iu the different dif-ferent races, so that in the white race the female pelvis differs from that of the male more than is the case with the African. In the latter the famale pelvic strait is, as in the male, longer In anteroposterior than the transverse diameter; in the female Mongolian the strait is snbqnadrate in outline, -while in tho Inda European the strait Is oval, wi h tho transverse diameter greater than the antero-posterior. Tim. the white woman has widor hips than the women of inferior races, and she ia so far more unlike the male than they. The larger pelvic cavity of the female is an adaptation to the increase in the bulk of Its contents incident to gestation; gesta-tion; and it follows that when this cavity cavi-ty Is not so occupied the movable viscera fill the space. From this ra- tu toiegrapn gin in a wuoie in toe ground. LaCigale Is unquestionably the greatest financial success in the line of light opera ever placed before the New Yoik public, The receipts are said to have avreaged f 1,800 a performance. Tho Casino Opera eompany, which follows " Sinbad" at the Chicago Odera House will produce a new piece entitled "Father Celestine." It has been a reigning reig-ning success in Paris daring a season past. EmmaStockman the former wfle of John V Norton, who ereated a sensation sen-sation a few years ago by eloping with a St. I.onis newspaper man, has returned return-ed to the stage. She is a member of the Hordman Blind Company, Lonis James has been engaged by Joseph Jefferson to replace the late William J Florence in his company. He will play the roles of Sir Lucius 0 Trigger in "The Rivala" and Zekiel Homespun in The Heir at Law. Mrs. Scott Siddons will return to the stage this season, presenting a play called "The Adventuress," a translation by Henry t Manr of "L.Auenturier" from which sonrce Tom Robertson derived de-rived his charming play, Home: Shenandoah, Shen-andoah, Bronson Howard's war drama will shortly be presented This play Is the most successful production of the series of dramas relating to the incidents inci-dents of the late war which has ever, been presented. The Kimball Opera Combine and Barleaqae Company in Carmon up to date will follow held by the Fnemy Corinne, the star will be snported by Bernard Dyllln, John D, Gilbert and a competent company. The Bostonians have just closed an engagement engage-ment at David Condorson Dbqnosne j theater in Pittsburg whicti was charac. J terized by the largest business ever done i y a n opera company in that oily. The |
