TRICKS OF STAGE COSTUME.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 1279, 24 March 1881, Page 2

TRICKS OF STAGE COSTUME.

A great many tricks of stage costume spring from personal defects. In whatever cut of waist Modjeska appears there is always a bunch of flowers or a bow placed at the left of her open corsage. When this device is not resorted to, a little strip of silk will be trailed across diagonally, or a little fan of lace will suddenly spring from the left corner, in order to hide a scar on the breaat that looks as if it might be the result of a wonnd from a poignard, a "souvenir of a romance." Poor Lucille Western was afflicted by a birth mark. She was a regular female Esan. About her waist there was n growth of silky brown hair, which ran to a point in front. When it came above the tops of her dresses it was carefully shaved, but the skin always remained blue. So Lucille wora a huge cross dangling just over that portion of her anatomy. Parepa Rosa had a deep vaccination scar far down her robust arm, and when her sleeves were very short, a knot of ribbon or a trail of flowers used to cover it. Before she grew bo extremely stout she wore a golden band above the elb jw to hide it, but when her armlet had to be as big as a waistcoat she abandoned the oddity. One night, speaking of this scar to an American girl, who sat in her dressingroom, the Yankee offered Parepa an immediate and effectual concealment of the offending spot. She took one of the candles off the tiolet table, and, holding it above the arm, let one drop of the molted wax fall upon the place, and there was no further need of concealing devices. A daah of flesh-tinted powder completed the cure, and Parepa'a makeup box for ever after contained a bit of wax candle.

One of the saddest and most vexations trials that comes to a girl when she marries is, th*t she has to discharge .her mother and depend upon a hired girl,