The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 29, 1903, Page 9

e HG shall decide whether the w re n tresses , ette, with her raven will bet- nd tear of ¢ experts say (hat pposites, not only so in facia the experts. ¢ is ruled e most ver- has some- olor rd in death ves, with from a love af- e tmperlous in nters 1 e e, & she ¢ s more e ope takes more interest in ary affairs of life er gy After a ere are precious few rules girl, whether bionde or mes to the question o P all apt to me r or later, [ » eer at the sooner they 4o 50 s e the oonsequences, the be £ the peace of mind of all whe . COLONIL RAIT PAPIRS . TI1E «ay be concerned in the developments. The dark weman is not given to brood- ing. She will blurt out whatever she may feel and when she has had her say the matter will be ended. She is true to her friends and less selfish In her manner of treating and receiving them. Then, too, there is little decepton in her composi- tlon. She is frequently too frank for her ® F Mrs. Payne Whitney had been born poor she would still be interesting. But born rich, she is positively ro- mantic. Her tale of love is actuaily sentimental; her short life reads like 2 chapter from a summer novel. There have been smiles and tears, diplomacy and soclety, with %ove and tragedy and worldly experience, ali mingled in her life to give it a backing. Last summer Mrs. Whitney's brother, the pet of all the girls in Washington, the idol of the family, a young man brilliant, stalwart, perfect in habit and handsome of feature—a paragon he is now called— tumbled from a window in his sleep one warm night and was dashed to death. They buried him in his suit, his lit- tle bat wing_ tie, his high-band collar, buried him looking just as in life, with a thousand Yale studepts mourning for him. . That was the tragedy, the back-ground, ths bit of awfulness which took the friv- olity out of the girl's face. But had she been poor and withbut in- fluence, without anything but her wits and her abllity, this girl would have been remarkable. ~Her talents would have made her so. They would have brought her before the public and would have kept her there. They would have’ sup- lied her home with every luxury . and nstead of beinr a reued darling of so- clety the girl would undoubtedly have been a great professional light. Bhe acts exquisitely and could have gone on the stage. She writes beautifully and shows a rhythm and depth not to be suspected of ene 50 ine: lenced. A o How W ould own goad. She does not count the cost of a rash remark, but will bow to the in- evitable that follows. Altogether the dark woman is more af- fectionate than one of colder coloring. The pink and white beauty is lukewarm. The radiant tropical bird borrows a giow from the tropical sun. The brunette has less thought of public opinfon, being too impulsive and too reck- less to weigh the consequences of a hasty word: or act. If a matrimonial venture runs in smooth grooves, the blonde woman will enjoy life in a pale sort of way. but she As a reader she is -unexcelled and her low deep musical voice was Washington's pride. . As a soclety girl she s an unquestioned success. As an eutdoor girl she 1s very good and has taken athletic prizes. As an amanuensis she won the confi- Gence of her father. As a conversatlonist.she interested. old statesmen. As a dancer she had many partners. As u woman of the world she surprised her own family. As a girl who could fall in love and en- Joy a romance she led Washington the past year, for all thought her an Ideal match, And that i{s Helen May Whitney, the girl of millions who married millions, and who_expects to come back to New York and be happy ever after. But her glory s not yet told. After win- ning Washington society, from the diplo. matic circle down to the gilded youth, she went further. She won the family of her husband who- was-to-be! “William C. Whitney, rather conservative where daughters-in-law are concerne lgoked at her and admired her immensel His son had not only encouragement to g0 In and win, but promises of ample worldly reward if he should succeed. With a wife like that, Mr. Whitney felt that Ll‘alcould afford (o give his son a fine start e. And the girl did more, Payne itney has an uncle, Oliver Payne, the magnate, the dearest and finest _bachelor uncle—the girls say—that ever lived. Colonel Oliver Payne loved his sister, the first Mrs. Whitney, and ke loved her children. will never display the energy that char- acterizes the woman of darker tones and tints. Under ordinary circumstances the lat- ter has more self-control in public than the blonde, but when alone with the man she loves and whom she fancies has not treated her we'l, she will let herself loose ard there is no prophesying what the out- come will be. The brunette-woman is more constant than the blonde and is willitg to n(ke more sacrifices for love's sake. She®loer not count the cost from a se'f-interested view. She loves longer, more ardently, and more unselfishly. Dut at the same time, she is more suspicious and more in- tensely jealous. She fs not so selfish where the attention of men are concerned and she has less thougit of self in the ordinary occurrences of life, but she loves with more Intensity. Where the jealousy of the dark woman may end tragically, the blonde will un- dermine with a subtlety that leaves no clue. The latter deliberates and counts the cost, but the brunette cares mothing for consequences, which she forgets to caiculate when her passions are aroused. Now, gentlemen, which will you Bave— the blonde or the brunette? e e e e + + g ® He specially loyéd' the boy Payne. And when he saw Helen Hay he loved her airo. The more he saw of her the more he thought that he had never beheld so fine a girl. and. after he had read her poems and heard her recite. his admiration turn- into something which might be cailed uncle-ly adoration. § And the girl reciprocated. She talked to Uncle, Oliver ard took Uncle Oliver driving with her. 8he quoted Uncle Oliver and adopted him into_her life. And to- day if there is a difference between a flesh-and-blood uncle and one that is only an uncle ‘by marriage, the bride-girl does not recognize such a difference. And this s what the uncie-hv-marriage is said to,have given the bride: £ . A furnished house on Fifth ave- nue. A country place at Tuxedo. A yacht. A trip around the world. Her choice of books for the Wbrary. A diamond tiara. A dtamond necklace. An order upon a Paris dress- aker, One hundred thousand dollars in cash. —_— Just what else he gave her no one knows. But he certainly heaped upon her all that #he would accept and mourned that she would not take more. That is the kind of an uncle to have. But if Mrs. Payne Whitney has a great You Like to Be Mys, Payne W htney? deal there is reat deal that she 1is not—that is in any large quantity. She is not a professional beauty. She is not endowed with a great flow of small talk. #he is not addicted to soclety. She is not what is known as & “leader.” She never poses. She never talks for effect. She is not the “best dressed weo- man in the world.” Her clothes are not remarkable I for their brilllaney. She is not the suthor eof ,original soclety _ entertainmen h as a head-dreés dinner, s cir- cus on the lawn or a dog party. H 4 But she has money, she is the admira- tion of her own family, she has the re- gard of diplomatic soclety and a future. And now she has been presented to ths King and has made her best bow 1o Queen Alexandra. Report says that she was not at all em. barrassed and performed the feat of get- ting in and out of the room with perfect ““Ana wh t nd why not? Born of wealth and with 'rlnt, of grandfathers; educated with wisdom and schooled in high society, she, of all others, ought not to be afraid to meet the King. And as for the King, doubtiess he congratulating himself his good tune in meeting woman, it .