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The Saturday Evening Spectator (Minneapolis), August 23, 1879, p. 4


SENSATIONAL WOMEN.


Some of our exchanges are giving a large amount of space to gossip concerning Mrs. Langtry, the noted beauty who is coming to America soon to exhibit herself, and Miss (!) Sara Bernhardt, the Parisian artist-actress, whose genius and audacity have astonished Europe; and who also is to invade our country. On the part of Mrs. Langtry the stock anecdote is that to prove the genuineness of the peach tint of her complexion she offered her handkerchief to a gentleman that he might touch and test the color of her cheeks. The current notice concerning the Bernhardt is that she teaches her children to call her "Mademoiselle, my mamma." They are smart children, but not wize enough to know their own father, if indeed "Mademoiselle" herself does. These women have both been recently brought prominently into notice through the vulgarity of royalty. Whatever or whoever the Prince of Wales elevates into notoriety by his distinquished favor is instantly an object of devoted admiration by thousands of aristocrats and imitators of aristocracy who constitute the "society" of Great Britain. America should welcome worthy men and women of all nations. We should heartily receive the world's wisest and best persons of both sexes. But when it comes to according ovations to women who exhibit their charms, or parade the results of their lusts unblushingly, or in any other way prostitute their God given attractions of beauty or genius, the self-respecting press and people of America should give them no recognition nor encouragement.


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