The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-10-07

lstlcs, and which he rightly deemed essen
tial to success in the higher walks of his
art. Her youth, beauty, and sweetness
made her PRESERVATION of such characters
Pas Gretchen, Ophelia, and -desdemona
| faultless, but she did not possess either
the physical or artistic force, necessary
for the adequate representation of more
| lnteliectualana powerful heroines. bseo1
| 70 But it, was the woman that Herman had
loved, not the fellow artist he had chos-
en- her to be the companion of his life,
not the sharer of his tolls. And she was
IN truth all that the wife of great actor
should be-a loving yet appreciatiye crit
\ .ilc, faithful counselor, unfaiIing in her,
sympathy and untiring9 IN Her devotion
She rejoieed in all his lsaceess sgl0fied mi
his triampil, and sootheJl away ali the ir.
irritation PRODUCED by the petty lannoya1ia D
tces incidental to- a theatrials life and
(which sometimes fretted. his delicate, SEN
sitive nature almost beyond endurance
She always, it possible, accompanied him
to the theater, but when detained at home
he ever found her awaiting his return i
and if the first and fondest kiss was be-
slowed upon her husband, the second and
proudest embrace was always given to the
distinguished actor. 1t was happy and
cheerful home,a and though wealth and
| splendor might not abide there, love and
content and perfect congenlality dwelt in
their stead. One child came to perfect
their hoppiness-a blue-eyed girl who to
her mothers beauty and gentleness unit
ed the dramatic talent of her gifted faith,
/ err. E $50 - -.
| Ten sunny, une ventfu1 years passed
swiftly by and gave to Mansfeldt's genius
a wider and ripper development, lending
to his coantenance a nobler and more in
| tellectual9 beauty, and Bertha's loneliness
thanks to her cheerful nature and the I'M
clouded serenity of her life remained un-
impaired, and only assumed a more digni-i
| fed and matronly type. And ManSfeldts
| fame and fortune Waxed greater with each
Succeeding year, while his wife's love and
| sympathy were, as ever, his most efficient
Eaids. They had indeed been to him as q
| fair pedestal, on which the peerless stat
Lutte Of his genius had been raised to a
clearer light and a nobler elevation. ~ %
! The tenth anniversary of their wedding
| day saw this attached pair on the eve of
| separating for the first time.dy Hermann
| had receiveda munificent offer to play a
| short engagement in the principal cities
! of Holland, and after much hesitation he.
accepted it. 1t had always been Bertha's
custom to accompany her husband when
/ the closing of the Berlin theater enabled
| him to fulfill engagements in other cities,
but her health at this period was in a.
| precarious state AID her husband was un
4 willing to allow her to expose herself to
the, discomfortss of a journey as well as
to the damp, unwholesome atmosphere of
la Dutch summer. y, n. III 5f,,,ds b,5,f ,.,a
/ Remember, you must give me another
daughter" he whispered tenderly,. as he
folded her for the last time in his arms
.et'I have prayed for a son, und1tifdl wife
as l am" she answered, playfully, though
/ her blue eyes were full of tears ia SON
with your eyes and your noble nature
TO make hereafter some W0nmn's life as
happy as you have made mine. Oh, Her
mar n, how happy we have been all these
yeafsT X ssat2 aBo 5a .4e.l3s49 I'D .uaffe.#
Two weeks later, from the windows of
the express train which left Obernhausen
on the Prussian frontier in the evening
| for Berlin, there peered a white, haggard
face, that would hardly had been fGcog
niaed by the .ka6jtueS OF theuBerlinj thea.
ire as being that of Hermann Mansfe ldt
1
once !" so ran the telegram which had
summoned him. 0 flying train, rushing
onward at lightning speed, now you creep,
how you loiter, how slow your whiting
wheels, how poWerless your mighty en-
CINE bearingthe loving to the death
bed of the beloved on and the moon
light shows a spectral city, which the
guards named Hanover, and at which the
wide open eyes of the once sleeplesS tray
eler stare uhseeing.q Then comes long
stretches of landscape, fields and forests
land far-of hills, all peaceful and quiet in
The shining silence Of the night. Another
sleeping city, silent and motionless under
the silvery light. and this is Brunswick,
and the agonized watcher writhes as If in
physical agony, and muttefs !ll""They
stop so leng-so long !" Again the train
rushes on, clenched hands of the hopeless
husband. Potsdam at last, its palaces
showing fair and bright in the golden
sunshine and then the train thunders
into the great station at Berlin and the
miserable journey ends. sys orfd4 .f..u
/ Pale, wearied and utterly exhausted
] with, fatigue and misery, Hermann Mans
tfeldt reached his home. His little daugh-
ter Bertha met him on the threshold and
4 sprang weeping into his arms. = .'',l."
h''Oh, father mother has left usAmother
has gone to heaven Hoshe sobbeda ADD 1
4 sb He had come too late. oijsroh la dfa-g
4 The next moment he stood beside the
pbed %hereon lay scalm and beautiful in
: statnte1ike reposesa all that earth still
! held of the gentle beng, whose love and
/ loveliness had made the sunshine of bis
j Iife.g Little Bertha followed him, and af;
liter q short pause she, gently raised one
end Of the snowy covering that lay light.
ly over the silent form rriors T
-ssEa thar tho rr,hiara rnd 1aoi.,tI N o.. to q