The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-29
Sara Bernhard.
TRUE sroEy OF TIE FRENCH AcrREss

! TRUE sToEE OF TIE FRENCH ACTREss.
The San Francisco Post says; OF
course we ali read the nonsense
printed b. the Eastern papers on
the subject OF Sara Bernhardt's ply
sical insufiiciency, but very few
people realize how pretenaturally
thin she is, for all that. The follow
/ ing perfectly true incident will con-
vey an approximate idea, however,
especially to to country readers: In
the winter of rs the irrepressibic
and omnivcrous Sara became enam-
ored of an attache of the American
legation in Paris named McGugger.
We don't mean that MEG. ever act
ually became of the great stars list
of alleged husbands, suffice it that
success finally crowned her efforts
to errest the coy representative Of
the OF the bird o'freedom.
The wonderful actress Worshiped
( her art more than her lover, howey-
er-which Is generally the case with
wonderful actresses; 50 1t happened
that she was not sorry to suddenly
discover that she possessed a dread
rival in a pretty grisette, as just at
that moment she was rehearsing the
part of jealous wife, and was pro-
fessionally glad TO obtain al the
points on jealousy, so to speak, she
possibly could, TO utilize the cir
/ cumstances to the best advantage,
the actress proceeded TO gain secret
admission to the rooms of McGug-
ger, in the hopes Of witnessing an IN
teryiew between her rival and her
faithless admirer, and drawing valu-
able experience from the laCeration
I of her own feelings while soengaged.
There was a shot gun standing in
1 the corner las Is the case IN most
American bed rooms, into one Of
the barrels Of which the star easily
crawled after removing a few super
fiuous articles of apparel, which
she slipped into the other barrel.
/ Nobody entered. however, and fin
.allv getting tired of waiting, Sara
tucked the top wad of the charge
under her head and went fastasleep.
That night there was an alarm Of
burglars raised, and McGugger was
Justin the act of dischareing his gun
.at a man getting over the fence,
when Sara, who had been awakened
by the click Of the gun-lock, shrek
ed:
Don't shoot I'm in the gunl'
(Which barrel-quick?' said Nc
C.
The left, but my things are
The attache, however. instantly
touched the other trigger, and sim
Inltmeouslv Sara's historical high
hecled slippers crashed through the
house-breaker's pope's nose, so TO
speak.
"Will YOU come out ?"
said our representative, shaking the
gun, "or snail get the ramrod and
, extract you?'
You have fired away all my
g duds," said the Bernhardt, though,
of course, in excellent French. I'm
, afraid shall have to borrow your
gun TO wear home"
F., Il guess you'd better" said Nc
Gugger, "as it looks ike rain"
, So he turned the gun muzzlc
: downwards, so she could get her feet
on the floor, and steered her down
stairs. The hcpassers in front Of Sara's
p IhOuse were astonished a few minutes
r later q. beholding a shotgun descend
from coupe and walk up stairs
propelled ay shad0wy pair of un-
.mistakable Hebraic feet
', And now what IS the tender and
beautiful lesson taught by this incl
dent? Does it not, gentle reader
does il not, we say-asSure the ear
6 nest and thoughtful student of elem
4 entiye Fhi,0logy that independent Of
e and correlatiyeiy apart from, the or
E nithological influence Of cGntcmpo-
t raneous animalcule, the infnitude
c of interchangeable bitterness, con
taminatcd though it be sepulchral
translucence, can seldom, impreg.
aate with abusive cynoephelian IN
sistan.a the genealogical asseyera-
r tion Of potoP,asms asimuth, or
either in case Of fire c. iickness in
the family?