American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-04-23
A CASE OF SOMNAMBULIsM.

.,- BISON TrunserSpt. /,
A CASE OF SOMNAMBULISM. ~,
A couple Of winters ago L went to
Rosemere for a week and found "a small
/. party assembled there. Ned Stapleton
and his wife, old friends of mine; Paul
Ryder dramatic critic of the Heekt9
PdfNaa}; little Miss Sally Cleaner;
Madge Holton, with whom, have
flirted any time these FIVE years; John
Legion's cousin, Lucy Freye; and the
pianist, Payne Wilkinson.
knew the. pianist tolerably well in
shy sort d aIlST. given to biashins,
W.T. very Schn Tp eou, raeS 9sse %s the
winter with the Stapletons. Payne had
given her lessons on, the piano, just for
the fun Of it, SO they, were pretty .Yeu
acqua;nied; and Mrs. S. ike a Woman
as she was. had Determined. that they
- ought to make match. L ,ht SELF
hardly expected f Il. be sa Ibey were,
sss sa adsssss mo- naf d %na.
- have been well received; but RaVrie,
would never forget his extreme delica-
cy enough to- evince- tirc faintest sign,
OF Partially for Eaey before others, nor II
.gwArReSs-hats terrible bugbear to
sensitive girls enough to allow INF
~ priEaes opportunities for expressing any
affection he might have felt
The consequence was that although
everybody. e., Mrs. Staple.on and 4
thought they would make an exeel-s
lent pals, tAheys seemed to avoid all
chances for such an arrans ement most
sfddiously. - -. -.
Glxx, fbo <,<,., -.o,, tl;S
all unusually good-humored, for some
reason or another, and had n most gio-
rious time We instituted a variety of
new games-some of them concocted in
my own fertile brain and most fiatter-
ingly received, and the tab'eaux wi,
wants, etc, arranged with wonderful
dramatic skill By Paul Ryder, were be-
You'd all description 1 observed, as a
curious psychological phenomenon, that
he always contrived to give SAilies
Z Creamer a soubrette part II (which ,shol
acted most bewitchingly), and took al
character himself that required a quay.
rel with her, a subsequent reconcile
fion. and Of course a kiss At rehearsal
he insisted on having everything real
on the stage, SO farfas was possibfee@
especially the kiss. Payne Wilkinson
!. Was too difident for the drama-an@
Lucy Freye was TOO USEFUL The former,
0 II
y, b4tween the pieces Nnd during the
i;tableaux, and the latter occupied Her
p consummate- taSte IN the akran cement
of dresses, making up Of face& ETC. ONO
One night we had a grand play,
written expressly for the Rosernsre-
Thalian Association" by Ryder; whereiRr
ss k ass ER9ifseS E'R a1js SioSss, :
to Madge Holton,s tomfesse Marie de
Chassetigre (swcct in powder patches
my Ialef with 4fsst deal 81 gold lace
and imppdeuce1s sndzcprfous chance
3;.4SalEe Cfeauer was lady = aid, to
Madame Ia COmfesses (with o1epf those
= 0eniesa little aprons. With pockets just
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! some.i impromptn- scenery. cleveriy
NJ psintsdsd asinitasionau f architecture, rby 4
~efe-on : - glider sesIs
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draw-curtain we had fofhefaD fused we
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in stetsiy zo3dsupen the scene of
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