The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-02-01
FEMININE IDOLS.
How Haudsome Actor.slr Bored b.
the Ernsions or SILLY Women-Notei
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How Handsome Actor=Sre Bored D.
the EMISSIONS rSllKy Women-Notei
and Flowers.
New York Correspondence Boston Herald.
If silly women knew what bores thei.
anonymous illusions were to the hand
some actors to whom they send them
they would very likely discontinue the
practice, which, after all, must put
them to indefinite trouble and expense.
There are no bounds TO these ladies ex-
actions. They usually begin by request.
ing Nh. Terriss, Mr.. MantelI or Mr.. Kel-
cey to send them their autographs, and
have been known to coyly add that il
the gentleman found himself IN the vi
cinity of Central Park he might bring Ii
i'm person TO such and such q number.
This is like the lady who ran
across her husband trying
TO evade ner in Eighty-sixth street.
John she said. amazed, What are
You doing in Eightg-sixth street, MY
deaf; i iustE aappened-" John Smith,
no one ever happened to be in Eighty
sixth streetlp The ladies #he write to
handsome actors invariably send them
flowers, with a request that they shall
wear them at the matinee. These
flowers are sometimes roses, but are
usuully yiolets. The fair unknown
have a mania for v~iolets. When Mon
tague was alive, his dressing-room smelt
as strongly ofyiolettes Parma as though
il were that ~perfumery shop in New
30 nd street, London, which makes the
vicinity of Longs Hotel and Henry
Irying's house odoriferous. Violets
came in boxes day after day to Terriss.
accompanied by notes in an unknown
hand: Wear these; it is not much TO
ask" One day the writer said shes would
be in front, with violets at her maiden
breast. Terriss looked nh and then
looked down. She ought to have worn
sunlowers, dahlias, or, say hollyhocks.
He never looked again. Some
times three or four different nosegays
arrived on one and the same day, all ac-
companled by plaintive petitions.
what do they take nae for? An arbor,
trellis work, a conservatory" Kelley
nsed to be kept busy acknowledging
the receipt of notes brought by messen-
ger boys In frantic haste. One evening
three missives came from the same lady,
but this was almost ~excusable, for she
was about to leave town, she announced,
and the poor thing wa sad. "Voici
pinstant supreme, Finstante de nos
adisux!D However, the rose would ar
rive every evening, she said, just as
though she were here. This was note
No.2. Twenty minutes after came athird,
81 cannot 20 without one word from
YOU" Kelley had never seer the lady,
but he had a compassionate heart; SO,
taking the pencil proffered him by the
messenger boy, he scrubbed, Many
thanks for your kindness, Another
time. a lady, who wrote from a leading
hotel, requested him to call. and Mrs.
Caroline Hill Kelley gave her permits
sion. go and see who it Isl" But the
wise Herbert thought he'd rather not.
AT what hour do you usually walk up
Broadway" wrote a lady to Terriss,
who sribbled back: II neve walk up
Broadway; l always take the Sixth ave-
nue. cars" Mantell has grown so blase
over notes and bouquets that he turns
them straight over TO Mrs. M. ,aE George
Rignold was wont to do, Mrs, Manten,
ike Mrs. Rignold, is an actress, and
doesnt : mind, so long as 1t does Robert
good, but she doesn't want him ITO 80
and see who it is"