Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-01-03


half aetonished manner, from beneath
long, curved lashes, before she replied n
and the color swept as curdling waves OF
crimson from bosom to cheek as she did
so. ---.----
'fYou cannot doubt me, Ray?"
"NO, LOra, but"
The prOmpter's bell put q sudden end
ing to the conversation, and the sentence
was never finished. BUTT was with heart
beating far more fitfully and uneasily
than the ovation she received would &C
count for, that LOra Albret repested the
opening lines of the play. SoOn5 how
ever, all the nervousness caused by the
brief interview with her lover was for
gotten. and when, in changed dress of
white, and looking baIde-like, she ap-
/ peared, there was not trace Of feeling
other than pleasure and trust upon her
radiant and speaking face.
The play continued to the fifth act, she
was winning new triumphs, and regret
! becoming voiced that one so lovely and
gifted should have decided to, In the
/ hereafter, deprive the public of the priv
| ilege of seeing her. Thus far she had trOd
as upon roses, the stage being carpeted
/ with them; she had received more than
| she could carry, and as she sat aioneand
/ resting before the final scene, when love
would be tried even to ''the IoathsOme
/ prostitution Of a hand without a heart,
a little fairy of child came dancing into
/ her dressing-rOOm with eyes as blue and
/ hair as golden as her own. With the IN
! herent passion Of woman and mother
! hood she raised it into her lap, smOOthed
| the tangled curls, and hugging 1t to her
| bosom, kissed it warmly, even passion
lately, again and again.
1t was an impressive, a beautiful tab
leau, that lovely woman with all Of ten
Iderness and affection shining in her
] face, and speaking in her carressing
| touch and softly whispered darling"
But it was rudely broken. A sudden
! sound caused her to look up, and stand
! ing framed in the doorway, she saw the
man to whom she had pledged hand and
! heart until death did them part.
/ With hasty strides he came to her side
/ and in a voice hOarse with anger de-
manded:
"Whose child is that?"
Instantly all the pride and mOdesty Of
| her intense nature was fired. The blood
that had flushed her cheeks swept back
with an icy flow to her heart; passion
ate impulse took the place of reason; all
that was antagonistic within her was
aroused by his evidently insane jealousys
and without caring for the consequences,
she defantly answered:
"Ainep'
"Yours? And you have dared to de-
ceive me thus? Your child? And 1 was
to be"
! He rushed from her presence and from
the theatre. The audience saw that
night no happy ending to the troubled
love of Pauline, and deeply mOurned for
one stricken down in the hour Of her
greatest pride; and-so the tale was told
suddenly insane. -
1.-THE NEW.
It was theNew Year in the New World.
! The snow lay heavily upon the hilltoPs,
was drifted deeply in the valleys and the
streams were strongly -bridged.C Christ
mas had been q "green one" with
/ peaceful skies and almost Southern
warmth, but the death of the old year
was marked by fierce gales and intense
cOldness. Even the salty waters Of the
ocean had yielded to the cOugealing pow
er, and ice was thiclzly piled along the
shores. The rigging Of vessels was
fringed and festOOned with it, and it
hung In pendant prisms from the roofs.
For the poor the weather was terrible,
and for the rich it afforded sufficient ex-
cuse to remain at home over the glowing
anthracite.
But regardless of weather, places Of
amusement blOomed with the most fes-
tive blossoms, and Society braved all
the rigOrs Of winter to fill their walls.
With the closing of the day theysbecame
the attractions, and little would one
have believed the begger walled upon the
sidewalk for the price Of q crust, or the
babe died in the attic for warmth, to
have heard the rustic of silks, and had
his or her eyes dazzled by the flashing OF
diamonds.
But sickness comes there as well as to
/ the hoVel, and the old, repulsive picture
of a skeleton rising from the heart of a
rose is no myth. All the pOmp and glory
I of the theatre is RO bar to thesubtle com
ing of disease, and audiences unreason-
able as they ever are at disappOintments
have to bear as best they may when q
favorite is OYerpOwered by the Ills Of the
material body, and forced to play a very
different part from that named on the
bills.
The first night Of the jocund New Year
I is no exception to the rule-as Doctor
Elliot had personal proof Of when has
tening home after seeing the last of his
patients The bright gas-hght in front
/ of "The Minerva" revealed his identity Ia
a policeman, who instantly summoned
him to attend a lady suddenly taken
with some dangerous illness.
j Without questioning he followed and
\ was led to the back entrance to the thea.
ire. For an instant he paused upon the
threshold and shuddered as With cold
then walked calmly forward and WaE
ushered into that ideahzed- realm o.
beauty to the uninitiated, that generally
barren spot to those whose nightly home
is behind the scenes the Green Room
Upon one of the cOuches, with many
anxious faces around her, lay d woman
still young and bearing the traces d
great beauty, but with the once soft lines
about the mouth grown hard, and thJ
form wanting in rOundness and pFistin,
perfection.
: That the actress had fallen in dead
faint he quickly learned. He gave t