St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-18
TALK.

A leading American actress said to me
awhile ago: SIT is not the regulars of the the
atrical profession who bring disrepute and
| scandal upon 1t. 1t is the broken Town,
vain and mercenary society woman who in
yades its ranks as last resort. II you will
think over the persons who have had the most
| advertising for irregularities you will discover
| that they are accidents on the stage.
News comes TO US that Nine. Bernhardt has
| entered into contract to write the Paris cor
respondence for several foreign newspapers.
The Tr-5,uaq Of Rome will pay her 1000
francs monthly. Her first article will be on
N. Sardou's Aramas. II occurred to
me that journalism may be liable
! TO some of the disreputable accidents at
tending the theatrical profession.
A fashion item says: Drawing room milk
ing stools are popular. They ought to be,
| for, chairs as chairs should be, are scarce, or
| out of vogue at the present time. There are
few homes with the sensible equipment OF
honest, seryiceable, comfortable chairs.
OF course there are endless eccentricities
of furniture that are supposed 70 answer the
purpose, while blindly following some freak
of fashion. But the experienced and wary
| entering rooms with curious, fantastic sub
stitutes for chairs avoid them as much as
possible, and having once essayed them for
their supposed sitting uses, never repeat the
experiment.
There is one ornate apartment where
Ii stand around as people do
on the stage, looking at pic
ture, affecting to warm chilled fingers bend
ing over the open fire, and coniuring all
sorts Of conventional avoidance of the aber-
ratlons of furniture styled chairs. l know
them so well. The most forbidding antique
chairs Of Puritan fashions ever saw in the
noble old commonwealth Of Massachusetts,
are inviting beside many OF the new tangled
styles Of to-day. For, they have back that
is support, and no mistake about 1t. 1t
was typical Of people who meant to be up
right, and tolerated no back sliding. The
Puritan chair was unyielding, but II was
sincere. There was no humbug Of gimcrack-
cry about It, to give 1t deceitful. unfulfll-
Ing lure. No wonder ''sassiety" is on its
feet at It's swell entertainments.
There are no chairs which are
convincing enough of ease TO justify sitting,
and there are not enough of them such as
they are. Their bizarre ugliuess makes them
costly, and they are scarce, but they are too
numerous.
Victor Hugo has placed chair across his
fathers chair that no one else may even sit
In Il, and as Il stands in sight each day II Is
a singular reminder Of the dead.
Had 1t been of some extreme modern pat
tern the chair would have been somewhat
unnecessary 10 bar out intrujers.
The death of Mrs. Gaines removes one Of
the most interesting figures ever known TO
the litigation Of this country. What an in
domitable bright, vfvacious woman she was,
and what unfagging hope lent
cheery glow TO her talk.
The first time saw her was at the lodgings
of Mississippi woman who had left her
plantation and came north when the war be-
came dead earnest. She had prudently in
vested in northern securities years before
there was any symptoms Of hostility between
the two sections. and her sojourn had none
OF the miseries Of impecuuious gentlity.
To her Mrs. Gaines often came, rs well as
others registered at the headquarters c. S.
A., as the old sign OF Gen. Beale used to
read in Beaver strett--with the consent of
the government, however. There, every
well meaning exile from the south was ex-
pccted TO take the oath Of allegiance. Curl
Gus, picturesque and suggestive we're the
groups 20 be seen at the Headquarters. 1t
was the rendezvous for them all loyal or dis
loyal, because each fresh arrival brought
news of the domestic sort to some
one Of them, and the hope each day OF see
ing a familiar face, brought out numbers
In the room Of the hosptable Mississp.
plan, Mrs. Gaines was wont to sit at inter
vais, and while they drank strong coffee
which seemed 10 be ever ready on the trivet
at the edge Of the CRATE, their talk was GER
tainly most interesting. To me, notwith-
standing her gsrb aud address, aud sanity
Daniel Clark's queer daughter seemed the
very embodiment Of Miss Tlite In Bleak
House.
Millions figured in her estimates as com
mon place figures. A great city was 20 be
dispossessed, and made fairly bankrupt to
settle her claim. Yet not infrcquen,ly when
she was ready to cross over 10 Brooklyn, she
would requeS: omnibus fare and
ferriage Of the Mississippian.
Millions in Imagination, and
scarcely any ready money.
Now after all the wearing years, death
tumbies the endless quibblcs, the wonderful
argumentative pros aud cons of her YEARLY
protractcd case. into chaos.
To leave riches behind one, or send them
ahCad-that's the question.
Charles Dickens efficient agent, Mr.. Dolby,
has furnished volume to the i;crature con-
corning the great novelist. He believes that
ovrrvorS and excitement brought premature
death 10 Dickens, aud be cites the reading Of
Tie murder scenes IN "Olivor Twist a. rails