St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-25
TASTES OF PETS OF THE PUBLIC.
Mrs. Langtry's Love of Blue Points
--Selina DoIarO,s Baker.

Mrs. LanEtry,S Love Oh Blue Points
--Selina DoIarO's Baker.
The Cook.
| There are few actresses who do not ap-
preciate good dinner nor know how to
select one. Adelaide Nelson was de-
votee of gourmandism; ate often and late,
was feted and wined on every hand, loved
nothing better than to be invited out
socially, and actually died from feeding too
much. Champagne was her favorite wine.
Patti is light eater-al singers are-but
goes in for porter and Burgundy with a
| will. The stars of the vocal world are
very capricious in fixing but rigid in adher-
ing to once-establshed rules about eating
near the time of singing-either before OF
after. The fact that Nine. Scalchi refused
to sing last season and compelled ''change
of BILL" on the ground that she had eaten
too late, will not soon be forgotten by the
chronicler of the capricious records of prima
donnas. Lillian Russell is very fond of
salads and will not eat a dinner in which
they do not occupy prominent position.
Clara Louise KellOgg'S fondness for pork
and beans is thought by some to be her only
fault.
! AS general rule, histrionism caters to
| It's inner cravings at o'clock in the after
noon. For two or three hours hard work
| on the boards it is better that the process
| of digestion should be we'll under way.
Oysters are easily digested and are good
| for colds. Most actresses therefore natur-
ally acquire great taste for them. Mrs.
Langtry is very fond of Blue Points on the
half shell. and is very particular about the
cooking of her viands, During her tour
through the United States in her special
drawing room car, one of the best-cared-for
of her attendants was an excellent French
cook The special weakness of the Eng
lish beauty was fondness for brandy and
soda, with distict underlying tendency to-
ward beer. Selma Dolaro, like most Eng
lish women of the stage, has fallen into the
habit of taking her tea at o'clock,
whether she has an engagement or not.
She lives unostentatiously but comfortably
in fiat, and her cook is a cOlored girl who
has learned by experience just what will
tickle her mistress palate. Nine. Dolaro
makes excellent tea biscuits for herself and
| likes them.
Marie Prescott keeps house in flat, has a
| German cook, knows how to procure a
dainty meal herself, and has an able as
sistant in her husband. She has no idea
of sacrificing her gustatory enjoyment to
| the requirements of her profession so far as
to relinquish her garlic, of which she is as
fond as any guachinanga.s nose Coghlar
doesn't like heavy wine like sherry if she
is going to play, and usually indulges in
champagne instead. She is a 6 o'clock
diner, feeds we'll and when chicken is on
the board calls for the white meat. Ellen
meals served in the room, as do Mrs. Lang
! frxy Aorr raf Totb Tho OF r
| lady does not dine out much. Miss Mather
always takes an iced lemonade before going
on in the balcony scene in Romeo and
Juliet.
Nothing that Mile. Sarah Bernhardt has
ever eaten has had a tendency to make her
grow stouter. The great French ira
gedienne always takes glass of old Cognac
before going on the stage, dimes in the
afternoon, and takes supper after the
performance. Nine. Desclee, the renowned
| French actress, lived for the last year of
| her existence, when cancer was drawing
| her inevitably to the grave, entirely upon
| grapes and milk. Nine Judic is said to be
very good feeder and her embonpoint gives
| no denial of the statement. Mile. Aimee is
highly appreciative Of the pleasure of the
| table, but of late years, conscious of her in
| creaSing StOutneSs, seeks to temper appe-
tite with judgment. When in the city she
always dimes at favorite table d'hote in
Twenty-seventh street. Nine. Rhea has
been feted lately almost enough to under
mine her constitution, but keeps up brayely.
Nine. Janish loves a good meal and never
fails to get one when the selection of the
| dishes is left to herself, when she takes
good care to remember the solidly good
things of Faderland.