Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-16
NO. IA.

we all know is the very worst beverage on | which to act. Selina Dolaro "takes tea at | five o'clock" And as for Sarah Bernhardt, | why, we are told by this keen observer | that nothing she has ever eaten has had I a tendency to make her stouter." And so
 on for three hundred pages. Sickening, is l it not?
 Quite touching story of devotion comes to me from Paris. Not long ago the hus. ! band of a lovely little woman, whom he had but few weeks before led to the all tar, saw. her safe into carriage in which she setting out to make some calls. She was the very light of his eyes, and they had spent few hours apart since their wedding day. Imagine his state of mind when, late in the afternoon, she was brought home senseless and almost unrec- ognizable. But I must go back a little The horse that drew the carriage slipped in rounding corner, the vehicle turned over and the face of its occupant was ter ribly mutilated with broken glass from the windows. When the crowd which soon surrounded the carriage had eXtricated the poor little prisoner, she was taken insensi- ble into the shop of the nearest chemist to have her inj juries examined. The cuts and scratches were dreadful, but the worst was a gash from mouth to ear, from which long piece of torn flesh hung. The poor chemist seems to have lost his head at the sight, for instead of sewing the piece in place again he cut it off, and seeing that the patient remained unconscious, he washed his hands of her as quickly as pos sible and saw her driven off in a cab to be taken home. The doctor, who is called in
 breathless haste, exclaims upon the butch
 cry of the chemists surgery and says there is nothing to be done but to take a piece out of the arm of the poor victim to SUD-
 ply the place of that which the chemist had
 so stupidly cut off. But the half frantic
 husband will not hear of it, and taking off
 l. 1S
 the doctor and bids him cut from that and
 not touch her with his knife. "But," says
 the doctor, "one mutilated person is enough
 in family, my dear fellow. Besides the pain would be horrible" However, the young heroic husband stuck to his point and, it is said went through the operation with smile on his lips, remarking they had vowed to have all things in common, pains we'll as joys. The doctor did his work deftly, the traces of his needle are already faint, and he says that when the healing process is com
 plete there will scarcely be visible trace of
 the terrible accident.
 If the dramatic productions which appear
 at Drury Lane Theater are the poorest stuff which dramatic literature can boast of it
 must be admitted that the pantomimes pro-
 duced by MT. Augustus Harris shows to
 make you wink and blink till your eyes are
 sore. Formerly we had several pantomimes
 going on in different theaters, but the mana
 ger of Drury Lane has driven them all out
 of the field. "Aladdin," this years panto-
 mime, is simply marvellous. It is the big
 gest of all big things of the kind which I
 have seen. One of the attractions of the
 evening is the procession of beauties. It
 commences with Evs, clothed in her own
 loveliness and silk tights, and finishes with
 the Empress Josephine, to the great sorrow
 of Mrs. Langtry, Miss Anderson and other
 disappointed ladies. At the first perfor-
 nance some of the ''beauties'' were not rec
 ognized by the audience. Among those who
 were known at once and received the well
 come due to old friends were Lady Godiva,
 Fair Rosamond, Marie Stuart, Nell Gwynne
 (the Billingsgate mistress of Charles H. and
 GainsborougA's' 9lchess of Devonshire. The
 pageant is most imposing and it also affords
 instruction, in so far as the costumes are
 arch@ologicalIy accurate, and form com
 plete show if womans fashions from the
 tg-leaf to the panier' of the year of grace
 17SO. MAX O'RELL