St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-24
A LAUNDRESS'S DAUGHTER.
How One Young Woman Was Ell
evated to the New York Stage.

Sadie Martinez, the beautiful and
| dashing actress, has retained man OF
| considerable literary note to describe
her new stage costumes in tiOwery,
ornate and graphic English.
Here is good story of Sadie. told to
me by one of the chaps who figure in
| it, and it really does her no discredit.
| Away back in '73 OF Whereabouts, two
young writers, both of whom have since
| become weil-knOwn factors in metropOl-
| itan life, lived in Sixth avenue, in the
building occupied by the Eagle theater.
| Clever, impecuniOuS, needless OF the
| morrow, they lived as such young men
have lived from the rose-colored days of
| Henri Murger down to the present year
| of proSaic grace, 1888. Sometimes they
dined luXuriOuSly, and sometimes they
| ''hustled" for dinner in an American
| lied Vie de BOheme fashion. But, I'M
| like their Gallo prototypes and fore
runners they were nearly always we'll
| dressed.
| Their wash bill was one of the heavi-
| est items of expense or credit. Their
| laundress was a certain Mrs. Martin,
| and every Saturday night found that in
| dUstrIouS and cOnfiding woman await
| ing their arrival on the staircase which
| led to their lofty lodgings. Sometimes
Mrs. Martin got Ter money and some
| shines she did not. Sometimes she
| brought the clean shirts herself and
sometimes she entrusted them to her
daughter Sally, slip of a girl of fifteen
or sixteen.
One Saturday night. as the two Be-
| hemians were returning to their quar-
| tiers, one of them said unto his mate,
| How'll we square old Mrs. Martin to-
| night? | owe her about IS, and | sup
pose your bill is about as much as that,
| TOO"
mines So rejOined the other, '.and
| I guess We'll have to do something
| about it. By the way, that's mighty
| goOd-looking daughter of hers who
brings the clothes sometimes. I Won
der if she would like to go on the stage.
That would ease matters a little bit.
| maybe"
ITO be sure" said the other. At any
rate we'll try it On,'' and just then they
reached their destination and found
Sally Martin waiting for them on the
staircase with the bundle of clean linen
Oh her lap.
ssGood evening, my DEAR" said the
younger of the two journalists, with a
smile. 'Sally, how would you like to
90 on the stage and be an actress"
The girls eyes sparkled with delight.
''0h! I'd like it ever SO much" she ex-
claimed. II hear they pay big wages
on the STAGE"
swell, my DEAR" rejoined the journal
list with smile of benevolence. II
think we can fix it for you. Now you
come here tomorrow morning at 10
o'clock and bring your mother with
yoa-you can leave those clothes here.
they'll be all right-and then Well see
about getting you an engagement.
Sally Martin darted off with flushed
cheeks and beating heart. At 10 the
next morning she was on hand in COM
pany with her mother, who was enthu-
siastic in regard to the plan, for she
heard that they ''paid big wages" on
the stage. The result of the confer
ence was that the daughter was en-
gagged by Josh Hart to appear at the
Eagle theater at salary Of SIS a week
as figurante.
''And nOw," said the benevolent Be-
hemian, "youmus have stage name,
for it would never 40 for an actress to
be called Sally Martin. L think we'd
better GallielZe it into Sadie MartinOt."
And Sadie Martinez it was. and will
be till the end of the chapter.