Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-31
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
Horses of Queer Character Flock TO the
Livery stabIes-Two Cunning Ponies
Trials Of Managers With Juvenile

| Livery StabIes-Two Cunning Ponies
Trials Of Managers With Juvenile
Stars.
JUST as every man who fails atall the other
professions is pretty sure to conclude that his
calling is journalism. SO every horse who, by
eccentric character or blemished physique has
shut the stable doors of society against him
winds up in the stalls of liveryman. That's
as it seems to me. Through no fault of my
own, as far as taste and desire 60, most OF my
riding and driving has been done with the as
| sistance-sometimes nominal-of hired equines.
| A very celebrated horseman once boasted in
my hearing that he considered the study of
horses more edifying than the study of man.
| 1t struck me at the time that the speaker had
not come in contact with many livery stable
horses. Acquaintance with the noble beast
under the latter conditions may be interesting
and too often exciting, but not edifying.
But do not want to catalogue all the vicious,
criminal, curious and hypocritical quadrupeds
of the equine race that have met Merely an
instance of local character.
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IT was not my fortune to be taking the air on
that bright day last month in a neat double
wagon behind couple of glossy bay ponies,
when two young ladies of this city drove cheer
fully away for mornings drive through some
OF our lovely suburban country. The ponies
had come from e livery stable with character
Tor more gentleness and sweetness Of disposi-
tion than even hired animals can usually COM
mand. They bore out their character during
the first half hour. The ladies in the wagon
were just beginning to enjoy the drive i'm
mensely. 1t was about three miles from home
Suddenly, without the least warning, at a
place where the road was conveniently broad,
the two ponies executed wheeling movement
which ended in turn to the left about in
spite of all the efforts of the fair driver to
stop them. There was some struggle for the
supremacy, but the ponies lasted longest, and,
to cut the story short, they trotted home at a
rattling pace. They turned neither to the right
hand nor to the left but went direct to the
livery stable.
The liveryInan stood at the door and listened
to the charge against the ponies. Then he said
apologetically: "Yes-them ponies is that fond
OF home that they will try and come back
whenever they git show"
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THE manager of the little Lord Fauntle-
roy" Company, which was in this city last
week, deserves good deal more sympathy and
downright pity than he is likely to get.
The two juvenile stars Tommy Russell and
Ray Maskell, are harder to manage than they
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actly the children either, but their mothers,
who travel with them. These good matrons
have an eye upon the manager constantly from
their hostile camps. Each one suspects the
manager of showing the other woman's child
unfair favor. He has to apportion his atten-
tions in equal shares between them, or trouble
is in store for him. This is the harder to do
because each mother Is eyerlastingly trying to
securesome emphatic manifestation in the news
papers. on the bills, at the theater, the hotels
and even on The cars. Of the superior claims of
her child. The manager has to head of all
these attempts without bringing on a general
engagement Of course he cannot succeed al
ways
A GOOD many people asked witt en- these chill
dren were showing such remarkable ability as
actors here last week, what their future was
likely to be.
The general rule seems to be that a child who
shows precocious genius upon the stage very
seldom amounts to anything as an actor when
arrived at maturity. There are dozens of great
actors who went on the stage before they could
walk almost But you will find that they did
not make any phenomenal success in the infan-
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