The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-07-31

at the former place mostly l
rs authority for saving this positively.
SM know HAT her warm and wliliui
4.as..a would take and keep her where there
was lie and color and action.
A. thA wild stories about her having
lived as the adopted daughter of Sam
Houston IN Texas are nonsense. She once
sa:d 70 me: "No. l never lived with HouS-
ton. it was General Jackson, and Methuse-
-. and other big men,"
q Is new 80 years since she came to San
faHtiscO with her husband. Mr.. Newell
etter known as Orpheus c. Kerr-to play
az engagement as MaZeppa at Tom Ma
suire.s 0pera-heuse.
l had friend Pres Dean, who was then
bringing 81 ltta at little place called
srts Mclodeon. on Portsmouth square.
And IS n with him much and doing
some small ssFewspaper work only, / was
enabled TO be behind the scenes much at
NEST theaters
such e. fusion ct rehearsal never was
seen - wtiacesa Brought o. hcy Morse and
tried - saine ~ re m9b of "a sera't ~
sgai1es eihnc Hss selplias
ails Nas 3fns" Baoth, sHa hn. s.
efns. efcu Aee stood bF and lrafi IL
aeip Ter We BIS moral fuHurnrf over
<Fila m1b III 81 di8 nor qrfg saserei
tsfsi tbs &C., ara aq altar 49,
g s. syss.ssssz. - lhs Do5F little woman
50 81 IS eaTrx s8s waBls l0gd ct forty
ti1sexus ar y Be utUa shoulders. On Cne
aee.ssEiz "a u SA5 was Eackag swords
1fs4H t1se<sz fz3l et4f -tLtL MS Dd0Qt
H5ss NsEs sTlhs Iast 6aotAs bead.
1'hxx 8a6z8 sTsg Eown rs aEg broad knife
sad Il, 51ag M 81 down the axe simply
Faat1G. lis disappeared t1eu, yowing ne
would negerau ser return, aud Menken
after Ainr. enu / holding the horse which
s S2i4e foot ssHper, in the excitement, had
= @lnrlESsss loose 10 roam about and browse
s.f barn his nose on the fOotlIghts. You see
F~as iusE down oct of the saddle from a
years Work as express rider, and so could
istas Yzf a
MeBken had captured Booth and brought
hin back / WAS on intimate terms with her
terSe- This OF course made her tolerate
.;'e : all times. and day or so before the
great evening Of opening her first great en-
aagement she TOOK me with her out TO Seal
10 = TO hold her horse, mind you; nothing
isoi tlssH that. nd | am proud even 10
have 4ane that much for Adah Isaacs Men
ken. For she dia % much for me.
The road was ali sand ihen-tossing. ter
3 rible moving mountains of sand. AT one
place little mountain. had thrown Itself
right in The road before u.s. Our horses
- plunged in ald wsilowed belly deep; and
shontt4 Nth wild delight.
barn IN that yellow sand once,
something and someY here; in the deserts
- Africa, may be" She said this to me as
we got through and rode on; and then she
taxed and talked as l had never heard
woman before and never shall again, OF the
color. The lion color. the old-gold color, the
new-g0id cDior. the sur, the light, the life
> about
j was my nrsf lesson in color. And If [
owe anything 20 anybody at all for nv
kind OF crude work with the Quill [ owe
i 10 Adah lsaacs Aenken ana that occa-
sion
size seemed very happy, half wild ALL the
way I'LL We g0E down to the great beach
aw@y beyond he Cliif House. But there
ils0wing herself from the saddle, she fell
with her face almost In the ocean and
sobbed and cried as II her heart was broken.
Soon sse got no. hewever. and turning 20
where stood holding the horse, said smfI-
ing through her tears: 81 had TO do it.
They are killing me at that old playhouse.
auti | had 20 care out here and cry or die -
iEhen about 80 iemOunt she ran back as
ware came in. and throwing her tear-wet
haEd keEehiet out and cutting the gray surf,
she cried: "6ocd-by, gray old grandfather,
QcOd-by." In fact. as 1 now try to retnem-
ser, al her talk, dress, action, was vivid
seest - satos. " 10 o snUSe days does not re-
= member that graceful, yellow figure on the
streets of San IraDclsco-a single garment
eE We low siik2 | doubt il any other woman
in tne world could wear a dress ike at in
me wiDds CT San Francisco aud not look
ladicreus.
onee when calling on her and her hus
hand q toe botel ! found her lying a
yeli0w skin f0bed ~ yellow piece of silk !;
arG wing down fat with her head 10 the
ire lik4 an Indian.
She }pyed California ardentIy, and had
s6e iFfd she surely would have made this
TIE ttRfthls was the only place i'm America
Hhers s'se could write, and to write was her
one ambition and ahlity And know she
told tne truth about this being the only
Place ~nere she could write-as she did
abohl everything Sc, of cnurse-for the
DOCK niellcia, D. lished I'm London and
dedicated 70 Chart Dickens, was written
alaH IS sDtirsiy in Sal Francisco 7 douht
= there afe 1opages N that most remark
aDse DOCS neT 70 found in our Golden
Ira.
II rgu care for ,etry. grand s,h,;rno
Hfa3estfe GIT this ana little boot Of 49,
lssaes senkeu ant Fad IL from ia 70 ia
{ ~ 3s Inc best that neriea has vel 20 81.
- t'ie iiia OF SUI le thought. You aiiI
teet tise witness fAa5 / never criticize 90
teA5neE1 books, o. mention them az al, os
suse mere are better things than BOOKS
Tor Hhn w't0 can afford TO live in the
woUu<s IS l do. And so ] have not one bont
y fne world. excerpt the Bible. But if I
ola not know this little book of hers nv
ItAFf Ncaif rely buy IL. ~
LsFr<itc1e enden was brief. brilliant
Etffsf nao ade fortune in few
afxSs1f fnGnths af ost. playing her "sia-
zefp& y AsEity's. She had right to be-
feFe she eouid do this again, and was fear
I1by fxffsyagsnt. All The great men and
e'5en OF the Old World gathered about
ssbtfs ana sae' crowd OF parasites to feed
snpob her Il book, with the letter from
sSeps, aide TO the fame of growing in
s tetSss SaaiiratiOn. Her carriage, with
~ plpegss aek horse on the panel and
L'slahas rampant in gold, was the
ntai1ues ana atniration Of Regent street.
thep sac pi yed at a benefit-sbe was
'eiwaYs ICING 5mething for somehodv in
stfe6s-eeta all or an internal hurt In
- ne sfFay II Ia her bnrse md tha, 1870