St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-27
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n America. Histories are always tedi-
9us-pen pictures nearly always lose
the point.
When boy runs PIN through fly
| to see it qulver and struggle and go
through its death agony, 1t is cruelty.
and predicts for him some day the Slip
moose. And yet it is what we all do
! every day with the human heart. There
| is a woman hidden away now in the gar
| ret of rear house on the West side,
down near the river
impress Of more than years is OH her
face. There is haunted look about it,
as though she lived in constant fear.
! Her home is Wretched. Such as it is,
! she gels it by sewing. She has no ties.
Occasionally she receives assistance
from a man who once drank out of her
| slipper on a bosterouS occasion while
she was still success, and when no
| cloud gave promise Of darkenlng her
horizon.
The stage is ungratefuI. The price
of success is paid and the soap bubble
is blown off to float fer Il while, and
then. pouf! it breaks-0n the first hard
substance it comes across. She has
learned that lesson, and her whole lite,
long or short as it may vet be, is ire
,
makes no complaint. She avoids her old
associates. or, perhaps, they avoid her
OF all the people who live in the
wretched tenement novels around her,
not one knows that ten years ago she
was a favorte tragedienne on The New
York boards.
She was born in small New England
town, and received a greater Smattering
of COUNTRYSIDE superStitiOnS and fairy
stories than anything else in her edIca-
zion.
She was bright, and the plays pro-
duced by the travelling companies who
visited her town awakened III her de-
sire to adopt the stage. She came 10
New York as full of devout hope as the
Mohammedan goes to his Mecca. Here
she found life hard and the stage gold
tinsel.
She went on first as ballet girl and
passed through the usual ordeal lnnO-
ceDce always has to endure-in life
itself, for that matter.
a ballet girls earnings are small, but
this one was c0nteHted to work hard
and piece out her earnings by doing
sewing outside. At the same time she
studied diligently. Finally she was re-
Warded with small part. In five years
she did not advance beyond that. Fin
nally she became desperate. All
walked overhead and laughed at
her-al excepting one, who died
of a broken heart on account of
her failure. The girl knew what she
had 10 do. Her manager had offered to
advance her rapidly to the position OF
leading woman at his own terms. Well,
human nature IS not iniallibie. and am
bition is strong tempter When genius
bounds in the veins. Poor girl. How
often does she look back now to the
first illusion destroyed the first vein
opened from which the happiness of
her life has ebbed ever since.
Her first appearance was a ''hit."
She was almost beside herself with de-
light. At last she was to realize every
thing. At the end Of three years she
was the faVolite OF New York. But size
had begun to suffer from fits Of depres-
sion. A such times she drank heavily.
Still, it did moi interfere with her work.
Later it began 10 be nOised around. She
had appeared in box at theater in
tIXicated and had created scene. Her
friends demonstrated with her. She
said to them: Pm not good sinner,
you see. can't stand it quite all"
Then she laughed.
The stage is not charitable. Her
friends who did not -" nj her
moottA Question concerning her sanity.
Was quor afftctl 6 her SO ar?
Ott ,lght she q. ,.>>. &c.. ~ part of
Opnelia intoxicated. Tnat settled the
matter. Managers began to be doubtfl
Vi her. She wa talented, yes-but they
could not rely OH her.
Poor girl She had not the superb
S inohness Of her sisters in art VINO took