The sun., 1893-10-01
ANECDOTES or NOTABLE WOMEN.

Mrs. Lander and Edwin Booth-Prank- OF
tho Empress FrederIck's Girihood-J uiia
Ward Howe's Rescue OF Her Child.
Personal anecdotes are always interesting.
and here is batch which Is especially 80.
Ono is told by Mrs. Gen. Lander of Washing
ton. one OF the most original and attractive
women OF the capital.
Formerly Mrs Lander was an actress,
known as Jean Davenport. and once. when
playing Camille in California. she was
supported by Edward Booth In the role OF
Armand. Booth had not reached the age Of
81 years at the time. and Mrs. Lander was
somewhat annoyed that she was obliged to
have so young leading man" Her annoy
ance however. disappeared the first evening
they played in public.
Booth had proved keen and bright. anxious
to learn and to please the star actress At re-
hearsal he said:
Mise Davenport, how shall l kneel In the
death scene 7"
BE sure to kneel before me. so that can
look down upon you" was the reply.
The story OF the performance should be told
In Mrs Lauders own words:
The evening came. Tho Opera House was
packed. My boy. to the astonishment OF all.
played with the very soul OF genius. lie fairly
trembled with emotion. He forgot all my
careful directions. and acted his part with tho
sei-iorgetfulness and abandon OF an old
actor whose iutuitive knowledge is sufficient
to him. l came near forgetting myself in
the iadmlraiTiSSn adm TSa ! t felt Tor my lover; my
mand was missing, / looked hastily behind
mo. and there. instead OF kneeling at my feet.
self in anguish OF the back o my low couch.
There was no time to move, to speak. or
him. HS ass
pitii iul. Never had seen grief so naturally
ntort,ratyed was carried o4t Of mysef
and the house rose, With applause. He lifted
hi, face to mine and moaned aloud from real
Two other Interesting stories are about the
Empress ;np 1 Frsderick. whose imperious disposi,
the Prince of Waies She resented the fact
that ono ,,yo.nger than hersolf should bo
doubt. that was the case with the heir aprar-
emit Whenever he went in or out oil the castle
and the attendants in ORDER to warn the men
that the Prince was coming. would give
This was not lost on tho observing young
prin,SSss' i ices" and and one day when she was going
ks and gave ths n rsEn sEn
the soldiers presented arms Just as the small
bnt delighted Princess daWned upon their as
An"ther nnecdotss OF the small girl is quite
tended In illness by old Dr Brown Of Windsor.
Probably on account OF the unpalata HE do es
no gave them tho Doctor was not popular with
cordingly took great delight in calling him
Brown" to the utter ignoring OF his title
and also tho great Indignation Of their royal
mamma. The Queen took them apart oil one
Of these occasions and said that the next one
who offended In that way should be despatched
to bod Or Brown came soon again. The lit
tle Princess Royal knew he was coming. She
she, said. II, had no detsrring effect. She
walked into the room and promptly remarked:
~ Good morning, Brown; good evening,
went before any one had chance to send her
or another variety is the following story
daughter Laura was only two years old, Mrs.
Howe happened to step into the nursery-,the
| left the baby in care OF the nurse The nurse
had disappeared. The baby was discovered
! by her horrihed mother rolling about Oh the