The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-09-16
THIBODAUX, La, SATURDAY, SEPT 49, 1898.

had to wait as long as possible. There
had been an error and my $40 had
gone astray | was finally told, but i
would he forwarded to me. the girl
said, and rushed up to rehearsal, Just
late enough to incur fine.
'Atter the trouble with the money,
being consequently little short of
cash IN m.T purse, sent home, G.. O.
d., Il small package, whose contents
cost dollar. This dollar | gave to
the maid at my boarding house, telling
her to pay for something that was
coming for me. While | was At DIN
ner the manager sent f,r my two
trunks to go to the station, and the
stupid maid assumed this to be the
place for my dollar aud paid it over
to the eXpresSman, who, not under
standing, pocketed it as the expressage
for the trunks. SO when the package
did come. it took another dollar to get
1t. and there was no way to get the
first one bask.
Nothing happened on Sunday, ex-
cept that my berth was over the wheels.
and left package of late papers
had just bought in the New York wait
ing room, but on Monday, not feeling
well, | bought bottle of an expensive
tonic, anc had hardly got ont of the
drug store when it slipped from my
hands and fell, breaking to bits. As the
tonic was not for external use this out
ward application only soiled my gown
and had to go right back and pay
over another S1.25 for more of the
medicine.
"We were to play three nights in
the place, and left some of my things
around the nights performance.
"When | opened tie door Tuesday
evening. a cloud of flying down float
ed toward me. 1t was my powder
puff. which had been chewed by mice,
as | thcusht; but l soon found that
more than mice had been abroad in
that room. A little sea- ct showed Il
big rathoie i'll one corner. and in it
was sticking halfgnawed shoe. one
of a pair of red silk ones, mada from
piece of a dress | wore in one act, The
other was never fonnd: the rats had
disposed of that entirely. and of pair
of long red gloves that went with the
costume. Of course, they had eaten
all the grease paint around, and had
even jumped up from the shelf and
cheweG a pair Of red silk laces that
laced my dress and that | lad hung
up on nail; these were chewed as
far as they could be reached.
Il had tn go on that night without
gloves and pair of old white kid
boots that the property man hastily
painted red as well as he could.
''The manager of the theatre told
me that the place was overrun by rats;
that short time before he had shut a
ferret up one night in one of the dress
ing rooms, and III the morning he
could not be found anywhere, but
that didn't console me for the loss of
my expensive and not easily duplicat-
ed shoes.
"Wednesday morning in my room
at the MOTEL spilled bottle of ink
over the front of a new tea gown, and
then cried. One of the girls ran in,
and in telling of my list of misfortunes
| spoke of their dating from the pur-
chase of the fan. "What fan?n she
asked, and | showed it to her.
''SAe instantly seized it AID broke it
over her knee, running to the window
and throwing the pieces as far as she
could. l learned then for the first
time the superstition about peacock
feathers, aud. though l can't believe
in it, had no more woes, beyond
those of the aveIage mortal, after |
parted company with that fan. And
I've never got back the $40 change"