The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-31

know the value of it. In Paris she pos
sesses the most costly diamonds, one Of
the finest residences, the handsomest
equipages and the most costly toilets. Her
generosity is well known and the people
seem to like her for IL. She is a wonder
full woman, a. bundle of nerves, and when
she plays a part she vests herself with
the spirit of the woman she is portraying
and lives her life. She is so passionately
in earnest, so intensely real that in some
of her characters she rises to the sublime
When she goes off the stage she is feverish
and excited, overcome by the passion of
her acting. With Coquelin, for instance,
it is quite different. No matter how his
acting may affect or excite you, he is al
ways the same cool, calm, imperturbable
Coquelin. In this passion and self-aband-
onment her genius has its fullst sway
and by it she won for herself her present
proud place in her art.
ASIDE from being an actress, she is
much else. She is an accomplished sculp-
tor and several of her works have been
exhibited with honor in the Salon. She
has painted many pictures and won much
praise. 1t may be noted that both in her
pictures and her sculpture she always
chooses melancholy subjects. She is an
accomplished musician, being a fine harp
list and a brilliant pianist. She was a
great favorite of Victor Hugo, who used
to call her the divine Sarah She is a
good writer; she has done some admirable
art criticism for the Globe and has written
some absorbingly interesting impressions
after making an ascent in a balloon. Her
magnificent villa in Paris was built after
her own designs and plans and she knows
the difficult art of designing a costume
just as well. She says that beauty is
not an attribute solely of the face. 1t
should irradiate the whole body and dress
should aid it's expression But when dress
displays only the crude, vulgar design Of
some important dressmaker 1t is hind
rance and disguise. Dress properly be-
longs to the aesthetic domain. Then, what
ever you do, dress becomingly. See that
what you wear suits you, your person,
your individuality. Make your costume to
suit you, not yourself to suit your cos
tune, and she suits the example to the
rule. In place of a corset she wears
either a stitched waist, without bones or
cords, or else two simply stitched bands,
one below the other. Her girdles are a
characteristic feature of her dress. She
wears two one passing horizontally
around the waist and the other loose
and dropping in front.
Nature has not done much for Bern
hardt externally, for she is not a hand
some woman by any means. She has
nothing very substantial about her except
her nose and mouth, which are perhaps,
too well developed. In tact, she Is so
meagre that in Partisan restaurants, dur
ing Lent, good people always ask for
'potage Sarah Bernhard But then her
golden voice, her wit and genius over
shadow all else.
"Once Out this is entre-nous and not
for publication al a soiree given by Victor
Hugo, wherein all celebrities of Paris had
gathered, she made her appearance about
midnight She was outrageously decol-
letee, and Dumas fills appearing to OBJ
serve her little too closely, she said to
him: Why, Cher Maitre. are you not
blushing to look at my poor skeleton in
that way'2 Dear madame, answered
Dumas wittily, 'Cynics have always main
tanned that women can cry about anything
and at a moment notice. and everybody
knows that you can squeeze out real tears
nightly at the proper moment, but. dear
me. blushing Is a more difficult art to
acquire and besides allow me to say that
I do not see anything to make me blush.
Yes replied de Lesseps, who WAS a by
stander, j tell you II takes something un-
usual to make Dumas blush! Were they
not so witty, they would be too imperti-
nent." whispered Sarah to Hugo, who
was bursting with laughter. a few mo-
ments afterwards the subject Of the con-
versation being now on the practice Of
vegetarianism some one said: Is Il true,
Madame Bernhard, that you are a vese-