The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-21
BABY S|HNOT'S FUTURE,
How the Child Actress May
Reverse the Story of
Cinderella.
Winner for Her Entire
Family.

J. K. Emmett had a strange legacy left
among the property bequeathed by his
father. 1t consisted of personal interest
in a number of young people, in various
stages of growing-up.
These pensioners, of assorted sizes, had
successfully played the roles of LULLABY"
children in the famous actors plays had
grown too old for the parts, and being in
the awkward stage were looked upon by
the kind-hearted old actor as in sense his
children till they were able to take their
place in the world.
Emmett Jr.'s agents say that he has been
faithful to his fathers trust, but in the
nature of things the young people are
growing up and will soon be men and
women.
j. X Emmett is getting his own crop of
retired infant phenomena, however, and
the next who will join their ranks is
Baby Sinnot The poor little creature is a
happy child now, but the future does not
smile upon her as it does on most little
eight-year-olds.
She is the support of her family, feeds
and clothes and keeps her mother and two
be brought on the stage in bag, there
will not be cent of her earnings saved up
to give her an education.
When seen Yesterday afternoon Miss
Sinnot was seated in a little rocking-chair,
in the Emmets' pretty fiat, embroidering
roses on a table-cloth as a present to ''my
mamma"
"She has been with us five years." said
Mr.. Emmett. Just as we were setting off
one day from New York to play in Phila-
delphia the child we had fell sick and this
one was brought to US by her mother. She
was sickly, delicate little thing and we
refused to take her
1.-THE mother begged very hard. 1T was
true the child had been sick, she said but
the doctors had ordered change of eli
mate, to save her life probably. AS mat
ter of charity we might have taken her,
but as / told the mother, it was to go on
| the stage we wanted her, and If the child
should die on our hands, people would say
it was acting that had killed her.
However, we let ourselves be overper-
suaded, and before we got to Philadelphia
the change of air really seemed to give her
new life and gradually she grew to be
quite robust She has acted every night
but one since"
'tAnd then | was in the audience and
| cried to be playing on the stage" inter
rupted Baby Sinnot demurely, as she put
down her work and tried to thread Dig
needle with pink silk. "Whyp' she con-
tinued in answer to question. "Oh,
had hurt my foot romping on the stairs
with some other children"
"But l did want to play that night
dreadful bad, and l just cried because l
could mott
you see, she always plays on the
STAGE" explained Emmett, 'the moment
we let her act; she would become stilted
and unnatural, !" and Baby Sinnot nodded
her head as if she understood perfectly.
The little child has her nightly frolic on
the stage, and her pleasant, dellcately
nurtured life before her for some years
yet, if she does not grow too fast. and
then-well, then, unless her actor friends
| step in to help her, it will be the story OF
| Cinderella reversed.
| Baby Sinnot's mamma, far away in
New York, claims every cent of her child's
earnings, and there are well-informed peo-
pie who make gesture of carrying wine
cup to their lips when asked closely why
nothing is being set aside by the mother
| for the child s education.