The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-09

dinarily waste ones mind on triviaIities.
the moments in my carriage, the moments
when / am walking from one part Of my
house 10 another, the moments when am
going TO sleep or waking up. There is so
much time which one can save by having
something important TO think about But
as for the parrot trick OF learning the
lines. it is nothing After that is accom-
phshed. one must spend so much time in
learning how to live the life Of the char
aeter-in becoming actually married TO
one part-that one has none to waste on
the mere committing OF the lines to
memory"
What would you say TO young play
wrights. madame? What advice would
you give them?"
4 would advise them against naturalism
and realism in theaters. Those are the be-
setting sins of the drama Of these years.
The stun for plays should be drawn from
the imagination, which lifts up; not from
real life, which drags down. The great
fault Of our modern dramatists-many of
them-is that they try to split a hair into
four parts-they try TO get something out
of nothing"
After Madame Bernhard had thus
given her ideas of her own profession.
1 tried to find out what she thought of
the many other arts and professions in
which she has been said TO take so great
an interest. remembered that had been
( told about her great abilities as paint
er, as a sculptor, as a writer, as a math-
ematician, as a huntress- as almost any
. thing and everything under the sun
l remembered reading how she had taken
the instruments away from the captain
of a Pacific steamship as she was cross
ing from Japan and made the days obser-
Vations as well as he could have made
them himself; showing a thorough knowl-
edge of navigation. / remembered that
she had had paintings and statues eX-
hibtcd in the Salon. / remembered the
moose skin hanging down in the entry
way.
She laughed merrily and unsteady when
l hold her what l was thinking about
"Oh, l have been credited with 50 many
things that l have never done!' said
she. People think me so very much clev-
erer than l am. l watch, observe; / cam
not help it; and because / show a little
general knowledge of things, which are
not in the routine round of my life, they
raise their hands and praise me as If
l knew everything But l do not. On, |
know very little. ! had watched the
captain of that steamship as he took his
observations for many days, and l had
questioned him and others about It. FL
nally, when we had nearly reached our
had learned something? Would | not
have been incredibly stupid if l had not?
And the paintingl All it is the painting
that l love better than l do anything
else in this world-better than acting
better than myself 1t was what l ought
to have studied. In painting l could
have done something really worth while
I think. But 1 have never studied it. 1
have simply painted a little now and
then. because 1 love it so and cannot help
ii. Have l done very wrUng in yielding
to the temptation? Sculpture is the only
thing that l have actually made any
serious study Of outside of my profess
sion And that l have only studied as an
amateur. AS an amateur / try to do
some decorative work in that-and l do
not ask anybody to look at anything 1
do-theTe is nothing for the public to
complain of. ] endure my own statues"
With this mock apology for having
dared to turn to anything except the
work in which she is best known, this
wonderful woman, who has the reputa-
ton of being able to do anything and
do it Well, passed on TO her newest fad,
which she took up with real enthu-
siasm. OF her shooting sheo would say
nothing. Many women can shoot The
new fad is ceramics, and sarah bounded
off to bring some of the things she had
accomplished in It, They werb very good.
. quite WODOHTlui AOA an anna tour
And ! do Ii all myself she cried. All,
all-from the fashioning Of the clay to
baking it in the furnace. Isn't it very
jolly?"
BY this time madame's reception hour
had arrived. Ne were interrupted hum
dred times. She received her friends IS
a queen might receive her subjects. Ar
thur Meyer. the editor of la Gaulois, came
in, and bending reverenually over her
extended hard, kissed it and passed out.
| Maurice entered, and lightly touched his
mothers forehead with his lips. Ellen
Terry, who had run over from Lond m
for a day-she has been far from well this
year and has been obliged TO take
frequent little vacatiOns-rustled down he
rooms and was received by BernharGt
as one great artistic should receive an
other.
Young and old, man and woman, came
to do homage to Sarah, the Divine. There
she sat. unburdened by the weight Of
years, happy, exhilerated by the pleasure
of seeing her friends, shaking her red
bush of hair merrily with one, bowling
it slowly in response to the compliments
of another always saying the right thing
in the right place. never hurrying, never
hestating.
Bernhard in the salon is as wonderful
as Bernhard on the stage.
One man, as ne passed out, paused on
the little stairs, and, turning, held Up
his hands, and said TO a group near by.
"Ah. madame the Incompatible. She
has hypnotized us all. She has hypno.
tized the whole world"
Edward Marshall.
ProiectiIes and Armor Plates.
From Harper's Weekly.