Birmingham state herald., 1896-05-31
spondent writing of Sarah Bernhardts

spondent writing of Sarah Bernhardt's | hands says, among other things: Tt has been asserted by the admirers of Mme. Bernhardt that if she were so | concealed by curtains as to render visible | only her hands, with which she could go | through pantomimic action, she would | be instantly recognized by any one who | had ever seen her act. It is certainly | true that her arms and fingers are as po- l tent agents in the expression of her emo- | tions as they are unusual The average | actor has scanty enough stock of ges- | lures. all of them traditional, with which | to express love, hate, despair, rage, con | tempt and the rest. But the divine Sa- | rahl An, that is another thing! Let Mme Bernhardt, says the Lon | don Woman in a story of her hands, | speak French, Greek, Choctaw, or not at what you will; let the thought be the height of passion or a level or ordinary | experience, with only her beautiful and | wonderful hands she can translate the | whole story; daylight and champagne | discover not more clearly. There IS something about her inspired finger tips | strange, weird and more than natural !" And when the end of all things comes, | when the eternal sleep, like beautiful | benediction, closes the human eyes and stills the human heart, is there anything | in the wide world so pathetic as the | quiet, still hands that are forever at rest? The little baby fingers. which sweetly closed before the lines grew strong and deep and seem to hold in their soft palms the kisses of a mothers | lips. The hands of youth, so full of con- scious power lie still in unconscious ap- | peal from the early decree; the hands of maturity are folded in grateful rest, and every line and muscle tells it's story of victories won of labor done, while the | tender, shrunken hands of the aged have | a lifes history in their gentle fingers. | Sorrow has been soothed by their touch, | want has been relieved, tears have been | wiped away, and perhaps these hands have always stood between loved ones and the wolf which parked greedily at the door. And now that rest has come, they lie folded only until that time when | they can beckon welcome from the other shore!
 | It is with genuine pleasure that I well come my young friends, Miss Augusta | Sharpe and Miss Lutie Sharpe, into the | fascinating field of journalism and heart | fly wish for them boundless success and good fortune. They merit all that the fu- | ture may hold.
 Miss Florence Marshall of Canada and Miss Sarah Martin, who has spent the winter at Fort Smith, are now visiting Dr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Parke at their l home on Tenth avenue, South High lands.
 The ladies of the Southslde Baptist | church will give a trolley ride for the benefit of their church tomorrow (Mon- day) evening at o'clock. It was intend ed to have this ride on the 18th, but it was deferred until tomorrow evening. Any friends of the Pollock-Stephens institute who failed to receive invitations to the commencement exercises will be cordially welcomed by the faculty and students
 Mrs. E. w. Fucker is spending a short while with relatives in Tennessee.
 
 Mrs. John Erwin of Greensboro is the guest of her sister, Mrs. s. P. Fowlkes, on the South Highlands. Mrs. Erwin is accompanied by her three children. Mrs. A. A. Clisby has returned from an extended visit to relatives at Mobile. Her friends will be gratified to learn that Mrs. Clisby's health has been entirely restored.
 Mrs. Rowe Webster of Woodlawn has gone to Clarksville, Tenn, where she will spend several weeks with relatives. Miss Emma Leedy, who has been for many months student at the Van Nor man institute, New York city, returned home last night. She will find very warm welcome awaiting her from a large circle of friends.
 The regular monthly meeting of the General Sumter chapter of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution will be
 held Tuesday morning, June 2, at 10:30 o'clock, at the residence of Mrs. A. T. Henley on Sixth avenue. A full meeting
 of the members is requested as several
 importants matters will be brought be-
 fore the chapter.
 The following is the list of forty Iiv- ing Americans who were selected by a
 majority of the Cadmean Literary cir cle as entitled to be called "The Immor- tals:" Grover Cleveland, Thomas Edi-
 son, s. Weir Mitchell, Joseph Jefferson,
 Joseph Choate, A. G. Bell, Mark Twain,
 W. Damrosch, Chauncey Depew, Sam
 uel Minturn Peck, Cardinal Gibbons,
 Bret Harte, W. D. Howells, c. A. Dana,
 Chief Justice Fuller, A. W. Greeley, J.
 w. Riley, Ambassador Bayard, Charles
 D. Warner, w. T. Harris, Barnard, c.
 E. Stedman, President Elliott. Joel
 Edwin Abbey, Bishop Potter Thomas
 Nelson Page, John Fiske Theodore
 Thomas, Thomas B. Aldrich, A. D.
 White, John Sherman, Bronson Howard,
 Hannis Taylor, Howe, Corley, McMas-
 ters and c. D. Gibson. In the opinion of mean circle the above list embraces the names of the forty most distinguished
 living Americans. saA
 The College Hill Historical club will
 hold its final meeting for the season next
 Wednesday afternoon at o'clock with
 Mrs. Winter on Avenue E.
 .si
 Rev. H. M Wharton of Baltimore, the
 celebrated evangelist spent few hours a~- 10 rxJ,a TprfH Ia " ora fha guest of MT. E. D. Williams. pr. Whar-