The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-05-02

at the nonsensical antics Of the little
figures as heartily as any child.
e. L. Davenport, the father Of the
young man of the same name who is
rapidly making an enviable reputation
as an actor, once invited Adelaide to
recite "Theft and Accountability. The
request was made in spirit of raillery,
but the famous actress would never be
bantered, and she started off, giving the
brogue and all the trimmings of the
little sketch which used to be consider
ed highly amusing at that time. The
story ran about as follows:
Patrick, the Widow Moloney tells
me that you have stolen one of her
finest pigs. Is that so?"
"Yis, yer 'onor."
"What did you do with it?"
"Killed it and ate it, yer 'onor. -
sob, Patrick, when, on the judg-
ment day, you are brought face to face
with the Widow Moloney and her pig,
what will you say when she accuses
you of having stolen the animal?"
"Did you say the pig would be there,
yer riverence?"
"Of course I did J."
''Thin, yer reverence, it's very sim
pie. I'll just say: Widow Moloney,
there's yer pig. Take him and welcome.
I've got through with him.
Davenport used to admit that when
he asked Miss Nelson to recite the stu
pid little thing he had thought he
would have the laugh on her, because
he felt sure that she would make an
awful mess of the brogue, and, besides,
the thing was so old that no one would
be amused by it. Instead Of that, how
ever, he declared that he had never
heard it SO we'll told, and he was the
loudest Of the enthusiastic applauders.
Her Generosity.
There is one phase of Adelaide Neil
sons character which seems to have
never been understood. Simply because
she happened to be comparatively
wealthy, there was very general inn
preston that she loved money for the
sake of having tin other words, that
she was penurious-although she was
always conceded to be personally gener-
GUS to those with whom she had init
mate business or social relations. She
was generous and she was not, in any
sense, penurious She accumulated
money simply because she could not
help herself. She made go much that
she could not spend it all, try as hard
as she might And there is no gainsay-
ing the fact that if she had not earned
a small fortune almost every month
that she lived after she had become a
prominent stage figure, she would not
have had dollar at her death, for she
could give good many princesses
points on how to enjoy wealth. Her idea
of money was that it was worth think
ing about only for the pleasure that it
might bring.
This woman, who was the idol of SO
many thousands of persons, also had a
sort of idol whom she worshiped from
afar. This fortunate individual was
Gustavus Brooks. do not mean that
she was in love with him. But she
used to think him an ideal actor and
man, and the chances are that she was
not far wrong in either of these esti-
mates. For my part, think she was
exactly right. The magnificent fellow
went down in the wreck of the Austria
liam steamer London, and his heroic
conduct in working almost without
clothing at the pumps in order that
other lives might be saved had the eff
ect of making Miss Nelson still more
enthusiastic in her admiration of him.
Whenever his name was mentioned, her
eve would kindle, and if word were
said in disparagemert of him, she
would launch into recital of his hero
ism during the last few moments of his
well spent life, and-winding up the
recital in the most fervid manner
would almost impale the detractor with
a scornful glance from those magniti-
cent eyes as she asked if that was the
sort of man whose memory ought to be
maligned by Persons who in many cases
were total strangers to his character and
formed impressions from gossip and
newspaper tattle. Walter Montgomery.
himself one Of the best actors England
ever sent us, used to say that he would
often, through friend, resort to a ruse
in order to get Miss Nelson to give
lhis recital. He declared that at such
times she was fairly inspired, and new
er failed to hold her hearers spellbound.
That was probably due as much to the
woman's great magnetism as to the rem
dering, for of all the players with whom
/ have been associated have not seen
one who was more magnetic than AIDE
laide Neilson-the beautiful, the talent
ed, the noble l.. JOHN VINCENT.
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