The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-31

who is a guest Of the house, would be
the happiest woman in New England.
Miss Rober arrived at the Bay State
shortly after 5 O'clock yesterday after
noon, and in very few moments a
member of The Spy editorial staff, who
has been a friend of Miss Rober for
years, was conversing with her on the
familiar topics that covered a period of
seven years pleasant acquaintance
ship.
Miss Rober was discovered by the
man from The Spy fitting about in her
customary manner, giving the clerk
and porters at the hotel instructions
regarding the disposition of her bag
gage, After the trunks had been de-
posted within the four walls Of room
49, Miss Rober hustled into the ladies'
parlor and was ready for the fire of
questions which are always at the dis
posal of the newspaper man. The visit,
however, resolved itself into a friendly
call and matters entirely foreign to
the stage We're discussed, and Miss
Rober told The Spy man of her eight
weeks domestic experiences of the past
summer
Though an actress of wide note, Miss
Rober proudly told her visitor that she
could make a loaf of bread and mend
a garment with as much grace as she
could assume her most favorite role
before the footlights, and with as much
! pleasure, too. Out in New Erie, Pa.
in large and roomy farm house, with
| its necessary adjuncts of the COW, the
pigeons the hens and the horses,
! dwells the sweetest little cherub that
ever drew breath, so thinks Miss Ro-
Der. This cherub is Miss Elaine, the
27-month-old daughter of this we'll
known actress. From the description
given by the proud mother, the little
one must be a strong counterpart of the
| little lady who has delighted Worcester
audiences for the past seven years and
| has been one of the best known cir
cult women on the New England stage.
| Baby Elaine is at once a prime favor
( lite with every one with whom she
comes in contact. Her repertoire of
friends, on account of the profession of
her mother, embraces a more varied
assortment of acquaintances than the
majority of little misses of her age.
Her play rooms are stocked with dolls,
dolls of all varieties, dolls with and
without ears, dolls with and without
noses, dolls with broken heads and
dolls with no heads at all. The more
dilapidated and hideous the particular
specimen from the doll kingdom, the
more love this sweet little miss metes
Miss Elaine has the most charity for
that which needs charity.
i Owing to the exposures which a tour
of New England would subject Miss
Elaine to, Miss Rober has wisely left
her little one at her Pennsylvania
home, where she is in charge of her
father and a devoted grandma. Miss
Rober is a typical mother and talks in
! cessantly of her little darling and in
spires an almost irresistible longing
in the breast of her hearer to see and
know little Elaine.
Regarding her business, Miss Robel
said that she had long since deter
mined that making money for other
people was all very well, but this yeaI
she had decided to make some money
for Miss Rober and the little one in
| Pennsylvania, and is this year travel
| ing on her own account, with Charles
Hassenforder as her manager. She has
a strong repertoire of her plays an6
stages them with that degree of ele-
gance which has won for her so much
admiration from her friends. Hell
wardrobe, (which has always been the
drawing card for Worcester women, is
more elaborate than ever and contains
gowns some made up in the latest Pari
sian styles for the modern drama, anC
others suited to the times of Other
lplays in her repertoire.
Miss Rober is confident that she will
please her Worcester friends during
her present engagement, as she has &
strong company.