The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-14
WILL USE HER FATHERS NAME.
Lola Small jackson Getting Ready
for Her stage Career.
From the New York journal

From the New York Journal.
The Rev. Sam smalrs daughter is going
TO be an actress, and this with her IA
theirs approval
The Georgia preacher said to her: go
on. Be sure to succeed. Do everything
heartily as unto the Lord God bless YOU"
Lola Small says she has taken for her
motto, DO everything heartily as unto
the Lord"
She intends to be as devout as she was
in the Old Georgia home.
SPe will say her prayers every morning
and evening
She viii close her eyes and SAY grace
silently at every meal wine supper or
what not.
She win read a chapter from the Bible
every night before retiring, no matter
what the inconvenience or delays Of one
night stands.
But she will play the direputable adj
ventures if needs must, and she viii
wear tights.
Lola Small, or Mrs. jackson. or Mrs.
Stewart Ford, talked a good deal to 4
sunday Journal reporter about religion in
the home and a great deal about tights.
She is as tail slender and straight as a
reed. Her carriage is uncertain and girl
ism. Bright, dark eyes bespeak an active
temperament Her hair Is brown enough
TO suggest the too often lamented Sweet
H'~AA
pale features. Her hands and feet ara
those of patrician. She has a pronounced
southern accent and a curious habit Of
closing every sentence with the rising in
Election, that viii interfere somewhat with
the force of the lines she speaks before
the iootiights, unless she cultivates the
manners of a heavy" and the downward
slides of villainly unabashed.
Ihough only 24 years old, Sam SmalPs
daughter has been married twice. Her
hrst husband was James a. jackson, son
OF Maj B. c. Jackson of Knoxville. Tenn.
she became Mrs. Jackson when IS wears
old, and on her nineteenth birthday
brought suit for divorce on the grounds of
cruelty and deserton. She was awarded
absolute divorce, goOdly alimony and the
custody of her child, Baby Isabel Three
years ago Sam Small was conducting re-
vival services in Columbus, O. One even
ing he was reported dangerously i'll and
the revival was discontinued. The reason
Tor his illness was q telegram annOun,ins.
the marriage of his daughter TO Stewart
Ford, scion of an Old Richmond family.
The wedding had taken place at old Point
Comfort a week before
Il haven't anything against Young
Ford said the eccentric Georgia preacher.
but my daughters first attempt at mar
rage was such rank failure that dom /
want her 10 repeat the experiment"
The second experiment was as rank a
failure as the first, and ended in a formal
separation.
my name is really Ford, but I usually
use the name of jackson because its my
baby's," says Sam SmalTs daughter.
naively "Stlll, think it's better to use
my fathers name on the stage, don't
your
MY father is a Methodist, and believe
he has preached against the Stage some. -
she remarked, but my mother and l are
Eplscopalians, members of ST. Philip
Church at Atlanta, and we have always
viewed the matter differently. By degrees
papa changed his mind as far as l was
concerned. He believes thoroughly in the
cultivation of talent. He thinks il is a
solemn duty that God has imposed upon
us. When ne found that l had really made
a hit as Juliet Desdemona and Parthenia
at the Conservatory at Boston, and when
people told him l ought to be in the pro-
fession, he gave in. 4 would have been on
the stage the past five years if it hadn't
been for my matrimonial experiments that
turned out so badly
Papa yielded to my persuasion and ar
ranged for lessons from Robert Downing.
He came to see me last week on his way
TO Honolulu where he Is to be an army
chaplain. He impressed upon me that he
was resigned TO my becoming an actress,
but that he wanted me 10 be a success,
as he knew l would.
II do not expect to lose a particle of the
beautiful aroma of Christian home life
when l go upon the stage. We used 10 have
family prayers at home every morning!
There is no reason why my baby, my
friend, my maid and l cannot have item
here in the room. We do We always said
grace before a meal at home. 1 continue
TO do So fead a chapter of the Bible
daily. l do so still. l said my prayers
every morning and evening. There is
nothing in my new life to prevent that.
I was always regular in my attendance at
church and Sunday school l shall rot
change that habit in the least
Certainly, l shall wear tights IL my
part calls for them. II is false modesty
that shrinks from tights; the same inedh-
cacy that turns away from the works OF
the old masters in the form of nude stat
nary