The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-03

years are much more eXacting than
those of her youth, so far as their
physical requirements are concerned.
One authority attributes her wonder
full youth to her large appetite. She
eats abundantly, and persons who see
her mfncing her food at supper are
said to get little idea of the way in
which she satisfies herself privately
when the amount is governed by her
appetite and net by hel respect for APP
pearanceS. Sarah Bernhard is the
most striking instance of youthfulness
of women in public life. While her skin
Is smooth and clear, Adelina PATHS is
pasted over with cosmetics until she
can smile only with difficulty Nine.
Bernhard moves with the agility of a
cat, while Nine. Lehman treads with
great care. Modjeska retains little sug-
sestion OF youthful strength. Yet the
French actress is at least as old as any
OF them.
Wurtembur king almost got into
trouble one day a few years ago. He.
like the kaiser, Is an Indifferent man,
and, while entering the Stultgas Schlos,
the king nearly drove over a young
American lady She OF the West caught
The horses heads, and, pushing them
back, told the king in pretty strong
Anslo-SaXon and German intermixed
what she thought of him. His majesty,
who was entirely at fault, jumped
down~and rendered his most profound
apologies. The young lady was un-
aware that she had the qualification of
bullying the king until she received
the following day a letter from his
majesty's chamberlain. begging her
acceptance of the royal photograph as
souvenir, he said, Of his clumsiness
and her escape. few people are aware
that Maude knowlton was the plucky
little woman, and she appears with
Browns in Town.
The Boston Transcript calls attention
to the fact that John Carter Of Cres-
ton Clarke's company is SO years old.
His father witnessed the burial of
BIC RIshard Brinsley Sheridan, author of
The School of Scandal Its going
on to 70 years now since first stepped
on the stage to play he says. Seventy
long years, and yet it seems hardly a
fortnight since I had to study a dozen
parts a week. Now / don't take up a
book once month to study. l have
not studied Shakespearean part in 80
years, and believe ! have played near
ly every character in every play that
Shakespeare wrote. Yes, / believe I am
the oldest actor in the world And I
am sure l am the oldest railway tray
eler. l sat ON George Stephenson's
knee when he took his first locomotive
IlIHl Darlington TO STOCKTON, IN Eng
land He has acted in companies
headed by Macready, Forrest, Irving,
Booth, Charlotte Cushman and Kean;
the latter two, he says. We're the great
est players he ever saw.
1t was during one of the Barbara
Fritchie" rehearsals, says the New
York Sun, just before, the Narlowe
company left town, and the star and
Clyde Fitch, the author, were talking
about Observation-Disclosures
We'll, have you heard the latest one
about Tree" exclaimed Fitch. 1T hap
pened just before l left London.
He was going out in the country
Saturday night a few weeks ago to
spend Sunday with some friends. Ar
irving at the railway station he went
to the ticket office and put down two
sovereigns, waving his hand to the
ticket agent without speaking. h had
fogotten where he was going.
ITO what place would you like to
go? asked the agent.
Tree looked at him in silence for a
few seconds, and then said with a slow
wave of his hand:
what places have you"
Richard Mansfield evidently adds to
his other intellectual qualities those