Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-03-29

Beth says she heard it, for they talked
SO loud Mt times and seemed so angry
that every word was distinct. | can't
doubt her Seracity, for Beth generally
tells the truth, but / don't know where
she could have met them and Beth says
she doesn't remember that either. But
they were in the next room, and she
heard a champagne cork pop, and she
heard cracked ice aud she smelled
cigarette smoke, and then she heard
Sapho cay to Zaza: "Oh, no, knew
they would jump on you just as they |
did on me.
Aud then the sinuous, willowly sum |
set haired Zaza took step nearer the |
table. and after finishing her glass Of
the spar king liquid, said: why OF
course they would jump on YOU Sapho;
what right have you here? What were
you but a woman of the streets, hang
ing onto, and mauling over, that miser-
able old country boy. But how dare
they enter the confines of my home and
my house made pure by the fires Of
grief, cleansed by remorse and brought
to virtue through Level"
We'll never you mind that" said
Sarho, "I'll just tell you, Zaza, old
| GIRL they are not going to stand this sort
Of thing. Even the child of business
| failed. No the time for stage children
| is over, and oh, what things they are!
There is Fever anything seen like it
outside of the theatre. Stage children
are always superior to other infants in
4 every way. They always speak of dear,
dear papa and dear, dear mamma,
and my angel sister and the like. 1t
used to be that the stage child was
much admired ty the audience. Clyde
Fitch and Belasco depended upon
bringing tears to all the women in the
gallery and the pit, for the stage child's
province in life is tic harrow up
women's feelings and touch old chords
in the hearts of men"
But" says Zaza, it is my prov
inoe to teach great moral lesson. i
want to show the young and unknown
ing women how the women of the half
slang, | studied slang. She is demi-
monde. / studied the ways of the
demi. monde. She is human, human,
human. You know 1t all, SRpho, and
you were foolish to spend your time
running the life of the young country
boy. Take married man. Teach the
world lesson through him. Show
women where their husbands spend
their evenings when they are detained
down town on business. Show them
how we live in half-world.
! my little affair began in the green
room. 1t always does and it was a
great thing to open the play with. He
, came to the green room, and then you
Know there was that first kiss, and
: then, we'll, then, let down my back
!, hair, and, sitting on the edge of the
table and smoking a cigarette, well,
: the hair did it. Ms
: "Your song of passionate love grows
q 80 monotonous there is no change
= Fanny. 1t is always in the same ole
q key. Your love is the love of the music
. halls, ground out of cracked hurdy
Z gurdy. 1t has no lesson, it has nothing
. elevating about it, such as has my affair
. You love, and you drag people down
. love and ! send the married maj
n home, after few suppers, some gowns
> laces and diamonds educated -ant
a make his wife happy. leave this it'll
4 child in ignorance of 'papa's peridy,
i and I--ah, the very struggle washe
u away all my sins and / come back Il
the theatre as great lesson!
- "Oh, 1t is all right, Zaza, for you b
- talk like that You have the advantsg
y of me, for Belssoo put you in way t
!. meet that class of men, but you Sc
y Dsudet just let me wander about Paris
q letting me find what could, and Clyd
- Fitch did not dare altar the matter
y Why, have seen clubmen wee
at Zaza. The sight brought lump int
my throat" and thereupon the sur
kissed haired Zaza and Sapho droppe
a few mournful tears at recollections {
their past honors.
er "There they sat-" said Beth, "Zaz
u. on the edge of the table putting cigal
ss cite. Sapho coiled on the floor TO
y near the champagne bottle, suppose.
% Isn't it funny that champagne an
1n cigarettes on the stage are always
ne badge of infamy.' In real life thes
a. two articles are rather mild, and al
81 used by respectable individuals. b,
O. behind the cigarette and champagr
bottle on the stage ever turks I'll
't- abandoned woman. The stage woms
e, who is immoral only for the purpo
~ of teaching moral lesson and she
no generally a woman with fine cloth
~ and very good looks and dire, drea'
lai full secret in heart. .,,
on II wonder what has become of tn
W woman in The Degenerates,' sa
~ Sapho, 10 her loyly seat, looking u
7" THE police said mildly unpleasa
things about her"
III don't KNOW said Zaza, "Eut
have been thinking perhaps it were be
rst had we died-died in the last act.
ie, think Camille did good thing VIII
an she gave up the ghost SO cheerful
ION with that rattling cough. am afra
ent the public objects to the living Zaz
at and Saphos. Maybe they are afraid
sy. us after the curtain goes down. "lt
ene t'were better" she said, half to b.
MS self, t'wefe we to die"
just then they heard a heavy tire
in the hall and Belasco poked his he
e., In the door. "Zaza am surprised
, ne find you here, you, the Zaza ha
ton dragged Though filth and mire a
'rai brought you out pure gold; you W
TO-, 90 are tonight to teach the public how
nc woman OF your sort abandons her e
ih' ways; you who must show the chol
girl how evil it is to have any man SO
her footman hang about her carris
ara. door, come away" And with her b
led Of fire spread over her shoulders, III
nolS walked to the door. "You are rig
1er. Davy,'' she said. "Good bye, Sapl
AIDE good luck to you, but you had bet
change your ways instead of draggi
around the stage and wiping the fl
with your best gowns. Get UP and b
lear your head erect and show the wo
j. how you defy mankind"
her "Oh, get out" said Sapho. "do
loon talk to me. I've heard enough of y,
wn, nonsense about to the pure all thi
are pure Look at the dressingro
IN scene Of yours; it IS vulgar, absolut
vulgar"