The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10
SHORT STORIES
OF THE DAY


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Sarah Bernhard recently had an anus
ing experience at little way station in
Switzerland. She had been spending a few
days at a mountain village and had come
down by stage to meet the train that
would take her back to Paris relates the
Saturday Evening Post She thought she
was unknown, and so stood there careless
ly. and then, like an ordinary woman $50
could look like an ordinary woman), began
to pace up and down the platform
She held in her hands paper bag full
OF dates. and, regardless of possible obser-
walton, began to eat the fruit AS she ate
the dates she shot out the stones between
her teeth with amusing abandon
Down another road to the station came a
party of a dozen students Out of the cor
ner of her eye as She passed them, Bern
hardt saw one of them stoop and pounce on
something as on a prize.
1t was a date stone! She was recognized,
and he had secured a memento.
Another stone from between her teeth
and, half turning as she again passed on
her short promenade, she saw another
pounce and another seizure.
Outwardly unconcerned but inwardly
amused and pleased. Bernhard kept on
walking and eating and scattering date
pits land the students gravely continued to
pick them up. The other people who were
waiting looked on at the queer scene in
Amusement.
The train pulled in. The students dotted
their caps and stood In a semi-circle as
the great actress mounted the platform
Bravo, Bernhardt!' they shouted, and
she turned and smiled
Gems from the lips of Bernhardt!" cried
one, waving the hand that held his date
stone; and Bernhard Joined heartily in
the storm of laughter that followed
Gave Way to His Impulse
When DR.. Temple, the present Primate,
was head master of Rugby school, he paid
a visit to DR.. Benson, his predecessor in
the See of Canterbury, who was at that
time the master of Wellington College, says
a London periodical. One afternoon the
two went for stroll through the woods
behind Heath pool. Benson began to
point out to his companion the sylvan
beauties of the place, calling his special
attention to a magnificent beech tree.
For awhile Temple admired it in silence,
then suddenly crying:
ST can't resist the temptation Look
out!'' made a rush for the tree, and ere
his amazed friend could quite grasp the
had
and seated himself among the branches.
Then the two future Archbishops, look
ing at each other broke into a burst of
schoolboy merriment.
The Compliment That Did Not Come
1 overheard a bit of conversation on a
Chevy Chase car the other evening that
put me in a good humor for all the rest
of the week, says a writer in the Satur-
day Evening Post. She was pretty girl
and she belonged to the number of those
pretty girls who are forever longing to be
told of their beauty She was with a blue
eyed young man who looked as. if he had
seen % summers and a great many other
things more educational She was talking
of girl called Maud.
Don't you think Maud is awfully pref
tyr" she asked
She's peach" answered the young
man.
I'D be perfectly happy" she said, 'If
/ were as pretty as she is
Bad fishing weather. The young man
merely settled his tie trife
ooh, we'll" he remarked; there's no use
being unhappy about things that can't be
helped"