The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-25
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screaming.
Fritz was not her only boy part. She
was little newsbey in a play called
Streets Of New York when she was s
years old. She was proud of her boy S
clothes and took a deep interest in the
small trousers She watched me make
them and offered a suggestion that
gave me 2 valuable start
Make rip here mamma, she
said, drawing her little finger along a
side seam, and let some red flannel
poke out That's the way I've seen
ragged little boys dressed.
"A change had come over her atti-
tude to boys and boys clothes the next
time she was called upon to play such
a part She was about II years old
then and was cast for one of the Boy
Blues IN Little Jack Sheppard She
made no objection to the part until she
put on the tight blue knickerbockers.
we found her crying before the mirror.
" Mr.. Osborne, she said, I just
c-can.t w-Wear those things
% All right, dear little girl: don't
cry, said George Osborne soothing
her. You shall have a skirt We sup
plleo her with a little. short skirt and
she went on radiant and happy.
My daughter had dim. childish
comprehension Of the theatrical idea
that it is always better to he known
as Miss
Once she heard a member of the
company say that we looked more like
sisters than mother and daughter. The
child studied fC~ a moment, tnen cam
over TO where I was and put her hand
tenderly to my ear. so that no one
might hear, and whispered.
" Mamma, hadn't / better call you
Annie?'
Il never had to teach my little girl to
be careful of the feelings of others. If
IL IS true this Z angels whisper lessons
to babies in their cradles. am sure
they taught my Maude that one When
she was between 3 and years old | left
her with grandmother while | went on
tour / was away for six months.
and when I came back she was over
joyed to see me. BIT her little heart
was troubled for fear her grandmother
would feel the sadness of the weaving
She cuddied in my lap and laid her
head on my shoulder / tried to rock
her to sleep, but she was so pleased to
have me back that she would not so
to sleep.
Whom do you Iove?' asked her.
fOu, YOU, she murmuTed. while I
rocked. She looked at grandma sitting
by the window, and it seemed her con-
science reproached her.
You, you she said again. but this
time in a whisper. And dramma' she
added, so loudly that grandma could
not fail TO hear.
I had some trouble at first in get
ting her to take proper care of her
health We were crossing Union square
IN a storm one night, and 1 discovered
that she had not worn her rubbers I
tried to persuade her to go back tn
the hotel for them. She objected.
Mamma she said, I am accustOming
myself 30 the vicissitudes of an actors
life, L admit the dron reply silenced
me for the time, and l had to be re-
infOrced by doctors before this child
Who thought for herself, found out the
danger there is in 'accustoming' one
self
"Maude left school very early. She
was not yet IA. was opposed to her
leaving before she was graduated. Her
argument was that she would no. need
longer school course unless she be-
came a teacher or a literary woman.
don't want to be either, she said.
That settled it.
She went to school at the Collegiate
institute in Salt Lake City. Her prin-
she was through. Said ne, by way of
inducement:
If you do, 1 will guarantee her a
position as teacher of elocutiOn at
s., OOO a ear
Mother talk about infant prodigies
Is EOolish, 1 suppose. but admit I am
proud of the fact that she learned the
in an hour A friend droDDed
IN VI ana amused himself by playing with
her blocks on the floor. Before he left