The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-09

his property. At present he is busy
explaining the affair to members Of
his congregation and to his neighbors.
A Chicago special to the New York
World says: The $100, 900 insurance risk
taken out by Sarah Bernhardt was di-
vided among several large English
companies, and each received a copy
of the original examination by a physi-
clan of the company that accepted the
great actress. A copy of the papers
in the possession of an English visitor
here shows that if Nine. Bernhard dies
M. Maurice Jean Ambrose Bernhard,
her son, married and about 35, will
inherit the insurance money, together
with 100000 worth of real estate in
Paris, an estate elsewhere in France
and much money. bonds and other val
uables.
The sworn statement is to the effect
that the Divine Sarah was born on
Oct. %, 1874; that her father died at
81 and her mother at 81. She has no
brother. OF her two sisters, one died
of accidental poisoning. the other of
pneumonia. The physician makes es-
pecial mention of the fact that Nine.
Bernhard submitted most affably to
the physical examination, and that, all
things considered, she is the best risk
In answer to various questions the
actress said she had been ill only once
in her life. when a serious surgical OPP
Grafton was necessary. She never wore
stays. Her full name is Sarah Bern
hardt Damala. She owned 100000
worth of Paris real estate and earned
$4,000 a week in the theatrical sea-
son.
Her home is on the Island of Belle
Isle on the west coast of France, a
place immortalized by Alexander Du-
mas the elder in 1.-THE Three Guards
men," Her hight was feet 615 inches
and her weight $50 pounds.
In the matter of wines and other
liquors she confines herself to one glass
of champagne at dinner each day. Her
principal food is the juice pressed from
fresh beef.
Her art takes up all her time, and to
prevent the small but worrying things
of everyday life from interfering with
It she carries with her woman COM
panion and a masseuse, two maids and
two men servants. Her dairy routine
she gives as follows: She rises between
II a. m. and noon. She takes a cold
bath. She gives herself over into the
hands of her masseuse. She has a
light breakfast. If the weather is nice
and dry she takes a drive; if not, she
studies, reads or talks,
She has a light dinner, the principal
ingredient of which is the juice pressed
from beef; drinks her glass of cham
payne and goes to the theater at s
O'clock.
1t has generally been understood in
this Democratic land that royalty were
not like other people (not as good as
us. for instance), but the London pa
pers who dote on such news are now
weeping over the death of one Morgan
whose life was frightened by the fact
that he made Queen Victoria's stock
ings.
paner that reverently chronicles the
news. che was publicly presented with
the late Queens autograph portrait
which her Majesty sent him in recog-
milton of his services. Morgan was
introduced to the Prince and Princess
of Wales when they visited Dublin
as Duke and Duchess of York in 1897.
He also made the hosiery of the eX-
Empress Eugene and the late Empress
of Austria.
oan. no doubt, but it's an awful awak-
ening to the general public, who
thought that every queen was like
the famous one of Spain, who had no
legs
You can't begin too early, says Wo-
mans Home Companion, to train girls
in taste and sense upon the subject of
dress. The woman who dresses her
little daughter extensively, who even
goes without proper clothing herself
to deck her girl in dainty, fresh, fash
ionable garb, does great wrong to
herself and to her child. The fitness
of things is reversed when the mother
denies herself what is due her to give
her child what she does not need. I'm
der such circumstances fine dress is
positively harmful to girl.
If any one in the family is to be
dressed in fashion and elegance it
should be the mother. Simplicity is
absolutely necessary for good taste in
all that relates to children. There is
room for pretty color effects and for
the refinements of suitability, and all
that, but departure fron. plainness of
material and style in ch,ldren's dress
is a departure from good form. What
shall be said for the woman who has
such small sense of the fitness of
things as to deny herself the dress
suitable for her in order to put upon
her child what is unsuitable and out
of taste?
A group of women, says the New
York Tribune, were discussing the
royal visit, and recalling other days,
when tn Prince of Wales, then a slen-
der youth, came over to this country
and danced with the prettiest girls in
every city he visited. What an honor
it used to be considered to have danced
with the Prince." laughed a middle
aged woman, who, like many of her
class nowadays, has no idea of sue
cumbing to Father Time yet awhile Il
remember how we all used to envy
Elizabeth Powers because she had been
singled out for the privilege, and she
lived on the reputation for good looks
that that distinction gave her until
quite recently, when she happened to
count the years and find out how old
it made her. Now no one dares to
mention the subject to her. 1t is al
together too much of a give away. 1t
is a great mistake for a, woman to be
associated with any particular date!"
There are pitfalls spread for the
unwary feet of the poor little debutante
on every side, says the New York Tri-
bune, and it behooves her to advance
carefully into the unknown world to
which she is suddenly introduced from
her schooIroom. There are enemies
lying in wait for her who will play
with her ignorance and encourage her
in the artless talk which may lead her
into unsupported difficulties and cover
her with confusion if she does not take
care. These wolves in sleeps cloth
ing who take pleasure in the slips
made by her glib little tongue, do not
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