The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-23
STAGE FAVORITE AND
 HER INTERESTING PADS

Would you like 10 know how Little Elsie-she of Bijou fame-spends her time when she Is not on the stage7
 She fiuttered in yesterday afternoon to see some friends who called to see her and her mother at the Hillman and she had just been inveigied Into leaving the book department of one of the big Bir- mingham shops where she would have probably been wandering around until the hour for the Bijou opening if she had not been dragged away.
 She flnttered in with copy of Paul Leicester Ford's "wanter-A Chape-on." this child of twelve with the ability to crticise christy illustrations and to chat of the latest books.
 She is such fetching Irresistible It. tie girl. one moment talking of her dolls and the next criticizing a modern play. She has the sweetest brown eyes and soft brown curls and she wore a little street toilette of dark blue. There was a silver purse at her belt and she was very chic in appearance, and so very much at home, either in her discussion of dolls or in her approval of modern plays.
 There was Nut. He is Little Elsie's latest pet. Nut" you must know is an aristocratic little dog that Little Elsie fancied some weeks ago and nothing would do but that she must own him. He was disreputable looking and in a fight with a chicken looked the worse for wear. Little Elsie calls him "hen pecked." but he shows little signs of anything beyond little endearing epithets.
 Nut" you must now, is taking the place of Fluffy" whose place is very hard to fill. even by so aristocratic crea- ture as Nut"
 Fluffy grew ambitious one day and swallowed tack, and the result was peratinitis.
 Fluffy came after Cuba.
 Cuba was Little Elsie's first love. He was given to her by her great uncle, Sem ator cockrell of Missouri, and he was born the day of the battle of Santiago. Little Elsie cannot speak of his death without great emotion.
 Books and dogs are Little Elsie's long suit, unless 1t is posters. If she has any particular fad, it is for posters.
 She is artistic to her finger tips, and she has the keenest eye for color. She likes brilliant, glowing things, and 1t rather startles one to find out all the things that Little Elsie likes. Then she is very clever. She says the most unex- pected things. She could entertain room full of people just by being herself She is so full of naievte. and she blends with the winsomeness of childhood, worldly wise air that makes you feel quite in ferior and as if life was a failure because well, because you could not see 1t through Little Elsie's eyes.
 As an imitator she is said to have few equals and as Little Elsie herself she is certainly imitable. She only needs to see a person a few times before she is able to initiate every gesture, every mod ulation of the voice. all the little manner isms.
 But she herself is absolutely without mannerisms. She is little Miss Simpli- city Away from the stage she is like other little girls. with their pets, their little fads, their little joys And vet she Is very individual. There is some thing distinctive about her, an interest ing little personality aside from her pret- tiness. her daintiness
 Little Elsie is accompanied by her mother, who is a niece of Senator Cock erill. The family is a very wealthy and prominent one and Little ElsIe's home Is in Columbus, o.
 She was telling me of her room, which she had furnished to suit her own taste. The walls are red and every piece of the furniture is white. She has a fine collec- ton of posters and little library of her own. She likes an atmosphere of books and pictures. Her tastes are quite lux urious.
 After the matinee on Saturday Little Elsie will hold an informal reception on the stage of the Bijou where she will meet all the little folk as well as their mammas
 She will not be Pauline Hall or Lillian Russell or Amelia Bingham. She will simply be Little Elsie, although you may think that she is initiating one of Bir- minghams most beautiful little girls, be-