The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-07
Sells. the Properties DAILY Lett Her.

The Ada Rehan sale which began
this week in New York has an almost
pathetic interest for many persons who
take little or no interest in that diSs-
patton of many, women-the average
auction sale. Probably no. actress of
the present generation haS-Won greater
popularity than the raging Katherine,
the plaintiye Viola. the Willful Beatrice
or the fascinating Nancy and NiSbe of
more modern comedies. And now her
old admirers and rivals, the Youthful
matinee maid of ten years, now grown
older and more critical the calIoW
youth who used to sigh over the beau
ty of face and voice of Mistress Page
or Rosalind (and sigh still more be-
cause the stage door of Days was
guarded by CeTberuS, as incorrupti-
bic as he was ferocious), all these and
many others have been gazing curious
ly at the relics of a day that -iSSpast,
exhibited in an auction room and la,
beted THE collections of Miss Ada Re
Ian
The stick on Wtficte Orlando cut the
name of his lady Love is. there with
the rough. letters half hewn in the sill
very bark. The screen that Lady
TeaZIe hid behind at Joseph Sur
faces, the bedstead in which Christo-
pher Sly had his famous sleep. the
mandohns and guitars with which. the
serenaders of Twelfth Night" made
melody in the moonlight are to be
seen among the old brocades, silks and
yelvetS, qaint7 mirrors with gold
frames and maSsiVe"a and curious brio
a-brac more git for the adornment of
stage palaces than for the narrow con-
fines of a modern city house. There Is,
also marble bust of Miss Rehan and
a portrait of her by Eliot Greg6ry&'
both in -the"eostun1e of Katerine-but,
someone said that there were not for
sale, but merely ITO give atmosphere
to the exhibition" g475
iiagA' little desk and cabinet of white
'enameled wood, with panels of painted
porcelain and ornaments of bright
Wrought gilt is lined With bright blue
velvet and is as garishly freshrand,
saucily coquettish as If made and
painted yesterday twas possibly
in one play and has been slowed away
for years in that PROPERTY room abotit
which so many tales have. been told,
Another STACEY but pretty @piece is o
spinneti Of, green, wood. decorated. with
pink roses and there are tWo,t harpsi-
chords which give forth thin and plain
tive tunes when touched. with, gently
reyerent fingers. ~" ~ '.
Some of the furniture is Very old.
apparently. and some is: very. old. One
of the bedsteads is of mahogany with
Empire' decorations in brass, and is
mounted on mahogany dais. An
other. bedstead'' is of teakFood with
tall. head and footboard, upholstered
with gray satin. There are several
lovely mahogany dressing tables with
swinging mirrors and a desk inlaid
with flowers in red and green wood.
A set of sofas and fat. low upholstered
chairs is covered with sIveE, satin
brocaded with roses, and q Quaint lit
tie set of. sofa and chairss have the
backs made of lattices of tmahogany
and the seats are covered with Utrecht
velvet.
The lanterns and hanging lamps
! most of them from old churches-are
very interesting, and the chairs in
clude many of the throne variety and
| look as, if they might have come from
museum. There are quantities Of
| china, too. and plates that perhaps
| were used to serve the guests at the
wedding feast of Katherine and Pc
| truchio. But there is an indescriba-
| bic air of ghoStlinesS and sadness over
| it all to anyone who remembers the
! old DAILY days and the laughing, hoy
| denish ifavorite who helped to make
the fortune which made possible the
| gathering together of all these treas
| ureS.