Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-12-01


said. she is girl without a heart,
perhaps she never had one, perhaps
it is dead. She does not know what
youth, beauty, and love are. She
never laughs. / notice that people
who cannot laugh are envious of every
being that can be happy, that pleases
others by its charm; she will never
love Susanna!
She spoke pathetically and
Electrically, yet a tone Of deep pain
rang through her words.
life is so serious / returned.
but laughing, cheerfulness, beauty
ara the air she breathes, began the
strange person again.
az promise you 10 look after tho
child said |, about to go; but in vain
She held me by the dress, and begged
me to hear first, for Gods sake, that
it was not tyranny or arbitrary choice
that bound her to the child, but a
sacred promise. And whether |
would or not, | had TO listen to
story which the old woman delivered
as if she were on the stage, and
in which it was given, was, by means
of gestures and rolling Of the eyes, a
perfect specimen of high mimic art.
| could not now repeat the words as
they came from the lips of the old
actress, but only know now that she
cOntrived tn announce that she was
just forty years old and. had been very
beautiful. The old song came into
my mead, which a poet puts into the
mouth of his old harpist
once was young and fair,
But my beauty's gone-ah, where?
On my cheeks were roses red,
And bright curls upon my head,
When | was young and fair!
When | was young and fair!'
Il did not dispute her pretended
| forty years, and she now unrolled be.
| fore my eyes phase of life so varied
and irregular, and yet again so full OF
I the poetry of a vagabond existence
| that Father Goethe would surely have
| been glad to have it to insert in
/ Wilhelm Meister' TO make a short
/ story of it, Professor Mattoni had
really loved her, when, in consequence
! of a mood, to her inexplcable, he
transferred his affection to her fellow
actress. I was senseless from pain,
Mademoisele,' she threw in, but
! governed myself. | became the most
indispensable friend of Mattoni's
T.. young wife
"She now described this person as
a dreamy creature, beautiful as q
picture but quite uneducated; and the
Professor, as an imperious man, who
when he failed to find in his wife
the companionship of his souls crea
ton, treated her worse than a servant.
maid. En- verite, Mademoiselle, she
was stupid; the thickest wall would
have And she made a gesture. as
If to lest with her head whether the
walls at Butte were a match for 1t.
oh, the men, even the wisest and
best of them are blinded when they
love, Mademoniselle, He had re
ceiyed his punishment for his breach
of faith toward me-
Then followed a description of
the Mattoni household. in which lisa
bella Pfannenschmidt, as my in
formant was called heartily interest,
ed herself She became housekeepe,
Tor Frau Mattoni, who read novels all
day long or played with her cat The
women lived in a little back room,
and the Professor occupied two rooms
as formerly They received from
him such scanty means of support
that often they knew not how TO
satisfy their hunger. The troupe with
which Isabella Pfannenschmidt had
an engagement went away from Ber.
lin, but she could not go with them:
for. Mademoiselle she and the child
would have persisted in dirt and
misery. she was a person who would
go hungry if food were not put right
under her nose. rather than get ND
from her lazy position on the sofa.
and the Professor took all his meals
people to find out that he had a wife
and child, anyway. We dared not
stir IL any one was with him. Su.
sanna's first frock was made from a
! CASTOR red velvet dress, cut over. in
, which her mother once used TO play
queens. The father never looked at
the charming child tin his wife had
/ closed her dreamy eyes forever
, Then. as he went up TO her bier. and
/ his child reached OFT her little hand
! after the few scanty flowers | had
bought with my last penny. he was
/ shaken out of the stupidity of the last
r few years. He knelt down with the
r child and prayed God to forgive him
his wrong-doing, Well, good inten
g lions are cheap, to be sure! He did
! give somewhat more for our house
7 hold expenses. and was enabled Il
= dress susanna SO We could show our
I selves publicly without attracting at
Z tention; he even let her have lessons
and she learned bravely. He neve
inquired for me. and yet nave re
manned true to him ell these Ion,
years; it was as il my care and worl
o were matter of course. He had n,