The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-04-21
GENUINE GRATITUDE.

cteScr Washington Woman i have
recently been yisiting, In Eew York.
u Woman friend who for many years
itas been enjoying the fruits of AN alb
magnificent gratitude III re-
lurN for u kindly action Which she be
upon anothe! woman without
dreaming that This other woman
would In due curse of time become the
wife of one OF the w~ealthiest men liz
Tie world.
Among her friends We're "A refined
widow and the widows daughter, who
lived most modestly ON Z very small
in the same street. The widows
daughter was d sumptuously beautiful
WOMAN, AS she is at the present hour,
IL she now has Il umbe OF tall,
athletic sons. The gill was gifted with
fine dramatic talent, and, when her
mother could afford ii. the young wom-
AN used TO participate IN minor amateur
theatrical affairs. This wasn't Very
often. however, for The dow mean
We're slender and there wasn't much
left for her to purchase the dresses
and other pretty things required by II
daughter jmbued with u desire to shine
on the amateur dramatic stage.
We'll. the woman with whom ! have
recently been visiting WAS very grac-
ious and nice as the saying is. TO the
Widows daughter during this period.
- ~ y WI 4 soI ! w. va obiN WAC
always giving the girl some little thing
WhereWith to ornament herself. either
for The street or for the amateur tl1eat-
l!cals-a far, u pam of gloves. /; hat.
even dresses at times. The girl wasn't
fool!shly proud. and she gratefully ac-
copied these gifts III the spirit III which
they We're offered.
There came a time hen the girl had
the opportunity lie play u really good
part With AN excellent Brooklyn anna
teur theatrical organization. but ii all
eeIne entirely hopeless TO her. for the
role required considerable dressing,
and she had no sort of an idea how h
could furnish The dresses and accessor-
les. Her woman friend came to the
rescue. and, with her little savings,
the girl out from head TO foot
ance in i5rooklyn. The girl cried a
good deal when her ona friend did
this for her. and Sobbingiy told her
that she would never. never forget
her Kindness, after II II of
girls.
THAT girl made q tremendous hit in
her ~part-such a hit, indeed. that the
most amou manager III all me land.
no less Il man than Augustin DAILY, the
lamented, had his managerial attention
drawn to her. He sent for the girl,
looked her overland engaged her for
his company, out of hand.
In al increditabiy short space of
time, remembering what . difficult sort
of man DAILY was to please, she was
the leading woman of his company, and
The critics We're raNing over her beauty,
her refinement ana commenting admir-
ingly upon her spotless character in
private life.
Then a young chap whose father
was among the five richest men on
earth at the time drifted along TO
Days theater one night saw this
girl-and it was all off With him, as the
men say.
He induced an honorable gentle
woman to present him TO the girl. and
inside of Il week after he met her he
was stark, staring, STAYING idiotic over
her.
He went To his father who was in
poor health at the lime, and old the
governor that he was going to marry
AN actress. His dad demurred. He
didn't favor actresses as daughters-in-
law, he said.
"'youm favor This actress, remarked
his eldest son.
Wei fetch her around and We'll
see said the old gentleman.
THE son brought the girl "a his IA
Tiers house, and the old man surrend-
cred on the spot. He imperiously com
manded his son in view of the fact that
he himself was in such o health 10
go right out and marry the girl the
very next day, and fetch her home to
his, the old mans place. SOS he could
look at her and hear her talk.
The son obeyed the mandate with
phenomenal alacriuy. He married the
Young actress on h very next day,
despite her lamentations, Natural for a
girl i'll the circumstances. that she had
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lied in. You can come pretty close TO
imagining the kind of things she had
TO wear just a Very little While later
On.
THE girl had scarcely got married
off thus splendidly before the wonan
who had been so kind to her in Brook
Ign lost her husband and fell into sad
Apprenticeship. She had relatives down
here in Washington and to Washington
she came.
The actress wife Of the millionaire,
in the excitement OF getting married,
had lost track for q very little while of
her old-time b~enefactress. When she
went to find her in Brooklyn her quest
was of course fruitless. But h learned
that her god friend was i'll Washing
ton. Did she send for her? Well, she
only sent a private eau, OF the
finest private cars on earth, down here
to Washington for her, that's all.
i've just returned, as ] say. from
visiting her in her beautiful home in a
a New Jersey suburb. The home was
built for her by the eX-actress, to whom
she had shown her good heart when the
girl was Door.
You should see that home, It is
maintained by The actress wife of the
MISUNDERSTANDING is now, as l say.
the regal mother of a roo of splendid
children-and there is nothing under
heaNen-iewels, equipages, everything
imaginable-tlat is not shoWered upon
this woman who, III the goodness of her
heart, simply was gracious n gener-
Gus toward q pretty. poor u girl
With Whom she had sympathized years
before.
She protests in vain against the ex-
travagance of her maintenance, against
the alarming magnificence of the pres
cnts hat are being constantly be-
slowed up her.
The husband OF the n time actress
Is Just as incorrigible in the matter
of overlooking her With luxury as his
wife. for he says that had it not been
for the oma OF whom I am speak,
ing he would in all probability never
have met his Wife. to whom he is an
absolute slave, but & manly slave, for
all that.
''There is gratitude in plenty in this
abused dc world. only some of us are
not quite so fortunate in becoming the
recipients of it as the kindly woman
whose little story l have been telling
70 you.'