The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1907-02-28

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keeper told; hsrSthat there were to BE
lno ladies. presant. and denied her Adj
mission, Miss Dromgoole onSA res
kceiVea N scopaNipaeqtary letter from
James Whitc0mb Riley, after the
publication Ola book OF her verses.
THE letter began, HDear Will,"a and
ended with aycordial Invitation to
come over anu "hit 1t up with the
boys :. sac explained, and Of course.
the author ,ofThat Ola Sweetheart
of Mine" promptly apologized, ~
Then inst pabiic, recognition OF
George WashiRgton's military genius
is an appreciation written by, an Eng
l1sh, army !ofiicef under the ill-starred
General BrRddCck. This was pub
lished In the Stot's Magazine, of 3D.
lnhurghs In 1767.- q year after the ia,
nous defeat. The officer VINO wrote
the letter said that the entire COM
mand would have been annihilated If
IT had not BEEN FOR the bravery and
sagacity Of Major George Washing
ton and ,Cgptain Stephen RozzeM
Donohoe, of the Alexandria rifles. A
faded copy of&this magazine Is ex-
'hibited with pafdonable pride by the
seventh Stephen Rozzell Donohoe,
who is now the editor of the county
paper at Fairfax Court House, Va,
In the last act of THE Great Di-
vide" played by Margaret Anglin and
Henry MilfeTssa little old woman APP
pears who is cheered to the echo. She
is Mrs. Thomasi Whiffen, who steps
into the place made vacant by the
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the Oldest woman on the American
stage. Mrs. Whiffen was the origi-
nal Little Bnttercup' in. the first
American production Of zPinafore,
which was played at the Standard
theatre lH-NeW- " ork-in 1873, MRS.
'Whiffen is aRectlonally referred to
by her admirers as "the old timer
She has 3 remarkable memory and
talks most entertainingly of her ear
Nv experiences She tells how the
theatres used Gsto have their own
stock compaRies, the stars travelling
about, finding new supporting COM
panies atS.each stop. In those days
they We're given their lines only a
day in advance, and had to learn
them by the process called Swinging
the parts, which meant sticking
them In the nearest scenery as they
rushed ON the stage in response to
their cues tfHsting to luck to re-
gain them before the scene' shutters
hoisted them out Of their reach Mrs.
Whiffem Is, as, sincerely loved by the
neople behind the scenes as she Isl by
the public. z..y>,
Joseph Choate, who Is a power in
law as Well as in diplomacy, has had
an amusing experience with q young
Hebrew lawyer with whom he was
once assocfate2 in big Jaw. case.
The young lawyer, being uncertain Of
the amount to7demand as fee took
his. difficui ty tos Mr.. Choate. That's
all right, my boy" replied the great
attorney, Il am going TO send in my
bill in a feWs days, and I will just
double 1t and ssend you my personal
check foE yours half In a few days
the check camaa and the AMOUNT was
ten-fold what 9the young Jew had
dreame d of sdemanding. . He replied
instantly to, ME ,Choate, expressing
MS delight; and In q postscript said:
Almost thou Bersuadest me to be a
Christlan."i ,,S9,,....,.
Miss Jean. Stone. 4. daughter of ex-
Governor StoResE of, Pennsylvania,
had the distinction of being the first
lady to, board the Olympia, Admiral
DeWey's flagship, after the battle of
Manila harbor.sMis Stone was trav-
el1ng with party lin Europe and
happened to be At one of the ports
where the fleet called on it's trium.
plant journey homeward She found
that the victorious admiral, after
electrifying the, World with his gal
liant dash into Manila Bay, had Civ
Ell himself over to the rather unwar-
r1or-llke ,pastime- Of making paper
flowers to adorn the barren conserva-
tory On the ship She wore one Of
his make-believe posies ashore as
proudly as If it were button of the
Legion Of Honor. The only living
thing aboard the Olympia that--Was
injured during the memorable en-
gagement was the pet canary, which
had been so violently thrown from
it's perch by the vibration of the big
guns as to break one Of it's legs. Miss
Stone found the sailors tender1y
nursing the little songster that was
hobbling bra7ely about with its
broken legs In splints: