The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-06
Actress Plays Away Grief.

his wife. known to the stage as Miss
Frankie Raymonde, played her part
as Arabella Clingstone. IAN unappro-
Lanes" at Bush Temple.
1t was one of the exigencies of the
theater. There was no understudy to
take her place.
She had kissed her dying husband
good-by before going to the theater
She did not think then it would be
their last good-by. AS soon as the
curtain had fallen upon the play she
entered an automobile and was hur-
ried at lawbreaking speed back to her
home. She was too late by five min
utes. Death had just rung down the
curtain on her husbands career.
Mrs. Henderson again appeared in
the cast at the matinee yesterday
afternoon. She reported voluntarily
to the manager of the playhouse. She
was told she need not go on, as an
other member Of the company had
been coached in her lines.
NO. said Mrs. Henderson, IT will
play: 1t will take my mind from my
grief. Then you-you need me-"
So. with eyes red from weeping. the
actress repaired to her dressing room
and made up as the grotesque old
maid which she plays in the piece.
Upon her first appearance she was
addressed variously as Miss Freestone,
Miss Curbstone, and Miss Sandstone.
Each mistake caused her apparently
the greatest possible amusement. At
the climax of the farcical passage she
was called Miss Tombstone" The
name was suggestive. 1t struck close
to the tragedy which weighed upon
her heart But not sign did the
brave little woman show that 1t
touched her. She gave her head a
saucy toss and burst into a merry peal
Of laughter.
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not Tombstone, but Clingstone, even If
I am not peach"
The audience did not realize the
crisis, but the members of the COM
pany, who knew that under her laugh
ter her heart was breaking, feared she
might collapse. For a moment she
staggered. Then her courage came to
her rescue and she walked off into the
wings. laughing with mock gayety,
while the audience applauded to the
echo.-Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Ii, Diet for Sleep1essness.
DIR. William Stevens says that in
somnia is not a disease itself, but the
effect of an unhealthy condition of
body or mind. When the cause is re-
moved the insomnia may be expected
to disappear.
Every physician has had stubborn
cases of 1t which would not yield to
any treatment and for which a change
the air or Of scene became necessary.
But such cases as these should not
occur, and do occur only when the
sufferer has neglected precautions
that should have been taken when the
trouble first made itself manifest.
Insomnia results from causes which
can be removed If attended to in sea-
son. The most common cause Is found
in the digestive organs. Either un-
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feature of indigestion, or insufficient
food. causing the patient to be kept
awake by hunger.
There are few things which can be
universally recommended as diet for
sleeplessness, since what will agree
other. But two things that may al
most always be recommended are let
tuce and celery.-London Globe.
Bantam Rooster Sits on Eggs.
All that new woman talk has reach
ed this end Of the island at last, and
it has had q reflex action on bantam
rooster. Apparently he has con-
cluded that if all the old hens in
Riverhead are going to emancipate
themselves from the duties of parent
hood, 1t is up to their lords to serve as
substitutes. He has been sitting on a
sextet of eggs for forty-eight hours.
and this afternoon he showed no in
tention Of abandoning his self-ap-
pointed task. In fact, several times he
has been divorced from his job, only
to return to it with the greater zest
on each occasion.
The rooster began his sedentary oc-
cupation by merely sitting beside his
wife as she kept seven OF her own
eggs warm. Next day, Philip Stack
pole, his youthful owner, discovered
he had fllched several eggs from the
bantam hen and was doing the best
he could in the Matching line.-River-
head q. IL dispatch to New York