The National tribune., 1909-01-07

tresses, and was practically thru her
entire theatrical experience a star of the
first magnitude, in this country. any
way. The slightest breath OF scandal
never touched her fair name, and altho
very young, she conducted herself with
surprising dignity. for she was, after
all, young and very beautiful woman.
and her temptations must have been
great. Americans have always been
very proud of Mary Anderson. and will
continue to be so. She says she does
not regret her life on the stage. as 1t
taught her unselfshness and made her
q better woman, but she advises AL
girls with no marked talent for the
work to try to earn a living In almost
any other way, and she can give her
sanction to nothing but the legitimate
drama for any young woman with the
atrical ambitions.
Madam de Thebes. the famous French
prophecies, certainly hit the fearful
truth. when she predicted sorrow and
mourning for Italy in the year 1903. To
be sure the trouble she foretold was to
come from political and not natural
causes, but so far as the mourning and
sorrow are concerned her prophetic
words have been more than verified.
The terrible earthquake in Sicily is too
awful and overwhelming to be grasped.
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credible. The only tightening of the
,, fearful gloom of the picture is the no.
bility of character which 1t has brought
to the surface. Queen Helena insisted
upon going with her royal husband, the
King, at once to the scene of the dis
aster, and has taken her life In her
hands in her determined efforts to help.
She has mingled her tears with the
suffering and afflicted, and with her
own hands has bound up the wounds of
the injured. She is said to have res
cued one little baby entirely by herself,
and to have carried the child in ner
arms to one of the ships. Touching
stories are told of tn eeffect produced
upon these poor, half-crazed sufferers
King and Queen. Victor Emmanuel
pulled off his coat, so to speak, as soon
as he arrived on the spot, and has
worked like a. Trojan ever since, for
getting everything but his desire to
| help his poor people He is said to have
whom he came across, and to have told
| them that there was other work for
| their hands than taking pictures. A
pretty story is told of the little Prin-
cess Yolanda, the seven-year-old daugh-
ter of the King and-Queen, who went
among her friends at the palace with
small box asking for contributions.
putting in her helf her first tiny gold
ring, given her by her grandmother,
while her baby brother, the heir ap-
parent, gave up his most cherished
treasure, his headless doll. The Duke
of Aosta, the Kings cousin, is doing
plendid work, and his Duchess, an Or
leans Princess, the daughter of the
late Comte de Paris. who served in our
Civil War. has turned her royal palace
in Naples, where the wounded have
been taken, into hospital, bearing in
her own automobile the suffering from
the train to it. With one splendid inn
pulse the civilized nations of the earth
have rushed to the assistance of poor
Italy. This aspect of the terrible calam-
| ity has been grand, inspiring, thrilling,
and has proved that hearts are still
quick to sympathize, and hands ready
to help suffering, in spite of the So