Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-09-21

actor replied. wouldn't be working for six dol
lare week.
Forrest was bad sailor, and once, when we
were making a water trip between two coast
towns the sea became choppy and the governor
had to go below, where he suffered all the misery
of seasickness. Finally he sent for the captain
to come to his state-room.
How much Is this old tub Of yours WORTH
he groaned as the skipper appeared
az don't know exactly, Mr.. Forrest was the
reply why do you ask?
Because | want to buy 1t and chain 1t up to
a rock where it can't move roared Forrest
e. L. Davenport was one Of the greatest act,
ors this country ever produced" continued Mr..
Langdon. For versatility he has never had an
equal; he could do a song and dance with
much grace as any specialist in that line, and
turn round and play Hamlet and Brutus with al
most any of them. Davenport was q great guy
er; his nature was sunny and he loved fun. Law
renee Barrett was the antithesis Of Davenport;
dignity and austerlty his most marked
characteristics Davenport was playing Brutus
to Barrett's Cassius on one occasion In the
first act of the play Brutus says to Cassius.
""Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this
At this point Brutus and Cassus clasp hands.
AS their hands met, Cassius felt something soft
and mushy being squeezed into his hand by the
noble Brutus Shiny substance oozed through
his fingers and dropped off on the floor; 1t was
a ripe tomato which Brutus had given Cassius
to chew upon Barrett could not resist the ride
ulousness of the situation, and had to turn his
back to the audience to hide his laughter"
Effe Demonstrating, laughing laughter-mak-
ing Effe Germon, of the Wallack Stock Company,
and many other metropolitan companies-is a re-
cent guest of the home
"They say I'm too short for grandes DANES"
said Miss Germon; "and of course / know my
time has passed for soubrettes, although feel as
4 hirt,t
but they won't let me; so here l am, and it's
mighty fine place to be- under the circum-
stances. I'm only sixty (she doesn't look more
than forty-hve) and come of a long-lived fam
lily. Ny mother, who died only few weeks ago,
was eghty-seven and my aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth
saunders, is still living in San Francisco at the
age of ninety-one. She is PROBABLY the Oldest
player male or female, alive
One Of the lively boys of the home is Charles
Gonzales, who is youngster of seventy-six Mr..
Gonzales had Spanish father and an Irish moth
er, so he says he doesn't know whether he is an
Irish Spaniard or Spanish 1rishman. Mr.. Con
zales amuses himself with palette and brush and
his room contains many water colors done by his
hand. Besides this, he is manager Of the Home
Quartette," and with Mesdames Morton, Brennan
and Campbell contributes musical evenings for
the pleasure of the other guests
Since the home was opened there have been
admitted altogether egh ty-one guests
OF this number thirty have died, and twenty
have returned to their families or friends, but
are still provided for by the fund. The fund does
not demand that one should go to the home in
order to receive assistance; 1t is purely a matter
Of choice and aid is given the needy outside the
home. as we'll as within. There are at present
over seventy persons outside the home who are
being cared for by the fund. Strange to say, the
home has never been filed to its capacity, the
thirty-one inmates now there being the largest
number 1t has ever contained. There are accom-
modations for nineteen more, with no further
annlicaffona