Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-01-26

matte a in other professions seems un-
known to Maude Adams.
Some one told her that the third fioor
front was having q birthday"
A few n later she raped upon my
door and placed in my hands two tiny
red copies OF A You LLke 1t" and
"Othello." taken from the shelves In the
little -hEQWn room above.
sfaSNy lady on her birthday. Maude
AdAms,v they were both inscribed.
She came again to clasp the hand OF
n give her congratulations to q minor
member Of her profession who had called
to tell US how happy she was with her
new husband. He was her third.
I'VE envy her, don't WEI" she said, Two
arch-hypocritical bachelor maids!
Reserved by taste and heredity. she yet
permitted herself some girlish impulses.
Peeping Into q room whose inmate was
Longing pom the bed, Miss Adams in hat
and cloak dropped down beside her for q
reclining chat at peril OF keeping the audi
ence waiting for her Babbie.
AZ R~onkonkoma.
When 1t became known that Lady
bic after two seasons OF The Little Min
lister" and an excursion into Shakespeare
land by way Of "Romeon and Juliet had
acquired a farm which she was prepar-
ing for q home. there were interest and re-
greet among her fellow m She had
been a gentle. retiring presence, but the
sunshine Is not strident, n the loneli-
ness of tho empty rooms upstairs with the
lack OF light footballs on the stairs OPP
pressed us. When q rude male invaded
the house in pursuit Of rooms and being
shown the the sacred bedroom was told in
awed accents. ''This was Adams ROOM"
and he had answered. That cuts no ice
with me. 1t amt big enough and it amt
comfortable'-fery glances followed him
downstairs and loyal minds heaped silent
vituperation upon him.
We were all hidden to the farm and all
of us visited the house among the SAND
dunes near The famous art students COL
only at Shinnecock Hills. 1t was as far
in point of time from New York as is
Philadelphia. A two hours ride brought
US to the neat little station at Ronkon-
koma, which Miss Adams herself had
better appearance. its remodelling and
painting and the sodding and flower bed
ding of its once unattractive grounds.
A quarter hours drive through lanes of
pine and oak and one dashed into the omen
space surrounding Maude Adams Sandy
Garth. a low. square. brown house. plenti-
full as to windows, we'll endowed with YER
andas, and guarded at either end by
straight. tall, sentinel-like pines.
Sandy Garth: :
No home of a worthy actor is without
some monument gratefully erected In
memory Of q success-pringing play. not
ably the play that made that home DOS
sible. Miss Adams farm she gave a name
suggested by her liking for Scotch GUS
toms. a knowledge then obtained only byl
reading, later confirmed by travel among
the scenes of Barrie books and plays. She
named it Sandy Garth.
The farm stretches for 200 acres about
the low hill on which is perched the bung-
allow. A modern barn five minutes walk
away house her II horses, which she still
prefers to automobiles, although during
the days of her Lady Babbiehood she won
an automobile in a competition for the,
most popular actress in New York. Al
thousand black walnuts she caused to be-
set out. in the belief that they would
support her when she had tired of or was
too old for acting. They form a long
black line along the hills. From her win
dow she can toss pebbles into her own
lake. q round natural lake fringed by
trees as eyes by dark lashes.
Here Miss Adams takes a swim every
morning during the summer and in the
afternoon paddles a canoe out to midlake
and. nestled in the bottom. her head on
a red silk cushion, reads or dreams away
the long midsummer afternoons.
Every creature has its favorite way
OF summing itself. That is NINE" she
said. I.
A heat stroke which her physician in
sisted was earned by these driftings in the
lake and which she as earnestly insisted
came of a too long walk in mid-August
when her chauffeur had failed to call for
her and all the taxicabs were out of town.
caused her lately to forsake the delightful.
habit.
The Comfort House. !,
It Is q fOur-story brownstone house. mar
row. with the English basement entrance
that gives it ar old-fashioned air. AS she
would wish, the house is close to the new.
city library which Is being %splendidlv
housed in one Of the finest public buildinxs
in the world.
Here again are the tokens OF Mauda
Adams' mistress-ship. The quiet empha-.
sized by low voices and soft footsteps, tho
blazing fireplace. the plentitude of the old
brasses n Of rich. dark-huedg furniture,
The antique attracts her as flowers do
bees. In the double reception room one
sees q Sedan chair, its faded magnifceEce
denottng that It may have borne many q
noblewoman out for her airing. A ring, e.
quick soft footstep and Miss Adams enters
the Sedan chair-to telephone. {,
Upon. the second floor, In the big. sunny.
dining room. there IL on all days that It III
welcome or even permissible, q blaze In
the fireplace. That this blaxe may cheer
whoever sits at her table. Miss Adams has,
had . special table built, . long, narrow,
table. n all ut along n side Of It..
facing the hte. never turning their backs!
upon Il.
Maggie 0hand's sDsdroon.
Latterly, specially after the summers he
spent studying French ~ Q guest in the
convent ct YourQ Barrie's third-time hero