Evening star., 1912-07-21

urged. "Cryln never did nobody bit of good. Go
down into the paror and play the panny for awhile and
you forget all of your troubles She pated me
the head-the dear old soul-took me by the hand,
and led me down the creaky stairs to the bare
where the piano. the piece de resistance of the menage,
stood in all its imposing redvevet covered esty
sat down and began playing. Presently my sobs died
away and started to sing.
When | singing heard someone hesitate
ment in the hallway and enter. turned and behed
who smiling from to ear.
Fine" he exclaimed. @Cone down to my theater
ready go and render few of those songs next Mon
day night, and I'll give you fifty dollars week"
l thanked him with undsguised and enthusiastic
whats your name?" he asked.
"Helen Leonard replied.
He thought moment. LILLIAN Russell would sound
better think. Better bill yourself Lillian Russell"
"Very well, said, @f you prefer it that way"
He dived into deep coat pocket Heres my card,
Miss Lillian Russell, and he handed me elaborate
Tony Pastor
STAYED up all night after my first appearance, wait
ing to what the critics would say about was
| bit my fngernails until they actually
shot with pain At dawn got hold of copy of 1The Sun
turned rapidly to the inside theatrical page and read:
young girl named Russell made her first appearance
Tony Pastors last night She is the preest picture of
femninty that New York has seen in many many years.
and she successful in retaining this glorious blessing of
pulchritude, her fame will be assured.
read that three times, and then and there made
that would retain the beauty the critic had at
tributed to me; that would make capital of my prett
ness; and that, through it, would achieve the fame
that the newspaper had sketched for the
horizon. Of course knew, every pretty does
that | not homely; but had never regarded my
self possessed of beauty sufficient to attract the ad
mration of the great public. The neighbors out in
Clinton, Iowa. used to tell my parents that good
looking youngster but you put your trust in
the neighbors They may merely be paving the way to
borrow the lawn the clothes wringer for the
easiest way to households borrowable articles is
through atterng the heads of the households children
If am to believe what people have been kind enough
to of me- have succeeded in finding the fountain of
youthno eternal youth to be very very sure, but at
least the fountain that has kept fresh faced full of
health and vitality clear eyed, and smiling at age
when many of my sisters of America are pale and tired
and and, actually, old.
trust spirit of undue boast is read into what say
for it not of myself alone that wish to speak rather
is it purpose here to divuge the secrets by which
have benefited the of the Fountain of Youth of
Delayed Age SO that other may possibly be the
gamers And if it still would seem if proclaim
ing myself unustifably Beauty Goddess, let
hope that my critics will extend me pardon when they
have read all have to say. | do not mean to pose.
mean simply to take the pubic-the portion of
it chiefyas has taken and to tell it how have
kept myself at the side of Youth Triumphant.
MOT week has passed in the last fifteen years that
have not received from many quarters requests to
divulge what interrogators describe my beauty
crets' get anywhere from sixty to one hundred let
ters a week from in every State in the Union,
asking all sorts of questions along this line, and in