Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-09-11
WHY IS THE MO0N7NOT I'm THE PLAY
Actor Found Martydom to
Which He Resigned in
Sanity Manner.
BY MRS. GENERAL PICKETT.

ed in battle every night In a war
drama and rescued by the hero who
dashes past on horseback and bends
down at full gallop to lift me from
the ground in his strong left arm, his
right dangling helplessly in a sling.
and rides triumphantly OF the field
with me
by the Lord Harry" said the hero
one night when he had dropped me
after we had achieved our exit IF
you gain another sixteenth of an
ounce the company will be wrecked"
The prospect threw me into a state
Of extra blueness. which ought to have
relieved me of many pounds. While
was in this state of woful, If prosper
Gus looking, uncertainty. | recovered
consciousness one evening in the sec
ond act on the hospital cot, where the
hero was in the habi. of depositing
me after my rescue, and saw a new
face bending over me with an express
sion which must have looked very
sympathetic from the front Hereto
fore l had been accustomed to open
ing my eyes upon a shock-headed boy
with a pug nose and habit Of jab-
bling me on the forehead when he
ought to have smoothed my pillow af-
fectionately.
Where am ~" / said In the lines of
the play, feebly, but with due refer
ence to the pit and gallery. Then in
an undertone-"you are an angel.
Tell me who you are and how you
came"
you are safe, rescued by the hero
ism of your noble captain" she re-
piled for the information of the
audience. To me privately-"Don't be
goose and spoil the play"
watched her as she performed the
duties which the playwright had pre-
scribed as necessary to my restora-
ton to active service in my countrys
cause, my heart sinking as / realized
that 1t was all for the entertainment
of the soulless public. When her blue
eyes were turned upon my face in ten
der solicitude, fell into deep depres-
sion. rejecting that 1t was only in &C
cordGnce with explicit stage direc-
tions. 1t was not long before the state
of my mind began to prey upon me to
AN alarming extent.
by me halidom!" exclaimed the
hero-not that the hero knew what
his halidom was any more than / did.
He had been reading historic novels OF
the middle period with view to dis
covering a character worthy of his
histrionic ability-"me worthy squire,
thou art becoming a lean and hungry
Cassiusl Gadzooks! l could circle
the tower with thee by the strength
of my good right arm!"
After a time Lois told me her sor-
rowful little story.
IF people had not fancied that l
was pretty it might not have happen
ed" she said despairingly. why did
they ever think so?"
Il suppose, because they are not
blind"
Don't be stupid in real life. It's
bad enough on the stage. didn't mind
1t as long as it was only papa and the
aunts and uncles who thought SO.
Your own people have a right to
think anything they want about you.
But when Mr.. Bracebrook took to
thinking so, it was more than could
stand"
Who is Mr. Bracebrook?"
"Oh, he Is IA mana rich man. "
IF / were a girl ! would rather a
rich man would think me pretty than
a poor one" said with a sinking of
the heart as l reflected how insignif-
cant would be the value of my opinion
of any girls beauty.
You never were a girl You don't
know anything about It. Mr.. Brace
brook is sixty-seven years old"
There is no law either in nature or
courts of state that requires a man
to lose his sight at sixty-seyen."
mo, but l am-seventeen.-
Adorable age!"
And he wanted to marry me and
that is all, except that papa wanted
him to and that was the worst
of ALL"
"Oh. SO you ran away and came
here?"
Papa and your manager are old
friends. Once when we were rehears-
ing for a charity play the manager
came and watched US and gave US
pointers. He told me that II ever |
should want to go on the stage in real
earnest l must come to him. thought
then that never should but l reck-
oned without Mr.. Bracebrook"
However well adapted | might have
become to my minor part the play was
bound to come to an end with the pub
lie. Plays are like human lives; they
are born. they live their little term
they die. and new ones take their
places.
Then we brought out that little
thing OF Clitch's wherein |, in the
character of desperate villain, lead
a party Of freebooters against castle
in which the princess is lodged for
safety and incidentally carry of