The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-22
Worlds Most Wonderful
 Woman Is Three
 ScOFe-and-Ten, Today

The worlds most wonderful woman will be the recipient of congratula- tons today on the occasion of her sevendeth birthday She is a Jewess, and her name is RisinaS Sara Damala- She isf a great-grandmother. And she has but one leg And she has died 50,000 times Yet at three-score- and-ten she holds in thran the ardent affections of vast multitude of men. Cleopatra herself never made so many so many conquests of masculine hearts.
 Mime. Sarah Bernhardt, widow of Jacques Damala, is this most wonder full woman-a title conferred upon her unanimously by the Latin and Anglo-Saxon worlds. She was born on8Oct. 22, 1845, in Paris. Some bf- ographers have sought to make her NS year or more older, and have said that she was a native of Havre, but the Divine Sarah admits to only TO years, and rejects with scorn the al-l legations that she could possibly have been born elsewhere than in that dear Paris. For half a century she has played upon the stage, aand for half that period she has been the acknowledged queen of the footlights. the greatest tragedienne of her time, perhaps of all time She has died upon the stage not less than 0,0OO times Early this year, after months B. eration for the amputation of her right leg She had no sooner recov- cred than she began to accustom her self to the use of an artificial limb, and to plan another farewell tour" of America.
 It was s5 years ago that Mrr1e Bernhardt achieved her first triumph on this side of the Ata1antic- Since then she has made innumerab1e | farewell tours of England and America.
 Although her mother was 8 Jewess, and her father. a petty official, is also said to have had Jewish blood in his veins, they had their daughter bap- tized and educated in a Catholic con vent
 l Only the Germars-who will ce1e- brate today the birthday of the Elm press the supremacy of Mme- Bernhardt among the worlds women. l Ever since the Franco o-Prussian war the great actress has cordially hated | the "BocheS," and that they return the feeling is evidenced by the hor- ribIe cartoons, in which the divine Sarah has been pictured in the most ridiculous and immodest poses, pulp 1ished in the German papers in the l last year.
 Mime. Bernhardt has never played in Berlin, although offered fabulous prices, and solicited to do so in be- half of the Kaiser. It is said that the German Emperor made repeated I overtures to the actress but that she steadfast1y refused to visit the coun- try which had defeated her beloved
 'tpatrfe."
 The great actress played the part of heroine in real life during the siege of Paris, during the Franco
 Prussian conflict, and ever since she
 had been a devoted friend of peace,
 knowing she does from personal
 Knowledge the terrors, f'the infanny
 of war;
 Young as she is at TO, Nine Bern hardt does not expect to live forever,
 and in preparation for the inevita bIe day she has built with her own hands
 a tomb at Belle He en Mer, and aI-
 ways she takes with her on her trav-
 els a wonderful silken shroud.
 'tBut the thing which shall keen
 me young" she says, ''and give a
 glow of life, is the hope of becom-
 ing a great-grea eat-grandrnother.'