The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-10-21
Her Pantomine Hero:
By ELLA FERRE.

Copyright, Paget Newspaper Service.
Nance was but II and susceptible.
She would not have otherwise become
enanoured with a man in a moving
picture. But that is just what hap
pened. Every night found her at the
show. Not being overburdened with
the coin of the republic, the girls of
her set went in punches" Dutch
treat" Every night, Nance made n
of a "bunch," and every night she saw
her hero in several different roles.
She had wept, when as a cowboy he
was stretched by his neck from the
limb of a tree, only to gaze at him
with adoring eyes in the next picture.
making ardent love to a charming wo-
man. She had seen him as a hardy
frontiersman perform deeds of daring
impossible for any but him to per-
form; she had suppressed a shrek,
when wild Indians tied him to a stake,
piled him about with brush, and set
fire to it. AS the blaze burst forth,
and was about to envelop the strug-
Cling man, the picture went off the
screen. Her bleeding heart, however,
was healed by his appearance in the
next picture, unhurt, skipping gaily
arm in arm with a pretty girl in a
mortar-board, he himself being a col
lege student, full of deviltry and
tricks.
Up hill and down dale, through the
mazes of the different pictures, Nance
followed him, now laughing, now cry
ing, now secretly jealous (for of the
women in the pictures to whom he
made love, Nance was %furiously jeal-
ous.) Her chum Annie poked all man.
ner of fun at her, but Nance was II
and susceptible-and so it went.
The man of her admiration was GER
tainly a fine-looking fellow, in the pic
lures. His motions were easy and
natural; he did not scamper about,
like a quail just out of the shell; nor
did he roll his eyes, grin idiotically,
and nod his head rapidly back and
forth, as though it were on hinges;
or grasp his lady-love of his heart.
III JuO opdol1lONAS, y III VI
so many of the moving-pictures. His
every motion was natural and easy;
his laugh was spOntaneOus-"almOst
audible" Nance said. The oftene1
she witnessed all this, the deeper grew
her i%nfatuation.
She carefully noted the names and
addresses of the producers of the
films in which her hero appeared, ano
wrote them down in a little book fol
future reference. A determination haC
taken root, to blossom into flower in
her mind. No less an idea than tt
witness a rehearsal of the actors fol
the moving-pictures and see in the
flesh the man she worshipped in pan
tomime.
She studied over the subject fol
some time. In love up to the top o.
her silly golden head though she was
and with all the ardor of her seventeen
years, she yet shrunk from presenting
her pretty face at the door of these
strange people, and stating her er
rand.
At last, a happy thought struck her;
she would disguise herself and ask fol
a job as an actress. But after taking
her chum Annie into her confidence
they decided that both should go tt
the gallery. Annie was to apply fo'
the job, and Nance was to be he.
mother who accompanied her. No ont
would notice a shabby, b~espectaclet
cid woman, huddled in a corner wait
ing for her daughter.
Accordingly, one night, arrayed II
their makeup" they went to n o
the prominent galleries on Nance
list. They were gruffly told to b.
seated and wait awhile; the boss
was busy. This just suited them, AM
shrinking as far back as possible on
of sight in the shadow, they kept thei
ears and eyes open.
Several men and women got u
from the seats. or strolled from on