The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-27

/ touched upon the vaIor of the sol
diers who are fighting under the trI-
color of her country, when / spoke
to her of the women who are al
home, doing their brave part. sl,e
raised herself from the graceful, half
indolent pose in which / had found
her, and in her gesture and the fire
that leapt in her glance I caught some
thing of that valorous spirit that has
made her the wonder of the world
Bernardo herself has served her
country. And the same undying de
votion that she gave to the soldiers
of France, when she went among
them and administered to their needs
as woman of twenty-six, lives To.
day and has given a note of patriot
ism to her works, which was made
visible last night in Du Theatre Az,
Champ d'Honneur.
Was madam feminist. I asked,
with some timidity, not knowing how
madam might look upon the new era,
when women are taking such an AZ
tive part in the work Of the world.
But madam was more than fem
mist! She announced it with eager,
ness. She is a suffragist. She pro-
nounced it suffragette. But Miss
Ormsby, who is English, and who
knew we'll the construction that most
Americans put on the word 'fsuffra
gette," quickly corrected her. sNor
suffragette, madam, svffragist." But
madam would have none of her. She
/ insisted that she is a suffragette
and that she believes in their creed
with all her heart. Not in miiitancy,
mono! But in the new work that
woman is doing, in the new life that
is opening for her, in the new-but
here l lost for just moment, what
madam-through her interpreter
was saying, for once more Buster
sprang upon my shoulder and patted
my hand with his friendly paw.
AS usual thing do not like dogs,
but / liked Bernhardt's dog immense
~. So we stopped talking suffrage
and talked dogs. And then / made
the acquaintance of "Jump Quick"
"Jump Quick" is the busy squirrel IN
the cage, that ] had seen through
the window of Bernhardt's car.
| liked these two pets so much, !
! wanted to meet more of them, if there
were any, and they said there were,
and announced, in the most casual
manner, that they were running
about on the floor somewhere. When
/ asked if they were squirrels, they
said no, with hint of mystery, and
I began to think of Cleopatra, and the
asp, and to marvel if there were
snakes-or if maybe they were mice.
and was beginning to wonder If /
could continue to talk-or to listen In
my very best manner, with the pos.
sibility of a mouse And just then
DR.. Marot found one of the pets for
which he had been searching and
placed it on the table.-and it was II
turtle It's name is Z-a-r-b-i-n-e-t-t-a,
!. MADAM Bernhard spelled it for me
herself, in her careful Englishl and
it is green. ] could not resist ask
: ing if that were its natural color.
and got laugh again, and the in
| formation that it was not, and that
Madam Bernhard had painted II
green herself, and that the other,
, which could not be found anywhere,
J was named philosopher" and was
j, only half painted, Madam is paint
e ing him in red, Yhite and blue, the
S colors of her Frnce-and of Amer
lea. But he is oriy half finished, so
h may have been tnid about making
e his appearance.
Madam says tbs in Paris there is
S no great evidene of war in the
: houses or the sheets. It is in the
o faces of womenIof France that the
tragedy is write. 1t looks out from
: their eyes. 1t Aows in their dress,
It which has becohe more sober. In
r their mode of ling, which has be-
Y come quiet and unpretentious. In
: the work which tey do ceaselessly and
n in the thousanS of sacrifices that
are made dailyfor the soldiers in
the trenches.
And as madantalked of the women
of France and teir courage and pa
| trloIlSm; as shespoke OF the soldiers
of France, and heir valor and con-
secration to the country; as she
spoke of Paris, where so many OF
her great triurphs have been. won
and of the spit of a people who
have given theI all for liberty, one
felt the urge ofshat wonderful voice
and caught the Ire of that marvellous
| personality, eveithough much of this
beauty of her tlnght was lost in the
Interpretation from the musica
French.
And as she taxed, leaning in thai
: sinuous grace aainst the background
of her great CHR, in her fIowine
gown of lace andatin, and her quaint
coat of velvet, hat was blended Of
dark browns, all soft topaz tints
she brought to ind a picture that
had seen of her-a picture of Cleo.
patra, sorceress the Nile, and there
came to me theSision of what thi:
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