Show MADAME HODJESKA Traveling star actors and actresses meet with amusing episodes here and there through the country All sorts of people Insist upon knowing them under every pretext and it seems to be the general impression that actors and actresses were made to hold a position of serene and patient servitude servi-tude towards those who may choose to cYl upon them at any time Mme Modjeska was relating the other night to a select circle acquaintances acquaint-ances an experience which befell her early in the season in a distant western town One afternoon she received a summons to attend upon two lady callers in the reception room and aa tbe summons was couched in rather imperative terms Mme Modjeska went down There was one elderly female and one youngish girl The eldest was tall and stout and obviously the mother of her companion who struck Mme Modjeeka as s a chronic mvalia The conversation aa deliciouJy mimicked mim-icked by the actress was as follows Are you Modjeel Yes The play actress Well my daughter here wants to go on the stageIndeed Indeed What are her acquirements acquire-ments Eh Well maam youll have to speak a little louder than that bei cause you Bee my daughter rather hard of hearing II Mme Modj eta spokejilcuder l The young lady I answered rather thictly and with difficulty Has she ever acted asked Mod j jstknNo No responded the woman rI cant say she has ever acted but weve tried her at pretty moth everything else and coaldnt do nothing no-thing with her so we thought she might do for the st9geH Ob eaid Modjeeka Yes smiled the woman cSbe seems ill said Modjeska What is the matter with her Nothing only epiepsy maam She has that now and then bat it aint a very bad case Mrae Modjeska gasped pllghiiv Them she rose ith dignity and said something about thestage was neither a hospital nor a refuge for people who were goad for nothing as anything else And Laving thus delivered herself she departed leaving the maternal caller in great indignation as to stack up folks |