Show A VERY KNOTTY PROBLEM jeanne til tilda ida tells about managing a nigh spirited girls STRANGE CAREER OF A CHILD ACTRESS A romantic life story how a favorite or of the foamed about disguised as a boy from a convent to stage e popularity and a ble big salary beauty must make flake itself scarce wo we are happy at last all I 1 Is quiet along the potomac elsa eiss has gono gone to tho the convent convent yes as a last resort wo we havo have sont sent her thoro there tile tho public school expelled her bor tho the quakers meekly demurely d determinedly L ter said laid IT aboe hoc had bolter bettor take her elsewhere whore and tt a good boarding school being out of her mothers reach sho she has sent her off r to tho the sisters hut but tho the child Is silo sho happy happy as tho the day Is long 8 sho has baa never cical a teat loar and dont mention inon lion coining homo home and good angelic aro are terms which come nowhere near describing her and horo hero Is a pretty little girl finely b bollt ailt with blue ees ces and long curly blondo hair who has never boon out of her mothers others la sight for or twelve years sent oft off to a convent school why oh she Is utterly unmanageable and yet thea slaters sisters pronounce her bar docile cocilo but there Is that riotous theatrical element in lor her blood vl which lich is most excited by tho the sedate calm ol of the home atmosphere there Is that tendency to violent passionate outbursts which are so 80 frequently vented upon the family and scrupulously smothered under affability belore before stranger in a word she Is tier her papa over again papa Is a prominent theatrical manager who liko like others of ills kind found tho the business and connubial blis not pull together the balance came down in favor of the business and domestic felicity was at at on an end bee the lack of paternal government may bo be answerable tor for the little ones at any rate I 1 predict that silo aue re returns turris irom from her seclusion an actress speaking of your convent bred actresses reminds tile 1110 of the life story of a little charmer whom I 1 saw with jarbeau when ullon silo she was doing starlight a couple of seasons ago talk about being it took ones breath away to lo 10 see her dance in a lord costume her eyes sparkling her ber chooks cheeks flushed her love locks coquetting about tier her IACO face and to think what ilio i lio had accomplished at 16 lit in spite of being shut up tip within grim convent walls for five years it was in ili her as they bay for oven even within tho the sacred homo home silo she us used G d to scream out hut but I 1 IN v ill HI bean lo 10 an actress I 1 u will ill see if I 1 dont say sister look at me inn dance now I 1 boa bo a daisy in tallu till luand and tig tights lits and while tile the youngster tor tell fell tofick to kicking tho the pious sister prostrated herself and tell fell to telling her beads in ili hopes of ex idling polling his imperial highness prince brimstone from the mind other charge wonder it if I 1 might to toll I 1 I 1 tho the story of this little terrors life sort of a shame to be forever bringing the family skeleton to the front is it not but an actress roost most private affairs make the kind of advertisements so hero goes site was the only child of a mo thorand mother and father unhappily married tho the father was va an actor the mother a non dional and that was the secret of the misery after some years of domestic variance the courts were called la in to settle tile tho di depute divorce was vlas granted and the child handed over to the mother another oaths and threats to secure the child at all hazards followed on the parl of tile the pater the cx cv mrs was ou eta to ahn game however low and oven even though silo sho was forced to lo carn cam at a livelihood silo she kept a watchful 0 0 to the little one in spite of her Illi gence the precious bundle of humanity strayed ott oil one day and after much searching was finally discovered in the company of a i tongued fit who was of fOrIng lof annilies and fairy proul laus as allure ments like a nish flah the mother another took tile alardi this was an all emissary of 0 tile ibo fattier lint hut ahen accomplice no 0 3 canio came along to work the MUG racket ho he road read ITO to lot let upon tile iho door the lady now relates how silo alio fled to some gonio friends in tho the suburbs of the city with whom silo she just long enough to contido her sorrow borrow bog beg protection te lilon und land complete 9 disguise klio be became a widow she changed the tint of her hair sho she adopted spectacles she nover never appeared in public except under tile tho safeguard of a heavy crepe grepo vell veil As for the daughter she a I 1 son on in pantaloons and jacket with short hair parted on an tho the side ono ona would never have accused cuson her of tho the criminal practice of masquerading in ili earnest it wasal was daring piece of business but t their heir happiness was at stake aud and the game must bo be conducted skillfully but while hile they tarried in tho the homo home region there there was danger the boy might forgot forget his part A word a gesture would to undo the hourly caution so they traveled on stopping slopping a few hero here A few months there to earn a little money but always working towards the western const it ws was a terrible existence hard to swallow perhaps but this Is truth every word tho the story comes direct from a member of the company in our subject ct acted finally cal california was reached they breathed more freely tho the widow might lift bervell her veil vell tho the child was accustomed cus tomed to her male garb find and sufficiently well drilled to remember that her namo name was changed and that silo she was a boy to be suro sure they suffered suri ored much restraint nt socially but at the same tiddo t there h oro was an air of freedom abo about them and besides that necessary ovil evil chink tin or what you yen please was less scant in tho the golden region of the west for it a tow few oars ears they were quite sale then tho the boy became till tall and sissy look fook ing and things were again in a bad way 1 it I WILT BE AcT nEss and what hat next should they return past eat halting by tho the way to resume their normal conditions should they risk the change here should they quit to return to destitution destitution settled tho the question they would remain the child could go into seclusion for a time a few years and then bo be reintroduced trod as bwy daughter who has bron been completing her education abroad down south or east anywhere so 60 this poor little innocent who had known no child lire illo was hustled oft off to tho the rigidity and desolation of a nunnery Y hut but not for long nature was at work the youthful framo frame b began to develop lop into womanhood and comparative maturity brought with A ith it desires and determinations which no codo code of laws no severe discipline no prayers or reasoning could fru strato tile blood coursed through tho the expanding frame of 0 tho the oung recluse at lightning speed her whole being was fired with ambition ambit lon the individuality the mental bias tho the taste the talent crept to the front arid and wh ahn n they attempted to curb this active spirit tho the energy found vent in ili that horrible sic ri legious avowal but I 1 will bo be an actress see bee it if I 1 doltl then of a sudden tho the nervous little body with alth its petulance and daring quieted down the sisters might havu have guessed it was some soma blind ull nil this pious devotion aud anti sweet submission but all went smoothly and tho the hoax pro grossed beautifully toward completion everybody became reconciled to the the lit mo llo sinner inner heavy pon penances ances ero ere I 1 eted hours of leisure extended sho she was tho the colv convent G rat favorite ilow how she did make thorn them lovo love her until one morning thoro there was no response to lo her namo name at roll call silo she had escaped next tuna you meet her sho she is traveling with her mother she Is a theatrical personage of inferior mention but ik a season suffices to bring ivor her into prominence dance like a dream sing like it a bird silo sho Is in demand tho the mater still rues goes along for or protection tor for tho the nion lion havo have sharp oy eyes es for the little favorite tho the critics praise her the hangers ou on at tho the theater lod load her with lowers flowers sho she could bo be on I 1 a perpetual lark fron from ono weeks end to another ANI AM curf OFF till THE STAGE nut but the elio 18 I 1 not that kind it Is not her fault if silo sho knows that sho she Is just as pretty and cuto oil off tile tho stage as on neither Is it 11 her fault that she has found that beauty from froin sheer desire for self protection must make itself scarce sho she is an independent little piece she has an oyo to business too intakes it takes no third party parly to mako make an engagement for her lot mo me toll you but this youthful financier Is drawing such a largo salary just now flow as ft a child star that I 1 imagine she has fallen into tho the weakness of tho the profession aud and Is finan ciering all her money away at least it la Is true that she does docs hot support her mother who Is a nm for various theatrical people I 1 might go on all night relating the escapades of children under tile tho discipline of tho the catholic car orders alors hut but they all amount to tho same tiling thing ton chances to ono one it if your girl does not return to tho the order as a nun it Is because sho she Is ta a party in somo some romance rora ance and is bu busy y making up tip tor for lost time by being all at once just as rapid as possible strange but that thai rule in syntax about two positives equaling a negative Is very to human life A free foot tor for pleasure Is suro auro to foster it a desire for while on unforced forced seclusion 0 va s sots a body wild valid tor for the naughtiness of the world hut but what are you to do when a girl gets beyond you shall you keep her by you hoping that developing sense and good precepts will work a rotors or will you solid send hr her away and shut her up not alono alone but along with a sot of in liko like herself bor where not oven tho the holy yi acra and sacred rites can pro ima I 1 them putting their beads to gother dad hatching batching most unholy sch cruts jl A X di otwa |