Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-22 | Page 28 | Bernhardt Was First in Milk Bath

Bernhardt Was First in Hilk Bath Mme. Bernhardt tell us the preC!tt'U Ktallment deals with h" . hlldliood-tbi Khe was very Inipualvo. affei llonale. Wi sltlve. and we may believe ihls) liardjl manage. Uor mother was htit 1C when tl great actress was bom nnd did not gli to the child the sedulous cure one wobl expect. PoH.slbly she did not realise til genius or recognizlriR It thought It b that It should flourish untrammelled Ji any rate, tho youni; mother put her chll out to nurse in Brlttanv j.t Qulmperle wll u worthy family of in-ajsants. while nil traveled up and down IJurope to hi heart's content. She would vUlt her evu now and then, always bringing her lojij of presents, but the responsibilities Cm motherhood did not weigh heavily on HJWi Bo It happened that Sarah po):e Brefcr before she spoke French. ' It was due dlrectlj t lid ""t tin great aotress anticipated another gr? actress by we hate to ay how manj years In taking a mill; balh, It een that the husband of hc-r nur.-e btf ridden with lumbago, and as the potato were rotting in the Held. It became necea miry for the nurse to dig them herself She left Sarah In the care of her huabaruJ Let the uetross speak for herself abow this Incident, which almost robbed th( stiiKe of onu of its great ornaments "The good old woman had placed me li my hlghlchalr. ami had lwn caruiur," put hif 'tlTo wooden peg which pupporM the niirrow tablet for my toys. She tnrf.T a fagot In the gralo and s-ald to me hi lire ton language (until tho an or I onB used Breton): 'Be a Rood girl. MIUc 13i: horn.' That was my only n''m,c. :lt 'M time. When she had one I tried to -wlr diaw tho woodon peg which she had taUM .so much trouble 'to put In f'k'cc -"HJ I succeeded in pushing aside the lt rampart. wanted ' ?,ch, lne.K P but-poor llltl me!-J Ml Into th" fl", which was burning Joyfully. "The screams of my foster-father wya cciild not move, brought In some nK-bors. nK-bors. f was thrown, all mok, n"$ l-.rKe pall of fre-ah milk. My aunt MD informed of what had bappened, th; eoinmunlcafHl lb news to mi m?Mt und for the noxt four days that a ulet . t of tho country was ploughed JO 5ta3 coaches, which arrived In rap W blon. Mv aunts came from all rr the world. nd my mothcD, In the Stcg alarm, hastened from Brussels Tilth Karon Larrey. one of her friends, who wn JSUrated doctor, and a "f" hl"5 Baron Larrey had brought w.hhunJ have been told slnco that f tjntlllJa more painful lo witness and yc .so chnjg ,ng. as my mother's ''rtPal,rnt,Trhf. approved of the 'mask of but'(;r, uiucn waa chanced every two hours j. TbAt milk bnth and butter .aY AUelr work well. Not a scar rft"jeJ5 tftll the story of the. lire, and the Incwenv was closed. M