Show j I Sfones of i The Sfage May IrwIn Is telling a story About some of her experiences In cennecti f with housekeeping Although Miss Irwin Ir-win Is I on tho road a great deal onj usually lives nt a hotel when In Note York her mother keeps an establish lent which occupies at least part of flit actress time when there Our cool left a short time ago said she Wllb n depressed air She said she could lie live In n house where nn Outsider earn In and bossed things I suppose she meant me I had to cook the breakfast that L morning myself That Was bad enough but the same afternoon 119 i direct result of tho cook unhappy departure arture I was placed In a most era rrasslng position I started for the Intelligence offlct with the firm Intention of getting a cool cook so that neither mother nor mysell should ever have any further both PI with It When I got there several alleged al-leged cooks were paraded In review bore > bo-re me but none of them suited While I was questioning one as tt t her references a good looking modestlj dressed woman entered the place Pom thins about her appearance Imprest ne favorably I said to mjself I Them he cook I want and I started for harI har-I recall now that the proprletresi I made an attempt to attract my atten tlon hut I took no Mtlce or her Aij state of mind was such that It never I occurred to me that anybody else coul 1 want to procure servants I to cited th new arrival on the arm nnI said You are the very A oman I u ant ota ot-a cooke What are your termI 11 Mercy She turned Bkmly put ui n pair of those long handled gtasses1 forget What you call em and calmlj looked me over 11 want n often asbemomon I said she Your ro large and look although al-though you were strong enough to di our work What are your terms I vanished quicker than lightning I and my mother Is still looking for I cook I The amous little Irlne of Walet theater In London now doomed to dcm olltlon has passed through a series 01 vicissitudes uncommon vn In the history his-tory of a theater Probably no play house In London over bad so mon tames Originally It was SIgnor lies quail concert room and Its musical associations were continued when II 1 passed Into the pinniession 01 the directors direct-ors or the concert at ancient musts After being occupied for anhlle by thl amateurs who callM themselves the Picnics and were satirized by G11 ray 11 wa converted Into a qlrcus In the first decade off the present century cen-tury It became an ordinary theater and between that date and 1S6S when false Marie Wilton reign began It was It turn called the Regency a name vvhlct suggests the approximate > date tin West London the Queen In compll ment to Queen Adelaide the Fitzroy the Queens again and finally settle down as the Prince ol Wales a tltll which now belongs to another theater As may lie Imagine from all then changes the reputation of the house had never been distinguished before 186 It was situated In a neighborhood which was rapidly Becoming more and < more unsuitable to theatrical enterprise enter-prise It had always been mean ani dirty accor ling to Mr Planche It war 11 about as dark and dingy a den as ever sheltered the children of rhespls and before It was lifted Into half a generation gen-eration of splendor by Tom Robertson i genius and Miss Wiltons vivacity II was familiarly called the Dusthole Yet even in the early days of the century centu-ry the Prince of Wallis under one name or another had acquired a history Then Frederic Lemaltre made his debut In t England and Brunton Thomas Dlbdln the Mayhows and Mrs Msbctt had beer among its managers Mme Sembrlch real name Is Stengel as that Is I her husband name Her owl name before marriage wan somethino quite unlike Sembrlch which was h 1 n mothers maiden name Mme Nordic Is now In fact Mme Doehme If thai j be her husband real name and had been Norton and Gower before that I line Melba U Mrs Armstrong and will nt one time Mitchell Emma Calve 11 I herself and has never changed that name by matrimony Mignonette Is 1 tho name tinder whirl nn American girl is winning wealth and fume In London An English vvrltel says of her Mignonette I Is tt very clever dancer I learn that she Is I a native of Chester Pa where she was born In 1580 Yet despite her age she made har first appearance ap-pearance on the stage some 15 years ago at the Academy of Music In Philadelphia Philadel-phia where she came out of an egg Inn In-n transformation scene For nearly three years she was a most popular lit tie pantomime sprite but when 6 her mother took her off the stage to send her to school and two years later took her abroad In order that she might study dancing under tho best masters In Paris Vienna and Moscow On her return to America aha again went to school for some years and then she ntudled dancing In Now York under Manor Rossi one of the best teachers on hat side of the Atlantic Mignonette Is I n hard worker and very original find of all Styles of dancing she ndm rrs the Hungarian the most highly and though a last mistress In all sorts of ballet dancing she thinks It is I too stiff for solo work Nor does she Incline toward to-ward step clog or sand dances hut 1 Is I devoted to purely I original and graceful gyration for which she Is I an much de Pendent upon hr accompaniment IS any singer |