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Show Exaggeration. On her arrival in New York Mme. Sara Bernhardt, replying to a compliment compli-ment on her youthful appearance, said: "The secret of my youth? It is the good God and then, you know, I work all the time. But I am a great-grandmother," she continued, thoughtfully, "so how can these many compliments be true? I am afraid my friends are exaggerating." 'Mme. Bernhardt's laugh, spontaneous spontane-ous as a girl's, prompted a chorus of "No, no!" "Yes," said the actress, "unconscious "uncon-scious exaggeration, like the French nurse on the boulevard. Our boulevards boule-vards are much more crowded than your streets, you know,' and, although we have numerous accidents, things aren't quite as bad as the nurse suggested. sug-gested. "Her little charge, a boy of six, begged her to stop a while In a crowd, surrounding an automobile accident. 'Please wait,' the little boy said, 'Want to see the man who was run over.' 'No; hurry,' his nurse answered. 'There will be plenty more to see further on.' " |