Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — ’Twas Not a Cabbage. [ARTICLE]

’Twas Not a Cabbage.

Before the eccentric Geofge C. Miln became a tragedian he was a circuit clergyman in lowa, and was the pet of the women of his circuit. When he appeared as a star over the same circuit his feminine admirers vied with each other as to which could present him with the largest and handsomest bouquet, writes Marie Adair, in the Chicago Inter Ocean. In lowa City he appeared as Richard 111. A lady satin a box with the most monstrous bouquet the florist could furnish. Frank Tannehill, Sr., assumed the parts of Buckingham and the dead king. Instead of using a super, as is customary, to lie upon the bier, Mr. Miln Insisted that Mr. Tanuehill should lie there in his robes. As the funeral pageant crossed the stage, this lady, not being a great frequenter or the theater, regarded this as the most fitting time to present the bouquet. As the cortege reached the center of the stage, the well-meaning woman arose from her seat in the box, and with all her strength hurled a bouquet to the stage, It struck Mr. Tannehill in the face with such force that he decided it was a cabbage, and regarded the situation as too hazardous to permit his longer posing on the bier. He sprang to the stage and quickly made his exit.