Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1911 — Exaggeration. [ARTICLE]

Exaggeration.

On her arrival in New York Mme. Sara Bernhardt, replying to a compliment 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? lam afraid my friends are exaggerating/’ ’ Mme. Bernhardt’s laugh, spontaneous as a girl’s, prompted a chorus of “No, no!” “Yes,” said the actress, “unconscious exaggeration, like the French nurse on the boulevard. Our* boulevards 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. “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/ "