Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1911 — SNEEZING GIRL MAKES HIT [ARTICLE]

SNEEZING GIRL MAKES HIT

Actress in Ten-Ceiit Show Mads Victim of Joker Who Scattered Snuff Powder in Theater. Chicago.—Nellie De Onso, 1? years old. an actress in a ten-cent theater U( South State street, near Harrison street, Is under the care of physicians at St. Luke's hospital as a result of a three hours' spell of sneering. The other night while she was singing In the theater a young man In the audience scattered a quantity of snuff In the theater. Miss Ds Onso sneesed for that length of time before -she was relieved by s physician at the hospital, where she was taken by the manager of the theater. She lives In Oak Park. /£■ The victim of the unusual snuff attack told -an Interesting "sneering story" of what happened. “Believe me. I am the regular little sneeser," she .said. “The' first sneese was kind of funny. The second wasn't bad. But the third had me worried. It was breaking up the act and the manager waa up in the air. Bat I kept right on. Tbe audienoe thought It was a scream. We were singing a nan rag song and you can Imagine how It sounded with a sneese where the words ought to be. I sounded like the drummer with the cymbals. I “Finsfly ft got so bad that on# of the girls bad to take me away. I wont down to tbqa dressing room and sneesed until I thought 1 would die. 1 went blind, almost They seat for a doctor, they say, hot I was too near all

In to notice. I could hear tha audience, though, clapping for more. They thought It was comedy stuff. It was funny—like a storm at sea. j “I was sneesing about four times a minute and they hurried me to tha hospital. I sneesed for three hours before they gave me chloroform. Let's •aa, three hburs at four times a minute i —that makes something more than 700 tmeses In a row. Some sneesing. believe me!"