People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1896 — HER NEW ROLE. [ARTICLE]

HER NEW ROLE.

Hm«. Sarah Bernhardt Becomes a Milliner by Proxy. Hue. Sarah Bernhardt’s millinery shop is an accomplished fact. Thirtieth street, just off Fifth avenne, New York, rumbled with carriages and rustled with silk linings as a tribute to the aotress who has gone into trade. Mile. Largta Bernhardt and Mile. Yette de la Piedra are Mme. Bernhardt’s representatives. They are wonderfully busy in the most delightful French fashion, assuring captious customers that the incomparable Camille, the unapproachable Gismonda, the unparalleled Izeyl, herself selected the bonnets they are to sell. They are both rather attractive young women, as carefully and artistically made np for their work before the plate

glass windows and. the mirrors as their distinguished patroness is for hers before the footlights. They have a couple of rooms at 18 West Thirty-first street, where there wonderful French creations in the bonnet line, looking glasses of flattering make, a photograph of the invisible ruling spirit of the establishment suspended against the wall by pink ribbons and a sofa, “where one may recover from the shock of their prices,” said one of the visitors who did not become a purchaser. The hats and bonnets they display reflect infinite credit upon Mile. Largta’a versatile aunt. Mile. Largta was, before coming to Amerioa to sell headgear herself, an actress. She says that she gives np the histrionic profession without regret, intimating that it is difficult for a second Bernhardt to gain renown before the footlights. Mile, de la Piedra does not forfeit any theatrical laurels by engaging in millinery. She maintains that she goes into business beoanse she is tired of all other diversions. —■ New York Journal.