Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1901 — Amuses Mme. Bernhardt. [ARTICLE]

Amuses Mme. Bernhardt.

The friends of Mme. Sarah Bernhardt say that of all the illusions to her name or personality when she paid her first visit to the shores of America many years ago one has remained uppermost in her memory, and she never misses the opportunity to speak of It with evident amusement. It probably excites her risibilities more of late years, they say, because it Is not so apropos as it was at the time. Her remissness from the standpoint of avoirdupois was more than passingly noticeable, and the critics never lost an opportunity to call the public’s attention to that particular defect in her physical construction. One morning her maid entered her presence with indignation depicted in every lineament of her countenance, and, handing Mme. Bernhardt a copy of a morning paper, placed her finger upon a single paragraph t>f two lines. It said: "An empty carriage drove up to the door of the theater and Sarah Bernhardt alighted.” That little two-line paragraph has caused her to smile all these years.—New York Times. A man is not known till he cometh to honor.