Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1901 — JOVRNEYS WITH MOTHER’S ASHES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JOVRNEYS WITH MOTHER’S ASHES

Miss Blanche Walsh, the accomplished actress, who has passed through the singular experience of losing the ashes of her mother and then regaining the beloved treasure after having given up all hope of its recovery, has, as may be Imagined, many of the eccentricities of genius. Among them is the odd conceit of carrying with her, the remains of her maternal ancestor, preserved in a neat little bag. It was at a way station between

Des Moines and Burlington that she missed the treasured receptacle. She had lunched in a station restaurant and had forgotten the little bag, which she had placed beside her plate at table. On discovery of her loss the train was stopped and her maid was sent back for the bag. Before the curtain was rung up at Burlington the tragedienne was once more in possession of her mother’s remains, and hence quite able to appear.

MISS BLANCHE WALSH.