Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1894 — Modjeska. [ARTICLE]

Modjeska.

A dozen years ago, says the New York Sun, Mme. Modjeska came t< America, bought a big ranch in southern California, and settled down to bee cut and the raising of cattle. She had, after many successes abroad, retired from the stage. But the old feeling, so firmly implanted in all those whe have once tasted the fruits of success, reasserted itself. She studied English and began a new career in the English tongue. A friend of Mme. Modjeska said the other day that her return t< the footlights was inspired, however, from a wholly different origin. Look? ing out of her study window one morning she saw an odd spectacle. Three men were engaged in slaughtering a turkey. Count Bozenta, her husband, held the creature by the legs, a farmhand held the head, and a third man wielded the knife. She thought if 11 required three men to kill one turkey her hopes of the successful management of the ranch were destroyed. Se she went back to acting.