NOT TO WASTE THE KISSES

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 4, 15 January 1915, Page 1 (Supplement)

NOT TO WASTE THE KISSES

aladamo Surah .France's most famous actress, is again turning her theatre in Paris into a hospital fcr tho wounded.

On the last occas ! on. during tli? Franco-Prussian War in 1870, "the Divino Sarah" nurso dtho troops herself, and was awarded a gold medal by tho Government for her services. All F ranee- idolises her. and tlier? is a good story told of her which illustrates th's affection.

It seems that in, one of her plays she had to rush oil the stage in the last scene, kneel down at tin side of her dead lover, and smother him with kisses, AMad amo Bernhardt, for the sake of realism, wa.-s giving away the real tiling, Paris thought 'her wetness was Icing wasted on a mere actor, and the activs was inundated with letters from French noblemen, artists, poets, and anthers begging her to allow them to true.' tho part of the "dead lover." And, not wishing to offend anyone who appreciated Iter. Iho actress consented. with the result that she kissed different "dead lover" at every performance during the whole run of the piCCi. ANOTHER KIND OF DRAKE. Sir Herbert Tree is scoring a great hlieces-.-i just- Ji-)w with Jiis revival of "Drake." "the play that brings in the. re.Tuii:;.'' as someono recently ca'.ied it. Ther.iV, a quaint little story told ,\baut its first !• reduction. It scams tint someono full of admiration for our great sailor whose doings he- had eagerly watelnd oil tho stage of His .Majesty 8 wrote to tiie Admiralty and suggested that ill' of our ncxt-batt!esh;ps should bj named ilic Drake. I'.ick came a f..,ina: reply to t!i«> effect that tlie Lords oi the Admiralty very rarciv < ailed warsiiios after tho names of boasts or IHRDS! Ami all the tim_> there was a •• DRAKE!" THE fAMDI'S BLACK WATCH. The anion.'; Black Watch (otherwio tho Royal Highlanders). who have lought so gallantly at the trout, luquiicd their name in ilie following way: In 17311 .<i\ independent companies oi Highland;'!'-, were raise I for the protection of Edinburgh. ;he whole bodv being ch'cflv reenrted from tly ('bins ( ;mii|;!'c!l. ' Grant, and Munro. Tlk-c e-. iiijiiMiies were a year la'cr ainahraniati iiiio a reguhr 1 rogi'iu lit iii'dcr Me ti.ii- „f the " Hisrlilami Regiment." and V. to numbered ili<> i-.'nd. On becoming emah;ainaud, the bright colours on their t"i'ia:., were extracted. leaving on'v the dark green ground as a tar-f-i-i. and I r.nn this circumstance ai'e.-e t!i . title "TJio lihuk Waich.

"Oil. Mr. Fl'ppci'loy,'' she exclaimed, soiilfully. "have you ever felt n din, un-oat-v ,scire of oppression a,s if the mere weight- of life were a bunion t'>o heavy to Ik) home bv the chained spirit p-uit-injr with psychic longing to be free!'" "T invarably liav© such a fooling at Christmas-time,was the callous response; ''lmt hitherto I havo attributed it to pudding!"