LILY ELSIE'S WORST EXPERIENCE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 129, 7 January 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

LILY ELSIE'S WORST EXPERIENCE.

Undoubtedly one of the events of the theatrical sesison has been the return to the stage, after a long absence, of Miss Lilv Elsie.

.Miss Elsie tells of a strange experience she had in her girlhood', which, although it ended happily, was very terrifying while it lasted. She and her mother went on one occasion to pay a visit to a certain lonely part of Ireland at a time when reports of Fenian outrages were very much in the air. The neighbourhood was a particularly lonely one. and altogether thing.? (fid not look like being at all pleasant. In the middle of the night Mis* Elsie was awakened by a report in the next room that sounded like a gun going off, and when, in tear and trembling, she peeped out on to the landing, she .saw a red stream that looked like Moo:' coming from under the doorNeedless to say, she thought that some terrible tragedy had taken place, and it was not until some time later that she disioverod the true explanation of the mystery.

What •she had believed to be the next room was onlv a store cupboard, and the gun-like report had come from the bursting of a iar containing sloes, the juice of which had run out on to the 1.-ding. Miss Elsie laughed heartily when she know the truth about the "tragedy." but she confesses that her "heart was in her mouth" when she opened he.' door and beheld the "blood."