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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3167, 14 April 1879, Page 2

Miss Maey Andeeson, talking to a "■reporter of the L6uisville Courier Journal the other day, said of Sarah Berndardt, that " she slept in a coffin continously for three years. She does not do so now. I asked her why she gave up the habit She said she had grown tired of it, as the coffin was uncomfortable. She said she wished to familiarise herself with the thought of death. I saw her boudoir. The carpet was of black velvet, with flowers in silver; the furniture covered with black velvet, and the walla curiously decorated in the same fashion. A skeleton of a man who she said had died of , love in Mantua, hung before tbe mirror, with finger pointing at his own reflection. In large bowls about the room rose leaves were heaped, the fragrance that arose being overpowering. I could not remain in tbe room, it was so suggestive of horrible thoughts.