The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 17, 1901, Page 12

. SUNDAY CALL. THE h with it own cti the editor of I hs pom or been formances had ) more comfori- W ranch and t . t horses t 3 ce of m. I did fot bre dment for at least r hours afterward and my ats thought for awhile that d sot in 1 moment when I ene at dressing-room door. T disappeared, having g to sew on the slipper bu The hare's foot couldn’t be found as a general mix-up b2 e yellow gown of the first many ruffied garments They are all fastened time, but if you the right place you ere w save step out and get in all over It ate,” some one remarked en ragingly at her door. nta gave a retort courtecus. v do you think of “How am I going e m retur Well, there’s enough for you to Go. Gee! Say, what's the matter with me Am I in my clothes, cr t I? Well, look at that, will you? ter I all hook=d up. Al t, I dress over again I see. Oh, be you think it's fun, this thing u haven't got a snap,” I said. ut look at the mon:y you make afford to have a good time ] re through your work."” am I through?” she en days a week a year. Twice a the time, too, for those ing-your-dinner-pail pe East. I'd like to he fun comes in.’ nce se onths front of the house a few looked all the at press agents and effusive e calied her. The latter scrapbook with the cing, entrancing,” and rhymes into so tical, she artisti- arder. T yet othex door inte oom d fell -~ - Taken bundant d brus exhan ance awiy nd pran if aldne hes cle nd forced : blind moose would n i moose thepe baus aftached huil, a0d the two are n cempany..Sey. those who them. The younger moose is nd friend of tbe bliad one. On oodsman. who watehed -them for hours e day says that the younger led the cider to the best-bushes about the vard. n been eatea pretty clean and That Is Led Qzre OF BY His ¢ with the perspiration rolling off if she had been through a prize fight. The soles of her feet were ach- from the heat of th: electricsl apparatus under the glass trap. She !imped when she moved. She shook dustpan full of paper smow from i nk bhack, half fainting. The maid preduced the alcohol bottl= vthing was as usual and nt cheerfully to rubbing. S “And after?” I asked. “Lift that dress,” she murmured, “and then ask ‘after’?"” I tried to take up the silver span- gled costume of the second dance. Uatil I stood square on my feet I could not budge it from the floor. That is the costume that she han- it were butterfly wings. ““Gee!” she commented. SARAH COMSTOCK. self = as if ev was of - fun to em 1 might e com ith Sea Is'- ands or a em for body ard of me. T was own to the mu alls, 1T was un- All of a svdden I chose to flash forth, 1 th. blaze forth—whither from s a mystery. s u seen Papinta?’ I o et cars s she always the qestion. 1 like to 1 guessing. 1 was from abroad. These « 1t they had seen me dance in Vienaa and in Paris under « different m: W with differe success, They t 1 had ch d my name to ci tuck. The d to the es who solve every mystery satisfaction. own Others knew that I was an American ‘ whom everybody had seen and hat 1 suddenly hit upon the new ncing and for my own good easons 1 had adopted a new name to go with the act th I had been dancing id, and that was a ey s 1 ad never seen my name it the smallest type u people belonged to the di ppointed class who always wish they f what they pretend to know. est of my admirers still kept were sure But Sun Ts Shrinking Everl Day. fir—lil. sual Christmas course of lec- fl tures was begun at the Royal Insti- tution by Sir Robert Ball. The sun he poin ut as the source of all th received by this ‘earth. Now, it ! wi well-known fa that most things R sy their questioning “Who is sk “Where did she come from " n they began to claim me. s a )y a hand orsanist when she was hardly oid cuough to toddle. Even then showed talent. Has been in the husin and bas achieved st last s at P, one might has the air, the Parisian something. He is to be forgiven only because he spoke in Fren¢h and had just crossed the pond, and really did not know yet what America can do when she sets about jt. But ¢verybody who is interested knows that I-am a pative San Franciscan and at 1 lived here uatil I was 6 vears oid. The funny thing about it is that I neyer Janced in my life until the World's Fair vear—hardly so much as round dances, for I @id not care for the thing. 8o when people weré faking all kinds of stories the places I had danced and the ining 1 had had, all the time I was kling in my fifty yards of sleeve. 1 1 to myself: “I never had any in dancing. I never spent months io balance on my toes, 1 never bont had any ambition to lead a ballct, and here am 1, Papinta, Just’ an ordina woman with the impudence to try wh: I doi't ‘know anything about and put- ting it all over tl:ose who tackled the job much earher and have been at it far 1 1 griess it pays to be impudegt. Well, I wonder.” Born in San Francisco. I had the most ay kind of little-gir] life. I didn t kndw anything about danc 1 ‘didn’t care about it, and ‘here w only ous thing in the werld interest me That was my 1 had a monkey that meant more to my heart than did any member of my fam- 1t scoundrel, and I loved the way femininity does love scourdrel When it had. stolen and made away wi most the portables about the house. including the bootjack and the egg-beater, my father gave notice that another.of- fense meant death. In three days my brother reported buttonhook missing. “Death for Brick if he can't prove his innocence,” pronounced the judge. Then he called for Brick and demanded that he come forward and plead his own cause if there were anv to plead. Brick came. He had nothing to himself. Then his self-appointed ‘attorney spoke | for him. But not in the words that ‘:vmrm:,v is accustomec fo use. | t did pets. ily was a it his an “Brick is innocent,” 1 iied. buttonhook. You may kill me, ‘ Thereupon I offered mys If for sl ter It was when | I stole th ugh- I was 6 that There the ramiiy were four litt 2 to be left orphars, for neither father nor mother lived long aft. they had settled in their new home. How | ever, this'did not mean that T was to taks moved to Chicago. | tolke of soon cooling become smaller; a poker, for | UP the stage just yet Even then, whea mple, was shorter when it was cold | there was need that a living should be when it was hot. The sun. too, must | arned somehow, the thought of the stage fundamental law, and must | PeVer entered mv head. c be getting smaller. If we could| 1 d1d not go to the theater so very muci. measur @emeter on two successive I Was not particularly fond of it, ‘an? days we yuld find it 1 decreased by | there were so many other Interesting rine Inches—that was to sa¥, it- was ) things. Above all, I ‘ike& horses. shrinking at the rate of, roughly, five feet | I could not by any means izdulge ¢his « week_ or a mile in every twen rs, | liking to my heart's content. Even now In view of thi irinkage some of the | that I have a ranch all my own and an: ok of his audience might | FAISINg horses after my own fashion anc the sun should not last | TACINg them hereabouts in the fastest of anxiety, however, was | races, I have not by any means all che ax %0000 milcs in diam- | horses T want, and perhaps never will % wonld. talke 40000 vears for Hiks phave. It :ukc‘x a good deal to satisfy me, s to 65806 I'm afraid. in the sk one S60.907 miles fn WOUld et on the back of anything that mder Lhd>hE obiel 9, mo ome PoTe the semblance of A horse and was IT by looking at them | 2ble to hobble. When 1 went into th « the smalier. But s COUDBLTY for a day. or to ona of Chicago’ ¥ pine. inches, every | Suburbs—Oak or Elmhursi—I wouid G s for ages 1 | coliar any milk man or grocer I saw”and A t that he let me ride on his herss, : ‘,‘x_v:"‘ et i no difference whether he refus B { mater.al m no heavier than at he inference was that he c u hupe mass of rarefied gas—a Ziowing nebula.—London Times abaut Mate. leserted, and it was with young ““.',““’l w Ler 1o clumps of twi; i sagacity in f able, probably by lcvelopmert of the sense of | » go Wwithout assistance. | { | at rirost plenty in the neighborhood and “he backs znd neckz showed plainly®the | of fights with them. Tt was plalif, | . from the position of the wounds, on | he smalier bull that he had borne the | hief at T se of mmell. Even the slightest| seems to carry.to his sharp nose knowledge of the presence of a man, and e will charge up the wind ‘at once. Tt is | easy 1o keep from him, for ance the scent | cannot help him he ‘cses all trace of his ! enemy and wanders aimlessly about, bumping egainst trees and stumbling over obstacles. i rescues him and leads him back to the well-beaten yard, where the two seen 6 live in solitude. Moose are gregarious animals. and that these two live thus alone, the younger ons | preferring the socleiy of an old, blind bull to that of the nerd, while the herd has dropped them both, is suggestive interesting. ack and had defended the othier.| blind buil has developed a wonder- | From these the young moose |, l-nd)\ sted. 5 or n I asto cago by galiep T in »d the outlying ctre ng down them on any sort & a of animal that cov!d carry me and thai 7 could’ borrow. 1t did look then as if 1 would ever own some of the finest blood- cd stock in the CaMfornia market, I hac to buy orses with. 1 was A churck mouse. My brother was taking care of me all the while,” and 1°did not know. what lay in my power to do for m) 1 thought and talked o of things. I thought oi tezching school— ve geds, I teach scnocl! I thought of sewing out by the dav— who sew on a button as I would have a tooth pulled. I 1. doing all kinis thought of hirirg ont te cook—I, who don't make anything but toast, and burned toast at that. I thought of these things and proposed ihem one by one, but my brother begged me to glve up the ideas as fast as T took thém up. The work would be too hard for me, he sall, I was so determined, though, upon the idea of teaching. that 1 began to study for it In my room ~t Mght and I got as far the beginning of square and cube root. "I never could get these through my head. s0 there I stuck until my brother discov- ered me there and pulled me out. “What did I tell you?' he said are not to teach school as long as I cau provide for you. and that looks as if it might be for a good while to come.” So the matter was dropped and I did not again talk of any kind of wage earaing. But T had always had it in. mind that I was going to be rich some day—rich enough to have horses all my own At last 1 came to know My. Zie It was he who had .\(Hl’l(’(’{vlll on the stage. “l can start you he said. At first I laughed at the proposition. [ had never thought of such a thing. I knew, 1 couldn’t dance “That is the best sign,” he re too sure, I anything with yor Then he began to teach me to dance. To my own great surprise 1 it. Tt was only a little serpentine, the sim- plest kind of thirg to look at, bhut Zie; feldt a1d T was all right. “You have the knack,” he told me. The knack is everything, I say, too. The knack and the luck. However it the « reldt. T peoy aid. “If you ould not think of doing quick at ¥ rpentine made a nit. Right then and there I overtopped those who had been at it for years, and thought they knew the busines to the ground. I madc the dance go as nobody had been able to make it.go before, and Ziegfeldt squirmed with @elight. The box office of the Trocadero prospered. That sctiled 1oy Toture. No use now for anybody to teli me that the work was too hard..or that I would be cared for with- out it. 1 had made a hit, and that is al- the end of private life. A year later I ‘came out in Cincinnati. That was thé first of my electrical effects. W. J. Halpin worked them, for me then, as; he always has since. 1 jnvented and patented for dancing itself— well. people say I éan dance. but it’s be- cause I have.the instinct in’ me. I don't know- a thinl about it as far as theory goes. The way 1 get a new<dance is b hearing a rew air. If it strikes my fancy T Lium it over before a mirror, dancing (o it all the time. ! make up the steps as ( &0 along, and when I happen on one tHat .1 especially like»I try i over and oter, so as to impress it on my mind. But sometimes it slips away and.I can't re- them. ~As member it afterward. 1 bave becn told that the dameing that od on n me comes irom my Spanish bl v mother’s side. I'm sure T don't know “1 know that there is a little Spanish in r-e, but not much. You see, it had popped into my head ti the ‘thing could be done, and I talked it over with Mr. Holpin. He always had a talent for anything mechanical and elec- tric schemes were right in bis line. So he kept working on the thing until he got the system to suit him. 1 bought the rights to the mirror scheme from the inventor of the Crystal Maze. Lole Fuller thought of wanting them at the same time that I did, and it ended in a cab race to the man’s office. I b There are ten mirrors six feet high placed in a semicircle on the stage. TF lights thrown on me from the flies wer all right, but I couldn’t get the fi fects until theé plate glass plat which I dance was perfected. “In my fire dance the.power required for the lights ls° enough to rym a tr When I first danced over these soles of my feet were blistered. I fairly limped oft the s:age. For an hour I-thought I never could f: dance again, but it didn’t take me | get my nerve back. Since that have grown used to the heat. tho as bad as it ever was., Six men pounds of machinery working as hard as they can ought to be able w heat enough for one to feel, don't «think se? ~ I a)Jways was afraid of that glas form. After it broke and I fell th that was in Atlanta—and I limp long that 1 had big doubts of ¢ anything e'se, I wasn't much of it, for lightning never strikes twic the same place, vou know. If it were not for the lights below could be none of the whirling blizzard e fects of the snow damce. The side lights are pretty, but not so mysterious. are stationed in the tormentor flies -+f&8t from the ground. There are iwo disks on éach sid These are conneeted with the automatic lens box that contains the my feet and 6000 to th These ten lights. The disks latines which are contain faperte it's all smooth i ] son 1 have to my brains t < up something new—some variatic J old theme. The s ason, and I before I hit on t est that I have of s sand yard wield it with If you covld snowstorm " me with the drippin test blizzard Pocks ¢ v . Compa \ of ordinary pig seer and i 1 1 Known as z as th when but they soon be me U o them.