The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 3, 1901, Page 20

THE SUNDAY CALL. IS JUST THREE YEARS FROM HER NATIVE LIM- ERICK. A CHARMING ACTRESS WITH THE STUART ROB- SON COMPANY HER MANAGER SUGGEST- ED THAT SHE LEAVE HER BROGUE AT THE CUSTOM- HOUSE | MISS KEALTY ESPECIAL- | LY HONORED AND ENTER- TAINED BY SIR THOMAS LIPTON. e cas re m The upsh F t will eave it at the Custom-house re- ¥ t was left there t sistent work, work il e left her Limerick. It was mear Limerick she made her first appear; e on the stage “Like all Irish girls, I went through a she says, y foreign to nts or my- s of either my p . My first ‘public appearance wax e five ye go in a little suburb ot Limerick—Bragbhoogan. by name. 1, had n then, for was an amateur bernet.t ntry whose c no professional the performanc for the had t place we appeared in had f b arn. The rafters of the roof were covered with sod and the place was heat- with peat and lighted by littl The audier man % man of which smoked small clay pipe in my country) were nd planks. The pricé of admis- ings all over the e terrible potato insect. rmerly en a t ed éan- 1d wo- e, every (the custom seated house. net proceeds to the little enefit of the poor families, red before such an enthu- Hy pleased audience in my n was two ve the for t appe er jc and es Thomas Lipton heard of his littie c« ywoman when he was in New York, and she was entertained on- board his yacht whilz it lay off Sa Hook. She is a loyal lover of the Shamrogx, remembers the best kind of times Sir Thomas gave me a pot of growing she says, “and 1 have it ye hes beautifully even in Americ1; keep a green spot in my room vear round. “I nearly, always wear the tle and pin The pin shows a design ‘of ag and the flag of the Sha has the same.design. 1, but you wouldn’c e me otherwise, would you? me f tie “The Shamrock contains more dogs than you ever saw together on one boat. They bave been given to Sir Thomas by his frier who offered them as mascots, hey ate of all dogs thé most hid- cous. He gave me one of these—a homely 1 Irish terrier which was so0 affec- tionate that he wouldn’t let me leave him to go on the ctage without setting up a howl that could be heard through the wings and in the audience. 1 was very fond of him, but I couldn't manage him, traveling all the time, so I' gave him to Mr. Robson, who keeps him at nis home near New York.” Miss Kealty is distinetly Trish in type. dy Irish cheeks that need very little make-up, even for stage ros Her afe big and blue and her n Irish combination that no other race bas ever imitated success- fully. - is: plump—dangerously plump, for she is close to that borderland where plumpness leaves off and bag-punching begins. She is entirely lovely at present, but it behooves her to bewar How Eil- ifye &as D scovered OLONEL “BILL” ROOT of mie, Wyo., the dealer in wi mals and disc 8r ‘of “E and who n dian village at Glen Izl lowing story of how ‘he humorist ** ‘Bill Nye,” when Le was a young man, n't much; in fact, folks in Lgramie wondered whether he would eventually dry up and blow away or just die of plain starvation. Things never would come his same way led through many v plac Everything to which he turned his hand seemed to wither under it, and he began to think that he was a doo.’ g ill was a pretty difcouraged sort of a s when 1 said to him and his wife cne day: ‘Comecut t§ the rinch dnd stay with me for & while,} and they came. Long before -this time Frances, Bill's wife. had made’up her mind that Bill was cast in the fnold of a lawyer, 4nd nothing wouid do but Bill must study law, So Bill came +along with his old books and wouid wan- ranch trymg to imbibe wer arcund the But the vzone and pdges of Blacistone. cankerworm 'uf WOrry as in his mind, and the ozone and several of the things 1 had +in a cupboard scemed to do little ery little while Bill would sneak ay, write something he called funny, send it away, and apxiously wait for the lightning, in the shape of a check, to strike. Now, Frances discouraged all this. She wanted the law or nothing. She felt that once Bill hung out his shingle all the world would immediately get into trouble and half of it would fall all over itself to get into Bill's office. “Well, one day Bill met me about three miles away from the ranch and sad: ‘Biil, I want your advice. I've got something in my pocket and on my mind, and I want you to tell me what to do.’ “With that he unbuttoned his coat and pulled out a letter from a Denver news- paper inclosing a check for $20, showed it away ) = = N = =73 = — to me, and asked, ‘Shall I become a funny it did him. But I was there to give judg- man or a lawyer?" then at the check, and back at Bill again. 1 looked at Bill, and ment, and had to do it. ““Bill.’ 1 sald, “if you ean find foolish That check surprised me even more than people anywhere in this world who are ready to part with good bank checks for that stuff you grind out, you go right to thé house, get a big bottie out of the cup- board, put a wet towel about your head, and sit down and grind. A man must have brains_to be a lawyer.’ “And Bill's wife never spoke to me for three years.”