Life — February 21, 1895 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE- over to Washington with his company to appear at a benefit and we spring a blizzard on him so he can’t get back to New York in time for his own performance. We beg to extend to Mr. Tree our expressions of sincere regret and to assure him that all this is really no fault of America; also to beg that he will forgive those little occurrences which really were unintentional and had no personal application. If Mr. Tree would provide himself with the left hind-foot of a rabbit secured in a graveyard at midnight during the full of the moon, he would very likely escape further annoyance. All Americans carry them, and it is too bad that some of his British friends had not informed Mr. Tree of the fact before he came to this country, 125 NE_ remarkable consequence of the ‘Sans Géne craze is the number of actors who are beginning to look like Napoleon. We do not know whether this comes from unconscious sympathy or a due regard to prospective engagements with Napoleonic barn-storming companies, but it is a fact that one cannot throw a stone on the Rialto without striking an actor who is either posing, wearing his baldness, or tackling a free-lunch in the true Napoleonic manner. The free-lunch imitation is, of course, after the manner of Napoleon's early days, but is perhaps more suc- cessful than the others. It is too bad that Napoleon cannot come back and see himself as actors imitate him. Metcalfe. ; | ee “A LIVELY VISIT IN PHILADELPHIA! THEN THEY ARE NOT AS SLOW AS WE HEAR THEY ARE?” “OH, YES THEY ARE! WHY, JUST THE OTHER DAY A WOMAN OVER THERE DIDN'T DIE TILL SHE WAS 121 YEARS OLD.”