Sarah Bernhardt's Recipe

Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3103, 29 September 1899, Page 7

Sarah Bernhardt's Recipe

■ . '■■■ : : "/-■-■' ' " ■ ♦' — :■■■'.'- •' ■ . '■ ' ■ What is Sarah Bernhardt's secret? What is it that keeps her up? What makes her the wonder of her sex, her profession, and the world ? Here sne w well past her prime, a youthful grandmother, and still an inexhaustiblei force. She is always playing* never rests, never tires, and does the eternal round of her repertoire without ennui or fatigue. How does Bhe do it? Well, to begin with, Sarah is an enormous eater. She will sup en prince with her friends, but when they are gone, and the lights are out, and she has at last gone to her own room, she will set to work feeding again, and will cook four or five eggs hard, and devour them before she retires for the night. Dejeuner, again, is a regal meal, and everybody is welcome to that — actors in want of a hint, authors in want of a helping hand, and poverty-stricken poets in want of a meal. Sarah keeps open house to the music of knives and forks. Another thing i«, she ia always acting to the exclusion of all thought She was asked why it was she didn't get old, and her reply was that «he never thought ! Sarah makes her life a continual progress to cheering crowds, contented merely with the incense of the moment. She is utterly oblivious of the future, so far as money goes. She makes piles and Bhe spends piles. A walk down Regent street would mean the purchase of every bonnet that suited her head, and every knick-knack that took her fancy. Jealousies never troubled her. She will teach Cissie Loftus how to make game of her antics, and telegraph her "bravos" to Mrs Bernard Beere when she plays her own parts. She is not exactly a mere acfcres*, or, for that matter, a mere woman — but a wonderful Oriental idol, eet in the midst of people who for ever genuflect at her shrine. — M.A.P.