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TITn OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 24.
Miss Cheatham and Children
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I see before trie the smiling face
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young and fresh and some war
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but all children at heart--snd not an un
friendly far- emong them. And I mem to
hear a role saying. 'Tou have mnde aotne
of us happy.' "
Thlt la what Joel Chandler Harris says
In Ma preface to the tww edition of "Uncle
Remus," and this la what Miss Kitty Cheat,
ham repeats In the Introductory remark
Of an Interview, In which she ppeaks of
gptrlt children and real children, of h-r
hope and ambition in regard to them, a
Cheatham learned her repertoire, which In
clude all the songs of the cotton fields,
the baptisms, the marriage and funeral,
the merrymaking and the Songs of Inti
mate family grief.
She made her fir at appearance at the
house of the Duchess of Somerset with
jrtlts like Nordics, Kubellk and Btspham,
and hat alnce then ehtertalned the varloui
royalties- of Eur-pe aa well aa many of the
distinguished artists. 8 he spent one after
noon with a party of grown up girls, among
them the young Queen of "pain, then Prin
cess Eiia, and her cousin Beatrice of FMxe-Coburg-Ootha.
and she describes them aa
among the meat easily pleased and moat
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MI 33 KITTY CHEATHAM. ENTERTAINER Or THE CHTUDRE.
how-n In har delineation of the children's enthusiastic of her auditor, aa well as the
otiga. anpleat in dreaa) and manner.
Theater-goer, wbo nsed to see her with intaraperaed with her darky .0n, are
the old Daly company may find It difficult the little chanaon. wWch once were heard
to think of her in anything aare the "legltl. M th wn XIV ,nd , h
mate, but clrcumstancea seemed to lead
bar easily and naturally to her new pro
fession. Crouching oni evening over the
big open Are In a friend sitting room, lost
to her surroundings, she was in fancy back
ranged a cyole of 1830 chanson a to supple
ment these. But It la In the children'
onga that she baa mada bar greatest auc-
Uar face haa the oval of early youth.
,tt OX "UKhBrnjT" ?rn,!r?; tb hw candid which make,
melodies ah used to alng. Then the In- rou ton wnrw1r .
plratlon came to bar to go back to the toId the truth M iar Bh. eMe mtmlc,
tage. from which she had been absent the vo)ce an1 th ttl9 cwidren
eight year, and take advanUge of the and whether ,ne ,, telIInc th, horror
rogue for darky aonga of the dark and Ite complement of t-i
But ahe determined to alng th real one, headed glblin. or whether she I. merely
not those doctored to cult the taste for picturing fairyland and Uttl fairy folk, ah
highly flavored coon ditties. Tbeee song alike hold th attention of her audience.
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M1R9 CHEATHAM PIXOINO A FRENCH CHAUSON.
From a rthotograph cupyrlihtd by Alme DuponL
had once been th delight cf her growl ns
yeara. Once she said to her mammy, "Why
Is It yo' always sing such mo'nful song,
mammy?" and mammy replltd: "Th
peret of 0id knocked your mammy down
forty yeara ago and I ain't never sung
none of them Junijup songa sence."
However, mammy agreed to bring some
of th letle sinner those who bad not
jret been knocked down by the speeret
and It waa front these sinners that Miss
Dr. Lyon's
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Tooili Povdsr
Cle&nses and beantlfles th
eeUx and purines tha breath,
TTeed by pexjple of refinement
Lr over a quarter of a century.
Convenient far tourists.
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It I hard work and a mesa of detail,
he says. "I am studying all th time, even
whvn I am traveling.
I arrive at my hotel with my bag fat
with torn shreds of paper on which I have
Jotted down Impressions, thoughts, anec
dotta I have heard, little facta I notice
about children on the way. It la not until
you reach a point where people think you
do things offhand that you can rest a bit.
"I owe a groat deal of this aenae of the
Importance of detail to the trinin.
a hard school, aa others have averred, but
good one. When I first cam to Mr. Daly
I was armed with manr lttra nt intro
duction from friend who described m as
being second only to Mary Anderson, and
I think they Imagined that they showed
fne tact In placing her flrt. Mr. Daly
looked at rn rather gruffly and said:
" 'Mia Cheatham, ha v. vmi w
any lessons in elocution T
"That wa the weak point In my armor
and I stammered a -No.'
"Hla face brightened. 'I engage you,'
he aald light off.
When I neak of detail I refer to th
psychologic detail. I make no appeal by
childish dressing, but I am always study
ing the mental processes. I may spend
hour on th question of th child
thought when It view the destruction of
a beloved doll or the aenttnient at th
sight of mother dressed up and going to
a party as U cUM eye cioee la sis?.
It Is not enough to reach th point
where you feel aa the child does, but you
must make the child In that hard to reach
land on the other side of th footlights
feet it too. It la not a sign of a great
actress, you know, to weep in emotional
parts; you must mak other people weep.
'Jerushy' may sound simple as I recite
tt. but it la a simplicity that to acquire
took me Into many nursery hospitals and
children's heart. I always precede
'Jerushy with a little explanation.
"Jerushy is th doll who wa one very
beautiful, with wonderful clothes, exqui
site hair and complexion, but the fate of th
mortal fell upon her at last, and though
she wa old and broken in spirit and
beauty still waa ahe loved.
Oone from her cheeks, the rosea red;
At last ahe even lost her head.
My poor Jerushy!
And now sh wear a china bead, A gown
VI tiiue;
And thouKti her body' vary thin, her heart
la ever true.
I hiss tne lips that one were red.
And when my evening prayers are said
fine cornea with me each night to bed.
My dear Jerushy!
"Waa there ever a child that did not
love th lame, worn doll the best?
"My little lister, who la lame and haa
really never grown up, la a great asfclatanc
to me. Her life, necesairily withdrawn to
a great extent from the active, has made
her singularly sensltlv to Impressions. Bh
loves children snd ha a combination of
their spiritual Insight as well as th grown
up appreciation.
"Whenever ah write sh sends me s
Uttl anecdote or some verses she has
com serosa. Bh suggested this cunning
Uttl on:
Little sheep within th meadow,
I have watched you every day.
Running up and down the hillside.
Like a baby school at play.
Mother says the little blankets.
Under which I love to sleep.
Are a present to a good girl
From a kit of Utile sheep.
But she says you are not really
Striped with pink and striped with blue.
But there stripes upon the bUuiketa,
Bo they must have grown on you.
"Isn't that delightful? I think there
never was a child who didn't lov the
Uttl pink sad blue line on th soft woo)n
blanket snd wonder shout them to him
self. "Eh also sent me another favorite that
Waa published la aC Nicholas and tii
author of which neither on of us could
And:
I met a little elf-man once,
.Down where the lilies blow.
I asked him why he was so small
And why he didn't grow.
He slightly frowned and with his eye
He looked me through and through.
"I'm Just aa big for me,' said he.
you are big for you.
. "It Is a curious fact that the people who
have written most charmingly about chil
dren have themselves been childless. Take
th work of Lewis Carroll. There la none
to dispute Its place In literature Lewis Car
roll, the childless, who had all children in
his family.
"I lov that story about him and the HUH
girl whom he hsd ssked to go and look
at some pictures with him. They had never
seen each ether, and the request was mad
through a mutual friend. Eh stood wait
ing patiently for him, and seeing lots of
people, men and women, pasa. Finally he
came and without a second's hesitation
she want up to him.
"He aksrd her how ahe knew him, and sh
said: 'I knew just as soon as I saw you
that no one else could have written those
lovely things you wrote.' Wasn't that n
tribute to the child soul looking out of th
grown up eyea?
"And the picture of hljrrln summertime
st the beach, with his pockets filled with
Urge pins to fasten up the little girls'
skirts so they could go In wading -dear,
kindly, appreciative Lewis Carroll, who will
never die.
"Take Robert Louis Stevenson. He was
childless, too, but when you see the chil
dren sitting on the edges of their chairs
and swinging their little bodies to his
Marching Bong.' you'd think he had had
a whole nursery of them to keep him busy.
Bring the comb and play upon It.
Marching here we rome.
Willie cocks Ills highland bonnet.
Johnnie beats the drum.
Mary Jane commands th party,
Peter leads the rear,
Fleet In time, alert and hearty.
Each a grenadier.
All In the tnoet martial manner,
Marching doubla Quick.
While the napkin, like a banner,
Wavea upon the stick.
Here's enough of fame and pillage.
Oreat Commander Jane..
Now that we've been round the village,
It's go horn again.
"I think that one line. 'Peter lead th
rear,' jhows the whole kindly, humorous,
sensitive spirit of Stevenson. He couldn't
bear to think of Peter in such sn unen
viable position with all the rest of them
so superior, so he made hint do something
never heard of before, but which sounds
perfectly delightful. Leading the rear!
"A strange thing about the Stevenson's
child congs Is that they do not take In the
recitals. They are not quit simple enough.
As soon as you begin to make a child think
too hard he loaea interest.
"They read all right in th nursery,
where the question can be asked and an
swered, but for the professional recital
you must, generally apeaking, have the
obvious, and that is on of th dlffioultle
KITTY CHEATHAM AND HER AUDI
ENCE. that can only be overcome by continually
trying. Many a child song I have be
lieved would be very popular has not taken
at all.
" 'The Bogey Man," the most bromidlan
in my list, never falls of applause and
goes on swimmingly to a round of applause.
It was written by Claude Burton, editor
of the London Evening News, for his own
little kiddles. My accompanist. Miss Flora,
MacDonald, who has the most wonderful
psychic wsy of reading my Interpretations
and adapting the accompaniments to them,
plays soma fearsom chords In this that
would make curly hair straight and straight
hair stand on end.
Th Bogey man, his hair is blue, bis eyes
are brilliant green:
His nails are quite th longest that any
one ever seen;
His face Is very fierce snd grim
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"Then th accompaniment strikes some
awful notes, blood curdling, snd you see th
little shoulders straighten and th cheats
go back, while I go on snd speak of the
mother tucking the Uttl boy away for the
night and taking the friendly candle.
'It Isn't that I really car, but then,
you see, he mlght-be-there' Chords!
Chords!! Chords!!!
"It is too funny th Intense slleno, th
gasp of relief and then the reassuring smile
st each other, with s little panicky under
current Another charming one of Burton's
Is:
If nolar bears were on the stairs.
If tigers came to tea.
If fearsome bats and silver sprats
Came in to call on me.
And giant snakes ate all th cakes,
How happy I should be.
If leopards gay arrived to stay.
And brought the kangaroo,
If parrots red within my bed
Should put the cockatoo,
I'd laugh with glee, because, you see,
I Just adore the soo.
"There srs two keys to the child nature;
that one can always get a response from,
ons Is that accentuated In the Just recited
poem, the love of the animal snd the ac
ceptance of the grotesque happenings In
their dally life as not being at all wonderful,
and the other is the deeply religious senti
ment thst causes the child to realise the
unseen Presence as an Intimats part of the
family life. 1
"In the child thought the real world
and th unreal meet, there is no obvious
Uns of demarcation as with us and when
they meet snd play with s bear somewhere
off In thst mysterious realm they are apt
to mention it casually as having actually
taken place. In th same way they speak
of the Deity as s near relative. I heard
two atoriea recently illustrating this:
"On waa a remark mad by a Uttl boy
friend of mine who was standing st ths
window looking out Into the park. Finally
be called hla mother, being much perturbed
st 'th little girl who was sitting out there
all alone with the Lord.'
"Another Uttl friend of mln had a pet
alligator about as long as your hand. Th
alligator was always getting lost and th
family got real peevish about It, when U
was lifted out of th bathtub or from be
tween the sheets or discovered In some
unexpected nook.
"Cozima, th nurse, was the) only on
who manifested any real interest in its
ultimate destiny. Ons day Little Friend
was Loorrd exj-ing la a corner. VUa
asked as to the coua of grief hs said: 'No
on cares for my alligator but Coxima,
Jesus and me.'
"In an informal dinner given th other
right to Lord Charles Beresford a lot of
children stories were told and he repeated
one t( a little boy whose mother waa ex
pecting a house party, among them a man
of some distinction. 8hs told him that hs
must not pay any attention when he heard
the servants say 'My Lord.' but treat him
Just ths sams as ha did ths other gentle
men; that hs was Just a nice, simple man,
and hated to have a fuss made over him.
The little boy wasn't even to stare st him.
"He promised, snd did very well until
one day at luncheon he' saw the titled guest
trying to reach a little dish of pickles
snd gasped out, 'Mamma, God wants a
pickle.'
"At the same time that the childish mind
thinks of the deity as being very near. It
realises In s subtle way the mysterious
afterlife and the guardianship there. They
look Into the starlit realms of the firma
ment at night and understand them better
than the older ones, who are trying to ex
plain them.
"Archibald Sullivan has written a beau
tiful poem on this subject and ths chil
dren all seem to love it.
I vonder after I ard dead what they will
think of me;
If they'll remember Just how good or bad
I used to be;
I'd hate to think that mother wept be
side my silent grave.
Fearing that up among the stars I never
could behave.
Ypu see, she can't look after me, I'd bs
so far away,
80 I'll aak Qod to send a note-to mother
every day.
He'll send It right at dinner time.
Just as the clock Is striking seven;
And God will write:
"Your little girl's the best ws have
In heaven."
"I believe," says Miss Cheatham in con
clusion, "that the delight In these recitals
shown by the grown ups as well as th
little folks Is a good sign. Ws have .
enough of the Ibsen atmosphere la real
life; for Instance, the Thaw trial.
"We must have It. Where else la there
to go except into the 'Nowhere, out
of Here'? We have traversed the Here to
' Its limits. We can't go back. There is
only the one unexpected country left
th Land of Childhood."
MISS CHEATHAM RECITINO "THE BOGIE MAN."
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