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MISKEL HOW. I ? BEAUTIFUL ID j V *-. Kentucky, the land of brave and stalwart men of high-spir ited, beautiful women, has just Buffered, in the death of Caroline Miskel Hoyt, the loss of one of her most beautiful daughters. Mrs. Hoyt’s death cuts short a dramatic career which bade fair to be one of exceptional brillian cy. She had little or no status as an actress until her talented husband, Charles Hoyt, wrote for her “A Contented Woman,’' a satire on the woman’s rights question as scathing as ‘‘Pina fore.” In this play he depicted with a master hand, though most comically, the ill-effects upon her home and happiness that befell a lady who in Colora do, where women have the right to vote, suffered herself to be made a candidate for office against her husband and morti fied and humiliated the one she had sworn to love, honor and, obey, by defeating him. In writ- 1 ing this play Mr. Hoyt designed the character of the fond, though high spirited and foolish lady, for his wife. A well-known West-' ern critic said that ‘Asmodeus lift the roofs off the houses in Paris and showed us what was going on in them/’ Mr, Hoyt has in an imitative way taken down the front wall of his parlor I and given us a lesson in domes j ticity as striking as it is charm >'>g. . | * * * Another critic writing of “A Contented Woman” said: “It is a sermon play with a lecson i that should be inculcated in | every well-regulated household/ Bitter pills are often sugar coated to make them palatable. Hoyt has environed his sermon with a few, but its result is] none the less certain because it is received with smiles and laughter.” Still another wrote: “Last night I was unintentionally the recipient oj a high moral lesson through the instrumentality of Charles Hoyt’s ‘A Contented Woman,’ as was the girl who went to her druggists and asked, ‘Can you give a person castor oil without her tasting it. “ ’Certainly,’ responded the compounder of pills and por- j tions. “ ‘Take a chair and I’ll wait' on you presently. In a littlei while he returned saying, ‘lts! quite warm this evening. Won’t you have a glass of scda water? | ■ She would, and did. By and by she grew impatient and asked 1 ‘When are you going to give me my castor oil?’ ■ “ ‘Why, you’ve taken it,’ re sponded the chemist. ‘I gave it to you in the soda water.’ ! “ ‘Good gracious !” ejaculat- i ed the girl, ‘ I didn’t want it ] myself. I wanted it for my ; grandma.’ I didn’t need the . sermon, but I got it just the I ] 'same, and I can’t help thinking , that it would be well if many of i our pulpit orators were to instil I 1 their moral lessons as pleasant-'. ly as Hoyt has his ” | * , * * < J How graciously Mrs. Hoyt j i i IngraM f i LITHIA X I Wateß| /J\ ***»ss€€€* BUILDS UP THE SYSTEM, M/ For Sale at Soda Founts of: /|\ CURRY-ARRINGTON CO, J. M/ T.Crouch and Jervis&Wright. played her part in “A Content ed Woman” was never fully / known until she temporar ily abaudo ned the stage and an other undertook to portray it. The other was an actress of rep ; utation and of years of experi ence, yet she failed utterly to give it the ease, the grace and finish Mrs. Hoyt imparted to It apparently without effort, Hers was the art which con cealed art.“ She isn’t acting,” I heard a lady say one night to her escort, “she is just talking and conducting herself as though she was in her own parlor.” The lady was unaware that she was giving Mrs. Hoyt praise which would have been incense to Sa rah Siddons or Sarah Bernhardt. As an actress Mrs, Hoyt had the reputation of being a hard woman to please, and when John B. McCormick became her business manager and press agent he was warned by a friend to keep as far away from her as possible, but he found her one of the most charming and grate ful of professional women.' The receipts of “A Contented Woman” in this city for the two weeks it was played here with Mrs. Hoyt as its star were almost $13,000, and it was played in opposition to “The Geisha,” John Drew, “The Sign of the Cross” and other first class attractions. The critics of Philadelphia treated her very kindly, and several of them recognized the I promise of great dramatic abil ty in her acting. One night she sent for McCormick to come I a< k on the stage, and when he re sponded to her summons • she thanked Jum most cordially for his labors in her behalf, saying, “Claude Melnotte speaks of a queen who could be thankful to a poet who had told nations that she was beautiful. What grati tude can I express to you for having made the people of Phil adelphia believe that I am tai- onted.” McCormick expressed his pleasure at her appreciation, and said, “It is you who have made them believe this fact. I merely asserted it.” She laughed and replied, “If you are going to say pretty things like that to me I 'll have to tell Mr. Hoyt and put him on his guard.” McCormick, who is now in town, says: “I never found her I hard to please, and after I had left the employ of her husband | she frequently manifested her gratefulness for my efforts in her i behalf. She was a grateful worn- I ~ an, and they are as infrequent j as angel's visits—in the dramat ic profession. The great charm of her beauty was its daintiness llt was as delicate as that of an exquisite bit of Dresden bisque When one saw her he felt that for women such as she silks, velvets and fine laces were the only wear. As Macbeth says, ‘She should have died hereafter,’ for in my own mind I feel satis fied that had she lived she would i have been the daintiest comedi enne the American stage has known ; as peculiar in her art as Maggie Mitchell, who never had a rival nor a successor.” Pity she died so soon.—Me garg ee , in Ph i lad el ph i a limes. A GEN ITE NOTICE. Wishing to close up my old business of Crouch A Watson, also of J. T. Crouch & Co. I must insist that all parties in debted to either firm must cal and settle, or the accounts wi) be placed in the hands of a col lector with instructions to col lect. Respectfully, ‘ J. T. Crouch. ’ Headquarters for pure Drugs and Toilet Ar tides. Read my Sunday Add. Annual Sales 0ver6,000.000 Boxes t OR BILIOUS AND NERVOUS DISORDERS =uoh as Wind and Pain in the Stomach, jiddiii'-ss. Fulness after meals. Head iche, Dizziness, Drowsiness. Flushings 1 jf Hear, Loss of Appetite, Costiveness. T‘. r >'tchr s on tho Skin, Cold Chills. Dis t'.;.-i.ed Sleep. 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