Two Entertainments

I attended a recent performance given by some amateur actors and actresses - v?ry good they were, too - and while I enjoyad the stage entertainment I was not unmindful of the one that was in progress directly behind me. , It was fnrnished by au old lady and two young ones - when I say "yonng ones" I dun 't mean cbildren - and its beginning antedated the overture in this siyle : "Can you read the programme, er?" "Why, yes; but it must be wrong. Here's Aimie's name down, and it says she's a servan t. I thought you said she was an actress. ' ' "Only a serrant in the play, mother. " "Bnt thatseems a kind of mean tb ing to play. She doesu't have to do that, goodness knowsl" "She bas to play whatever they give her to play. She's a beginner, you know. " "Well, I wouldn't begin that way. " "Annie" appeared presentir. She said, "Yes, my lady," and "No, your lordship, " and "I will teil her ladyship that you are here, ' ' and a few more stnnners of that sort Tery well, I thought. But when the Frencb count with the pointed beard chacks her undec-the chin I could bear the old lady beliind me getting into a fine rage. "Well, the idea of our Annie letting a man do a thing like that I" "But, motber, that's in tlie play." "I don't care if it is. I suppose be'll kiss her later on ! The idea I" Well, he did kiss her shortly af ter and got a good .slap in the face for bis pains. The old lady alrnost rose in her seat. "Good, good!" she cried in a very audible voice. "I thought Annie wouldn 't stand anything of that sort!" She objected to the young girl's little love alïairs with the footman, however, and could hardly be kept in her chair when the two plighted their trotb. "I don't cali that play acting, " sbe said. "They were just tlike two servants, and I don't like it. " When the curtain dropped, they all went around to the stage door, and somehow I feit sorry for Annie, coming frorn the stage full of hot enthusiasm, only to receive - mentally at least - a