Famous actors and their homes . e table. Before I was married,he said, I ran my house and ordered the I married that woman over there, shesaid to me, Now, Dee, you wont have tokeep house again, 111 do all that. Of courseI was only too glad to hand it over to we sat down at table the first night inour own home, I was all expectant. It wouldbe delightful to eat a dinner with the orderingof which I had had nothing to do. Every-thing would be a surprise. Well, it was a sur-prise. What do you think she had for thatfirst dinner ? A ham! Absolutely nothingbut a ham! Yes, indeed, i
Famous actors and their homes . e table. Before I was married,he said, I ran my house and ordered the I married that woman over there, shesaid to me, Now, Dee, you wont have tokeep house again, 111 do all that. Of courseI was only too glad to hand it over to we sat down at table the first night inour own home, I was all expectant. It wouldbe delightful to eat a dinner with the orderingof which I had had nothing to do. Every-thing would be a surprise. Well, it was a sur-prise. What do you think she had for thatfirst dinner ? A ham! Absolutely nothingbut a ham! Yes, indeed, it was a surprise—but I at once resumed charge of thehousekeeping myself Remember, he addedpathetically, it was, Now, Dee, you wonthave to keep house again. I never havedared, since that one trial, to let the house-keeping go out of my hands.[ 114] ^ THEIR HOMES The fact is, said Mrs. Sothern, after shehad put down the bread she had intended asa missile for her husbands head, we had afull course dinner. But Dee dotes on having. Copyright, 1902, by J, SaronyE. H. Sothern in his Library cold chicken with his ham, which I didntknow —^ so I left out the cold chicken, thats all. But I am still keeping house, and you willobserve that we have at present on the table [115 ] FAMOUS ACTORS not only a fine ham, but also a delicious coldchicken, was Mr. Sotherns peroration. Thenevery one laughed, and no one more so than A^irgie, as Mr. Sothern calls his wife. Both are strongly developed artistic person-alities and naturally their views sometimesdiffer. Mrs. Sothern enjoys telling how atdinner one time they got into an argumentwhich waxed so fierce that she left the tableand went upstairs to her room. A professionalfriend, a woman, was dining with them, and,to relieve the awkwardness of the situation,she said to Mr. Sothern: Never mind,Virgie will soon be all right again. AU right again ? calmly said She s all right now. I would ntfive with a woman who had nt mind enoughof he
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