The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-22
rHEFRENCH FAvORlTE.
nile. Bernhardts opinion of thu
country, the Clergy, the People,
and the climate -GrOwing Fat In

country, the Clergy. the People,
and the Climate-GrOwing Fat In
America.
Philadelphia Times.
Sreskipg OF the American Sundays she
ss;a. allow wIetched and lifeless they are!
youasked me q moment ago If 20 to
church. OF course dc, don't set up fol
heipe pious, but I am not the sort of creature
some Of the ignoble American prints have
paiuted me. don't, as matter of fact,
epcircle myself in a shroud and bestow my.
self in rosewood coffin, as you doubtless
firmly believe. am not monster of de-
prsyity; haven't quatre vingt des enfants,
either more or less, think l may inform you
within the bonds ofdecorum, and / think II
our lives we're compared for any length Of
time mine would compare largely on the side
of good conduct with any of the so-called
clerpymen who advertise tluir preposterous
IGNORANCE, malevolence and phsriseeism in
taxing nv name into the Goddess pulpi,s
sojlipe il with their unmanly and uuchristian
lies. / loathe hypocrisy; know the beat-
tudes, and strive to follow them. I strive
TO do SO, and have the assurance that l have
done good, and not evil, most Of the DAYS of
my life Let messieurs the clergymen take
testimony of their own hearts, and see if they
can conscientiously aver the same. But dear
me, you are letting me fall into your Amer
lean seriousness, and am bound to vindi.
cate the character of my own dear patrie to
be gay, to begood tempered, TO think evil
only when the clouds lower and there is Meth.
or human nor solar warmth TO genialize the
surroundings. shall never be satisfied" she
continued, "until come back to this
country, rot for the almighty dollar, as
sure you, but should like to Gee more than
Ihsve been able to see during this hurried
Journey"
1T is amazing that you have borne up SO
we'll"
II never had better health in my life. l
have absolutely gained flesh. The climate is
astonishing. Such work as have done here
would have killed me at home. though, as
you know, am not given to illness there.
What transformation in my life! AT home
the morning begins with crowds of friends
who come in to gossip and watch me at
work, for dabble necessarily in all sorts of
odds and ends. am passionatey fond of
working in marble, and, unlike most people
in my position, l take all my time to myself
Inever return calls. People l like are well
come 10 come whenever they please and stay
IS long as they please, but l eschew all
formali.ies, as the stage takes up the best
part OF my evening. Here have given my
energies to keeping the company in the
traces. Much as we have played, wellgroun-
ded as each actor is in his or her part, we keep
up rehearsals where practicable. AS M.
jarrett will tell you, save in the two cases
where l have been struck down by illness,
have never been moment behind time l
am the first at the theatre and the last to
leave it. This is discipline"
Referring to her taste in plays she broke
out with rapturous vivacity: II adore Vic
tor Hugo. lam. never so perfectly at ease
as in his plays. They are the perfection of
the classic art, and the difficulties to be sur.
mounted in their perfect development
absorbs me with a joy SO facinstng that
may compare it to species of intellectual
MODIFICATION. Iobserve that American audi.
ences do not enter very heartily into the
classic play. This is not to be wondered at.
The American is in the transition state" -;