Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-18

tO Pub OA 6H 6QO4tlO68l 1nSuEAuCe. 42Es Thompson placed an additional amount of insurance in another company on account of having largely increased his machinery and tools, but neglected to ask the Niagara com- pany to insert a clause allowing additional in- surance in his policy. The company now decline to pay the amount of the insurance, claiming breach of contract on the part of the party insured.
 The DanielsonvilIe Transcript thinks it is better to support tramps in prison than to have them roaming through the country ter rorizing unprotected women and children.
 Two representatives of the Rapid Transit Telegraph company were in Norwich Tues day, looking over the territory and complet- ing arrangements for the extension of the line from Willimantic to New London. The line will pass through Norwich and the establish ment of local office is probable.
 Two men who have had experience in the work of the Salvation Army in England have been stopping in Norwich the past ten weeks. In few days an offer of the organization is expected to arrive there to establish sta- tion and begin preparations for this klrd of evangelical work.
 The last mouse to eat into & money-drawer and take bills to make nest of Is in George ". Warmers Bridgeport drug store. It was mouse of quiet tastes, as 1t only made $20 nest when 1t might just as well have had enc costing double the money.
 Greenwich has voted $500 to oppose tho closing of draws on the Mianus river and to protect the navigation rights of the town.
 Actresses and marr1age.
 "A few weeks ago." said an old manager to a New York World reporter, ia New York CT who fell desperately in love with Scalcbi was amazed to find, when he had made her acquaintance, that she was the mother of three bouncing boys and that her name was Vt0l 0fhaFa hnUa liC cnr to find that the chambermaid Fife Germon, so long the delight of Wallack audiences, has had three or four husbands.
 ''It is not generally known that actresses, after they are married, retain their maiden names and prefix on the stage at the request of their husbands, who have squsamish- ness about the matter. An actress, as a rule, prefers when she is married to be known as Mrs but the husband objects for some req son. It is not hard to see what that reason is. He objects to having it supposed that his wife supports him, although he does not always object to being supported by her"
 But do you think that the exciting life of an actress is compatible with the duties of mother?"
 Hundreds of actresses have made it com patible. There are hosts of well known &C., tresses, Mrs. Chanfrau, for example, and Mrs. Mckee Rankin, who have married &C., l tors, but who keep on acting and have never | theless brought up splendid families. and have their own family circle and domestic al- | tar. They lead two Hves-a public and a | private one-but they do not interfere with | each other. Of course a great many pro- | fessional marriages are purely commercial and extra domestic They may be called business partnerships. I suppose the results are here as everywhere else-a mere matter | of character. If an actress is an Arab and must live continually in the feverish atmos- phere of excitement and public praise, it is vain to expect that she will take up the pro. | saic duties of life and domesticity. Miss Clara Morris (Mrs. Harriott) once said to me that woman who had tasted the fascination of public applause was generally ruined for | anything else.
 II think that depends on the character of l the woman entirely. Mnle. Modjeska. who | is said to have married count, is quoted on the other hand as saying that no woman car | be great actress who has not had either 6 | lover or a husband There is a great dea more truth in this than people suspect. Il | simply means that 8 woman cannot express love in her acting who is absolutely ignorant of it's emotions. ''
 "But you do not mean to say that those l women are the best actresses who are tht | oftenest married ?"
 No, of course not Qaughing); some o1 l them marry very much as they make con tracts-without the slightest comprehension of the responsibility. But some allowance | woman who has good looks and sets out ir the dramatic profession is probably the bes persecuted woman in the world. There Is class of men who regard all actresses as tht legitimate target of their annoyances, snt the conseqEencs is that the actress soon feel the necessity of protector. If she canno secure what Is known as stage mother, Wh( acts the duenna in private life and warns ths men away from the dressing room and stage door, she gets husband as 8 matter of con
 venience. Often he is nothing moro thar
 her agent, and she is willing to support hin if he will look after her business and savt her from other admirers. This fact hal
 brought into existence in our day the unique class of men called actresses husbands.
 ''They must not be confused with the mer who have actresses for wives. The differ
 ence is that the actress husband is proudel of having an actress than of having wife The other fellow is satisfied with having wife and doesn't care about the actress This type of stage husband is best seen among these Italian artists who come here during ar l opera season. He is generally deferential, slightly henpecked, hat-in hand nonentlty, l who has 8 nominal marital authority amoRe men because the sonestress has labelled him her husband His duties are to walk up and down the foyer during performance, fatter 1 newspaper men, cut the notices from tho pa pers, air the Scotch terrier and carry his l wife's overshoes and wraps.
 1 ''The stage husband Of the English drama l has more enterprise He always has an an- l bition to take his wife on the road and man | age her himself. But as he never was able to manae her on fiat, he generally fails on | the road. Then she comes back and gets another manager, sometimes another hus- band He is the standing nuisance of the box office. The stage manager execrates l him at rehearsal. The business manager hates him with bitter hatred. The press reporter flies bowling at his presence The ushers put their tongues in their cheeks when they see him applauding. They all know that he has but one claim to recogni- l tion, and that claim is conferred on him by his wife"
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