Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-07-17
AN ACTRESS AT HOME.
How q Queen of the Stage Passes the
summer Holiday In Rural Sc
cIusf0n

How q Queen of the Stage Passes the
summer Holiday In Rural Sc
clusion.
s'How do you pass the SUMMER
wrote an admirer of Fannie Dsven
port to that favorite actress. The
question elected y prompt reply from
the lady who IN private life is Mrs.
Edwin Price, from her beautiful
country home near Canton, among
the Pennsylvania hills: I'm the quiet
of the glorious Fourth-for tbs as ST
lent as the grave here-I am going 10
answer your question. You ask how
/, who spend so much of my life in
the glare of the footlights, can en-
dure the monotony of country life.
Endure it | revel it, but then | find
no monotony in it. Not day nor an
hour but has its own duty, its own
pleasures. Is it not strange the pub
lie think we live differently flom
other people2 Still the curiosity in
regard to our lives at home is, think,
compliment, for it means celebrity
abroad.
''SiRce coming to my home. few
weeks ago, I have gone over my
house from cellar to attic; have hung
sone three hundred pictures; have
put up curtains; have put down car
pets, washed paints and secured win
dows; in fact, can think of nothing
aoout a house have not done. Now
that l have como forth from this
chaos of furniture, china, pictures,
tins, bric-a- brac, ETC., what do l dot
well, rise at eight o'clock, aud
after my bath and coffee l go like a
true housewife into my kitchen, into
my pantry aud larder, right what is
wrong and give my orders for market
aud directions to the cook, together
with the details SO familiar TO every
housekeeper. My fine china aud or
naments are my next care, and then
devote myself for a couple of hours
to my books. / am taking an inven-
tory of them, for | pride myself GA
my library, and think / have the
finest collection of books of any
woman in the country. l have chos
en- them myself, baying them gradu>
ally. l have always had an am biti0n
to own library asd when 1 went or
the stage made rule from the first
of buying book a week. Sometimes
it was a complete set, more times it
was single volume. The foundation,
however, to my library was little
book. a wee testament, with the fol
lowing inscription on the fly-leaf
Miss Davenport. From her parents,
September s, 1885 There followed $
scriptural verse. The first book, OIL
books, l ever bought was Dickens, q
second hand set, for which | paid,
think, IS. This was the nucleus to
my present large collection of books
I'VE live here in true country
fashion. dining at 1 o'clock, after
which study q AM busy now on
Lldy Macbeth and 'Medea0 or write
until the sun begins to go down, and
am off for my gallop over the hills,
followed by nay beautiful deerhounds,
which | brought with me from Sau
Francisco and which were present
during ms engagement thsre. They
are magnificent animals, named Frisco
and Scout. After tea, at z, another
good, old-fashioned hour, l walk over
to my mothers house, little distance
from mine, or the family come tc
spend the evening with me. We in
variably spend our evenings with
music, cards or other games. Gu,
latest fancy is for Progressive Eu,
chre.' One night we play at mothers
(Mrs. E L, Davenport's) the next a
Frank Mayo's, whose country seat
adjoins m9ther's; the next at my
home. Ny summer life is uhevent
full, but SO peaceful. SO happy
81 have my horses. call one Bill,
after Mr.. Sykas; another Peg after
Wellington. Nancy, called for Mrs
So kes, is a small terrier I have a
game cock, named 'Tharon.' and q
hog named 'Bouncer,' after Mistress
Bouncer, of Regular FIX fame And
so holiday time passes pleasantly
happily aud on so rapidly"