Wichita eagle., 1886-09-30
CLARA MORRIS AT HOME.
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND VISITS
AT HER RESIDENCE.
The Famous Emotional Actress Under
Her Own Vine and Fig Tree-How She
Enjoys Lifc-Intellectual Qualities-A
Devoted Husband.

Enjoys Lifc-1ntellectual QuaIties-A
Devoted Husband.
Persons not acquainted with Miss Morris
might suppose, from her highly emotional
acting, that she was hardly Of domestic
turn, but she loves her home and stays in it
moro than almost any woman Of the drama.
ikened her mode Of life somewhat to PATHS,
who has a castle in Wales and comes down to
London to sing, often by express train, and
goes back between her nights. Mr.. Harriet,
her husband, bought place Of about three
acres and a half, in the midst Of fine country
estates, and only q few rods back Of tho Hud-
son river. He rents, besides, about eighteen
acres Of ground for $50 year, where be
makes crops and has hay and pasture They
keep five servants on the grounds, raise fruits,
berries and fancy things; have five or six
vehicles in the stables, and keep both saddle
and carriage horses. She Is a fine rider, and
often goes over that high, infatuating coun-
try. The house is eulbowered in hedge, stone
wall and shrubbery, and is a frame house,
lined with brick, quite compact and rest
giving. II front is a narrow, high porch,
with easy seats for lounging; on the side
toward the city is a porte cochero, and on the
northern side is q glass veranda.
Entering Clara Morris house, you notice
that there are fine dogs around, both for
watching and for pets. BY tho way, one OF
the men had been bitten by dog day or
two before. In that part of the country they
seem to keep 50 many dogs that they are ell
tering the demesnes of tho neighbors, and
sometimes come in to bite. There is broad
hall in the house, and On tie right is con-
versation room, filed with souvenirs of the
ST Sl-n n+0l, oil
contemporaries, and 1 observed pair OF
vases about as high as grown man In tho
rear OF this room is the dining room, retired
from access, and very coy and agreeable.
Across the hall. in tho front, is Mr.. Har-
riots literary and correspondence room.
The cellar contains a vino closet and fine
harder
Il FAITHFUL HUSBAND.
Mr.. Harriet is a good business man and
houselieeper; h. manages the infinite amount
Of correspondence required to mako the en-
gageinents of his vito, and goes along TO su-
perintend both her health and her playing.
She travels with company, and tho procur-
ing of this and keeping things in order occ,i-
pies mans whole tima from September until
April. Mr. Harriet says that there are moro
theatres being erected in America now than
ut any time in bis experience, and that nearly
every theatre wants some prominent star to
come end open it, SO that he is beset.
There is hardly any actress OF our day with
the literary qualifications of Clara Morris.
This is tho more remarkable because her
health is very precarious. Nevertheless she
looks better now than for the past ten years;
her flesh seems harder, the lines OF her inter
esting face more expressive, and she has re-
markably seeing eyes, which not only carry
mental force, but a certain kind of inspiration.
In her conversation she is very original, is an
excellent critic and is quito capable Of taking
a play to pieces and transposing it SO as to
mend the defects Of the author who may
have made an anti-climax when sho can see
chance for climax. She desires to play
some new parts, but the demand is greater
for her to continue in tho roles she has been
giving for almost twenty years. think she
is about SO years old, but at homo she looks
to be young girl who had hardly yet en-
tered upon married life. Her mother Mrs,
Morris, is quiet, happy -natuIrd woman
greatly absorbed in her daughter "-"Gath's"
Letter.