Wichita eagle., 1886-10-02
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CLARA MORRIS AT HOME.
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND VISITS
AT HER RESIDENCE.

The Famous Emotional Actress. Unde,
Her Own Vino and Fig Tree-How She
Enjoys Lisc-Inteilcctual Qualitics-A
Devoted Husband.
Persons not acquainted with Miss Morris
might suppose, from her highly emotional
acting, that she was hardly of q domestic
turn, but she loves her home and stays in il
more than almost any woman of the drama.
Lkened her mode of life somewhat to PATHS,
who has 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 half, in the midst Of fine country
estates, and only few rods back of tho Hud-
son river. Ee rents besides, about eighteen
acres of ground for $50 a 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 tho 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 embowered in hedge, stone
wall and shrubbery, and is a franc house,
lined with brick, quite compact and rest
giving. In front is u narrow, high porch,
with easy seats for lounGing; On the sid,
toward the city is porte cochere, and on the
northern siGo is glass vcranda
Entering Clara Morris house, you notice
that there are fine dogs around, both for
watching and for pets BY the way, one Of
the men had been bitten by dog a day CT
two before In that part of the country they
seem to keep SO many dogs that they are en-
tering the demcsnes of the neighbors, and
-
hall In the house, and on the right is con-
Versatlon room, filled with souvenirs of the
stage, sketch books, albums, presents from
contemporaries, and l observed a pair of
vases about IS high Is a grown man In the
rear Of this room is the dining room, retired
from access, and very coy and agreeable.
Across the hall. in the front, is Mr. Har-
riots literary and correspondence room
The cellar contains q wine closet and e fine
harder.
A FAITHFUL HUSBAND.
Mr.. Harriet is good business man and
housekeeper; he manages The infinite amount
of correspondence required to mako the en-
gaGements of his wife, and goes along to su-
perintend both her health and her PLAYING.
She travels with q company, and the procur-
ing Of this and keeping things in order occu-
pies mans whole time from September until
April Mr. Harriet says that there ara moro
theatres being erected in America now than
at any time in his experience, and that nearly
every theatre wants some prominent star to
come and oiel it, 50 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 prccarious Nevertheless she
looks better now than for tho past ten years:
her flesh seems harder, tho lines Of her inter
esting faco 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 quite capable of takin:
a play to pieces and transposing it so Us to
mend tho defects of the author who may
have made an an!i-climax when she can SEQ a
chance for a climax. She desires to play
some new parts, but the demand is greater
for her to continue in the roles she has been
giving for almost twenty years ] think she
Is about 36 years old, but at home she looks
to be a young girl who had hardly ye: en-
tered upon married life. Her mother, Mrs.
Morris, is a quiet, haPpy-naturcd woman
greatly absorbed in her daughter, "-"Gath's'
Letter.