The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-02
CLARA MORRIS AT HOME.
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND VISITS
AT HER RESIDENCE.


Her Own Vine and Fig Tree-How She
Enjoys Life-IntelIectual 0uaiities-A
Devoted Husband.
Persons not acquainted with Miss Morris
might suppose, from her highly emotional
acting, that she was hardly of a domestic
turn, but she loves her home and stays in it
more than almost any woman of the drama.
l hkened her mode of life somewhat to PATHS,
who has "a castle III 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 few rods back of the Hud-
son river. He rents, besides, about eighteen
acres of ground for $50 a year, where he
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 fine rider, and
often goes over that high, infatuating coun-
try. The house Is embowered in hodge, stone
wall and shrubbery, and is a frame house,
lined with brick, quite compact and rest
giving. In front is u narrow, high porch,
with easy seats for lounging; on the side
toward the city is porte cochere, and on the
northern side is glass veranda.
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 or
two before In that part of the country they
seem to keep SO many dogs that they are en-
tering the demesnes Of the neighbors and
sometimes come in to bite. There is broad
hall in the house, and on the right is
versation room, filed with souvenirs of the
stage, sketch books, albums, presents from
rio md Oh -
vases about as high as a grown man. In the
rear of this room is the dining room, retired
from access, and very cozy and agreeable.
Across the hall, in the front, is Mr. Har-
riots literary and correspondence room.
The cellar contains a wine closet and a fine
larder.
A FAITHFUL HUSBAND
Mr. Harriet is a good business man and
housekeeper; he manages the infinite amount
of correspondence required to make the en-
gagements of his wife, and goes along to su-
perintend both her health and her playing
She travels with IA company, and the procur-
ing of this and keeping things III order occu-
pies a mans whole time from September until
April. MIR. Harriet says that there are more
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 open it, SO that he is beset
lheTe Is naftiy any actress OF our day with
the literary qualifications of Clara Morris.
This Is the 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
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 taking
play to pieces and transposing it so Us to
mend the defects of the author who may
have made an anti-chmax when she can see a
chance for climax. She desires to play
some new parts, but the demand is greater
for her tn continue in the roles she has been
giving for almost twenty years. think she
is about :1 years old, but at home she looks
to be a young girl who had hardly yet en-
tered upon married life. Her mother Mrs,
Morris, is a quiet, happy y-natured woman
greatly absorbed in her daughter. ."-"Gath's"
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