Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-11-12
Home Has its Charms.

tors love of home," said George Os-
borne, the Joseph Lewis of the Snatch
en- company, to the Journal.
"But you have no homer
"Well, in measure, you're right.
Yet it may interest you to know how
many are striving for the comforts of
one."
"But general opinion is that actors
don't save anything and spend their
money in having good time"
"Yes, yes, so they do. You see
when they meet congenial souls it is a
relief from the usual distrust they are
regarded with. and in the privacy of
some sumptuously appointed parlor
they fraternize almost with the aban-
don of dispair But they have d sur
plus and economise in many ways.
Actors of to-day have more regard
for reputation, social and professional,
than they formerly did. Men and
women of good family connections are
Joining the van and, being of gentler
breeding. with an ambition to rise, are
reforming the stage. More culture
and intelligence is contending with
opinion in America than at any time
in the history of the drama. The
quality of the plays presented is of a
higher order, necessitating the better
education of acting people. A man
with talent and uneducated is always
at disadvantage with one of educa-
tion and talent. The we'll bred person
can live better for the same salary, ap-
pear to better advantage than the un-
lettered man, and his breeding pre-
vents roistering and squandering. His
intelligence helps him in the delinea-
ton of his characters, and is always
relief to his auditors. His ideas of
propriety is the result of breeding and
education, and of him no word of sus-
picion is heard. He has no scandal,
no notoriety, except that most desira-
bic of being famous in art. Nomadic
by compulsion, his inclinations are do
mestic. He forms an attachment in
all honor for all time, to love and
cherish, and no more loyal or devoted
husband and father is known. Cir
cumstances govern the poor player.
l say poor in the sense that he is not
in the position to dictate his. condition
and therefore his home is bereft of
him for months. You see him in the
theater; his is role in which he
makes ardent love and eventually mar
ries the beautiful heroine. You envy
him the bliss of such a condition, you
glow with ardor when you see him
clasp that willowy form to his breast,
and in the prolonged kiss implanted ION
her chin) you fairly tingle with sup
pressed emotion. With him it is more
likely to cause ennui. He is in love
with one to him far more beautiful
his curly headed baby is perhaps at
this moment nesting in mammals arms
and he can hear the baby lips mur-
mur: bod bless papa and bring him
home soon to Dearest and baby An
excited audince vociferously calls the
artist before them and show their ap
probation of his powers. Does this
fatter him Look into his heart and
you will find him calm and satisfied.
Iu his soul he warns to the thoughC of
Dearest; could she but witness his sue.
cess, if he could but see those eyes fill
ing with tears of pride for her loved
one, to feel her proud head pillowed
upon his breast these are to him all,
and more than all the kindly plaudits
he has just received from an admiring
public. Dainty, thoughtless feminin-
ity hatters itself into infatuation of
the handsome hero, and petit billets
rain upon him. Reference to the waste
basket shows their fate, for his love of
home is never shaken. Prominent
men of the day extend invitations to
the club and other resorts, but he does
not overstep propriety, and he respects
himself too much to provoke remarks.
If you could see the books of the va
rious express companies you would
learn where his savings 60 to, and in
that little village home in the early
summer, if you peep in at the window,
you may see him sitting with an arm
about his wife, with the baby on his
knee, the light is shining over for.
midable-looking document, his hand
is tremulous, his wife's tear.dimmed
eyes are proudly contemplating his
face, love and pride are swelling in his
breast as the baby says, 'Wot 'ou KY
ing forY 1t is the happiest moment
of his life. 1t is the darling's birth
day, and this paper gives them home.
Eyes, the actor of to-day is of diff
ferent material from that which mark.
ed the profession so years ago."-De-
troit Journal.