Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-12-06

"HIS3Se don LOOK NJ ire table. This
is cleaning dan" she >lil brightly as she
gave me her haud-such little hand.
indeed the very pretticSt real hand ever
saw. This Is my CyriH" drawing for
ward the mos; comfortable chair for me.
Il can't hear sound from the house,
but the murIuur from the street Is iucCS-
SAINT, and l like thar. Ny pleaSantest
hours are spent in this little NOM"
1t WAS Il pretty place-all blue and
white. Tho rug. the divan. the lamp
shade. the curtains all blue and white.
and beyond the wide window. with its
frill Of Chinese Grape. lay the housetopS
and spires Of the city. the smoke from
hundreds of CAimncys curling into the
vivid morning sunlight.
And the owner Of il: Her personality
was quite in keeping with the rcstful
beauty Of tho place. Kate Jordan is a
pretty, well bred, we'll dressed New York
girl. She looks about -. and there is
nothing in her dress. manner " speech
TO suggest that She : literary" 9th
er words, She is nn; uupleaSantly labeled
with the marx Of her profession. She IS
a brunette with white skin. frank. direct
eyes, with the dark CyelaShcs Of the
Irish. and her lips and teeth are remark
ably pretty.
y Russian jacket Of brown vclveteeu
was confined NJ her waist by a dull. sill
Yer belt, and long, straight skirt of
brown cashmere hung down from il in
graceful folds.
so this is being interviewed, and
am u talk about myself" she asked.
settling herself among the pillows ON the
divan: Its Il subject with which am
50 familiar, H. wonder do not find it
rs interesting IS some others. To COM
meuct. then. aIa Irish by birth. Dub
lin is my native city, but left Ii when
II baby. have Travelled very little. but
hope 10 see = good bit Of the world very
soon. have lived i'll New York all my
life. and think know it thoroughly"
"One has only 70 read The Kiss Of
Gold 10 know that" ventured-
Dear New York" her eyes dark
enei with CnthuSiaSm-''with its differ
ent phases OF life, its odd hooks and cor
nerS. its people made up Of every color
and quality, from every country on the
globe, Ike the samples in "A tradesrnan's
book Yes. | know 1t. | love to study
its low life Frequently take car in
a poor section Of the city and let it take
ME through STREETS where the miserables
horde. and the atmosphere is tainted,
and tho languages Babel-lke mixture.
My ambition Is THAT some day. perhaps
afar off. may write successful story
laid among the poor Of New York. in
full sympathy with them. as Dickens.
whom loee. was with the London
poor"
Have yoa written anything besides
The Kiss Of Gold and The Other
House."
"Oh, YES, l have sent ont ton Of man
uscript. most of It unsigned. When
Won look up the biography of any one
whose work in the arts happens to
make good impression, You will gen
orally find that they have not come un-
der the public notice at a bound. Like
others, have served long and silent
apprenticeship since the time / wrote
love stories before l left school and rev
eied in seeing them in print with lux
ury do not now know"
In The Kiss Of Gold You seem famil-
lar with life behind the scenes Of thea
ter. Have Won ever been ON the stage"
No, but | have not gone unscathed.
Almost every girl who keeps in touch
with life in New York is stagestruck at
some point IL her career. So was l.
For more than year l attended the
now defnnct Boucicault school of act