The record-union., 1896-04-20
AROUND THE WORLD.
Miss Grace Hawthorne, the Actress,
Talks Of Her JourneyinSS.
What Most Impressed Her in the East
Shakespeare Presented by
Natives in Calcutta.

Miss Grace Hawthorne, former lessee
of the Princess Theater in London, has
returned TO New York after a years S
tour around the world. She carries IN
her baggage more than Is, 900 words of
memoranda, which are the result OF
most rare power Of observation. She will
use these yoluminous notes some time
in the future for the sound literary pur-
pose of telling the public such details
of social domestic and political life in
India. China and Japan as have not
been told before or since the recent
readjustment of Eastern affairs.
Miss Hawthorne has lived with the
peasant and the aristocrat, and has
observed details Of Eastern life under
these conditions with an eye to minu-
tiae that hardly belongs to the mascu-
line mind, and this side of Chinese and
Japanese life bears peculiar and ap-
propriate interest for the public just
now. Miss Hawthorne has talked
sketchily of her experiences and obser-
vations without in the least reducing
the great bulk of memorandum supplies
on which she will draw in the future,
and kindly permits the results of a
to appear in the New York Times"
On being asked what most impressed
her in Eastern life, Miss Hawthorne re-
piled: THE sight of humanity doing
the work of beasts. I imagine this is
the first impression any one fresh from
civilization receives, and 1 am quick
to believe that it is an impression which
no such man or woman ever loses in his
he, 49,
loses that sense of sickening which be-
longs to the first impression. I will
warrant that the person of even average
refinement of mind and morals does not
grow at any time to look upon this mat
ter indifferently, and to accept it as
having it's place because it is the Gus
tom of country.
"One feels anew on actually beholding
these things that when the Latins chose
but one word to mean both manners and
morals they made no mistake China
and Japan are great countries, but,
while their bad manners of using their
bodies to carry their burdens rather
than using their heads to tighten them,
one must feel that they are a people
afflicted with a peculiar moral strabism.
But if you want an article on the East,
this beginning is not good artistic con-
struction.
The sight Of my apartment" wav-
Ing her hand at sundry hats and wraps
and strings and ribbons and fluff ex-
tending from half-open trunks-"the
sight Of my apartment might not lead
you to believe that order is mine, as it
is Heavens first law, but 1 assure you
that this room does not represent my
mental condition. So let us begin "a
year ago to-day
1t was just year ago to-day that
started for India. / went to Calcutta,
and played there successfully, but since
other people have done the same thing
a good many times it is hardly to be
mentioned as a novelty; so we will leave
the details of that and touch upon the
silver question-which is always novel,
since we always seem to suffer from It,
1t is only pleasant things that we be-
come used to. We never grow blase
through suffering. The absence Of any
thing like conference on the silver ques-
tion has been more damaging to the
East than elsewhere. In India the rupee
bobs up serenely to-day, and bids a
sad farewell to earth the day after to-
morrow. Then one orders flowers and
tnlnkS IL is all over, Wnen II goes ahead
and does it all over again-and all the
while money must be sent home by
parents to educate their English sons,
and so they must send this in sterling
exchange. Everything is very ridicu-
lous. 1t seems as If somebody might
arrange 1t somehow" Miss Haw-
thorne looked just at this moment as If
her mind was not in more orderly
state than her trunks.
while the rupee greatly interested