El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-23
OLGA NETHERSOLE
The World As a Great Actress Sees

In the course of my career, and 1r
the pursuit of nv profession, 1t has
been my privilege to visit and see
many lands. have crossed the south
ern seas and lived under the torrid sun
burning fiercely down on the fragrant
island of Ceylon. 1 have ventured tc
the antipodes, where L have regarded
with awesome admiration the power
and glory of the British empire in the
material ownership of her vast colo
nies. The frozen shores OF
Canada have welcomed me, and, by NO
means least of all, have become well
acquainted with much of the United
States of America. In the possession
of the record, 1 venture modestly to
submit that have seen not little OF
the nations of the world, and thus,
perchance, 1 sm entitled to claim TO
express my views of this world of ours
as 1 see it. When one closes ones eyes
in looking back upon an experience
there is a merciful dispensation Of
nature which only permits US. in a
general way, to remember the good In
it, and, when 1 close my eyes and look
back upon my travelling experiences,
in add around the three quarters of
this globe, L am fain to admit that
can rememo Der little that is not of good.
Humanity has impressed itself upon
my mind as being much the same,
whether in India, north Africa, Italy,
France, Russia or America. Women
and men appear to have the same am
billions, the same desires, and the
same potentislities In either and all of
those lands.
Between the Saxon and the Latin
races there do not seem to me to be
such vast differences in essentials as
theorists would have US believe. Each
appears to enjoy the same capacity for
love and hate, and while in detail
there may be material differences, 1
have found 1t difficult to discover any
thing different in a broad, abstract
sense. There is admittedly q greater
amount of energy and enterprise dis
played by one branch of the great
human family than by the other, but
that, from my observation, appears to
be the greatest difference, begotten of
q climatic influence. While was So
journing in Austria 1 was struck for
cibly by the predominance Of the Jew
ish race there. They were every
where; they were among the occupants
of positions the highest In the land, and
at times 1 thought had arrived in the
Promised land Now, in certain sections
OF this country, one also observes the
predominating influence of some par
ticular branch of the human family
imported from the older world. But
there are cities - the union which
evidence a remarkable blending, and
which are called by the Americans
themselves-for want of q better word,
Ipresume-'cosmopolitan." 1 do not
think that is the right word. 1 think
that In the time to come the whole of
this great American nation will be
made up of these blendings and dis
tinguished nationality will be firmly
established. We know we'll how the
great and noble Anglo-Saxon race was
tho 0utgrowth of various tribes and
races, and how it established itself alb
solntely In supreme command of the
civilized world, and, to my mind, the
legitimate successors Of that great peo-
PIE must be this great potential Amer
lean nation. Might it not fttinRly
be called the Saxon-Latin-Americ
rAce.
I began this article, having no ideas
to express on life, but rather on the
family world, az see it. Not 80 much
In its fairness and beauty of aspect and
relation towards life, as in its
family of humans. We, IN our infinite
regard the world through
very minifying glasses. Our range of
vision is hopelessly limited. We, poor
far. Thus, as I see the world, I
see just little way be-
yond me. I must say that this little
world around me seems q very good
world in this year of grace; we are alb
setting the period to another
and we are surely interested
Ia the wonderful strides that have
been made by the world since the CEN
fury began, one hundred years ago.
deeply on the subject, one is |
almost as much surprised as one might |
be by some new remarkable invention |
Of the great Edison, wberewith he has |
yet another natural element.
This world has become another world |
1ithin the space of those one hundred |
years.
Life has become so absolutelyidiffere
hat the people of to-day-saving their
lum anity, and even that has somewhat
as different from the peo-
Die of q century ago as though they
to some other world. I can
imagine one who had ended his days
IN the earth in the last year of the
asst century, coming back amongst US
low and not recognizing this world at
Ill. It would be easy to specify some
II the changes that have caused this
evolution, but it is more interesting to
new tie abstract than to probe
ores. And let it be here remarked
hat the evolution is still progressing.
Is never stays, and just as, we are ap-
,alled at the wonderful changes in the
past, just SO must we feel appalled, at
he prospect of the changes lying now
dormant in the womb of time.
So it shall be good for US to leave the
world when our time arrives, else we
night feel as that gentleman of the
asst century of whom l spoke, were he
O come here now, In this utilltarian
ge OF ours it certainly is we'll for US to
ometimes pause and look back upon
he immediate history of the world.
{ helps Us to bear with more equan-
nifty the petty trials and worries that
he best of us have TO undergo. and it