Part 4 (1/2)
Only go on and work hard, and you will be sure to ard to your faults, what shall I say? Why, that you will try hard to overcome them I don't think they would be perceived save by those who perhaps iine that your attachment for me has induced you to join the profession I have no mannerisms, I hope; therefore any imitation of me can only be in the earnest desire to do what you can do, as well as you can Write to me often; ask of me what you will; my counsel is worth little, but you shall command it if you need it
TO A YOUNG MOTHER
[FROM A LETTER]
All that you say about your finding your own best expression in and through the little life which is confided to you is good and true, and I am so happy to see how you feel on the subject I think aits culture and keeping it fro herself at the sarand, so enduring, so i of character in a child, You have your oork to do, the largest possible expression No statue, no painting, no acting, can reach it, and it e is given into your hands to rand to think of? No matter about yourself--only make yourself worthy of God's sacred trust, and you will be doing His work--and that is all that huht?
EARLY GRIEFS ART HER ONLY SPOUSE
[FROM A LETTER TO A FRIEND]
There was a tiht I had been called upon to bear the very hardest thing that can come to a Woman
A very short time served to show me, in the harder battle of life Which was beforestorm, which was simply to help me to a clearer, better, richer, and more productive summer If I had been spared this early trial, I should never have been so earnest and faithful inabout for the ”counterpart,” and not given my entire self to my work, wherein and alone I have reached any excellence I have ever attained, and through which alone I have received my reward God helpedhi myself This passed on; and this happened at a period into but one end in life--an end no doubt wisest and best for the largest number, but which would not have been wisest and best for my work, and so for God's work, for I know he does not fail to set me his work to do, and helps me to do it, and helps others to helpback, and then forward, to an eternity of good, and do you see how better and better one can becohty to faithfully carry out our part of His great plan according to our strength and ability?) 0 believe we cannot live one , and not be failing hi the flesh conquer the spirit, the evil do stor which I actively pursued what becaer brother, upon whoun to build most hopefully, as I had reason He was by far the cleverest of reater poverty than the others; he received his young ih a different atenerous, ain the world seem to liquefy beneath my feet, and the waters went over my soul It became necessary that I should suffer bodily to cure my heart-bleed I placed myself professionally where I found and knew all my mortifications in my profession, which seemed for the time to strew ashes over the loss of my child-brother (for he wasmy art, which, God knows, has never failedrief and myself Labour saved oodness of God I digress tooback to ood which cas with our darling, and hope (as we oodness, and ask hie of his dealings with us; to teach us to believe that we are lifted up to hiains May it not be that heaven is nearer, the passage from earth less hard, and life less seductive to us, in consequence of the painless passing of this cherub to its true home, lent us but for a moment, to sho pure must be our lives to fit us for such coh in one sense it would be well for us to put away the sadness of this thought if it would be likely to enervate us, in another sense, if we consider it rightly, if we look upon it worthily, we have an angel in God's house to help us to higher and purer thinkings, to nobler aspirations, to more sublime sacrifices than we have ever known before
FAREWELL TO NEW YORK
[In 1874 Miss Cushman bade farewell to New York at Booth's Theatre, after a performance as Lady Macbeth William Cullen Bryant presented an ode in her honour In the course of her response Miss Cushar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you
Gentlee is a tear or a pressure of the hand, and words very feebly convey or interpret its e you to believe that in the three little words I now speak, 'I thank you,' there are heart depths which I should fail to express better, though I should use a thousand other words I thank you, gentlereat honour you have offered me I thank you, not only for h and by rateful compliotislory, you will, I am sure, pardon me, inasmuch as I am here only to speak of myself You would seem to compliment me upon an honourable life As I look back upon that life, it seems to me that it would have been impossible for me to have led any other In this I have, perhaps, been mercifully helped more than are many of my more beautiful sisters in art I was, by a press of circue into a profession for which I had received no special education or training; but I had already, though so young, been brought face to face with necessity I found life sadly real and intensely earnest, and in norance of other ways of study, I resolved to take therefrohly in earnest, intensely in earnest in all hts and in all my actions, whether in le idea And I honestly believe herein lies the secret of reat success in any art can he achieved without it
CLARA MORRIS
[Clara Morris, Mrs Frederick C Harriott, is a native of Toronto, Canada Her reave her for years the foremost place at Daly's Theatre, and the Union Square Theatre, New York A the parts in which she achieved distinction were Camille, Alixe, Miss Multon, Corn in ”Article 47,” and Mercy Merrick in ”The New Magdalen” Since her retiree Clara Morris has proved herself to be a capital writer, shedding the light of experience on the difficulties of drae,”
copyright, 1901, by Clara Morris Harriott and the S S McClure Company, New York, by permission, has furnished this episode--Ed]
SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF JOHN WILKES BOOTH
In glancing back over two crowded and busy seasons, one figure stands out with clearness and beauty In his case only (so far as atory to dignity or tocalled beautiful, for he was that bud of splendid pro--known to the world as a madman and an assassin, but to the profession as ”that unhappy boy”--John Wilkes Booth
He was so young, so bright, so gay--so kind I could not have known him well; of course, too--there are two or three different people in every enerally in the habit of showing their brightest, their best side to the co both respect and liking for the one who does
There are not ht, without at least a momentary outburst of temper; but when the co rehearsed, Mr Booth had again and again urged Mr McCollo- such encounters) to come on hard! to come on hot! hot, old fellow! harder-faster! He'd take the chance of a blow--if only they could ht of it!
And Mr McColloht becaot he had struck the full nu a thrust, McColloht it doith awful force fair across Booth's forehead; a cry of horror rose, for in one moment his face was h--there caroan froood God!” fro at his work Then Booth, flinging the blood froenially as ht, old man! never ht!”
Which be resuh he was perceptibly weakened, it required the sharp order of Mr Ellsler, to ”ring the first curtain bell,” to force hile blow shorter than usual Then there was a running to and fro, with ice and vinegar-paper and raw steak and raw oysters When the doctor had placed a few stitches where they were ly declared there was provision enough in the room to start a restaurant