People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1893 — WAYS OF HER OWN. [ARTICLE]

WAYS OF HER OWN.

California Hu the Name of Being Unlike Other States. “I have just returned from California,” said a resident of Louisville, Ky., the othe%day. “It was my first visit to the land of Sunol and Stanford, and I may say I learned something new. The state is so far removed from the center of finance and commerce that the people have set up a little stock of habits and notions of their own, and outsiders who do not fit this standard, no matter what their ability or prestige given them by the north, seqith and east, are more than likely to be ridiculed or denounced, or both. I have in mind at this moment an actress whose success in the east was pronounced. She went direct from New York to Chicago, and from there to St. Louis. An ovation greeted her everywhere. From the latter city she went to San Francisco, her coming heralded by the telegraph. On the first night she encountered an audience of graven images. She was nerved to superhuman exertions by the coldness of her auditors and acted in better form and in greater spirit than ever before in her career. At the end of the first act a few scattered bits of applause could be heard but that was all. To the end of the play she continued her exertions, but the result was the same. The next morning the papers literally flayed her alive. The critics cut her up in small pieces with their caustic pens; they sneered at th® other critics who had presumed to make of her a public ideal, decried her merits where others had pointed out and praised them, and in every conceivable way opposed the position taken by those who had preceded them. The actress’ manager had intended a three weeks’ stay for his star, but he was glad to get out after the three days. She returned to St. Louis and repeated her success, all the more significant because of the poor treatment accorded her in the Pacific state. Though this occurred twelve years ago she has not been in California since, and probably will not set foot in it again during her life. “California and her people are not tn sympathy with the rest of the country and I think it is because of the thousands of miles that intervene between. She is like another nation in many ways?’