Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1881 — A Man of the World on Actresses. [ARTICLE]

A Man of the World on Actresses.

Laboocbere to London Truth. Actresses live in a world of their own. They generally exaggerate every sentiment. Their real life is tinged with their theatrical life and high-wrought melodrama becomes a second nature to them. Few of them have a perfectly sane notion of existence; they exist in the feeling of the moment. They are generally incapable of taking an interest in the ordinary occupations of their sex; at one moment tney are in the wildest spirits, at another in the depth of despair, and those with whom they come In contact are in their eyes alternately either melodramatic villains plotting tneir destruction or those angelic beings that have no existence out of plays. If they are asked why they love or they hate, they insist that they are endowed with a peculiar instinct, and this instinct, which most people would call unreasonable caprice, they exalt as something far superior to practical intelligence and glory in being its submissive slaves. Tnere are certain qualities which go to make an actress, and most of them make a lunatic. All actresses are. of Course, not necessarily mad, but If I were on a jury empaneled to try an actress for murder I should approach the inquiry with the feeliug that nature had probably not l>een lavish to her in that harmony of intellectual |>ower which produces moral responsi-