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FRAU WATERWAYS HORSE.
How the Animal Fills a Role In One Of
Wagner's Operas.

How the Animal Fills Role In One Of
Wagner's Operas.
New York Journall
Although Brunhilde's horse had but few
rehearsals, he seemed to take in the situa.
tion from the very commencement and to be
so charmed by the appearance Of Materna
that he suppressed his disposition to back
and suffered himself to be led by the great
Wagneriau soprano down the perilous de-
scent from the flies Of the opera house. a feat
which would have appalled, a-y less intelli
gent animal except Manhattanville goat
Indeed the members of the company say
that the affection displayed by this intelli-
gent animal for the plump and pleasing
Brunhilde is truly touching to witness and
has endeared the noble animal to every
member, from the director TO the usually
unimpressionabls double-bass player in the
orchestra
On the very first evening this affection
was displayed in his attempt to lick the
paint off his charmer's arms, and when she
interferred with his proposed repast he
her shoulder, while he rolled his eye balls
around in the most ecstatic manner.
When Brunhilde begins to sing he listens
fills him with the desire to kick all the
wooden rock and canvas mountains to
flinders This continues for the first twenty
five minutes of her remarks, when he begns
to show signs of weakness His glance of
joy becomes changed to one Of horror; then
the exquisite pain of the leitmotif known as
will she ever dropP comforts his expressive
countenanre He sits down like wearied
ha, h. ~;,l,o
is coming and yawns expressively. 1t is nc
uso The now terrible song has reached that
point of strained emotion where it would be
sure death to break off suddenly. The
panied animal trembles in every limb
He tries vainly to divert himself by
biting viciously at the props Of the noun.
tain. At an extra iendish hurst from
the orchestra with a scream Of the brass, 6
shrek of the strings and q wall on the big
drum, the horse gives up and lies down in
death agony. Nothing short Of the last sor.
rowing note, which rips forth like the cry o.
a locomotive in the night from the breast eI
the sympathetic Valkyrie, revives him Al
the fall Of the curtain he is taken in and his
legs stiffened with scene-painter's glue.
The manager expresses himself in the
most glowing terms at this, his latest sue
CESS, in finding in this country an animal in
tslligent enough to fill an important role in
one of Wagner's latest operas, and has of.
fered him an engagement - through hb
owner-as q permanent member OF the
troupe.
The horse already understands Materna
when she addresses him in German, and she
has become so attached to him that she
wishes to take him back to Germany.
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ICor. Chicago News.l
The standard Of comfortable living as
fixed by the Americans is at the bottom Of
strikes and economical disputes. The lower
class of Italians can contentedly reside in
dark damp Easements Half dozen Italian
families will live in q single room with
hardly any furniture or bedding, eating
food and wearing clothing which an Ameri.
can would not pick up off the street. Poles
Bohemians and Irish fleeing from poverty
stricken regions of the old world know no
comforts; but the Americans must have
pleasant homes; the Americans crave for
amusements and intellectual advancement
This wide diversity in the standard OF living
threatens general depression Of wages to
the European pauper standard unless the
amalgamated trades unions keep up the ac-
customed American rate Of wages.
The native Americans are more interested
in trade-unionism than the immigrants, who
are frugal and who utilize the labor of their
women and children in glue factories, to
bacco works, rag-shops, packing-houses, box
factories, and clothing-factories II trades
unionism fails native American artisans and
clerks fear they will not get enough wages
to allow them to marry and raise children
in centers of immigration like Chicago.
Celibacy and barren marriages are even
now distres,ingly common. In a great many
large factories in the country no American
need apply, for no American could live on
the wages acceptable to certain classes Of
Canadians, Slavonians, Bohemians, Poles,
and Irish