The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-03
MRS, ZEISLER
IS PLEASED
With Wichita'S Fondness for
Humping Piano.
1T AUGURS VERY WELL
For the Production of a
Musical Genius.
DEARLY LOVES
DIXIE
And Praises the Melody of the
Negro.

getting that geniuses are rarely sensible.
She has talent, or, rather, talents; and
with her other special endowments she
has head full OF very rare common
sense-practical common sense. A won
derful conversationalist is this same
daughter of fair Selesia- And she knows
lot. She knows people, history, and
even politics. She can tell you about
Peter, the great, Theresa, Cathrine, Ma
poleon, Victor Emanuel, Kossutt, Richie
lieu, Charles the First, William of Nor
mandy, Gustavas Adolphus and Bismark.
! And the house OF Hopsburg-she fairly
| thrills one with her stories of that IN
| fortunate royal family. Ask her about
! the political parties OF America, their pol
| icies, their ambitions, their strategems
| and their civic achievements and she will
surprise you. She can discuss issues with
| you more pleasing and not less intelligent
| than Mrs. Lease. And withal she IS a
very womanly woman. Her musical tall
! ent actually gets into her political and
| historical discussions. There is nothing
discordant in her utterances. Like De-
! mauprat she talks like one who feeds on
| poetry.
Mrs. Zeisler is a Slav She was born
subject TO the present Emperor Francis
Josef of Austria.
"A magnificent. dear old man." she said,
but what a curse there is upon his house.
All that is and has been good in the house
/ of Hapsburg will end with him, if not the
/ empire itself. The presumptive heir
is a scapegrace and there is no hopeful
] successor in sight. The empress that
was murdered was one Of the most beau
tiful and charming women Of her time;
wasn't the tragedy that removed her
awful?"
Mrs. Zeisler has not a trace of Euro
/ pean accent-she speaks not only correct
ana pure, but beautiful English
In Wichita" said the Eagle reporter.
/ you can hear the humping of a piano
every hour of the day and night; the city
] is having an awful musical boom. What
| will bo the effect OF it,"
1T viii have a splendid effect; it will
/ have a grand effect. You have some fne
musicians here 1 am told"
She construed little vocal defect as a
/ hesitation and came to the reporters res
cue by saying: "Of course We cane ex-
pect you 70 have any Beethoyens here,
/ but your city is young"
| And sha generously added: There are
I no Beethovens even in Chicago" Mrs
! Zeisler is very charitable.
YOU see she said. music is some
| thing that grows; If we can't appreciate
!
apt to appreciate q Raphel's Medona
when we are old"
1T is a good thing for Wichita to have
a person who can play rag time
rather than nothing. ] like to hear from
/ YOU that your people are humping
/ pianos. They may thump out a genius
some day'
rs there any particular zone in the
United States that is conducive TO the de-
velopment Of musical genius2"
NO. not at all. The great genius Of the
future is as likely 20 develop here in
Wichita as In Chicago or anywhere else"
Put there are places in Europe where
musical talent is out of proportion"
Yes I admit that. Take Bohemia. for
instance; there every child is said to be
born either a musician or thief. At
birth, the story goes. a child's parents
holds a musical instrument in one hand
and purse in the other and the par
ents can tell his destiny by seeing which
he viii reach for first The Bohemians
are born musicians; they whistle it on the
streets when they are able to walk
abroad The Poles are great musicians
and so are the Russians. The latter are
a great people. look to see the great
est musicians of our century, coming out
of Poland or Russia"
What about Italy2"
''Music is on the decline there"
ANY particular race Of people develop
ing abnormal musical tslent2"
The Jews. I believe I am certain that
the race has produced more musical gen
fuses in proportion TO the number Of its
people than any other race on earth.
ITO develop talent I believe person
must be prosecuted. If they are happy
I DO not believe they can become thor
oughy Inspired. The poor jew, in his
normOdic life, with his bundle on his
back has whistled out a great musical
inheritance for his people. Had he been
happy and not prosecuted I doubt if he
would show any special musical talent.
Don't density of population have any
influence in the development of musical
genius"
Il do not believe in that theory. Of
course. Il population is dense there is
liable to be a density of musical instrJ-
ments. and the more musical instruments
a community has the more likelihood
there Is that musicians win bc developed
in that community on the whole / do
not think the density 81 population has
musical talent
.'Ivhy hasn't Ireland the only country
in the worin that has q musical fnstru-
ment for national emblem, produced
great musicians.
THAT have always considered
strange fl course Jtill ltil vas lEf7laf
a max OF wonderful musical talent bat
as YOU say. ireland has been deficient
ga thC musical line. But you must adj
NIT that Ireland has produced gresS -
atcr-O' Council. Cfrsttan. Burke. and
Emmett; also great writers. such o.
Swift Moore and Goldsmith In the SIX
teeuth ard seventeenth centuries she pro-
duced great statesmen. Tho persecution
OF ireland produced ITS quota &C great
-rrrr1 -ffr
yet rroduce some great musicians.
''Wnat think you u American music
EVE have no music that We can cai
American. What We have we get from
Germsny- Our people 50 ever there 10
be fought aad they naturally bring tne
GeTman music with them. We -et oar
music from Germany IS naturally AZ We
set our political ideas from Engla1d- orr /
sv stem n civil government ulghr have
been different had not CHE men WHO
founded il been educated in England 81
under the influence % England
What do ycu Ihiuk - tl= minis tressy 4
- TIE Negroes
N there - such q distinctive thing - I
American music Dixie - It's highest 4
type and that sou know is closely related I
To negro minstreisg
- far rs I err personally concerned /
7 80 Wild ever Dixie tt stlrs ms blood !
% Is delightful. charming divine.
i regard the negroes as very promising /
= hieh-ciaSs musical talent. They have 4
wonderful voice. very pleasant % tAe ear. 4
And II every community you see tEeU ]