The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-20

Now, girls, listen to what mademoi-
selle has to say about getting married
women on the stage should not get
married at ALL said Zelie, with a very
emphatic toss of her great mass OF halr
They have all they can 40 to manage
their operate work. am thoroughly
against it. Besides, the operate nus
band is generally a sorry parsonage. He
makes his wife's life more or less OF a
burden. She has TO do all the work and
he thinks he has the privilege Of doing
all the ScOlding.
1t isn't every business man who
knows how to take care of his money,
and the woman who portrays the tender.
loving Juliet and the innocent Mar
guerite has most of them dlstanced III
this art of all modern arts.
TT seems to be the popular idea, she
saws that prima donnaS are made Of
money. I assure you, if they make
great deal, they also have to spend a
great deal. / remember singing in Leeds
once in opera and a dear old gentleman
who had seen me frequently wrote me
long letter. He said: I suppose, like
all your sister artists, you spend your
money as quickly as you make 1t. l
have been watching you from the front
of the house and have taken a fatherly
interest in your affairs. He lnclosed
list of twenty investments which nc
recommended. They were all excellent,
He said, Take my advice and save
your money
And did you?"
Il did not need the advice. I was
rather a wise woman myself 1 did not
carry the romantic disposition of the
operatic heroines with me off the Staga
They are somewhat an improvident set
of people and they are not my models.
1.-The sphere of a true woman" said
the prima donna archly, lis to have man
do just what she wants him 0. To have
man worship at her shrine. l think the
American woman is the happiest cree-
ture on earth, and I have seen all the
ha &c most VyOrShIpad of all
sex. I mean that the men of America
are ideal as far as women are con-
cerned. When the man makes money
his first thought is how to make his
can women marty only Am rican men.
I don't go in for the foreign polish my
SELF.
Like Nordica, Mile. de Lussan believes
that American girls should STUDY sing
ing in their own country.
Il think there is every opportunity III
this country for girls to study before
they go abroad They should know
French, Italian and German. If they
want to seriously study the art of song
it is very easy to take a course CT Ian
guages here first There are also ex
cellent colleges of music and highly gift
ed singing teachers in a country with
20. 600 600 Inhabitants. I believe the ma
Jority of girls W-so want to rush off II
Europe are not thinking so much of
study as emancipation. They are think
ing OF the CDdEIlS OF the OiQ NOTlu anu
expecting to have a grand time
of course. from the operate point of
view girls who want 10 go on the stage
must ultimately live on the .other side or
! tfss= --srsf .sss@- ifr-@ nh E-s *e= q,
Z 49, n hear ftzz great artists at
the opera houses sustained by tie govern
ments. and it IS there they hear beautiful
music The operas are mag7ificentiy
given That is the great thing, You are
continually in an artistic atmosphere. X
is everywhere The streets are axtistic-
The houses. the bridgsss the parks Ev-
erythine inspires. It Is like 4 succession
| of beautiful paintings This is the soul
food of the artist. The public bands are