The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-29

CTwenty.ayc years is too great difference Of
| age between man and his wife. There have
| been few happy marriages where the man is so
much the junior OF his spouse. Your father is
| justified in his objections However as you are
50 much in love with the lady and she returns
| YOUR affections and especially she Is possessed
of the balm for all wounds-money- might
try the eXperiment)
| Madame Schumann-H maiden
name was Ernestne Roesssler. She Is
the daughter of an Austrian officer, who
| at the time of her birth was wretchedly
poor. The little girl was sent to the
Ursuline convent at Prague, and was
| placed in the choir. She sang wholly
by ear, and if 1t was done well, she re-
ceved Il cooky with raisins in IT, and
| If she sang i'll, they boxed her ears
| soundlv.
| At the age of thirteen her father was
| transferred to Gratz. where she re-
| ceived singing lessons. A friend of her
teacher heard her singing a Schubert
song one day, as he sat I'm an adjoin-
| ing room. and said: II did not know
that you taught young calves"
"She is not u young calf" replied the
teacher Some day she will be a great
| singer"
She was engaged for the Dresden
opera while she was still very young,
and her eXuberant spirits and gratl-
tude appalled, the spectators, who saw
| her rush wildly to the distinguished
| aristocratic director who had chosen
her from all the other applicants, and
| fling herself on his neck. while she
| kissed him roundly.
| Her upward career has been one Of
| toll and privation. Her first marriage
was most unhappy and for ten years
! after her debut 1t was n long and fear
! full struggle-so decidedly Il struggle
| that she was still so poor that she had
| to borrow money to go third-class to
Berlin to sing in benefit performance,
and on her arrival felt that she could
not afford to go to hotel. but sat on
| a bench in the park from 6 o'clock in
| the morning until 10 o'clock the hour
of the CONCERT. She has had all sorts
| of experiences from singing operas
which she had never seen and without
n rehearsal to being recognized as the
greatest "ortrud" in the world.
She is married now most happily to
| Carl Schumann, and has eight children.
| She is undoubtedly the greatest favor
| te of all the foreign artists who visit
| America
| One by one the sad chronicle of death
| among our friends leaves it's shadow
We weep little and then the days
| soon come when we smile again and
! sometimes perhaps there are those who
believe we have forgotten. I think we
| do not forget them-the dear ones who
| slip out so softly from their place at
our side and whom we leave behind
! because we cannot wait long even to
| look at the spot where they have fall
| len, but / think we do not forget, and
| that sometimes it is very hard to do
| anything else but remember.
There was one who the other day
could not follow with us. 1t will be
many week before the memory of
her presence fades. for she was one
who bore eternal sunshine in her heart
and it shone farther into the gloom
| than we let our. sunshine fall often.
| The fair and gentle life of Mrs. ELLA
| Shercr lived since her early days in
| this community is something to be
| cherished in fondest thought. 1t seems
most uniting that thus soon that fine
| llllIlu anu DcdutlIul Soul De lOSl
from the familiar places where they
were beloved.
! The concert for the benefit of the
| Home for thse Friendless will absorb
| much of the popular attention this
week. 1t is so seldom that we catch a
| really great violinist here that to have
Fritz Kreisler is an event indeed. The
O., 7 ,T,
from possessing a wonderful voice, is
the most beautiful concert singer of
the present, and Ben Davis, the cele-
| brated tenor, will both appear in the
same programme. makes the occasion
exceptionally interesting.
No one grudges the Home for the
Friendless any good thing which may
come to it, This concert is a most eX-
pensive affair and a great responsibility
for the management. If the public
does not bravely rally to it's aid the
consequences will be pathetic. Every
body wants to hear these great per-
formers and everybody also wants to
help the Home. To be able to do both
at the price of a single ticket is a good
work.
Not every one can find homes for
poor homeless little children, not every
one can personally minister to the
needs of destitute and forlorn old wo-
men, but there are but few who can
not give a little toward the support of
those who are unwelcome in most
places where their unhappy feet have
been set No more satisfactory Il way
to help can be devised now than i'm CIV
ing financial aid to the one enterprise
projected by this institution in many
| months The concert next Thursday
night will be well worth patronizing,
Even if it it We're not so superior in
every respect the public should be will
| ing to assist the Home when ready
| money is imperatively needed. There
has never been time when an appeal
| in behalf of the Home was made in
vain. May the many kind hearts in
| Scranton respond at this time.
Saucy Bess.
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