The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-01-05

worse and worse. Then I rebeliel and
played asain-piayed and got well.
1T is a part of me now, guess. With
all its work and study and travel and
homesickness and stage rights and
wooden smiles TO audiences that are only
blUrs of faces, must feed my ambitions
occasionally. I think the desire is inner
ent: only in part is it acquired. Some
tines the burden of it IS heavy; No nat
ter where l am I cannot get away from
the insistent demon, practice. Someone
has said so truly Go one day without
practice and I feel that do not play so
wen; go three days without it and my
friends tell me that [ am not doing my
self Justice: q week without practice and
my audiences discover the lapse Moth
ing ever was said so truly. Ny tasknlas-
ter is with me everywhere
Something was said Of Paderwsh and
others Of LoscEetizky's pupils.
"Blindfold me and put me in room
with Paderewski or Essipoff, or Sliv-
inski at the piano and / should recog-
nize the tutelage of Leschetisly The
oft-quoted Leschetizky method is al
bosh, but by a hundred little tricks and
mannerisms 1 should recognize one OF
his pupils in the dark. The man has
wonderful presence and power: I could
play things when he was by that 1 could
not have played in an hour after he was
gone. It is a knowledge OF the man
which causes a smile when his methods
are talked Of"
But it is hard to keep to music only
IN a talk with Nine. Decentralization.
7 am devoted TO home" she says. You
don't know how much unless 1 shosld
show you all through the house. 1 am
scrupulously neat, too, I fancy; I could
rot sit still to practice if there was
burnt match on the floor. This is not
wholly natural, either When Mr.. Zeisler
and 1 We're married his relations had sug-
gested the 'untidy artist nature.
wanted to prove that even an artist might
he tidy and have done it, I think The
habit has saved me so much trouble and
time, too, that if I am over-entnusiastic
on the subject should be excused"
on the second floor. il a large, airy
room, are three grand pianos, and on the
walls and mantel are evidences of the
friendships Of men and women known TO
music.
These laurel wreaths, too, pointing to
some floral pieces on the wall tied in
places by broad ribbons, remind ne of
some beautiful customs OF the old coun-
try; they come 70 me at the close If CON
certs which / gave in Vienna and Berlin
Nine. Bloomfeld-ZeisIer scarcely finds
time for society. On the last Wednesday
in each month she has an informal even
ing at home. in which are to be found
the choice spirits Of the art world IN Chi
cago. Her hospitality and that If her
husbands on such occasions are admir-
able. This, virtually, is her social life
Her mornings arc spent IN practice, and
at such times she denies herself to cal
lers
Her home life has its demands upon
her, too. Leonard. remarkably like his
mother in face and expression, is now i
years old, in the third year of high school
and becoming proficient on the violin
Paul. 4 years old. is described as being
musical and phenomenally
lazy. having at least 100 tunes in his vocal
repertory ard an Indifference to going
through with any one of them. The
is Ernest just a little over >
years old The mother is pleased that
none Of the children is in the prodigy
class; in any case a thorough education
viii be exacted OF them all before music
takes the lead.
Mrs. Bloomdeld-Zeisler has been elect
ed an honorary member Of the Chicago
Woman's club. and later was elected to
the honorary place in the Woman's
club at Peoria. Home is first with her.
however. and year after year she shows
greater Discrimination to break from it,