The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-12-26

10 tneLf homes.
Some of them were 100 much discOur-
aged to attempt to begin a career when
they knew that failure was certain.
So they stayed on studying or pretend
ing to so long as their families at home
were able to provide the money.
Others cut loose from their families
altogether. Study in Paris does not
tend to strengthen the domestic feelings
in women. Some especial INSTANCES
will show the results of European
study on certain Americans.
In Paris to-day there is a handsome
American woman who seems to be
about thirty-five Her son is in this
country and she occasionally comes
here to see him. Then those of her old
friends who are willing to look at her
remarks that she seems almost ten
years younger than they know her to
be-
AS a young widow she went abroad
to cultivate her voice. Her husband
had driven her away by his cruelty
and it was necessary for her to do
something to support her child. She
lived in a cheap boarding house and
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Self-sacrifice was not much in her
line, but she made struggle. She was
dainty woman and she loved the
pretty things of life. After a while she
began to have some of them, even as a
student.
Her voice was not remarkable, but
she was a good musician and after
while the time for her to make debut
came. She was a woman of the kind
to attract managers and soon got an
engagement at an opera house in an
Austrian city.
The compensation was. of course,
very small. She struggled to live on it
and succeeded for a while.
There were rich officers in the garri-
son town and the American was beau
tiful. She devoted still much time to
her art, but she found some for the Of
ficers.
The third year of her career she trav-
eled through the German and Russian
cities and sang in Paris and London.
There were already more diamonds and
officers and less time for work.
Then the career suddenly ended, for
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here to sing in concert that her own
eountry might have the opportunityf of
hearing her .once. Her failure was
complete and she decided to attempt
comic opera.
She was not suited to that and there
was another failure. The diamonds
We're going and the last went to bay
her passage back to Europe.
They were all redeemed soon after
she reached Paris, Now she lives there
is beautiful style and is vaguely said
by her friends to be teaching"
The young married woman who goes
abroad to study, and then finds, when
the time to come home has arrived,
that she is quite out of sympathy with
her husband, gets into the newspapers
almost every month.
One woman left wealthy husband
five years ago to prepare for debut
that has not yet been made, although
she is approaching forty After five
years of life in Paris her husband got
a divorce and, without means. she had
to come back to this country. Now
she is still studying" in Chicago for
the famous debut that is yet to be
made.
Another Americant who really had
talent left her husband, at prosperous
business man, to study in ITALY. He
got a divorce, and she is travelling
through the smaller italian cities
She has been doing that for five
years, with little indication that she
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and her earnings are so small that, live
as economically as she may, her family
here has to contribute to her support
Another case will illustrate what
may occur when the student happens to
have little money. This was the lot
of an American girl who had from
youth played on the violin.
One of the great virtuosos who came
here heard her play and occa sionaily
declared that she had great talent and
should go to Europe although he knew
perfectly we'll that his advice was
wrong. But just such careless praise
as thisisu ually the cause of trouble.
The girl was, of course, certain she
would make a great career. Her fam
lily, in view of what the violinist had
said, was perfectly willing to have her
go to Europe.
She was introduced there to teach
err by the player who had advised her
to study abroad. She took an apart
ment and began work,
She was ill for four months in one
year. The next year she had to re-
turn here for several months. She
studied and played occasionally for
friends, who sent back glowing ac-
counts of what she had accomplished.
After another year she gave a con-
cert which her women friends attended
and enjoyed and there were few po-
lite lines in the newspapers which her
manager afterward told her of and
said he had paid for. Anyhow, she had
to pay him.
Other students came to her in their
distress and borrowed money because
they knew she had it. More study fol-
lowed and two years later came the
time for the final appearance
1t had to be bought of course. She
had to pay for the hall and all the 9TH
er expenses. And there was but the
barest mention of the affair in the pa
pers, without a word from any of the
musical critics of Paris.
Then she tried London. There the
prospects were so discouraging that
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