The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-23

Women who adopt a career these
days, whether it be music. art or other
things, must expect to devote their
lives and all their time to it. Music is
one of the most eXacting of the arts.
and particularly is this the case with
the possessor of a good voice. 1t is
necessary to give more care to the
voice than to children, and to keep
constant watch against illness. colds
or anything that would interfere with
it. There is one st. Paul woman who
has gone to New York and made d
great success, who is absolutely thor
ough in the care of her voice. She
does not allow any social pleasures
nor anything that she would enjoy to
interfere with the strict guard she
keeps upon her voice. No going out in
the night air; no low gowns. exposing
the throat, can a singer wear. except
when she is filling engagements, and
then she wraps up carefully and
never speaks while in the open air.
One st. Paul singer of renown spends
weeks getting ready for any concert
in which she is going to sing: she
has her maSseur come every day. she
practices so many hours, and on the
day of the concert she does not rise
until night, so as to be perfectly fresh
for the evening.
But all this in the case of a married
woman interferes seriously with do
meSticity. It would be difficult to saw
how many divorces have been caused
by feminine devotion to career, but it
is certain that the number is not
small A society to entertain and pro-
tect husbands of musical women would
not be a bad thing. 1t has come to the
choice of husband or a career with
several musical women in this CITY
and to their credit. be it said. they
have chosen their husbands. There is
no doubt that the travelling about to
fulfill engagements and the mingling
with professional folk certainly en-
genders a bOhemiaism which i'll ac-
cords with domestic felicity and has
broken up more than one household
On the other hand. if woman has a
beautiful voice. or great musical abil-
ity of other kind and a slender purse,
1t is rather hard that she should be
barred from turning her talents to
account. But few men like their wives
to earn money-that is the right kind
or men-and many a man has COM
planned bitterly of either being left
alone on Sundays in solitary grandeur.
While his wife sings in a church choir.
or being dragged" as he would ex-
press II, to church twice and to re-
hearsal IN the week. One husband of
a St Paul singer always went with
her both to church and to rehearsal
ana was never heard to complain but
he wore a martyr-like air which went
to his wife's heart until she finally
gave up her work. A man is certainly
entitled to the society of his wife on
the only day in the week on which he
Is free to enjoy his home. Then there
are many women who are selfish and
determined to go on with their chosen
work, even knowing it makes their
husbands miserable. All that has been
Sald OF women with a career is equally
n I-i.N all
take but little interest in it. and thew
are entitled to as much sympathy as
men under the same circumstances.
"hen woman marrieS it iseWeII for
her to make up her mind to give I'D a
professional career. for the two occu-
pations cannot we'll be blended.
The fad for giving queer, out of the
common entertainments has not. hap-
ply become the fashion In st. Paul.
surely it is an evidenee7of refinement
TO entertain in a. conventional way and
not TO surprise ones guests with the
unexpected: But fTf New York and even
IN Parls certain persons seem to have
exhausted the ordinary WAYS of anus
ing themselves, and are giving freak
dlnners, and freak entertainments of
all Kinds, which, if they do nothing
else, serve as good reading matter for
more humdrum folk. One of the most
remarkable of these freak affairs was
given just after Easter by a New York
woman in the ballroom of Sherry's and
proved great surprise for her guests
Ii was luncheon for thirty-five women
ana the room into which the women
were uShered was made to represent a
huge egg. In this egg the luncheon
was served; outside of it the room was
made into country scene, with plants.
vegetable gardens, live animals run
and
crossed by rustic bridges. On one side
We're the farm house and barns with
ShedS and hay rickS Young nigs
lambs and other domestic pets ran
ABOUT, and walters in the guise of farm
hands served the luncheon and added
10 the realism of the scene. Into the
huge egg set in the midst of the farm
yard, the guests entered at one O'clock
remaining at the tables until five; these
tables were perfect oval to carry ont
the hostess idea, and the decorations
were yellow and white as the interior
OF a well regulated egg should be. It
Is SAFE to say that no woman ever sat
down to more unique repast.
A diner given in Paris approached the
luncheon if it did not equal it in Cd
olty 1t was called an Aerial dinner
ana was appropriately given by Santos
Dumont to his friends. The tables for
ms guests were seven feet high. and
TIE walters walked about on stills. the
chairs were on legs long and thin and
were reached by means of a flight of
steps. Above the heads of those pres
eht was miniature model of the San
tos-Dumont flying machine which cir
c!ed over their heads as they enioyed
their dinner After the repast the
guests were taken into another room
where elevated billiard tables furnished
amusement. 1t is said that the host
ana inventor has become so accustomed
10 elevation that he finds it difficult TO
ENJOY anything on the level This is
interesting to read about, but seems
10 the ordinary mortal as an evil
dence OF mental alteration; if not that
10 pitch of absurdity hard to appre-
clate. 1t is the old cry of something
new from a people jaded and tired,
VINO nave tried everything and found
no SATISFACTION anywhere. st. Paul goes
sensloiy on having its dinners on the
Ordinary table and not following the
rIdlculous fashions set by the effete
East.
A st. Paul man made a statement
lately that astonished his hearers very
much. The conversation turned on
charity and he made the remark that
he was down on day nurseries. and
said that they took the care of their
children away from mothers and gave
women a chance to support drunken
husbands who ought to be the bread
winners. In other words IT made the
bad husband business very easy. The
only remedy, say the charity workers
is investigation. The nurseries should
never take the pbiI6ra,, Of ,,,o,, W. -.