The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-01
Special Correspondence Of Tho journal.

Special Correspondence journal. il,
~ ERLIN, june s.-Mme. Johanna Gadski in tho
II past eight years, has become so closely
nected with the musical life of America thru
her frequent appearances in concert and operathat
most people, in attempting to give her local habita-
ton are inclined to count her distinctly Ameri.
can singer Nordica or Eames. This impression is
perhaps strengthened by the fact that her husband
Hans Tauscher, is the American representative Of
large German mercantile enterprise and Is consequently
closely identified with American business interests.
But while both ardent admirers of America and
Americans their German fatherland has still the
stronger claim upon them and the close Of the must
cal and business finds them established In their
beautiful Berlin home the fashionable Kurfuersen
Damn.
set her Lares and Penates is fitting frame for the
artistic personality of the great singer. Here, how
ever, it is not much the artist the woman whom
one comes to know best. In real life she is a
whose chief characteristic Is irresistible charm Of
youhfulness which is not SO much matter Of years
as of temperament
Here in her Berlin home, surrounded by everything
chat art can DEVISE money buy, her womanly in
stincts hold full sway. Every fad and fancy be
lnduged in and she gives herself up to the beautiful
task Of home-makng. She is ideal hostess and her
home breathes hospitality. It is genuine welcome,
too, which carries with 1t suggestion Of the give
andtake principle upon which modern society its
artificial structure Particularly to Americans Is this
hospitality extended, that facetious German woman
was led to suggest that pacard be put up stating
"German also spoken here"
In spite Of Gadski's Polish name, Germany Is the
land Of her birth and she has all the instincts Of the
German hausfrau and is happier than when
dering dinner, looking after the material wants
of her family, be it in the humble capacity Of
purveyor of the winter hosiery She is extremely prac
tical and looks in vain for the traditional trade
marks Of the prima donna. She is adored alike by her
family friends and serving people, to all of whom she
shows the same lovable, gracious and sunny nature
She is generous to fault and suffers the penalty Of
all bighearted, open-handed people, in having her gen
erosity often imposed upon Many American girl
opportunity for European study to her, and
ingrattude broken faith and disappointing denounce
mens have too often been the only harvest Gadsk has
reaped from her philanthropc impulses.
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Everywhere In the home felt traces of Ameri-
influence, nowhere perhaps strongly than in
her husbands den which is rich in Indian baskets,
rugs and weapons wonderful embroidered from
the Chinese quarter of San Francisco the whole form
ing delightful cosy for the inevitable after
dinner cigar of the guests with whom this hospitable
room is always filed. Here assembled day
when startled by blood-curdling shrek sug
costing only fire murder, but which it drew
developing into cry Of joy with which Nine.
Gadski heraldng the recovery of lost brooch of
pearls and diamonds. The bantering alluson to her
Bunnhilde lungs passed unnocud in her pleasure
which unafectedly childish would have been