Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-21

were kind enough to visit me after the
concert, were Graf Sell ana his party.
This alone was more than / had hopeu
for But when | was invited to the
Grafs house TO dinner. ! felt that
must stop before It was too late.
knew that / was In love, and | though.
/ knew that my humble origin would
bar me in the sight of such a family
as that, as sultor at least No man
Is more proud of his father and moth
er than ! am, alone know how muca
| owe to the love, the care and self
sacrifice and teachings Of my father.
But, YOU see people In Europe look at
position and birth ~ a different light
from the American theory especially
where marriage is concerned. Most of
them think that man who is born a
peasant Is bound TO be q peasant all his
life But that Is not the idea my father
bad In view. He had high ambitions
for all OF rs, but | think he centered
good many Of them on me. And 1t
was not my idea TO be a peasant, al
though II often seems to me that many
Of the truest hearts the kindest ma
lures, were among the simple folk in
whose midst ! was brought up.
But they who call them peasants DO
not know this, would think nothing OF
II il they did know. So ] imagined that
! was asked not as a friend but as a
curiosity, in the spirit Of what you call
llon-hWters. Therefore | refused their
first invitation. Pride, thought, would
not be monopoly of those born IN
castles was sure that the gardeners
father was finer man than the counts
and indeed. no counts father ever
showed the love that mine did for me-
But next day the invitation was re-
10 hot I
had INDUCED In, for | had mistaken
the Intentions OF people whose nobility
WAS deer In their minds as well as In
their birth
/ have read so MANY different ac-
counts OF my marriage or a truth
there seem to be people especially writ
ers on the newspapers. who know more
about mo and my history than | do
myself. ] have seen statements I'm print
that had married an elderly countess.
very plain Of face and gauche OF mien.
Maybe II Is natural for me. her hus-
band, to think that she is beautiful. As
for her age. she is considerably young
err than I am. and | am hardly what
you would call patriarch, but then.
have been Obliged to become accus-
toned 10 all sorts Of things like those
nerspar1r accounts. When | first
started out on my tours ! called my
managers to account, Am ! then to
have no privaCy?' | demanded. can
see no reason why my private life af-
fairs should be discussed The reply
that I received from Mr. Gorlltz at
first overwhelmed me. you have no
private life be said. But ! think Mr..
Gorlitz wanted to prepare me for the
worst by letting me know little more
than the actual worst.
From the ver. Geginning " my ca
reer, | have had the strongest horror
of want. You know my family WAS very
poor until I was about 10 years old.
And even then ! did not know what II
was to be absolutely sure Of an IN
come. ] have been afraid all the time
that something might happen to take
me back to those old times of hardship
and subject my mother to poverty"
Kubelk's concert at the Tabernacle
Friday evening viii be the feature Of
this musical season, Tie viii be as
sisted by Miss Agnes Gardner Eyre,
solo pianist and Herr Lud'Nig Schwab,
accompanist.