El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-07-12
5GHUMANH-HEIHK
DEFIE5 The HEAT
Diva, Whose Voice Has Made
a Million, Enthuses Over
the WestandHerFamilv.

Summer suns have no terrors for
Scnumalu-l lelnh, the great German
American diva. For As minutes she
stood on the platform of the union
station III FL PaSO, with the mercury
flirting with the 100 mark, the pers-
piraLiOn -rickling down her wholesome
German face, and talked OF the wonder
ful west. her adopted America, and the
mother
Madam Schumann-Ueink arrived on
the Golden State limited and left on
that vehicle OF progress. While she
was mere she talked about exactly %
different subjects, lnteIligcntly about
an, euthuSed about the west and eSpe-
Cially her sons home in san Diego.
talked woman's suffrage from a neg
atlVe angle, shop about her singing
which brought her the means for max
ing 50 many people happy; about her
own family and about the great COun-
try OF her adoption, which she calls
Madam Schumann-Heink is a German
housewife, and is true TO type. She
cares nothing for the frills Of society.
She says so herself But she does love
houseWork and can and does DO her
own washing when the occasion de-
mauCS- But most Of all more than her
ART, her love of country. is her love OF
that Scnumann- Heink family of six
happy boys two girls and her six
Is Proud of Her Children.
Son Hans ne is such q fine lad and
ne does work SO. hard on his ranch
what I gave him she MARBLES in that
SLOCU.0ay voice which has set the world
TO cheering. And son Ferdinand and
son August and. ach, my fine little son,
George Washington, who was born uu-
der the stars and stripes, who is at
tending Culver Military academy TO
prepare him for Annapolis ] LOT them
and they lof me, and what more could
q mother want in this world
Is n Booster.
If Madam Scnuma nn-Heink was a
real estate dealer instead of diva and
She would make a rafting good one.
she would be known as a Booster a
town builder and an empire maker.
About san Diego she is as enthusiastic
rs is her friend. DC. Collier. She is an
enthuiast about everything that is
western and she is investing her good
American dollars in western properties,
q ranch near san Diego. one in South
Dakota, and she is wiling TO buy an
other near II Paso, II the land owners
can convince her that it is q good buy
She is an american citizen, is proud Of
10, with no less love for the farherlaud
which gave her birth. To prove it she
IS going back to Germany next summer
TO sing at the Waguerian festival as
her tribute TO the great wagner.
Not a SuffraEet.
Madam Schumaun- Heink does not be-
Ieve In Womans suffrage. u wOm-
ans place is in the home" she says
and proves II by producing pictures of
herself doing a good, old fashioned
II the real women stay at home and
care for their families, there viii be
no need Of votes for women for. after
ali the woman is the real boss"
"Cau YOU turkey trOt. Madam Schu-
maun-HeiuE2'
ZACH, no. Not IN public But when I
ge- alone with my sons and they grab
me, then what I do Is different"
Il 80 Now.
The diva is %. She says so herself
without trace Of shame. The reason
for this is that s-se Goes not look it.
Her complexion IS like a peach, brown
with tint OF red under the skin. Her
hair is the soft gray that makes a man
think of his mother, and her smile
it is q broad gage, good, old German
smile She is on her way back to Chi
CagO. her c-cy nome. to begin a series
OF summer engagements at the Chau-
tauquas. She loves to sing at the sum
mer Chautauquas.
II am the richest primma donna in
the world" she said as the train left
the station. Il have a fine family, I
have all Of the love in the world, and I
live in the finest country I'm the world.
What more could one moral wish