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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-10-18

A game of basket ball was played
last night between the high schools
of Idaho Springs rnd Georgetown
which resulted in a score of IS to
5 in favor of the home boys.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-10-18

"Billy' Williams and Mrs. F..
J. Cruise went to Denver on Tues
day morning and the twain were
made one. Thev will make their
home in Dry gulch. Billy is
one of the best single hand drillers
in the camp and is as faithful in
in his work as he is efficient.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-10-18

Calvary Guild will meet with Mrs
J. w. B. Smith next Wednesday after
noon.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-10-18

Chas. Hull is now going around
with his hand in sling. WnlIe
cutting tn IN the shop of the Mi es
Supply Co mpany his lett hand got
under the knife blade and his fin
gers were cut to the bone. 1t is 4
miracle that his fingers were not
entirely cut off
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-10-18

c-haffey Cross6ff IS nov proud
of:the name of Grand Uncle. His
neice Mrs. Frank Northrup re-
Gently gave birth to a son and
Charley made quick trip to her
home in Fountain, Colorado, to
congratulate both mother and son
She was formerly Miss Irene
Crosson and during the greater
part of her early life made her
home with Charley and his mothe
and no sister or daughter could
have been more lovingly reared r
cared for.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-10-18

The death of M-. James Cousins
occurred on Thursday morning in
Denver. He had been sick for
months, but until recently he was
able to attend business. He had
been contemplating going south
to spend the winter and was max
preparations for that purpose,
when his sickness took a very un-
favorable turn and resulted fatally
The deceased had resided in this
locality about a quarter of CEN
turv and his principal occupation
was mining. He was one of the
principals in the New Era property
that has been operating for the
past two or more years. He was a
genial fellow aud of a quiet un-
obtrusive nature. He had many
warm friends and the closer he
was known, the better his qualities
were appreciated. The funeral
services were held in Denver this
morning from Martins Under
taking parlors and were taken
charge of by the Denver Elks in
behalf of the local lodge of this
CITY
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-10-18

J. w. Welpton of Ogallala, and
A Muldoon of North Platte.
Nebraska, spent Sunday and
Monday in this city attending a
meeting of the directors of the
Argus Mines and Tunnel Company
of which they are respectively
President and Vice-president.
They took in the hot tunnel baths
while here.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-10-18

A Sherlock Holmes is IN demand
IN the west end of the city. For
several nights human spook has
been lowering around but as he
is fleet Of foot the efforts of tn c
residents have failed to catch him
In the a bsence of Sherlock it is
advised that instead of chasin e
him bodily that the watchers send
bullets after him and with no un-
erring aim. If they should trap
him other wise, then treat him to
a good coat of tar and feathers
The neighborhood is greatly agi-
tated and exercised over this
night marauder and woe be TO
him if he is caught
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-10-18
lass care and attention.

Mr.. Chas, F. Deylan is now pre-
pairing genuine horse radish for
the ruarket. He is a believer in
purefood and hence there will not
be found any turnips IN his rad
ishes as is so frequently the case.
1t will be unadulterated horse
radish of the best quality and will
be put up in the best vinegar. He
can be reae he'd at black 963 and
prompt delivery will be made.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-10-18

For a short time there was some
fun at the crossing of Fifteenth
and Miner streets on Tuesday
afternoon. }. NJ. Owen of the
Perfection barber shop was pay
ing a bet by carrying brick from
one corner to the next and re
placing it by another thus
passing the four corners for q
number of rounds. s i
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-10-18

The old maxim that lit is an i'll
wind that blows nobody good"
seems to be a correct one. The
big strike in the coal regions of
Colorado has resulted in the ad-
vance of coal a dollar per ton,
Some one must be getting the ad-
vantage of this i'll wind. ..
The thrilling story Of Theodore
in three parts will be the feature
for next week. 1t will be shown
at the Opera House next We'd
nesday night at the usual hours
and at the regular prices. 1t is
a story by Victorien Sardou of
the days of Empor Justinian and
and the Empress. The Empress
Theodore rulers of the Roman
Empire and is filled with romance
love, pathos aud tragedy.
The death of Mrs. Jessie R.
Williams occurred on Wednesday
For the past two or more years
she has been a sufferer from the
effects of a cancer. The funeral
services we're held at the home on
Sunnyside and conducted by Rev.
J. K. Hall, pastor of the Presby-
terian church and the remains
were inferred in the Idaho Spring
cemetery. She leaves husband
and three children to suffer the loss
They have the sympathy of many
friends
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-10-18

Miss May Swanson is visiting
her father +. P. Swanson. She
has completed her course in
nursing at the St Joseph hospital
in Denver and belongs to the prof
essional class. While here she will
respond to calls in her profession
and patients can be assured Of first
-
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the only stage in the world where such .
thing is possible-the whole permanent
company 10 able to sing Italian"
We were rolling down the Avenue
Montague to the residence OF Countess
Elenora de Cisnsros. The countess, who
was also born an American girl. was
already great dramatic soprano un-
der her maiden name Of Broadfoot; and
the higher she rises the more eager 10
her kind heart to aid others. She had
invited Gregor to hear voices; and the
group Of us sat in one parlor at dis
lance, while the singing went on in
the other.
l may not reveal artistic secrets, but
my heart bled for one girl, q young
German baroness. whose father had
lost the family fortune. She had been
brought up as a maid OF honor to a
kings sister, and her entire appear
ance and manner breathed the negli-
gent elegance and dainty reserve of
those who dwell in kings palaces.
Slender, gracious, delicately pretty,
she poised herself by the accompanied
and let out volumes OF melody that
seemed to an outsider as delicious as
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1t Squashes Them.

WV LILLIAN DEAN HOWELLS. at his
w country house at York harbor. was
admonishing a young novelist. who after
writing a fine and successful novel. had
written only easy, commercial, slight :
things.
Mr.. Howells. as always with him.
couched his admonition in terms OF fne
and delicate originality.
1.-TWO critics." he said TO the young
man. "were discussing q certain author.
His laurels,' said the hryt critic.
ALREADY seem faded and bedra0g1ed.'
THAT the other critic agreed. y.
because he has been rest1ng=0n them
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to dress her, for example, and he cut
them down to one. There was a strike.
Hans had to talk about 1t with the,
prince, who simply answered: Yes. dear
Gregor,. I know It Is a terrible expense
but SO is the geological; garden.
The prince mentioned is Montenuova,
a relative OF Francis Joseph.
"The only persons who are over my
husband are the emperor and the prince"
night is a subscription night. Society
meets at the opera; and 1t makes the
most brilliant sight in Europe. Also our
orchestra is the best in the world
There are glimpses of brilliant life
made for a cultured and successful func-
tionary by appreciative aristocrats. In.
the operate world the dictatorship at
Vienna is, in itself, the highest post that
exists The director of the Metropolitan
Of New York may be better paid in
money: but there is no comparison. either
artstically or socially. Moreover,
gather from other sources that the posi-
ton Of the present incumbent Is extraor--
binary. Few. indeed, are the women
not born in Vienna society who have
the entree to houses that are open 70
Director Gregor and his wife.
In artistic intimacies ii is equally allur-
"When Richard Strauss comes. she
said, 1--WE make dinners for him. Puccint
is coming in the fall. when Gregor Is
going to produce The Girl of the Golden
West Yes. that's me, Hans says. DO |
remember Denver? Rather. / am dying
to go back there on a visit: but l won
STERLING HELLO.
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people to unfimely ends than you could
count by nagging: the kind Of man who
in the middle of your singing jumps up.
crying, That's the way l want it, and
sticks his finger nearly down your throat
and breathes onions into your face and
gives you a nervous shock.
She threw her opera book at his head,
telegraphed her mother to meet her In
Munich and went back to Bayreuth to
study-"and there my husband caught up
to me-"
Hans 1regor was still director of the
opera houses Of Elberfeld and Barmen
He wanted her to make an engagement
It ended in their marriage.
He said: do you love me enough TO
stop singing? 1 am an opera director,
SO my wife must not sing"
She said: Yes" She loved him.
"Just before our marriage Hans had
built the Opera Comique in Berlin on
his own speculation. There's where he
made himself a great name, produced
big operas, did brilliant artistic things
and refused to so to Vienna as director
Of the Imperial Opera before Weingart,
to him and very happy: but after six
years we saw that 1t was not possible to
run frst-class opera without money from
the government or city-a subsidy. so
when the Vienna appointment was offer
ed him again he took 1t for ten years.
"He had enough OF producing opera
with his own money. 1t is impossible.
The chorus and orchestra cost a fortune
singers demand fabulous prices. At Ber-
lin my husband furnished all their Co.'S
tunes for the first singers. and had ex-
pensive specialists to make scenery from
designs by the best painters. The things
which made his reputation In Berlin also
made him poor in pocket, you can say
ne MAS near broke. But in Vienna every
thing is magnificent.
The ballet itself costs fortune" con-
cluded the former Denver girl. Hans
wanted to make cuts on it that would
not have hurt Each girl has two women
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A D0uChe for a Pedant.

DROF. THOMAS R LOUNSBURY OF
! Yale Is q foe to the purist and the
pedant. as his brilliant essays show. He
who insists on saying Tomorrow Will be
Thursday will find no champion in Prof.
Lounsbury.
On a New England vacation, the pro-
fessor. gazing out across the lake one
gray and sultry afternoon, remarked:
TT looks like rain.
A pedant was rocking IN rockihs
chair nearby.
What looks like rain. professor ne
chuckIed 'Ha, ha! I've got you there.
What looks like rain?
Water Prof. Lounsbury answered
colby
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many and Austria, where the ensemble
is everything?"
Riding about Paris in taxi-autos cuts
up conversation.
Are you never jealous to get back
into the spot light?" I asked.
NO" she answered. Il sit by one who
decides the destinies Of other singers"
.It is curious said, that you never
sang in America"
Maurice Grau talked to me once. He
said: Della Rogers. have known you
ever since you were a young one. Don't
YOU think you had better come over to
American It was to second Nordica;
but I was ct the beginning Of my love
with Grsgor. saw only Gregor. and
there was nothing doing"
Which brings us to the love story.
came from Denver to Paris with her
mother to study under Anna DC Lag
range. She made her debut in st. Pet
tersburg IN the role OF Carmen. Then
Immediately followed something almost m os
unnamed, undiscovered. and unan-
nounoed, the eighteen-year-oldA American
riri was engaged In the Scala at Milan
10 create the big contfalto role In MAS
cagnis 'RatclifEe" and the leading role
in "Andrea Chenier' OF Giordana. She
remained two years.
Half the sopranos of the world claim to
have sung at the Scala Less have done
It. When we were at the Cisneros fiat.
the count took down Records great book
ON the Scala, where every singer. In every
role and performance is recorded from
the ScAla's beginning IN the eighteenth
century. The countess having herself
SUNG at tho Scala, the count was familiar
with Ricordi Laughingiy he turned over
its pages and discovered, on the spot.
that Della Rogers had been the first
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A Definition.

tfTO succeed-I am referring TO
financial successfully one quail
ity sufices, the quality of smartness.
And how. dear friends, would We define
smartness?"
Bishop Blougram. who was delivering
a lecture In Duluth, paused and smiled
Then he said:
The smart man, dear friends, IL he
who Is able to put the shoulders OK
others to the wheel.
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most directors are not-polite in the ex-
treme.
An American girl helps him do it.
A girl from Denver shares his cares and
honors, and Is received on q more init
mate social footing than some ambassa-
doris wives. perhaps, by high-born Wen
nese society.
She is Della Rogers that was. Every
one bows Della Rogers, the American
soprano: but many may have lost sight
Of her since her marriage to Europe's
premier opera director. This is the story
OF the love for which she left the tri-
umphs of the footlights.
II am SO happy that have never re-
gretted anything" she says. Oregon and
j ar still two turtledoves."
They were trying voices in Paris ard
went about with them, one memora ole
summer afternoon.
In taxi-autos, beneath the shade. an
scenes tenderly remembered from I"
days when she was a girl student w.t.
her mother in Paris. 1t was natural TO LIT
herself go in unprecedented American
enthusiasms
They are very noble in Vienna she
said. IF any one does anything, IL an
artistic does not come to sing-where in
another theater he would be fined or
sued--in Vienna they just let 1t go, and
send flowers when You have sore
throat. We had an American girl this
year with 5000 kroners salary. who sang
only eight times because she was sick;
vet she was paid her full year. 1t IL the
only opera house in the world that can do
such things. II there is a deficit OF two or
three millions. there is never q reproach.
Ny husband may spend as much as he
likes, pay what salary he pleases; but II
II q great responsibility.
StnoerS come to him for engn8ements
FROM al over Europe When am with
him II is painful to me: and IL Il painful
to HIM also. They come all the year: but
a. Paris Is the center for International
arttotes we come to Paris In the spring
to hear whatever Is good and see about
gettine them. OF course We cannot &C.
cept the great majority, who do not sing
IN German. Caruso Is. the only one for
whom we make exception, because he is
loyal and Imperial Kamner-S Sanger. q
title bestowed on him by the emperor.
/. Whenever Caruso sings in Vienna, in
order that the production shall be ar
tistic, the whole company, even to the
chorus, sings Italian with him. That is
the way they do things in Vienna. 1t is
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American. either girl or man. to sing:
role at the Scala.
She sang Aida at Palermo and Carmen
and Werther at Turin as mezzo. Il
was only nineteen years old then" She
made a tour OF Roumania, Turkey and
Greece with Prince Ghica. who wanted
to marry her, and told all over Roumania
that he was going to do SO. Il didn't
my singing. but he thought to turn my
head with his title"
She made other tours in. Switzerland
and France, but wanted to sing Wag-
ner," she says, land went to Germany,
singing at first in Italian and French"
'That was where I met my husband,
but we did not know 1t. I was singing
Dalila in the opera house at E1berfeld.
and the director, who seemed to be very
good looking and kind. spoke up to me
in English with such q terrific East Side
accent that I called to him across the
stage. He said: You are an American
I said: Yes, and I know where you
learned that English He had begun
life as a naval engineer, and had made
half a dozen trips to America They call
it going with the ship to learn practical
work He always regretted not having
stayed In America"
Singing important engagements in ltal-
ian and French at Berlin. Budapest.
Hamburg, st. Petersburg and Moscow.
she made the great reputation which
everybody knows. At Budapest she
changed to soprano, sang for Cosirna
Wagner at Bayreuth, and was sent to
Mahler, at Vienna, to study German and
the great Wagnerian soprano roles.
81 was to have been engaged In Vienna, =
she said, but had row with Mailer.
Do you know what 1t Is to be alone and
nervous in a strange town. and nagged
by a man? That Mailer brought more
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tainly throbs with real life; yet the usual
productions Of 'Boheme' have always
been carried out according to the indy
ing traditions Of the italian opera houses
OF the early nineteenth century, namely.
that the soprano and the tenor had to oc-
cupy the center Of the stage, no matter
what be the demands Of the drama-as in
the Russian satire on grand opera called
.Wampuka,' wherein after all sorts of
farcical situations the heroine is lost in
the desert; yet as the curtain rises she
IL found lying on q gilded bed in the
ocean Of sand. bewailing her fate. And
who has not seen the unfortunate lovers
in Aida leaving their tomb In the last
act to take the final notes of their duet?
80, it was no easy task, that 'Boheme
production. Artistes love traditions: and
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enough rehearsals," replied Della Rog-
ers ALSO the star system will spoil al
most any artist. The. same IL likely to
be true Of orchestra leaders-they only
think Of themselves not for anybody
else or the ensemble
Then she flushed up.
Il do not believe the American public
wants the star SYSTEM" she said earnest
ly. 1T is only an excuse. 1t makes my
blood boil 10 hear American managers
called Barnums, and to hear it said that
the American public demands stars, to
be sure that 1t Is all right to applaud
them-as IL they did not know enough to
Judge any singer who Is not q star on
her own merits! l answer II Americans
appreciate only stars, why is it that they
so like European opera especially In Ger
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impossible to come from so gracile a
body. She almost concealed her
ness; but / had seen look In her eye
which troubled me when whispered
to Alexander Kahn. the Paris repre-
sentative OF Gregor. that she was
every good" Kahn simply whispered
back: Your are easily pleased" Going
down the stairs ] said to Gregor: isn't
she good enough" He answered: "She
sang more voice than she had. Yes. it
Is a pretty voice, but let her begin
with leading roles In some minor opera
house"
AS affable to the most humble be-
ginner as to the most famous star.
Hans Gregor is at the same time one Of
the seyerest dfsciplinarians To hear
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ANS GRhOR, d.
rector of the Vienna
Royal Imperial
Opera House, does
not give, at all, the
impression of being
one of the great
powers of the OF
cratic world. He is
genial; he is good
natured. simple in
manner, simple in
dress and is-whaf
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1--WE are not as radical as that in vi
emma. To us opera still means music be-
fore everything else: but the trend OF the
times is toward musical drama, that is.
q blending Of the best elements Of drama
and opera. We try to produce operas In
such a manner that the action becomes
plausible without detracting from the
value of the music. May I recall that in
the early days Of Wagner production
the beautiful melodies were marred by
the shouting OF tho artistes. who found
themselves 1T q loss In trying to live up
to the demands OF the book! We have
eliminated al that in Vienna.
LAS an example, take our production Of
Puccinfs 'Boheme.' The libretto GER
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that this IL the man who keeps artists
rehsarsing morning, noon and night for
weeks, personally supervising every
detail, unyielding, strict. exacting.
asked him about opera in English:
kin IN opera, even II the music be
very beautiful. and that many bad
score has been saved from perdition by
q clever book in France" replied Hans
Gregor.
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You say that the question agitating
America at present is that Of opera In
the vernacular." continued Gregor. Il am
heartily in favor OF the plan. although
cannot shut my eyes to the advantages
Of singing opera in the language in
which the libretto was originally written.
But to give opera on this scale would
involve several troupes in a theater.
which would mean prohibitive prices. l
hold that every language is singable. pro-
vided that the diction Is good. We have
the same difficulties for the German Ian
guage; but we insist on good diction; and
with good diction. proper enunciation
and willingness there is no reason why
the English language should not sound as
beautiful. or nearly as beautiful. as the
Italian, the Russian or the French
I turned to his gentle helpmeet-
Have you any advice for native land?'
/ asked.
America SPOTS singers by not having
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AMERICAN GIRL is COARBrTER OF THE IMPERIAL OPERA

1t took weeks Of rehearsing before they
realized that the new way is really the
must be persuaded to cultivate English
diction.
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How Della Rogers
Married Hans Gregor
The Worlds Premier
Dircctor-The Magnif-
cence of Vienna-Trv-
ing Voices in Paris
Gregor Favors Opera in
English.

Special Correspondence Of The star.
PARIS August 2D 1914
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tOpoyxaxAt. 1913. By Herbert KaufmanJ


and hereditary foes Of humanity Souy and awk
uard but steadily and surely learning to attack the
invisible brotherhood but health and security be assured
by the Of founess and publication of
Chloride of lime and carboic acid and the of competent
andeptics only halfway We drain polluted ponds
and oil the agnant of dead eradicate the breeding
grounds of mosquitoes and kindred winged pest.
We regulate and abaoirs and lon,er the
of mortality from uncean feeding but greatest battle
upithn ourselves. Penicious little habits human aH
ueaken the engines of vitality and bore their tunnels through
the Of force and character Seespect and restraint
Of passions essential to longevity defense Of food supply
and physical propyaxs The mind must be kept ,ooesone
Dangerous desires be controlled by the shacLes Of DA
Every time we act every think the mind makes
record Each repetition of thought deeens the
groove and tends render the similar impulse auto
eatic the brain becomes like photograph disc and
without apparent find ourselves guilty Of
against morality
Then habit becomes master and the man the sLas The
fight seN-contron easy the grous azous
and heartbreaking as the years progress
On gusrd Clean thought well clean air and clean food
and clean Physical cleanliness matter of mind
well bodv