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Evening star., 1914-10-25

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said.
YES" replied Nevada.
Permit me to ask you." I said,
mf-"
my daughter" she said, never had
a lesson in her life from anybody but
myself, singing, acting. diction, Italian
pronunciation and all. She sings in
French. German, Spanish. Italian and
English. When she made her debut 1
called everybody's attention to her. be-
cause 1 was proud of her: and natural
ly, everybody was interested in her.
and spoke of her. and SO 1 sort of got
out Of the way. And the strange thing
is that, now that she has made her
name. everybody seems to have felt the
thing. and they say to me: Now Won
will sing""
Thus. surely and steadily, without
knowing 1t. we bumped into the great
European war.
Madame" I asked, what are your
secret plans?'
Nevada smiled indulgently.
mo one has ever heard me sing La
Boheme,'" she answered. yet 1 was
the one who brought it to Paris, being
engaged to produce 1t at the Opera
Comique. But 1 had a quarrel with
Director Carre Ono. not about a white
dress). This suggested to Melba that
a light soprano could sing La Boheme,'
the fact that 1 had been chosen to do
it, and 1t caused Melba to buy the
opera for London. She took 1t to Lon
don as her own property.
I was not deceived. Nevada was spar
ring to gain time. Perhaps the mo-
ment was not quite ripe, but 1t cer-
tainly would be within a few days.
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She hesitated. She burned to tell about
the Vienna engagement. And what
about Madrid? Alexander Kahn re-
Gently of Boston. and more recently
me Paris representative of the Royal
Madrid Opera, had taken the habit of
taking tea with Nevada. AS to Vienna.
Herr Hans Gregor. director Of the I'm
perial Vienna Opera. being on HIS an
nual sojourn at the Hotel Edward VII.
with his wife, did all his trying out OF
voices at Nevada's saloons in the Rue
de Bassano.
His wife is Della Rogers that was. a
dear friend of Nevada. and the great
soprano we all know. She gave up
fame for love. She was SO happy Now,
alas. where is the happiness Of Della
Rogers-Gregor. honored helpmate of
Hans Gregor. famous Vienna director
and personal friend of his serene high.
ness. Prince Montenuovo, grand cham-
berlafn and master Of the court? Where
is Gregor? Where is the imperial en-
gagement of Nevada? Where is any.
thing?
The career Of Della Rogers, the Dem
ver Doctors daughter. may not be a
book romance of the style of girls who
marry titles. but 1t was as beautiful.
high and satisfactory. socially, estheti-
cally and lunuriously. as any fulfilled
ambition can be-until the breaking
out of this abominable war!
Her social position in the strict
Vienna court was as fortunate as it
was exceptional. Hans Gregor, below
ed and admired for his art and admin
istration, went everywhere. His wife
went with him, and the great ladies'.
the 'born." went to her. Aye. and the
great composers. artistes and men OF
learning. Il am perfectly happy" she
said last July.
Now. Hans Gregor is an Austrian Of
ficer of reserve. lighting. and probably
killed along with the others Of the
devoted garrison of PrEemysl.
The music of Vienna is the funeral
march!
Who could have dreamed such things
that afternoon when Nevada was on
the point of telling me her European
engagements?
What will become of the extraordi.
nary new opera-"different from any
ever written. in the moral tone of the
book and the aspirations Of the
Will it be reserved for a re-
generated Europe-to symbolize, per-
haps, the work Of that regenerationf
1t is sufficiently completed to be pro-
duced in America? I doubt.
Nevada, I know, was at once proud
and fearful about that opera. She inti-
mated that 1t would be the crowning
of her life, or might be that of a rival
prima donna should she happen to get
wind Of the idea. The composer of tho
modern Italian-could
not sleep of nights for worry. Now
he is going to the war. too.
Alas, what do I know7
What does anybody know?
They are bombarding cathedr&ls and
STERLING HEILIG.
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UST before the
war broke out L
had a great artis-
tic beat.
T h e American
nightingale will
sing grand opera
again.
Engagements at
Vienna and Mad
rid which would
create artistic SEN
SdtlOn were con-
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Austin, New. was being taken. with
other American girls, by DR.. Ebel to
his musical school in Berlin. On the
boat he died. and seventeen-year-o
Emma, out of her own head, took the
girls to Erlich, in Berlin. to ask ad
vice. Erlich sent them on to Mar
chest, at the Vienna Conservatory, and
only when she had safely delivered her
charges did the Nevada girl-the
youngest of the bunch--let herself
break down.
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wings. Emma Nevada will resume her
operatic career. What are your plans?'
my daughter-"
Pardon. You did not really stop
singing?'
mo, 1 hid. You see. my daughter
debuted under my name 1 thought
that as she had my name, there would
daughter for while, until she had
made a name of her own. They all
understood it perfectly-so much SO
that the day after Mignon's enormous
success at the CONSTANT, the impre-
sario and the papers asked me on be-
half of the Roman public If 1 would
not sing now. Never had there been
such a debut at Rome as my daughters
only stars in the cast. You know
est theaters of the world. She sang
with de Lucia, the tenor; Didur, the
basso, who is now at the Metropolitan
of New York: de Lucca, one of the
greatest baritones of the world, and
Carbonetti, the greatest buffo of our
times. And Mugnone was chef dor
chestre, one of the greatest. Mignon
Nevada made her debut with those
stars. yet she had never sung outside
wonderful debut. This Italian i'm
presario, Morechini, who is a charm
ing man, came behind the scenes and
asked. on behalf of public artistes
and impresarii. If I would not sing at
least one performance of the same
opera which my daughter had sung. /
laughed and said no. it was a little too
1t is, now. everywhere. All my friends
are making a pull for me to begin
again. especially my daughter wants
it."
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: Is 20 Is
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While Europe Fight
It's hereyo chance has
Half the orld had to be blown off the the
opportunity More billions of pounds francs marks
of than the total created ea the Dor hundred
had to be smashed snereen knows how
leaders shpbudng, raroang, finance
merchandising chemistry medicine, engineering, electricity dye
ing weaving publishing an indefinite number
of less important but quite useful khad be lost in the
caacy matters for benefit but all
of the resary egaees of the still valid
Now make good-youre nailed
We've always suspected but confoundedIy
plausible with ceuer with explanations of
how just missed it, that the benefit of the
doubt and another try
But 1Don "ge BY unless you produce the goods
before had idea before had such
market for 1t.
possessed business and judgment, you'll
again face universe sadly in need Of gts
The bomb that burst Saraepo temporarily parayzed the
Development of half the uporLd.
For Europe chafe handcufs
of and and turn America for the alienation
OF her necessities.
Last year oce difficult merchandise yourself or
uoaresto hearing and get ahead-because
there is only halt the riualry that existed fhenL
This is capitalize ghbors On the
contrary suggestion to get busy and tighten them.
The help ourselves, the quicker we analyze the
STERN 1MQ9 EHE1N 109 WRN'TE@ OF TENE M@T1
Evening star., 1914-10-25
Emma Nevada Will
Sing Grand Opera
Again-The Unhappi-
ness of Della Rogers.
An Artistic Beat-The
Story of Nevada and
Her Mother-A Won
derful Debut.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
EVAN, France, October
Evening star., 1914-10-25
BY Herbert: Kaufman

repair the universal and and patch the
broken machnery-the better off everybody will be.
Here and there flying splinter chip of shrapnel has fig
uratue the Atlantic and actually injured isolated
interest," but alive, such don't nine
per had less 1pory about material
prosperity.
There's siloer lining every cloud too and it's al
showing On side of the
There feed and backs
FILL automobiles and farming implements produce shoes
be furnished and steel to supply though half the stores
in the country suddenly closed half the farms abandoned
and shut down doesn't take much
that the acpe merchants and farmers and
would have everything their way and yet
that's lust what has occurred
Hard impossible under these conditions The
superficial analysis prou<s it
Shed a IN the of deo>,,y and humanity tho
appalling tragedy but the Of good citizenship and good
simultaneously help deoastated lands and your country
by spreading cheer among the blinded doubte5s whose
Is refaTduzg a necessary and immediate BOOM
every law Of and there shouldn't be still wheel
clean smoke stack the whole continent By raising
production limits only
ourseues but the reduce costs that
also tighten the norfunes Of knsn7e yonder
History won't repeat the present performance your lifetime
IT. your best ak and biggest chance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-14

cheer them up by telling them little stories, incidents, etc. F. D."
 Your request to this same effect came be- fore and l answered it fully. Unfortunate ly it was crowded out of the Corner by a press of other matter I print your let ter again in the hope that through 1t you may receive some helpful suggestions. For my own part, would counsel a great deal of reading of the right sort of books and copying from them portions which would improve your style Take some masters of English literature. such as Addison for one period, Stevenson for another, and read their essays. striving to study out what makes the excellence of their style
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I didn't think so when I went through a factory last year where women were put ting labels on packages and bottles. The only variety there was that sometimes it was one receptacle and sometimes the other, but the label and paste were always the same. As the piece to be marked came to girl she applied the gum with one mo- tion of her hand, the label with another, gave the smoothing stroke that made the label lie straight, and took up the next object to be marked. All day and every day she did that and nothing else.
 I don't need to go any further to point out the monotony which prevails in any line of factory work. no matter what it
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Round of Steadu, Stupid Dulles.

Let us take the riaps case first. Do any of you ever bestow thought on the exceed ing monotony winch prevails in the pur- suits of most haro working men? That thought occurred to me the other day when I was driving through region of small streets filled with little business con cerns. In eacn one of those insignificant shops some man wac trying to earn his liv- ing and probably support others besides himself by round of steady, stupid duties. Like the man m thc letter quoted above he got up at the same early hour every morn ing, clothed the same person, ate the same breakfast, took up the same routine of sweeping out the same shop, taking down the same stock and displaying it in the same way. waiting on the same kind of GUS toners, going through the same alterna- tons of hoping to make a sale and fearing he would not succeed in doing it.
 How is housekeeper any worse off than he when it comes tc the matter of mo- notony?
 Go a little furthee and compare that sort of work with the man who is in a factory making nuts or bots or screws. Day after day he stands at the same machine going through the same movements and turning out the same l<rnd 1f uninteresting objects The man who runs the shop has certain amount of variety: the workman in the factory has practically none. Yet he goes out cheerfully to his work from morning until night and 8 thankful to keep his job and elated when he gets a rare holiday or receives a rise of pay. He undoubtedly grumbles about a number of things-show <9ie the man woman who is not some times discontented-but I don't believe monotony is the ground of one of his com plaints.
 No. the man grows because he is under paid or overworlled or because he thinks ' the boss " doesn't treat him right or be- cause of the drawbacks connected with his place of work or tue men who labor with him. a score of other trials or imposi- tions. but he is not in the habit of lament
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f5I SAW request for the song Death
 Is Only Dream' and I write this.
 hoping the friend may see 1t. would
 be glad to send her a copy of the song, as l have it in old hymnal.
 As to the question of meddling on which you asked the correspondents to express their opinions. l for one admit that have at times been guilty of this unintentional ofense, and speaking from experience be- lieve the majority of us are. For instance, l am stepmother and, of course. all my neighbors can tell me better how to man age my household than l could ever do Being young is no reason why I should have no sense or judgment of my own. stlll 1t is discomfiting when you think you are doing the best you can to have some tell you why don't you make those boys do thus and so?' or I would not allow those children to ntrude on my rights l believe that all stepmothers can win the love and confidence of their step- children if they will go at it in the right way and other people whose business it is not will leave them alone. My greatest trouble has been caused by outside med ding. A neighbor said to me the other
 
 in their own room. instead of yours?' when I was lamenting the fact that my house was not large enough to afford par Tor and sitting room both. And she added that it would certainly annoy her to have q crowd of boys continually in her room. told her suavely that it did not annoy me in the least and that the children pre- ferred to be with me and their father. I al ba, t1atr of doors when they want to have a romp. There Is really so much to be said on this subject that ! think could write book on it, but shall wait to hear what others have to say.
 As good cornbread seems to be the greatest trouble with most peoples cook ing, I will give my recipe. and I never fen. Have ready a hot iron skillet. Beat wei one egg, add one pint buttermilk or ciabber, one teaspoon each of soda and baking powder and one heaping teaspoon each of sugar and salt. Stir in about one and one-half pints of meal. Thin milk takes more meal than thick milk Too thick batter makes the bread heavy. IL should pour thickly from the pan. but not be thick enough to dip out with spoon. Grease the skillet well and bake in hot oven. I have never had any success bak- ing cornbread in tin vessel. The most important thing is to have hot oven and skillet Never scrape the skillet. as this invariably makes the bread stick.
 An excellent way to serve carrots is to make them into pies. Slice and boil till tender eight large carrots Run them through a colander and add the yolks of four eggs. one tablespoon of butter. sugar
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,.4Ilie of the furnace and stood with his eyes fixed on the blade as it reddened in the heat until his trained perception told him the sword had reached the point when it could be drawn from the fire and pass on to the next stage of treatment. That was all he did-it was all he had done since he took the situation ten years before. For a decade he had stood there tempering blades of swords, and if I had asked him about it am quite sure he would have told me that he hoped to continue to hold down the job indefinitely It was his business and as such he was not inclined to fret because it was monotonous
 Not long since l was at an exhibition in
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THE following paragraph caught my
 eye in paper the other day:

THE following paragraph caught my
 eye in a paper the other day:
 .I am pretty tired of the com
 plaints that women make about the
 monotony of their work. Just look at the monotony in mans life! I see Khat it is in my own home. Nearly every morning my husband has to rise at the same early hour, shave the same face, bathe and groom the same person, eat the same hurried breakfast and hasten to catch the same train on the same old road to the same old school to teach the same pupils the same lessons, and return at night on the same srain to the same house; but being man, he doesn't whine about his sad lot. He whis- lies cheerily and does it all as a matter of course. l don't find housework monoto- nous, but full of variety.'
 That letter did my heart good. It always encourages me whon a woman arises to say word in defedse of her occupati tion and to prove that she looks upon it as some- thing more than round of drudgery. Her letter did more than that. for 1t set me to comparing mans work with woman's work and the tasks she has as a housekeeper with those discharged by women in other lines of employment.
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have had a poor education. AS I want to be a writer, this stands in my way and If
 somebody would help me or tell me way in which I could finish my schooling, would be most grateful. I am willing to work hard. and If some one would only give me chance tc work my way through I would be only too glad to grasp the op- portunity. Many people whose opinion think can be depended upon tell me that I have a decided talent for writing. but I have not finished the grade school work
 I am sorry have nothing to offer in return, but if you know of any little shutins, prer-
 erably from about 10 to 20 years old. Of either sex, will write to them and try to
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do all my neighbors; they don't disturb us. But I am surprised that there Is in this civilized country any one who speaks of babies as live stock; 1t is an insult to humanity. Christ himself when here on earth spoke in the highest terms of chn- dren and childhood. and here steps in J. F. B. to run down what God himself exalts Needless to say she is not a mother, or else her heart must be of stone. A baby seldom cries unless something annoys it. Would it not be better for J. F. B. or any other nervous person whom the crying annoys to investigate and try to pacify the child than to do as she and they do? They for get that they were once crying babies and, I suppose, annoyed their neighbors as much as any baby could. MOTHER"
 Let me say a little word in excuse for J. F. B. think her classification of babies as {" live stock " was meant as joke, for do not believe that any of our Cornerites -or. indeed. any woman worthy of the nnme-would speak lightly or unkindly of the dear babies, no matter how much they cry! At the same time there is no doubt that their crying is sometimes annoying. even though we may blame their caretakers rather than the children The poor infant OlIen IS OidIucQ 4oi tiic AiS8ACSb OA tiO mother, and many persons do not discrim- mate, but throw all the reproach on the child. There is no doubt that much of a baby's crying does him no good and could be avoided if he were rightly cared for.
 <; l:
 Needs an Ear Trumpet.
 A while ago B. J. A. offered some ear trumpets. If not too late shall be thank full to get one of them for my mother, the dearest little woman. who with her seven .ty-two years, frail body, and defective hearing is yet young in mind and body and interested in all that is going on in the world. especially in psychical research. If some one among your many generous friends happens to have literature on this subject we shall be happy to be allowed t~ read it and will return it in good condition We should also be happy to communicates with some one who has had personal expe- rience in such matters. or at least is inter ested. In case am too late for one of the ear trumpets offered. do you think 1t pos- sible that some one may have one fes which would be allowed to pay with mas sage. in which respect can refer to pro;n,- nent physicians. had my training In Eu- rope. I. D. L.r
 am sorry to say that the ear trumpets for which you ask have already been given away. They are always in great demand. you know. However. trust some one may have another for your dear mother. either as free gift from friend or else in ex- change for the treatment you offer. The books you desire should also be forthcom- ing. hope that both the wishes for your mother may be granted soon. s
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may be-making garments or shoes or hats or anything else. Does the woman who in- cessantly scans printed sheets of bank notes or bonds to see that they are perfect before she accepts or rejects them have much variety about her task? When you compare the round of housework with her occupation doesn't yours seem an orgy of excitement?
 There is 'an old Latin proverb to the ef- feet that one may change the sky but not the soul. In other words. the circumstances do not alter the character of the person whom they encompass. It Is the person who must make them what she wishes them to be-to quote favorite saying of
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lis His lob.

If you are looking for monotony, here Is an example of it. What do you think of housekeeping as compared with that? Or what would you think of the work of rum ming an elevator if you were considering ga meness of duty? I asked man about that at one time. He was in charge of an elevator in great office building and his car shot from the bottom to the top of the building and back again every few min utes all day long.
 should think you would get desperate ly tired of this" 1 said to one of the men who had taken me up and down upon sev- eral occasions.
 The light and darkness through the gratings tire my eyes and make my head ache some times" he said, but don't mind the work. It's my job.'
 Isn't that the point of view of most men Doesn't the perception that any line of work is their job " lead them to take its details for granted and to perform them as a matter of course? Does it occur to them that they are specially badly treated if their work is monotonous?
 This is point upon which I would like much to hear from some of our men Cor nerites Am I giving them credit for a philosophy they don't possess or do they really take monotony as all in the days work and part of the nature of the way in which they earn their living?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-14
Looks Blue Through Blue Glasses.

Of course, if you lock at your work through blue glasses it will have blue and gloomy cast. When you attack house. keeping with the firm persuasion that it is the most monotonous employment in the world. that anything else outside the that the day in and day out round of homework has nothing beautiful or ele- vating about it. you will find 1t what you make 1t. l don't like to believe that there are many of our Cornerites who take that view of their profession-of the profess sion. by the way, that most of them have chosen. Try to bear that in mind.
 You may say you had to do something to take care of yourself. That Is alto- gether probable, but you didn't havs to marry a man and establish a home. You knew what you were doing. Ten to one you were raised in home and you understood what the work of it meant. Your mother had grumbled about 1t in your hearing and you knew all the disadvantages await ing you when you accepted a husband and went to housekeeping. You might have taken a job somewhere and supported your self in one of those situations which you now think filled with variety by compari- son with housekeeping. In the conditions don't you think 1t would be a little pluckier to make the best of circumstances instead of abusing them?
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Al # for Ten Years.

l recollect being impressed by an instance of mans philosophy in these lines some years ago. I was visiting an army post where they made arms and among the workmen one was pointed out to me who tempered the blades of swords. He was clever at this and was the only man in the factory who was competent to discharge the duty well.
 l stood and watched the workman for some time. Sword after sword he lifted from the pile near him. thrust it into the
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Monotonu in Eactoru Work.

Let us look for moment at the women who have other occupations besides house. work. Is that the only condition in which monotony prevails?