Evening star., 1941-02-23
Language Tutor Lived as Child
In 10th Street Lincoln Shrine
Miss Anitu Schude
Also Known Here
In Music Circles
BY JESSIE FAINT EVANS.

ington with few talents" spent
her early childhood at sic Tenth
street, now a Lincoln shrine.
Long prominent in musical and
language circles in this city, she was
born at 5l2 Tenth street, two doors
below, which is almost directly
across the street from Ford S
Jheater where Lincoln was assas-
sinated on April IA, 1865.
Her father, Louis SChade, who
came to America in l848 with the
Carl Schurz group of German
revolutionists who were seeking
political freedom from PruSsian-
ism, became a lawyer here, and
the editor of The Washington Sem
tinel." He knew and loved Lincoln
and attended his funeral in a high
silk "Beebe" hat, which was of
the same make as the familiar one
Lincoln himself wore.
To accommodate his growing fam
lily, and because he was a great
admirer of the life and character OF
the martyred President, Mr.. Schade
later bought sic and moved to 1t,
treasuring every bit of flrSt-hand
history concerning this house TO
which the dying Lincoln was brought
on April IA, 1865, and where he died
in one of its chambers on April Is.
Shows Historic Hat.
In this month in which the birth
day of the Great Emanicipator"
occurs, Miss Schade recalls with
pride, that it was her father who
first started the movement in Con-
gress to perpetuate this house III
which Lincoln died. While a resi-
dent there, he himself placed a
white marble, gold lettered plaque
upon the front Of it between the
second and third floor stories with
this notation upon it: president
Lincoln died in this house, April 10,
1865
Each year about this time Miss
Schade displays for interested
friends and their acquaintances, the
silk hat her father wore to PreSi-
dent LinColnS funeral.
1t is still kept in the original
gray hat box in which it came, with
the leather straps in good condition,
although the silk lining carefully
nodded to the hats contour, is no
longer its once vivid color but
softer, ElOre sober hue. Except for
a somewhat rusty green outer edge,
the hat itself is unbroken, smooth
and has a gliStening surface. 1t
must have been fashioned Of excel
lent quality silk beaver to have had
the years take no greater toll. and
its maker was the A. Beebe Hat Co.
of New York City. famous hatters
of the era. This is the firm from
whom President Lincoln ordered the
Enthusiastically tall 'stove-pipe'
silk hats in which he is so often
portrayed.
Amateur Bike Champion.
Miss Schade is one Of five chill
dren who made their home at SIC
Tenth street NV. with their par
ents. Ella. who became the wife of
Joseph H, Mccoy, well-known
actuary. was her sister, as is Mrs.
Clara Lincola Mueller. born in the
house where Lincoln died. Mrs.
Mueller, and her daughter Anita,
who is Miss Schade's namesake,
now share 1889 Rhode Island ave-
nue.. Herman and Frederick Schade
are the two brothers of the family.
Frederick, an alumnuS of George
town University and now prominent
as a lawyer and in Democratic
counsels of Washington, will be re-
membered by many OF his District
contemporaries, as the amateur BIZ
cycle champion of the United
States when bicycling first became
popular.
Looking out from the drawing
room windows of her Rhode Island
residence upon the felled tree
Stumps, which are mute testimony
to the construction work which has
been begun upon Washington's
newest underpasS at Scott Circle
and Sixteenth street, Miss Schade
says: Twice I have seen this dis
treSsing sacrifice Of trees from the
windows of homes I have loved in
this city. I, takes more than two
lfetimes to grow trees. In less
than "a hours they are cut down in
the name of progress, with stark
ugliness and desolation prevailing
where once their beauty fiouriShed.
Surely with all of today's engineer
ing skill there must be some other
way to handle WashingtOns in
creaSing traffic problems than by
slashing at the trees in its down.
town areas"
Treasures MOdjeska Letter.
Of bilingual parents, who spoke
French and German as we'll as
English, she can scarcely recall the
time when she was not conversant
with French as we'll as German.
As very little girl she was one
of the first pupils in Miss Pollock's
Kindergarten. a precursor of public
school kindergartenS in this city.
Later she attended Mrs Flint's and
Miss Dengler'S equally Well-knoWn
private schools before going abroad |
at Is for extended study in a fa-
nous language school in Mecklen- !
burg, Germany, much frequented |
by English and Scotch language
students.
Judging by her photographs as
young girl she must have been
beautiful as we'll as gifted. They |
make one understand the letter she |.
3easureS from Nine. Modjeska, !
suggesting a musical career for her, !
or Belasco's offer to train her for
the stage
But" she sighs, "dutiful daugh-
ters of my rearing had no choice
other than to stay beside the
parental fireside, if ones parents
decided this were best. Now, wisely
it is different. Young people do
not have to express themselves in
the lives of others unless they so
desire They are free. as they
should be, to choose their own ca
reerS."
Teacher of Languages.
For IS years prominent teacher