Corpus Christi Caller And Daily Herald

Schumann-Heink's Husband.
Corpus Christi Caller
Well, well, well! How the idols are shattered and the clay crops out over the marble of Illusion! Schumann-Heink gets a divorce. The paragon of the hearthside is put out with the hearth. Domesticity is given a spirited slap in the face.
Schumann-Heink was very happy and domestic with husband No. 1, and husband No. 2 may not have had those attributes which make him live up to precedent. We guess he hasn't. The evidence shows that he hadn't.
On the contrary, it showed that in his estimation a golden voice didn't compare favorably with golden hair even if the voice was a gift of nature and the hair a triumph of art. It was brought out in the trial that Mme. Schumann-Heink is rich and that she housekept, scrubbed and sewed as if she were poor. To the average moralist that sort of wife would appear to be a model. The moralists are forever preaching economy and industry to wives, yet a man blessed with a sturdy wife like Schumann-Heink may be cursed with a penchant for willowy femininity, blondness to the limit, just as the man possessed of a blond and willowy mate may wish to goodness he had married a sturdy domestician like Schumann-Heink. What the women themselves may think about their matrimonial misfortunes is given little consideration by those who do most of the moralizing. The moralists, who are nearly all men, proceed on the theory that a woman ought to be thankful for any sort of a husband. Galveston News