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Show Intended as a Compliment. When genlous - speaks in a foreign tongue it frequently goes wrong. To this truism, and not to any disposition dispo-sition to bo unkind, is due the fact that Madame Ernestine Schumann-Helnk hurt Mrs. Honore Palmer's feelings last Friday at an Informal tea at the Auditorium Audi-torium hotel, at which both women were present. After much urging on the part of her friends Mrs. Palmer was induced to sing. She Is a modest little woman, and at first she did not take kindly to the idea of "showing off" before Madame Schumann-Helnk. However, she finally consented. The piece she chose was a difficult operatic air, which sho rendered only indifferently well. Some minutes later she prepared to take her departure. In bidding Schuraann-Hcink good-bye she said: "I have enjoyed meeting you very much Madame. I hope to be perfect in that aria tho next time wc see each other." Schumann-Heink bowed and smiled. "Ach. Gott, my dear," she said, in her broken English, "I hopo we shall meet before that'Chlcafjo Inter Ocean, |