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Show l'uloma Sohramni. Paloma Scliramm was born In San Francisco. When alio was a yoaroldhcr pironts moved to Los Angoos, where thoy purchased nn old Mexican adobo, plcturesquoly situated. Iu furnish. Ing nnd arranging the homo, nothing modern wnsullowed tomnrtheantlquo and lomnntlc aspect of tho surroundings. surround-ings. Iloro awny from.tho busy world, nwuy from tho turmoil and strlfo of tho great cities, umnng flowers, and the trees whose branches qulvor'nenlh tho weight of thousands of stnglug birds, close to tho heart of Naturo nnd closer to Nature's God, was born nnd nourished tho gonitis that Hvos in tho person of Paloma. Hero was revealed tho soul of music that now speaks to us as great lessons have ofton times bo-foro bo-foro boon taught to mnnklnd through tho medium of a little child. Tho groat cvont of hor life took plnco whon sho wns four. Sho wns taken to soo "Lohongrln." Sho stood during tho ontlro porforman'co, leaning forward, lost In ocstatlc wonderment. The noxt day she hummed many of tho most beautiful master molodlos. It was nearly a year beforo Paloma's wish for a piano could bo gratified. -Her father began to give hor some instruction, but in six months, sho .bad mustered what it had takeu him as many years to learn, She made her first appear-anpo appear-anpo in Los Angeles, when seo was five years old, Tho concert was for a ben. eflt, or lior parents would not havo allowed hor to appear at so oarly an ago, Whon sevcu years old sho began to study uudor Ilerr Thilo Becker, lato of Leipzig, A musician of note. A year ago sho begnn to compose Paloma and her little slstor, Karl a, who Is also a musical genius, havo been most carefully brought up. Tho mental men-tal education has never been allowed tq outstrip tho pljyslpah Ju the gar- dens nt home, barefoot, they run nbout, practice with dumb-bells or perform on cross-bars. They havo each a gar-don gar-don which Is tended by their own hands. It is out under the trees that Paloma does her composing and writing, writ-ing, sonicl lines with her pot dove perched on tier golden hair. Thus filled with music and ilowers,tho days, each one happier tlian the last, pass by and the life of this gifted child rends like a poem from somo ancient leueud: or like a story from tho hps of Nature herself, sending out from tho sunny gardens of tho old adobe a mcssago of beauty nnd truth, in strain's that pierco tho catthly soul and, rising higher send their echoes back from tho Gates of Hcavon. Will appear at tho B. Y. nc.ulemy Wednesday ovoning, Decemtier 14th. Reserved scats 011 sale at Smoot Drug company. |