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Show A Singer's Cift In memory of her two sons who were killed in the World War, one fighthing for Germany and the other for America, Madame Ernestine Schu-man-Ueink. world famous singer, has given her $230,000 estate at Grossmont, California, to disabled veterans of the war as a rest home. A native of Austria. Madame Schu-mann-Heink has spent most of her ma! ure vears in America as an operatic and concrt singer, and only recently retired. Two yours a':o she made her reappeuranci' wii.h the Metropolitan Opera Company at the age of t'A. She was loyal to America during the var and bi "am': an Ariv ri' iin citizen. No sinner of li'-r time has been more highly esteemed, not only for her con.Miriimale nrtlr.lry, but also for her splendid rhsiriif ter and charitable dis- position, which is so well illustrated i by her recent magnificent gift. I |