e weak enough, even when with a reasonable amount of
self-sacrifice they could send their children through college, to
yield to the natural desire of youth to "get out and hustle."

Miss Kauser was born in Buda Pest, in the United States Consular
Agency, for her father, although a Hungarian, was Consular Agent. It
was an intellectual family and on her mother's side musically gifted.
Miss Kauser's aunt, Etelka Gerster, when she came to this country as a
prima donna had a brief but brilliant career, and the music-loving
public prostrated itself. But her wonderful voice was a fragile
coloratura, and her first baby demolished it. Berta Gerster, Miss
Kauser's mother, was almost equally renowned for a while in Europe.

Mr. Kauser himself was a pupil of Abel Blouet at the Beaux Arts, but
he fought in the Revolution of 1848 in Hungary, and later with
Garibaldi in the Hungarian Legion in Italy.

Miss Kauser, who must have been born well after these stirring events,
was educated by French governesses and Polish tutors. Her friends tell
the story of her that she grew up with the determination to be the
most beautiful woman in the world, and when she realized that,
although handsome and imposing, she was not a great beauty according
to accepted standards, she philosophically buried this callow ambition
and announced, "Very well; I shall be the most intellectual woman in
the world."

There are no scales by which to make tests of these delicate degrees
of the human mind, even in the case of authors who put forth four
books a year, but there is no question that Miss Kauser is a highly
accomplished woman, with a deep knowledge of the literature of many
lands, a passionate feeling for style, and a fine judgment that is the
result of years of hard intellectual work and an equally profound
study of the world. And who shall say that the wild ambitions of her
extreme youth did not play their part in making her what she is
to-day? I have heard "ambition" sneered at all my life, but never by
any one who possessed the attribute itself, or the imaginative power
to appreciate what ambition has meant in the progress of the world.

Miss Kauser studied for two years at the Ecole Monceau in Paris,
although she had been her father's housekeeper and a mother to the
younger children since the age of twelve. Both in Paris and Buda Pest
she was in constant association with friends of her father, who
developed her intellectual breadth.

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