Supplement to the Day ton Tribune
MISS WILSON’S
SINGINGJRAISED
teaciUDtf 1 ha*» never known any
who baa worked aa hard aa
the
daughter of the ixrealdent.” .
Mt— WUaou baa a lyric aoprauo
The Chipmunk la a Hermit.
Evidently the chipmunk has no part
ner and will spend the winter in his
subterranean retreat alone. I think
this Is an established chipmunk cua-
tom. rendered necessary. it may be, by
the scant supply of air In such close
quarters, three feet underground. nt|d
maybe under three or more feet of
snow In addition. At any rate, the
chipmunk, male and female, is a her
mit. and there Is no co-operation or
true sociability among them
They
are wonderfully provident and industri
ous, beginning to store up their winter
food In midsummer or aa early as the
farmer docs his.-John Burroughs In
Hnri>er's Magazine.
voice. with a dramatic tendency. Rhe
■luge with perfect breath control, and
tn the studio taken high I) with ease.
In public, however, »he han sung only
up to B Hat She la able to auatabi her
; high voice, which is growing every
day. She 1» essentially a Heder singer,
and It Is her ambition to l>ecoiue nne
of the greatest Heder singer» in Amer
lea. Her German is perfect, and she
has good command of French and
Italian Of course she sings in Eng
lish too.
But. what Is more remarkable. Miss
Wilson has the mettle to stand up to
deliver her message. She has the j»ow- ।
Forgetmenot.
Her Teacher, Rote W. David, Who Hae er of concentration and the pro|>er ,
A gentleman wboac Ix-autlfu! grounds
Been Inatructing Her Four Yeare, amount of "nerve’* to become a suc
were often visited by the public had
Declares Miss Wilson Has Made cessful singer
an
«»Id gardener who was tn the habit
While her private recitals had at
Singing Her Life’e Work—She Will
of showing partie« round the beds. At
tracted
considerable
recognition
It
was
Appear Soon.
the success which attended her first such times he would tn a hurried, gab
New York.—Many persons have ask public appearance at the Syracuse mu bling voice explain the names to the
■
ed Roas W. David, singing teacher to sic festival last May that determined visitors.
When nearing the exit gate be
her
to
become
a
professional
singer.
Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of the
Subsequent concerts In Cleveland and _ would, however, suddenly pause and
president of the United States, why Buffalo, where she won the unstinted . draw six* la) attention to a pretty clus
she has decided to tiecome a prof es praise of all the musical critics, con ter of modest (xmles and then. In a sig
slonal singer. To them lie has replied, vinced her that she hail decided wise nificant tone of voice, exclaim:
"These.„ Indies and gentlemen, are
because it gives her the greatest oppor ly. Wilson G. Smith, an Influential
tunity, for expressing herself. He said: Cleveland critic, publicly announced forget-me-not.”—Chicago News.
¡“Mias Margaret Wilson has made before the concert that if she did not
Shakespearean.
singing her life’s work. To her, sing "deliver the goods” lie would send her
Father. In the hall, had been stand
lug is her very life. I have been her back to the White House. But the Ing for hnlf an hour while Millicent
teacher for four years, and 1 think I following day he wrote:
"It was her unaffected pers-mallty | and Harold bade snub other good night
know her. She puts her singing above and the sympathetic and lyric quali Ui the doorway.
everything else, and I can truthfully ties of her voice that won the audl
"Parting,” quothes Harold, "Is such
say that in all my eighteen years of
sweet
sorrow that I could say good
enee
"There were no efforts at vocal cht- night till”—
cauery to catch the audience. Her at
At this speech father gets a Hbnke
titude toward her art and her auditors spearean inspiration, of Ills own and
was one of genuine earnestness to in tramim down the stairs
terpret the musi'-al language she loves,
"Seema to me.” he asserts, "that
without self exploitation
there is too much adieu about nothing
“The sinwrity of^ier artistic predi
here.”— Philadelphia Ledger.
lection was evidenced in her selection
and sympathetic interpretation of two
Camel Carriagos.
of Robert Franz's too much neglected
Came) carriages are not common
songs, models of classic purity. If Miss conveyances in most parts of India,
Wilson had done nothing else she
but on the great trunk road leading
would have won my critical esteem.”
to
Delhi they are frequently to be seen.
With criticisms of such a nature it
They
are large, double story wagons,
was only natural that Miss Wilson
should feel encouraged to sing at other drawn sometimes by one. sometimes
festivals. She will appear at several by two or even three camels, accord
events in April and May. and next fall ing to their size. Iron bars which give
she will begin an extended concert them a cagelike ap|»carunce were .’Orig
tour, singing in New York ns well as inally Intended as a defense against
In the principal eastern and southern robbers, and the carts were probably
cities.
also used for the conveyance of pris
oners.
Our Friends of Fiction.
Ari a Trustworthy History.
It Is well to balance the Influence of
Groat
nations write their autobiogra
one’s transient mortal associations by
phies
In
three manuscripts—the book of
acquiring a peaceful intimacy with
these ever living men and women their deeds, the book of their words
whose deeds, aspirations, lore and and the book of their art. Not ono of
courage are recorded in books, who are these books can be understood unless
never against us. who never despise ua, we read the two othera. but of the
dot fail us. nor betray ua, being strip three the only quite trustworthy one is
ped now of that mortal part which ren the last The acta of a nation may be
ders all men uncertain, liable to bypoc-
triumphant by Ite good fortune, and Its
rbriea, conceits and a sort of human
batnousneea which life tn the flesh words mighty by the genius of a few
never quite escapes.—Corm Harris in of its children, but its art only by the
reneral gifts and common sympathies
Photo by American Preso Asencloflea
Mew York Independent.
uf the race.—John Hoskin.
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President’s Daughter Margaret
to Be a ProfessionaL
HAS ALL IN HER FAVOR.