The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-07-12
STORY OF A BRAVE GIRL.
Her Psverty, strussies, Pluck, and Final
g. Triumph.

Her Psverty, Strussics, Pluck, and Final
g. Triumph.
XII Perkins in New York Commercial Advertiser.
Last Saturday a large crowd of friends
with bouquets snd smiles and kind ben
elections thronged the steamer City of
Paris to see off young and interesting
lady. Many of the best people in the
metropolis took her hand and bid her
aGod.speed" across the Atlantic, and
success at Milan, Italy, whittier she goes
to perfect herself in music and the
opera. She went with the intention of
returning to New York after two years
perhaps prima donna, perhaps an
other Jenny Lind for none can conjec
ture what Providence has in store for
The fair young singer.
II the writer did not always 60 to
nature, and did not found everything
l.writes upon the basis of absolute
truth, you might, perhaps, doubt the
story which now tell, and which came
to me from the lips of the same young
hdy.
POOR GIRLS STORY.
Miss Emma A. Abbott was born in
Chicago about twenty years ago. In
1854 her father, then a music teacher,
took her to the little village of Peoria,
III Illinois. The little child then took
intense delight in music. She had
dreams Of singing in public at the age
Of six. When they read to her stories
q actors and singers on the stage, she
thought they meant a coach, and won
dered, with infantile fancy, how they
could throw bouquets into stage.
From six to nine she sang about
home, catching every tune she heard
hg father play, and, to the surprise Of
everybody, began herself to play the
guitar. She became SO proficient that
at the age of nine her father, a very
Ioor man, chained down with large
hnily of children, brought her out with
hd brother George at a concert in
Pe9ia- Her debut took SO well that
her father, man of restless genius, but
shihless and always unfortunate, de
dded TO take little Emma on q concert
iou, which he did, keeping her thu
OCCASIONALLY employed with varied for
tune until she was thirteen years old
Atthis age she went to Mount Pulaski
IN company with some Peoria children
While here they wanted her to play hel
guitar and sing, 80 she got up concert
"on her own hook" Though wearing
short dresses, she went to the Pulaski
printing Office, got out her own hand
bills, and then went and posted them
around town. On one of these bills now
before me it says:
Mis-: Abbott will sing 'The Merry
sMas Girl chorus"
The little thing didn't know what 9
chorus meant, but it looked nice, and
soshe had them put it on the bill. She
areW quite house, took in seven dol
az, and took it home to her mother.
AMER giving concert at Lincoln, in q
scaool-house, she came home again, and
ave guitar lessons to Pupils twice as old
- Ssne was at twenty cents per lesson.
'sne now went TO school, but her fathe,
seing too poor to pay her tuition, the
aple child-woman borrowed the money
nom friend-agreeing to pay it after
we should become a teacher.
At fifteen, little Emma succeeded in
securing class of twenty poor children
sho came to recite at her mother,
,ouse. Al the time she sang in the
! hebrew Synagogue-a kind old rabb;
lark Moses. teaching her to pronounct
u Hebrew and German.
The spring of her sixteenth birtbda,
iound her father poorer than ever he
lore, and our little woman, TO heIp he
mother, tried to secure clerkship in
sore, but failed. In great distress, sh
seard of a school, nine miles fror
Peoria, which was in need of a teacher
lnlther she went on foot, through tn
mud and slush. She found the primo
ni trustee, a kind old man, at dinLe
What do you want, my little We
mar asked the old farmer, rs he lai
mn his knife and fork to survey ou
sslie heroine. J
1--we in Peoria, sir, and ! walked
what! walked, child 2" interrupte
T old man in asionisbment.
khool.n ~ ~ ''-
~ Well, ! declare, my child, there ar
en s;s applicants, but you're a prett
~ and plucky as Julius Cesar. Hay
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