, 1885-03-31
WOMAN AND HOME.
SENSIBLE TALK OF IMPORTANCE TO
THE FAIR SEX.
Spirit OF Ca,ts-Pretty Feet-A Japanese
Girls ToIiet-sensible City Folks
Recipe for Keeping Young-Mr-
F. II. Thurber's Work.

r"H. II. As New York letter.
There is n great field for talk and discus
sion In professional and amateur musical so
cietS as we'll as in society proper, concern
ing the aims, ambitions, and enterprises of
Mrs. +. b. Thurber. who is an enthusiast in
the good cause OF music. This lady Is the
wife OF the well-knowp Wholesale grocer,
who Is also the load err Of tho Autobiography
movement and the literary contributor to
the English Nineteenth Century magazine
and our own Century. Mrs. MURDER Is an
attractive looking woman. brunette in color
ing, with expressive, dark, bright eyes, AMI
black hair already slightly tinge1 with gray,
which she wears a la pompadour. She was
born in this city, her mother being a French
woman and her father a Dana Mrs. Thur
Der Is a woman OF artistic temperament.
well read and well Informed, devoted TO
music, which Is her hobby. She has strong
influence among the musical people
In society, such as the Whitneys,
Drexels. Belmonts. Hewitts. etc, and
when she sets about any scheme
Of a tuneful nature she easily gets a long list
OF influential names to support her. This
was proven In her recent organization Of
the Thoma popular concerts, for which she
got a letter to Thomas begging him to give
the concerts, signed by 5000 OF tho best and
~ ADIHEtNNl lIn u u
Mrz Thurber is sincerely fond Of tho art
she has SO b~efriended, and enjoys the soci-
ETY. Of musical and dramatic stars Her
protege, Miss Marguiles. the pianiste. is an
especial pet Of hers, and one who bids fair
to do credit to her benevolent patrone;s
Many OF her musical enterprises have been
originated and carried out for charity's sake,
among them the famous concert at the
Academy OF Music two or three seasons ago
for the benefit Of the Woman's exchange,
from which there was the enormous profit OF
5000. 1t would be hard TO get together
again such u galaxy OF stars as appeared
that memorable evening. all, even the
divine Patti, as volunteers Just think OF
Patti. Nilsson, Scalchi, Campanini, Galassi,
Josefy, and Theodore Thomas in c~onjunc-
ton.
Since that time Mrs. Thurber has been
connected with hundreds of musical schemei
and has benefited hundreds of musical
artists; in fact, her patronage Of artists and
her influence in musical and charitable mat
ters has grown so enormously that she Is
appealed 10 from all parts OF the universe,
and receives often 100 letters a day on the
subject She is obliged TO employ two pri-
vate secretaries TO attend to this correspond
ence alone. | suppose nearly every girl in
the country who fancies herself the coming
raul ianu Wnht RHl Win oven tue RnOst OF
a voice but does, either through her own all
sufficient vanity or the assurance of a too APP
preciAtive relative, imagine herself the GER
tain successor OF that divine songstress1
takes her pen in hand to acquaint Mrs
Thurber OF the all-important ia ct.
This musical work. at first pursued as a
recreation, has grown to be a formidable un-
d~ertaking and one from which a less ener-
getic and resoluts woman than the subject
of these lines would long ago have with
drawn But to her enthusiasm Mrs. Thur
Der joins a noble heart, and many a strug-
Cling artist has cause to bless the hour in
which he first met this true friend Of a great
art. As an example of her benevolence,
when last year Brignoli gave his benefit per-
formance Of "Don Pasquale" she purchased
herself $500 worth of the tickets. Fortunately
the lady is rich, otherwise with the best di =
position in the world she could not expend
$4,000 on musical objects alone, as she IS
said TO have done during the last year.