The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1885-05-01
WHOLE NO. S25
WOMAN AND HOME.
SENSIBLE TALK OF IMPORTANCE TO
THE FAIR SEX.
Spirit of Caste-Pretty Feet-A japanese
Girls Toiiet-sensible City Folks
Recipe for Keeping Young-Mrs
+. Ii. Thurber's Work.
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There Is a great field for talk and discus
sion in professional and amateur musical So
ciety, as well as in society proper, concern
ing the aims, ambitions, and enterprises Of
Mrs. F. B. Thurber, who is an enthusiast in
the good cause OF music. This lady is the
wife of the well-known wholesale grocer,
who is also the leader Of the Anti-Monopoly
movement and tho literary contributor tc
the English Nineteenth Century magazine
and our own Century. Mrs. Thurber Is an
attractive looking woman, brunette in color
ing, with expressive, dark, bright eyes, and
black hair already slightly tingei with gray,
which she wears a Ia pompadour. She was
born in this city, her mother being a French
woman and her father Dane Mrs. Thur
ber is q 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 Thomas popular concerts, for which she
got letter to Thomas begging him to give
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most respected citiz,ns Of New York
Mrs. Thurber is sincerely fond Of the art
she has so befriended, 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 patroness
Many Of her musical enterprises have been
originated and carried out for charitys 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
$4,000 1t would be hard to get together
again such galaxy Of stars as appeared
that memorable evening, all, even the
divine Patti, as volunteers. Just think OF
Patti, Nilssen, Scalchi, Campanini, Galassi,
Joseffy, and Theodore Thomas in conjunc-
tion.
Since that time Mrs Thurber has been
connected with hundreds Of musical schemes
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 to from all parts of the universe,
and receives often 100 letters day on the
subject She is obliged to employ two pri-
vate secretaries to attend to this correspond
ence alone. l suppose nearly every girl in
the country who fancies herself the coming
Patti land what girl with even the ghost OF
a voice but does, either through her own all
sufficient vanity or the assurance of too ap-
preciative relative, imagine herself the GER
tain successor of that divine songstressD
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 formidable un-
dertaking and one from which q less ener-
getic and resolute woman than the subject
of these lines would long ago have with
drawn. But to her enthusiasm Mrs. Thur
Der joins noble heart, and many a strug-
Cling artist has cause to bless the hour in
which he first met this true friend of great
art. As an example Of her benevolence.
when last year Brignoli gave his benefit per-
Torrance 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.