Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-12-02

binary performance. The queen heard OF
this sinfnnt phenomenon and Invited her to
Buckingham palace, and during the same
season both sisters performed before the
Prince INT Princess of Wales at the MARI
borough house. On this occasion Victoria
presented the Miles. Douste with a magnif-
cent gold cross enriched with pearls, and,
which pleased them almost ns much, cut two
old camelias from a beautiful tree that stood
in the room, hanGed Them to the ~slsEisss
girls, and embraced them both tenderly. A
few days afterward the peasants received a
request from the palace for the photographs
of their children. and Nadar. The web known
Paris photographer, executed the orGer.
Since then the Miles Douste have performed
several times before various members OF the
royal family, It was at Buckingham palace
that the little Jeanne made a reply to a
bantering Frenchnan that pleased some OF
the party almostas rauch as the music. sAre
| you married, tmademoisellep asked this gen.
tleman. aNot yet,a was the quick response,
In Europe playing before .crowned heads'
islooked upon by artistes much like newspaper
apuffsn In republican America. The yoting
Doustes ave had other royal advertisements
besides those given by the English reignipg
family. Here is another quite as good as the
one just described. Their parents are natives
Of the French Pyrenees, and the young girls
are in e~cstasies Of delight when they can u
off for a vacation to this charming part of
southern France. The last time the late king
Of Hanover was In, the Pyrenses with the
Princess Frederisa, his daughter, the happiest
moment of their day was when the two sisters
came at 4 o'clock, as they did almost daily, to
play to them In private On one of these oe-
~casions the old king handed the musicians q
precious vase containing a wild plant that he
had. pulled up during his wanderings that
morning in the mountains. Their introduce
tion to the king occurred in this wise: In the
winter Of 1878 the young pianists were stay
ing in the Hotel de France, at Bareges, q
well known thermal resort up among the
mountains, and they were in tho habit, Of
course, of playing q good deal every morning.
They noticed that they were frequently APP
plauded by the guests occupying q neighbor-
ing suite of rooms, and one day the applause
was followed by a bouquet, accompanied with
the card of the king and the princess. and an
invitation to come and play for them-an in
vitation that: was renewed daily for the rest
OF the season, In June Of this same year the
~dethroned king died.
They have enjoyed instruction and advice
from the best teachers ard professional pi-
anists, OF both the old and new worlds. For
five years they studied ~assduously under the
Immediate eye of ,Mortier de Fontaine, three
years more with Breitner, the favorite pupil
Of Lszt dsRubinstein, a winter with Mime.
Schutnann, wife of the great composer. and
herself perhaps the greatest living female pi-
anist, and also with Lang, of Boston, and the
lanented DR.. Damrosch, of New York. They
have also profited by the criticisms OF Plante.
Stephen Heller, Raft, Nicholas and Antoine
Rubirstein, Ferdinand Heller and Liszt.
During the ~latter's visit to Paris and London
last spring. just before his death, they often
saw the distinguished able at the quiet little
Hotel de Calais IN this city. and aftei.ward
when he was being feted at the English capi-
itaL.
As said before. the Miles, Douste have
already visited the United States, If1was
In the winter of 1879. They wereI re-
Iceived at Boston and elsewhere with marked
attention. Lorgfeiiow invited them several
times to his Cambridge home and went into
Boston to all of ,thei il concerts. In fact. SO
deep an impression did they make at tic Hub
that many of the best ladies OF the city
formed a musical society and napaed it tho
Donste cub III honor Of the yonts sisters.
Last winter, at a concert given ut lia Gillian
ministers in Paris, the Miles. Do,iste were
presented to ad3ostorrllady, who exclaimed:
Are you the Miles DouSte after whom we
named our club, which is still in a most flour
ishing condition." Both parties wero de-
lghted-the pianists to think That their So
Journln Boston had left such a lasting mark,
and the American young lady to meet face to
face with the real founders.
But Louise and Jeanne Douste are not
alone talented musicians and pleasing, simple.
girls socially, They have also Developed a
SIS Nng taste for another of Che fine arts. One
Of them has taken TO painting and the other
70 seulpturing, and they nave already pro-
duced some veritable little masterpieces that
give hope that they may make a narue with
me brush and chisel as well as with their
piano. THEODORE STANTON.