St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-14
THE CHOIR ALL TORN UP.
The Organist and Soprano of a
Methodist Church Relieves Her
Mind

Methodist Church relieves Her
Mind.
A strengthened and meaty young wo-
man with red cheeks and compound
action tongue swung on the strap of a
wenty-third street bob-tail car last
evening and talked. Her principal au-
ditor was young man whose cheek
bone had never been shaved, and who
wore high silk hat above his soft blue
eyes. But everybody in the car heard,
too; for the Young woman's piercing
voice was pitched on high G. AS she
talked along the car grew otherwise
still, says the New York Graphic, and
this was what was twisted in and out of
the rattle and clatter as the bOb-tail
bounced along:
"You heard the first? Scatter seeds
of Kindness and I'd drilled them all
the week on it. Yes. | waited for
Amelia Sprague till l couldn't wait any
longer, though she knew it, and talked
in the infants class with Mr.. Hawker
just to show somebody would talk to
her, poor thing. AT last l played the
opening chords and in we waded with
Dora Jones taking the air right out of
my mouth. 1t was understood that |
was to carry it, and | was to give Dora
two bars of solo which she had fixed up
for meZzo-SOpranO herself. And it just
spoiled everything, of course. And
Amelia came up and stepped right over
Dora to the center in the midst of the
second verse, and Dora was so mad she
wouldn't sing line, and that threw
Amelia out, and just carried it through
myself. 1t was better after that.
Let's see, you were there when Mr..
Murphy sang Flee as Bird Now,
don't say word. 1t was horrible, but
what could [ do? You know, Mr..
Cheeseman, that it's written for con-
tralto; but did you ever know bari
solos? And Mr.. Murphy is as good as
gold, Pm sure, and will never Snub
Christian for having epileptic fits he
can't help. He will sing in the choir,
and as he's cousin of Elder Snipe we
must let him. / saw him staring straight
at those Sudbury girls all the time he
was singing, which may account for his
breaking on A fiat, for do think Mamie
Sudbury's staring red-hOt enough to
throw a Campanini into commissions,
though for my own part believe in per
sonal adornment, and when the minis
ter's daughter can afford sealSkin
jacket, don't see why the rest of us
shouldn't pile on what we have, though
some of us earn our clothes and have
never been to a select school, which Pm
sure is providential thing, for some
people are bad enough with every adj
vantage.
"YOu did beautifully, Mr.. Cheese
man, with Come We disconsolate.' 1t
almost
MADE TEARS COME INTO MY EYES,
| and if Johnny hadn't stepped blowing
at Here tell your anguish ! should
have played better. That's the trouble
of having a minister with family. l
have told Mrs. Morgan up and down
that johnny would have to go, but he
stays think just to provoke me, and 1
know Minnie Morgan puts him up to it.
1t isn't as if l was hired organist on
salary, but when / give my little all to
the Lord it's hard to have to contend
with married ministers daughters. We
have been spoiled, Mr.. Cheeseman, for
anybody since dear Mr.. Mellow left us.
l say it boldly, prefer bachelor, and
fortunately can say it without having
my motives misinterpreted, though Pm
sorry to say there some girls in