Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-29
A WOMAN.
A Lady Who Has Taken the Musical Gen.
tiers of the World by Storm With Her
Unusual Gift of Whistling.

A Lady Who Has Taken the Musical Gem
tiers of the World by Storm With Her
Unusual Gift of WhistIing.
Not more than two seasons ago Mrs.
Shaw was unknown to the public, yet since
then no women has been so much written
Of. and du ing the past year the news
papers of America, England, France, Rus
STA, and almost the whole earth, have pub
1ished columns OF unstinted eulogy, and en-
viable encomium OF her bewitching art and
fascinating gifts.
We had watched in amazement her maj.
velous career since her whistled notes first
rung through the auditorium OF Chickering
Hall, while the wealthiest and most cult.
waited citizens of New York Wed with OF an
other in their flattering endorsement and
universal patronage, and the art critics
and journals of that city were 80 energetic
and extended in their praise. After her
short but unprecedentedly brilliant season
in New York she sailed for England, where
her success was even brighter and more
prosperous. At Liverpool the private car.
riage (railroad carr of the Lord Mayor Of
London was in waiting to convey her to
that city, and at q dinner that was at
once rendered her in the residence OF that
official, she made her first appearance in
the Old World before a select company OF
the nobility gathered in her honor.
Following such suspicious introduction.
Mrs. Shaw's stay in London was con-
tinuous sequence OF engagements beyond all
that her fondest flights OF fancy could have
ever imagined.
She whistled often for the Prince OF
Wales, and upon one occasion, at the re-
quest of the Prince, who sat next her at a
banquet table, she whistled my Queen"
waltz during the removal OF one OF the
courses. Wherever she went, and particu-
larly at the mansions OF the Rothschilds,
the host insisted on personally serving her.
Boxes at all the theatres and opera-house
were kept at her disposal, and when she
could appear at such places the audience
would greet her with the most demonstra.
tive expressions of admiration.
But all this, and more, could o turn
the head of this charming American
woman. She thoroughly appreciated, and
naturally derived satisfaction from it; but
the greatest pleasure Of it all, to her, was
the pleasure of feeling grateful. AS she K
pressed herself: 81 would rather die be-
fore, than live till / lose that greatest OF all
joys and comforts to me-the conscious
ness OF gratefulness."
We have written now 80 much OF the
artist and the woman, our readers will
probably like to know something OF the
achievement that has resulted in making
her 80 honored and wor~ld-renowned.
When Mrs. Shaw was little Allie Horton
she was a good deal OF IA tom-boy, and
something OF a whistler; but she was shut
up SO often that she eventually dropped
the habit, to take il up alter many years,
as a study and an art. when her ~inGepend-
emit spirit impelled her to seek some way in
cation OF her children. It took many
months of hard and patient study to per-
feet her in that which she has made an art
and science. Even yet she practices thres
or four hours every day, n her lower
notes grow even stronger, and her whois
range improves esen beyond what has
seemed perfection.
Mrs. Shaw whistles entirely from note,