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| singer was a guest while in that city.
The bishops son, subsequently Dean
| Stanley, who had no lear for music"
and on whom her singing was wholly
lost, wrote that she had ''the man
ners of a princess with the simplicity
of an angel" Her character showed
itself, he added, Through a thousand
traits of humility, gentleness, thought
fulness, wisdom and piety.
She looked upon her natural faculty
as a gift of God, and W. sang with
out rejecting that it might be for the
last time.
sit has been continued to me from
year to year for the good of others"
This feeling was no fine sentiment,
but a religious principle, While she
was the bishops guest she begged
Mrs. Stanley to allow her to take
three OF the maids to a concert where
she was to sing.
At service in the cathedral she was
moved to tears by the singing of the
boy choristers, and had places reserved
for them at her concert the next
morning. When she came on the
platform she greeted them with a
smile Of recognition which the boys
never forgot.
She gave to charitable objects thou
sands of pounds gained by her won
derful voice. While singing in Copen-
hagen, such was the excitement that
court and town begged her to give
them n more day of song. A gen.
tlenian OF musical culture had, with
his wife, anxiously looked forward to
her visit. When she came he was on
a sick bed. Jenny Lind heard of his
desire, and found time to go to his
house and sing to him and his wife.
When she went to London Men,
delssohn asked her to sing to a friend
of his who had long lain upon a bed
of sickness. She went and cheered
her with songs, the remembrance of
which are still cherished by the fam
lily.
Again and again, when the oppor-
tunity offered for such an act of kind
ness, she sang to invalids who could
not be present at her concerts. The
gift of God within her vas a trust to
be administered for the good of
others. Youths Companion.
A Word for Busy H~ousekeepers.
The old saying, What is worth do
ing at all is worth doing we'll" is taken
altogether too literally by some of the
famous housekeepers. eTeach women
to slight their work" is a rule which
might be as aptly applied as the
former one, especially when women
are built to last one hundred years
and die at forty as a result of too
much stove backing, fine laundrying,
etc. What is the use, because one is
a housekeeper, of forgetting the out
side world and spending all of the
time polishing kitchen aprons which
would be just as we'll unstarched, Of
rolling out cookies when the hungry
children would relish it as well if the
batter were baked in a loaf?
How many ambitious housekeepers
are up Monday mornings at two and
three o'clock in the morning in order
to have their washing on the line be-
fore daylight. In the first place it is
only a matter of custom that washing
happens on Monday. Because our
ancestors always washed Monday is
no more reason that we should than
that we must weave orr own cloth be-
cause they did. I think Monday
should be picking up day. On Sun
day things usually become more or
less scattered about, and so Monday
is invariably the day for straighten-
ing out and resting up for washing on
Tuesday.
Then the work may be divided up
for the rest of the week proportionate-
ly, and by the end of the week the
work is done just the same. Many
will judge me a lazy housekeeper. per-
haps it is a fact, but l think there is
too much obstinacy shown in clinging
to old fashioned ideas of housework.
Cor. Lewiston Journal.
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