The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-25
A MUSICAL WOMAN.

In the afternoon an EAGLE reporter
knocked at the door of the residence of
Mr.. and Mrs. A G. Walden and WAS ten
dered a decidedly pleasant invitation to
enter the handsome and neatly furnished
rooms of the fire marshal and his hand
some and talented wife.
The nature of the reporters assignment
was impaired to Mrs. Walden and she was
requested to tell the readers of the EAGLE
how a musical lady will spend Christmas.
the reporter of course, having particular
reference to the fair lady who very grace
fully recIined i'll finely upholstered chair
before him.
II declare" said Mrs. Walden 81 hardly
know how l am going to spend Christmas
as my husband is suffering with la
grippe, and, of course, l must give him
my particular attention during the day.
If he is better, and 1 am in hopes he will be,
l will begin the day by going to the Cath
Ollie cathedral They will have some fine
music there, and | must hear Mrs. Rus
sell, OF whose ability as a singer, l have
very high estimate. Last year l was IN
the Grand Cathedral of Milan, or Milano,
as the beautiful city is called in Italy, and
the services and the singing there
on that occasion were simply
superb In the afternoon of
tomorrow I will try and remember the
pieces played at the Melauo cathedral, and
will enjoy myself and those around me
with a repetition of them. At this mo-
ment Mr.. Walden entered the room and
gave the reporter and Mrs. Walden very
graphic description of the horrors of ia
grippe, supplementing the same with the
intelligence that he was much better, for
all Of which he very piously thanked tho
Lord THIS joyful intelligence left no
more doubt in the mind of Mrs. Walden
that she would attend services at the Ca
thedral and spend much happier day
than she would il Mr.. Walden had not &C
knowledged an improvement in the coudi-
ton of his health. Mrs. Walden's fond
ness for music will not deter her from hav-
ing a sumptuous dinner, for those vino
know her say she is quite as talented in
the culinary art as she is in the art of mu-
sic.
1T is very hard matter for me to tell
which was the happiest Christmas of my
life," said Mrs. Walden. 81 have enjoyed
so many happy Christmases that am at
q IOSS W CSCdlA Tue udpples6 Ot CHeu Hi
| think, however. that the Christmas of
'S5 was the happiest. Then my sisters
were alive and with me; we were all here
together and we spent truly happy and
merry Christmas. They are all
dead now" said Mrs. Walden, with !!
a very noticeable accent of sadness and !
sorrow as she glanced up at the portrait of !
one of the dead sisters which hung on the |
wall. Wasn't last Christmas in the beau /
tifuI city OF Milan your happiest? suggest !
ed the reporter, more for the purpose of de- |
tracing her attention from the sad sub /
ject of her thoughts than anything else.
No" she said my heart was in another /
city-in the Peerless Princess-for it was |
my home and the home of my husband.
Beautiful as the surroundings were in the
city of Milan, and as absorbing As the
singing and services OF its grand cathedral
were, nevertheless, my thoughts were fix
Ell in the land Of the setting sun, in the
Italy OF America, for | knew my husband
was there and l naturally INDUCED in
thoughts Of him. Mrs. Walden is a very
pleasant lady to interview.