The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-03-05

this fact is responsible for the feminine
craze for bargains. However that may
be. the careful shopper is the one who
adopts for her motto, sit is better to b.
an hour or season too early than o
week too late" Having made tina,
passes shop without having her eyes
on the alert and she never glances nj
advertisements with her attention on
something else. Let lis suppose she
wants $50 wrap and that she lacks $40
to to- make up the price, She does net fret
make an effort to get it at a reduction.
She simply waits. 1t is true she feels
a bit shabby in her last years cape or
coat as the holidays come along, but still
she waits, possessing her soul III patience
ana hnally, on Z. frosty January day she
sees S%n. the notice that announces great re-
placid smile e Size tuc ksh h sae sRl'f n
her purse and sallies forth, serene MS
summer morning, and at nightfall there
IS IN her possession the $50 wrap and
her work is done.
Each month in the year offers some
things at reduced prices and which can
be quietly and comfortably bought with
out coming within speaking distance of a
bargain counter, and it is these reduc-
She usually buys her tlannels in the early
spring and her cotton goods in the au-
t1mn, and she picks up odds and ends for
the house "Whene'er she takes her walks
abroad But if you try to lure her into
buying bargains she will refuse with a
smiling scorn which seems to envelop
you in pity and says, "My dear, I never
buy bargains. | know BETTER"
Romance Of Prima Donna.
1t is perhaps not generally known that
Nine. Lillian Nordica was once shop
girl III Boston, and, being too poor to
the aid of pitch pipe presented to her
by her teacher.
AS has frequently been stated in print,
she was native of the state of Maine,
Lillian Norton by namI and grand
daughter of Scamp Meeting" John Allen
of that state. 1t was while standing in
a store in Boston that the tide in her
affairs came, which, being taken at the
flood, led on to fortune. She was in the
evening after the store was emptied of
customers and she was employed in ar
ranging her "stock" for the night.
1t was on one such occasion as this
that a late purchaser, who happened to
be all apostle of voice culture, heard her
singing, and. realizing that she had a
future before her, offered to give her
lessons for nothing. She accepted the
offer, and studied under him for two
years, practicing with her pitch pipe
during her meal hours, at the end of
which time she was able to appear in a
concert at which she earned enough
money to pay for the rent of piano.
After three years more of hard study
she sailed for Europe, studied there for
two years, and, returning, made her first
appearance in Boston. But, possibly, be-
cause as yet she lacked the stamp of for
eign approval, she narrowly escaped be-
ing Kissed off the stage in her old home.
She was rather more warmly received in
New York, but, being herself dissatisfied
with her work, she went back to Europe,
where she studied the leading soprano
roles in the standard operas, and, taking
new name, soon began to make repu-
tation for herself.
Her success at Bayreuth put the finish
ing TOUGH upon her as a singer of re-
noWn.. She was the first American prima
donna to appear in those celebrated per-
formances.-Washing Post.