The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-31

more than usual Teutonic tenacity to
the theory that a girl should have no
more education than would enable her
TO become a competent family drudge
who could minister to the men of the
household. In Caroline's memoirs she
speaks of knitting her first stocking so
long that as she stood up to finish it
it just touched the floor Knitting.
string plating, bugle stringing were
her accomplishments, drudgery her pro-
fession. Her reading, writing, the rud-
imentS of music. and an occasional les
son on the violin, she learned from her
father when her mother was away or
in an unusually good humor. The fact
that Caroline Herschel gained what lit
tie education she possessed under such
discouraging circumstances, oftentimes
when worn out with her duties as the
Cinderella of the family, shows that she
must have possessed a naturally good
mind and great versatility, as well as
great perseverance.
England was at this time under the
rule of the Hanoverian kings. and the
Herschel boys journeyed thither as
members of the band of which their
father was master. These professional
visits ended in William HerscheFs es-
tablishing himself as organist and mu-
sic master at Bath This was a severe
bloT to the little Caroline, who found
the tedium of household duties almost
insufferable without the companionship
of her idol and hero, whom she frank
~ called her dearest brother" Uoon
his return five years later, Caroline was
in tremor of anticipation and more
than ever begrudged the daily routine
which deprived her of so much of this
visit.
Shortly after Williams return to
Bath. where he followed the trade of
musician merely to obtain the means
Of studying his beloved astronomy, his
father died, leaving the family in great
straitened circumstances. For the next
five years mother and daughter shaved
to keep the oldest brother, Jacob, in his
former luxury. Then William be-
thought himself to secure the. valuable
services of his younger sister, and sent
for her to join him in England.
Her training in Germany formed an
excellent basis for her self-effacement
in England. Here the work was quite
as heavy, but varied ~ scientific tasks
in which she proved an apt appren-
tice. This apprenticeship was sweetened
by her brothers appreciation and the
increasing consciousness that she could
give him more invaluable help than
any one else in the world
At Williams bidding she first took
up music, developing a remarkable tall
ent for singing, which would have JUS
titled her career as a prina donna had
she not at her greatest proficiency been
obliged to stifle all iongings for indi-
yiduality and identify herself still
more intimately with her brothers spe-
cialty. When not employed in sound
ing his inventions or indefatigably
polishing the mirrors for his great tele-
scopes, she copied the scores of 1.-THE
Messiah and Judas Maccabeus' into
parts for an orchestra of nearly 100
pieces, drilled the singers for the Len
ten OratOriOS in which she was the So
loist and sang frequently in concert.
She was invited TO take part in the
Birmingham festival, but declined to
sing publicly where her brother was not
the conductor. Her last public appear
ance was in 1882 in an anthem COM
posed by William Herschel. She COM