The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-07
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Both will be held confidential.
Correspondents will please write the
names OF their places of residence in
| full. Letters go astray daily because
the address is given merely as "City."
| There are fortY-five Of these United
States and many cities in each State.
| If Mrs J. W. NJ will write to A.
| I. Root, of Medina. O.. she will get not
! the catalogue alone, but very valuable
| information in the line of bee raising.
Mrs. H. F. NJ.
No. ..
! In reply to the query of IT H. P" the
resurrection plant is. I understand. q
| Mexican plant. and can be obtained at
any reputable seed store in this city.
| When dry it resembles d little brown
| ball. but when PLACID in water in a
! saucer or fiat dish, in a few hours. 1t
Will expand into green leaves
| If neglected, it will resume its former
I shape, but if treated again with water
it will expand in green leaves as before.
J.P.F.
IN. A. L." wished to know the name
| of the book containing the quotation be-
ginning THE first snow came
| 1t may be found in one Of Longfellows
prose works. the title of which. I am
quite sure. is Hyperion and kava-
naugh.'
Will you kindly tell me if R. Haggard's
Cleopatra" is historical, or merely the
! work of his imagination? George Ebers
Cleopatra" is so different that I thought
| both could not be true Is either?
E. n. D.
Zach ron1ancist painted the "Cleopa-
ira" of his own ina gina tion.-Editor)
| I enclose a clipping which I think will
| answer the query OF 81. NJ. r.
| On children's day church near
| Stroudsburg, Pa, will pay 151 red roses
/ as 157 years rent to the descendants Oh
Casper Wistar, who gave the ground ror
the church in 1745 on condition that one
red rose was to be paid each year mere
is no record that the rent was ever palo'
and it was decided recently by the CON
gregation to pay the arrearages 10 cate.
The descendants of Wistar will attend
! the services ard receive the roses.
! w E. S.
No. 5.
Miss Frances Wizards sister-in-aw has
a school in Germany to which many
English speaking girls wishing to study
in that country go. 1t is Mrs. Wizards
School for Girls in Berlin.
!; have heard my German teacher tell
of attending lectures in Brln University.
I so I suppose women can attend that uni
| versity.
I hope this information will be of use
| to your correspondent, K. NJ. II.
| Your reply to M c. IN yesterdays
pape, is both pertinent and sensible, but
| | would like to supplement 1t with some
| further advice It is undoubtedly true
| that it would be madness to give up
certainty of even three dollars a week for
| the very precarious income of musical
! life No musicians that I have ever
known can make their way pay without
/ taking pupils, so to take up music as a
! profession is not to be thouht Of without
|
urally good voice is valuable-far too val
! liable to waste. There is no reason why
| this young woman should not make it
profitable Also Church choir singing Of
fers wide field. Many small churches
are willing to take an unframed singer
at a little salary. and the organist will
gladly give advice as a rule. II she really
/ has pleasing voice and an ability to
/ learn, she can advance herself step by
| step till musical career may perhaps
! open before her She must first have
| knowledge OF notes and be able to read
/ at sight This is easily acquired with a
! little daily work. I would willingly teach
/ her II I lived near She will find all mu-
| sieians willing to help If she appeals from
| a musical standpoint. After the notes her
| musical equipment must be few breath
/ ing exercises, a little assurance and a
/ determination to learn everything avail
!, able. Let her get acquainted with all the
/ musicians possible. hear all the music she
I can. and at the first chance join the Phil
/ adelphia Choral. or some large society.
(which will do infinite good In training her
voice and broadening the understanding.
Do not think undervalue the advantages
OF a musical education. But there are so
/ many, atrocious voices at large and such
absolute ontradfctfons in the matter OF
Training that I believe she Is better of