The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-08-15
THE WOMAN WHO SINGS :,

No Resting Place in Now York for tho
Future Prima Donna No. s4~n
"You don't happen to know OF o
deaf and dumb asylum where they
take boarders, do your" asked the girl
who sings. "No. haven't lost my
mind yet, but can't answer for tho
consequences If my present woes con-
tinue. Why. haven't lived In ono
neighborhood long enough since I
came to town to make q single friend.
md my address changes so often that
! am afraid to trust my memory lest
D give the old one, and must carry 10
plainly written where I can consult 1t
constantly"
''But what on earth is the matter?"
asked the old friend from the country:,
"You haven't committed any crime.
have you? Then, perhaps you have a
iiouble, like the good hero In an Eng
lish novel. and
"Nothingtof the kind. I have a
voice. and that appears to be a crime
OF itself iLsan apartment house When
papa rented the first fiat, the agent
wanted him to take lease for q year.
but he refused said he'd see about it
N we. liked 1t after the FIRST month.
We'll. II was q model building, no dogs.
cats or children allowed, and we liked
It so much that we decided to stay.
When papa went up to sign the lease.
he found that every individual tenant
In tho place had threatened to move II
we staid-because practice five hours
day!"
'And you moved" said the old
friend from the country. .s
"We-did3 papa said he didn't feel as
II he could pay rent for the entire
Guiding The next place we went was
. pleasant as to rooms and gorgeous as
to decoration and the agent said he
was musical himself. SO l went back
to my practicing, with renewed hope.
It was worse than the other; the peo-
pie in the fiat above used to pound on
the floor while did my scales, and the
ones across the way sent in to ask II
some one was Ill the hrst time Il
practiced my great aria. Then. we
cook house and practiced inS nSpeace
for three weeks. SO that Prof. Won
Scalz said that would soon equal Pat
Il and told me to practice an extra
hour daily. Two days later. the man
next door told papa that he pitied him
Cor having daughter who was insane,
but unless she was sent to an asylum
at once. he must complain to the pO-
Aice. ash screams upset his wifes
nerves. Wesmoved again and since
then we have led nomadic life. When
papa does not come home at his usual
time, mamma Is sure that he has for
gotten his address and gone to the last,
place. We have-to pay cash for ev-
erythiug fecsuse the grocer regards ns
with suspicion and our friends from
out of town have not time to hunt us
up unless they stay a month We
have boarded. taken furnished rooms,
houses and hats-all with the same re-
suit: as soon as l begin to practice,
the neighborc begin to complain, and
then comes the agent It is funny, but
the people who have crying babies,
barking dogs or screaching parrots
complain just as much ,as.the rest, and
the friends who used to say that my
voice reminded them OF Melba's, be-
come cold as soon as I-move' into their
immediate neighb0rh0od. 5t
Z "oh. tell you, the path of q future
lprima donna is q thorny one, and tho
only comfort Is the thought that some
day the people who have refused to
live within block Of me, will have to
|pay roundly. for the'privileges Of hoar-
ing mo sing!" And clearing her
throat, she whirled around on the
piano stool and went on with her
SCALES. until the woman in the flas
above sent the janitor to say that the
doctor. had toId har aho would dto nm.