Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-12-13

Special Correspondence.
London. Nov 26.-Winter has reached
this 'city Of smoke and fog" and all
the Utah colony are prepared TO meet
II. It's dark days and foggy nights
cannot give us the blues" Even II we
do have 70 ride from Stoke Newington
70 the Bank on a cold, slow bus, we
can comfort ourselves with the belief
that some day in the dim future there
Will be a tube hundred feet down
IN the warm earth to rapidly carry US
from place to place, The Elders are
all busy with the winters work Street
meetings have ceased, but tracing con-
lnues, Then there are friends, Saints
and Investigators to visit. SO the Elder
has enough to do to keep MIN from be-
coming homesick. President Blood, FL
ders Porter Wolfe and Anderson and
Sisters Elliott, Thurman, Bean and
Brown are at the conference house IN
Iofth London, while there are also Ell
ders IN the west south and east.
! wrote you fully Of the success of
Mamie Tout, the little Ogden girl, who
is studying music here. A visitor TO
London would find it of interest TO
spend an evening with Elder Tout and
MS family. lie would be sure TO re-
ceiYe a hearty welcome. III he had
known them In Utah he would see very
mite change III Elder and Sister Tout,
but he would be surprised to see how
much the children have grown. Miss
Mamie is no longer the little girl in
snort dresses whom he saw In the Salt
Lake Eisteddfod. She Is now "a young
lady Orwell, If he did not know her,
ne would say o. but she is nearly four
years younger Then there are Grace,
Maggie, Hazel, Irving aud sweet little
Elia, all grown so much larger that he
wonders IL. after ALL this is the same
TOUT family he knew in Ogden. Elder
Iout takes his flute, Mamie sits down
NJ the piano, Grace and Hazel get their
Vlolins, Maggie her cello, and little Iry-
iils or Elia the triangle. After the us
udl lunings, arranging of music, ETC.,
they are ready 10 begin The piece may
DC either seronade or march, or per-
maps II may be a waltz. They play al
most anything you ask of them. But
Whatever the piece may be, the visitor
Is soon lost to everything except the
music and the performers. He notices
now intensely interested they all seem
70 be In what they are doing. He Won
uefs at liazels graceful bowling, for
ne remembers that she had not started
10 learn the violin when she was In
Ulah, and he naturally says to himself,
wen, II Hazel doesn't make an excel
lent viollnlst, | am much mistaken"
They all keep very good time, even If
Maggie does 'wiggle" somewhat when
she has to stretch a big interval with
her left hand Elder Tout believes that
the best way to get children 10 prac-
lice Is TO practice with them, so every
night he has them get their instru-
ments aud study FOR an hour or two,
The whole family Is bubbling over with
music, and his taking an active inter-
est In them and prac ticlng with them is
the secret of their progress. All the
children are either having the voices
trained or studying some instrument.
Even little Irving, who Is only seven
years old, sometimes plays the piano
with the band Grace Is taking piano
lessons from Mr.. Cecil Montague, one
OF London's rising young musicians.
who has very Kindly assisted us In our
conference concerts. Her voice Is a
very deep contralto, but for the pres.
ent she Is not having II cultivated.
Maggies voice Is one which captIyates