Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-01-14

comings as compared with the other
girl. She did not begin to have as fine
a voice. 1t was a beautiful voice and
she used it we'll. But it was not big
voice and she had to use it we'll to
make it effective at ALL 1t was thus
THAT the two girls came to the same
IChicago boarding house Their work
was along similar lines. Each wished
for great things but they had different
methods of attaining their desires.
Their names We're entered on the list
| of the same booking agency. A concert
manager desired a soloise. Notliica-
ton was sent out to the two to call for
a testing of the voice. Sometime this
week. the notice, sent out Monday,
read Tuesday morning. the girl with
| the little voice, went to see the mana
ger. 1t was Saturday night, when the
| girl with the marvellous voice, called.
! The singer had been engaged and the
manager was really sorry she had been,
for he had heard no voice that week
Hike the girls, who had come so late.
| 1t was not the other girl who was Sc
llected, but she did not lose heart. She
simply went on keeping every appoint-
ment promptly. Then there came, an
opening in a church choir. 1t was not
Il rich church and the salary paid was
such as to be almost Il joke among sing
ers. The girl with the marvellous voice
disdained to accept it. Then it was
offered to the other girl-the girl who
always had To be second when the Ca
madam was rear. She took it. Perse-
verance was required. for It was not
easy work and her friends chafed her
about it and her brother offered 10 pay
her double the amount of the salary II
she would give it up. But she kept at
1t. All last winter, during rainy or
pleasant weather, she rode from her
home on the south side, far out on the
west side. to sing in the little chapel.
The other girl staid in the big boarding
house and grumbled at the commercial
spirit of Chicago and the unkindness of
the fates. One day the brother of the
rector of the west side chapel attended
the service. He heard the pretty voice
of the young girl. He was apprecia-
tive and he understood how artistic
her work was, to make SO much OF what
was in reality SO little. He had
friend who was at the head of a grow
ing musical college in the city, who
was DESTROYS of a young woman toNtake
charge of a choral club She is just
what he wants" he thought, "a girl
who can do what she has done with
her voice, can do a great deal for oth-
ers.'' So it came about that the one
young girl has been able to move from
the big boarding house into coy lit
tie fiat, the other occupants of which
are girls like herself. dependent on
~
success The other girl. with the mar
velous voice, is still living in the tiny
hall bed room of the boarding house.
She can't understand the luck of her
contemporary, for no one realizes bet
ter than she does, how far superior her
own voice and advantages are. And
so she goes on, grumbling.
There is a Marshalltown woman who
is very fond of children, altho she has
never had any of her own, and who mas
always thought herself favorite with
the little people. But now she is
guessing" as to hire standing with a
little boy who boards in the same house
with her He was invited to party
one afternoon and as his mother was TO
be away from home at the time when
ha should be dressed, the woman who
loves children, volunteered to array
him in whatever passes for a tuxedo
with a small boy. He had been playing
In his sand pile and diligent securing
was needed to make him presentable.
He got it. That is where the joke
comes in, for that night when his
mother was tucking him in bed and
asked him If he had a good time at the
party he sighed as he said "oh, yes
But say Mama, Auntie M. would make
a bully step-mother, wouldn't she!