The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-01

Der the quarrels that ensued among
the learned when telegram" began to
win it's way
Many accepted it without demure
as an extremely happy inspiration, but
many others fought it tooth and nail,
because, forsooth, it was derived from
one Latin word and one Greek word.
such mixing of derivatives they de-
clared wholly inelegant and unscien-
tine, and columns of ,wordy warfare
were carried on in the newspapers and
periodicals of the nid-century over its
acceptance. Accepted 1t finally was,
despite the objections of the fnical,
and to-day it is current coin wherever
the English tongue is spoken.
All the Balestier children and their
mother lived for years in the house
hold of E. Peshine Smith, their father
and grandfather, at Rochester, In New
York state, and his active mentality
acted as powerful intellectual slim
illus upon Wolcott. As a boy the lat
ter had the most literary ambitions;
art for arts sake was his watch
word, and his industry in turning out
copy was incredible.
For some years its quality was very
far short of its quantity. When, after
discovering that he was untitled alike
for Journalism and work of a purely
imaginative sort, he began to study
human life as it really is, then his
work took on new interest Little
by little he was winning his spurs
when death claimed him. Beatty Bale
sitter, with whom Kipling quarrelad.
was of altogether different fiber than
that of his brother Wolcott.
Nine. Marcella Sembrich might have
made almost as many American dol
lars this season in concert as she will
in opera, though Herr Conried is pay
ing her very well, indeed.
Nine. Sembrich learned to play the
violin, and play 1t wen, before she
took up singing as a serious pursuit.
She says her violin playing has been
of incalculable value to her; that her
experience with the stringed instru-
ment has helped her almost, If not
quite, as much as a vocalist as has
her training with expert singing teach
erS. 1t was her present husband, Dr.
William Stengel, from whom she learn
ed the violin, and possibly this fact
has something to do with the high
regard in which she holds the instru-
ment. She also learned the piano, and
made her debut as an instrumentalist
when only IL, being d sort of infant
prodigy. 4Eas-. H. .sa.-v -
1t was her intention to study the
piano under Liszt, but for some reason
had less eminent master. One day
she sang in his presence, and he was
so charmed with her voice that he ad
vised her to give up instrumental work
altogether and go in for singing. Her
family objected, but she took the
teachers advice.
IrrhA
manded to sing before the Gar he
asked her for a certain song by Chopin.
Il can sing Chopin in Polish only,
your majesty" ans wered the singer,
who is of Polish blood, remembering
the prohibition of her native tongue to
all musical performances within the
empire.
Sing it in Polish, them" replied the
Car, and she did. Later, at Wilma, re-
membering the Cars tolerance, she
ventured to sing one song in Polish
publicly. This raised no end of a row,
and next day the chief of police called
upon her and made her sign a paper to
sing no more in her own language.
Every year since then that she has
visited Wilma shes has had to sign a
similar paper. Perhaps that's one of
the reasons she is so partial to America.
Here she can sing in any language she
wants to If only she pleases the people.
Mne,, Sembrich says that the only
thing she doesn't like about America
is the steam heat and the variable eli
mate. Both produce great contrasts in
temperature, which are especially bad
for a singer. The fact remains, how
ever, that she never remains here In
the summer time. though in that sea-
son the climate, in some parts of this
country, is as desirable as anywhere in
Europe. But then she is initiated quite