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LosT-A bunch of keys with owners
name on. Return to SAM FELDsTEIN.
VIM. Fenske is moving onto the
Dempewolf farm south of Lime Spring.
DR.. W. T. DAILY, physician and
surgeon; Office over Glass's restaurant.
c. c. Ehrke from near Lime Springs
was Cresco business visitor yesterday.
Try o. A. Singers Restaurant (the
old Genshow Stand) if you want a first
class meal. Good cooking and good
service.
Robert Kach and Rudolph Gerber
left yesterday for Aberdeen, S. D.,
where they will remain and work this
summer.
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from the care Of Nine. Jaeger at the opera
school. She has sung with great success
in Nice. where she created the title role in
Messengers "Mme Chrysantheme, She
has sung Giidd in a number Of foreign
cities and met with her greatest success
in Italy and southern France, although
it is in Frankforton the Main that she has
been permanently engaged. Miss Gren-
vile was not wholly without experience
when she began TO study at the opera
school, although she had previously APP
peared only in comic opera,
Josephine Sohaeier, who was for a brief
period in the opera school and sang the
music OF the Priestess in Aida is now
engaged In one Of the smaller German
opera houses aud mas been 80 far entrusted
with all the lyric Wagner roles, including
Elsa and Eiisdbetb.
Florence Wickham, leading dramatic
soprano at Stettin, is a Brooklyn girl and
came out here to sing kuHdry in some Of
the "Parsifal' performances given by the
Savage company. Marguerite Lemon, who
sapg for a short time at the Metropolitan
during the first year Of the administration
Of Mr.. Conried, is now prima donna at the
opera house in Mayence, where Nine.
Gadski began her career, She Is one Of
the three Americans to create the. title
role OF Madame Butterfly in Germany.
Geraldine Farrar and Johanna Osborn were
the others,
Nine. Osborn. who has been engaged
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that over for the sake Of being a prima
donna. She had to begin at the bottom to
succeed in her new career and joined the
opera school at the Metropolitan,
In order to satisfy the ambition 10 be a
singer in something more than comic opera
she had appeared a few times with the
Bostonians-Miss Van Dresser refused an
offer Of more than 500 a week 10 act
in a Shakespearian revival to he made by
Klaw 4 Granger. She stuck TO her studies
at the school with no other opportunity TO
distinguish herself than came from the
participation in "Pauifal, where there was
only her dusky beauty 20 distinguish her
from other members Of the school.
She was fortunate enough to earn one Of
the scholarships which entitle the pupils
Of the school to "a to Europe and study
there for a year. Miss Van Dresser selected
Germany. Ia Munich she studied faithfully,
and finally had the opportunity last spring
TO make her first appearance at Dresden.
She selected for her debut the sanity heroine
Of "Tannhauser.'
Although engaged at Dresden she did
not find employment enough there and went
for three months to Dessard for prac-
tice in the repertoire of a first lyric So
prano. When she was studying under
Nine, Jaeger at the Metropolitan Miss Van
Dresser's voice was rather a mezzo so
prano than anything else.
Lillian Grenvillo, who has been engaged
for the opera house, is another graduate
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for the season Of German opera at Covent
Garden this year, made her first appear
ance at the Stadt Theatre in Leipsic a year
ago and since that time has made steady
progress. She comes from Chicago, An
other American singing in Germany is
Josephine Swickard, who will return there
in May TO take hey place in the company
at Cassel.
Sarah Anderson several years ago made
her successful debut in the same place,
although she later preferred TO resign her
post in the company and go to Australia
to init oduce there the Wagner operas in
German
One Of the most honorable places in the
German operate world held by any Ameri-
can belongs to Maude Fay, dramatic so
prano in the company at the Royal Opera
House in Munich. Nine. Cahier. whom
we in America knew as Mrs. Morris Black
is at the Imperial Opera House in Vienna,
where she succeeded Edyth Walker when
she became a soprano.
Maude Roosevelt sings IN Barmfeld. and
Thea Dorre is an American who has for
more than a decade been singing carmen
through the German cities.
France has been ever hospitable TO
American girls Of talent who go there.
Emma Eames, Sibyl Sanderson, Marie
Van Zandt and now Mary Garden and
Bessie ABBOTT are able to testify to that.
Pauline Donalda, who has been singing
at the Opera Comique in Paris, has met with
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SHIPPING LIVE MINNOWS DRY.
A Bunch Of Them sent Thuk, without Loss,
From New York TO Detroit.

The salt water minnow il a hardy little
fish. II will lie in the mud, out Of water,
left there by a receding tide, and keep alive
all right for some hours until water comes
to it again with the next food. And so,
while commonly all fishes when trans
ported overland are carried in cans or
tanks filled with water, which must be kept
constantly aerated while the fishes are on
the way, minnows may he shipped for con-
siderable distances out Of water il carefully
packed, as they are sometimes shipped to
anglers for bait,
What is perhaps a record shipment OF
m%innows, for the results attained, ia one
lately made from the New York Aquarium
TO the aquarium in Detroit. The Detroit
aquarium wanted a bunch OF salt water
minnows, some TO feed to It's marine fishes,
and some for exhibition purposes, and for
these minnows it sent to the New York
Aquarium, which shipped the required little
fishes to the number Of 500.
For this shipment there was made here
a box about 20 inches square by 10 inches
deep, around the inner sides OF which cleats
were nailed about three inches from the
top. Then ne bottom OF the box was
covered with wet eel grass. and on this the
little minnows, from pa TO 4 inches 10
length, were laid carefully, to be protected
with another layer Of eel grass laid over
them, And then there were placed in
the box IN the top layer Of eel grass over
the fishes strips az wood with their ends
supported on the cleats nailed TO the inner
sides Of the box, and then there was put 10
on these strips ice enough to MI the boz.
The water from the gradually melting Ice
would provide sufficient moisture for the
fishes on the way and drafhage was pro-
vided for by holes bored in the bottom OF
the box.
The minnows we're shipped on a fast
train and thus packed they went through
in good condition and came out all alive.
Il was about eighteen hours after they
left the Aquarium here that they we're
unpacked In the aquarium 10 Detroit, but
when they we're placed in the water there
the whole zoo found their fms and swan Oh
gayly.
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mile from Uplands and which would give
accommodations for twenty more girls.
This house was named Hillcrest, and like the
other it il kept open for from fourteen to
twenty weeks every year according 20 the
financial prosperity Of the society,
Said the president Of the society. Mrs.
William Herbert, who was one Of the
original %Sinopians:
Afortnights vacation In usually allowed,
but at Santa Clara the minimum time il
one month. Zach girl ia required to pay
the $50 a week unless the secretary,
Miss Buchanan, 90 whom applicants are re-
ferred, is satisfied that she is not able to
pay anything. Some few girls are able to
pay $3.50 per week, and IL il remarkable
how seldom girls fail to pay the sum
agreed,
1T Is surprising and touching to notice
how often one and another who has been
restored to health by her stay at Uplands
or Hillcrcst, and Is able TO go to work again
will try 10 repay some Of the money we
spent in her behalf. For instance twelve
years ago two sisters were sent by us TO the
country for a two weeks vacation two
summers in succession. They we're In i'll
health ard they could not afford TO a
for their vacation, but said they would
consider il a loan. Since then one sister
died. Last spring the remaining sister
brought the long due board money, SIS.
TO the office, saving that time and time
again she had saved up the amount aud
then been obliged to use 1t for her aihng
sister"
A new feature introduced 10 the Santa
Clara houses last summer and which II Ia
believed will add immeasurably to the
well being Of the girls isaa teacher Of
domestic science, whose advent Ia due
to a 5000 gift for that purpose In memory
Of Mrs. Franklin A. Wilcox, for many years
a stanch friend Of the society, The interest
Of the 5000 Ia TO be used every summer
In securing from Teachers College, New
York, a thoroughly competent instructor
in the domestic sciences,
What Is more, by next summer, the presi-
dent says there Is a prospect Of n fund being
placed at the disposal Of the Santa Clara
houses 10 build n detached kitchen for the
sole benefit Of the quests, where cooking
experiments and candy pulls and afternoon
teas may he conducted without interfering
with the regular work Of the house.
Alresdy the domestic science lessons
have borne fruit, One day last winter
when passing through one Of the large
department stores a Hillcrest guest Of last
summer on duty behind a counter said to a
customer. Il learned tTo things last sum-
mer which have helnet me very much:
10 eat bread and milk instead Of pie for
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country houses, four Of which il owns and
all Of which are supported by voluntary
contributions, and the number Of working
girls helped to a summer vacation by the
society has reached the / 900 mark, What
Ia more. other cities have started in to
follow the good example. Boston women
being among the first to write and ask for
information as 10 plans.
Before the Working Girls Vacation
Society was much more than two years old
Il received as a gift a deed Of Green cot
tage, situated at Greens Farms, Conn, named
in compliment to Miss Lucy NJ. Green, once
head Of a girls school at that place, Grad
yates Of this school bought the cottage,
fitted it up to accommodate ten girls and
turned it over to the young society,
From the start the society has made it a
rule to assist to a vacation only those inn
paired in health, girls not sick enough for a
hospital but WHO need a stay in the country.
An applicant, therefore, must he examined
by q physician and vouched for by a re-
sponsible person aware Of how much or
how little she is able to pay toward her
vacation EXPENSES
As a result Of this medical examination,
managers Of the society we're surprised to
learn that many Of the applicants had
tubercular tendencies which might be
altogether averted by one months vacation
spent in a dry. bracing atmosphere.
A house In the mountains seemed beyond
their resources. But as the m otto Of the
society 10 Prevention is better than cure
an earnest effort was made to interest per-
soma who owned property in the A%dirondacks
or who vera in the habit OF visiting that
section. One Of these was the late William
f. Dodge. who responded to the appeal by
purchasing and turning over to the Working
Girls Vacation Society a small building
at Santa Clara, which had formerly been
the headquarters Of the foreman Of a lumber
camp, and further at his " expense
remodelling il and adding a wing OF equal
size. the whole when completed giving
acc o%mmodations for about thirty girls.
This house was chrlsteHed "Cplands,'
and from the start il was taxed to the NJ.
most during the three summer months,
Again Mr.. Dodge came 10 the socisty's
relief by purchasing what had once been a
small hotel situated about one-eighth Of a
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luncheon, and not to eat candy on my way
home before | get my dinner
Other Santa Clara girls carried home
with them recipes for simple, nutritious
dishes and a knowledge Of how 10 prepare
them, which il put in practice are bound
TO help them win their fight against tuber-
cular tendencies,
Az Green cottage not only girls from
factories and shops but teachers and
s~tenographers, victims Of i'll health, have
been included among the vaCationers
who have been the better for coming under
the care, even for two weeks, Of the much
loved matron or house mother. Mrs. Arrity
Hale, who died last winter AZ the < OF
| o., after n days illness. Mrs. Hale il
| quoted by the president Of the society as
| an example OF the care given to the Sc
| lection Of women who shall be 10 the guests
not only a matron but a mother.
Neversink Manor, at HuguenOt, \, Y,
which accommodates twenty-thre5 girls,
and Elmcote, at Chester, n. T., with
rooms for nineteen girls, are both hired by
the society. The one entertained no
girls and the other 10i girls last summer
AtFarmington Lodge, Pennington, Conn,
| owned and supported by graduates OF Miss
Porter's school, who loan il 70 the Society,
lN0 girls spent their vacation last summer,
and the house at Westport, Conn, sup
UOTIbu Ildllll ny lht bNuNlbh u II III ~
ciety, entertained for two weeks each 1A5
girls, the majority Of whom work in fac
tories and are 40 poor they seldom have
clothes sufficient to go away for a much
needed vacation,
Breezy Corner, near Cobalt, Conn,
given TO the society in memory OF Miss
Eliza Howe Terry, a warm friend Of work
ing girls, has accommodations for eighteen
and entertained about eighty girls last
year. In addition 10 furnishing a summer
boarding place for working girls the So
ciety also frequently pays for the trans
porfation TO friends living in the country
who are willing 10 entertain the girls for u
time free OF charge.
Last but not least, an indirect outcome
Of the work OF the Working Girls Vacation
Society 10 the establishment Of Stony
Void at Lake Kushsqun in the Adiron-
dacks. Stony Void is a fully equipped
sanitarium which receives women suffering
with inoipient or partly developed tuber-
%culosie, and It owes its being primarily 10
Mrs. James 4, Newcomb, one Of the earliest
members OF the vacation society and still
ono Of its directon, Among the Bppli-
cants to the vacation society were some,
Mrs. Newoomb learned, in the initial stages
Of consumption. Naturally those cases
the vacation society was Obliged to reject.
What is more, most Of these cases needed
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IN n MATTE
They Have n Surprise for the New Guest
Who Eats 81 Hotel.

VIM LotN ~ hV'Fi'
There is just one city in this country
where new guests in the two leading hotels
drink water Just for the fun Of It.. That is
Terre Haute, Ind.
1t is the joy Of life Of the initiated 10
invite an unsuspecting visitor to the hotel
to eat. There is always an eXpeCtant look
on the face Of the host as the guest settles
himself. and the host who does not get his
looked for laugh is rare.
As the guest settles himself suddenly
there descends by his cor down toward the
table lire a shot a stream OF water. Most
people jump, according to their jumping
abilities.
The stream always safely hits the drink
ing glass. and as the guest rallies and looks
up for the source Of the stream there is a
grinning colored gentleman holding high
something like q small tea kettle' with q
pretty long spout. The higher the guest
jumps the more gratifed this person looks,
Almost everybody will drink two glasses
Of water and signal for third just to be sure
the knight Of the tea kettle can hit that glass,
Where the custom, originated nobody seems
TO know, but Tcrre Haute always refers to
il with something like pride.
For the cOlored gentleman who is the
smartest one OF the bunch az the trick three
feet ia nothing TO fire a stream from the
water can, y as il is styled. He will juggle
II first close then further away and grad
ually further and then down again without
spilling a drop. Doctors don't have 10 advise
water drinking TO people in those hotels.
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greater success than she used 10 find at the
Manhattan, which is fortunate for her as she
is receiving less than one-quarter OF the
money that used to be paid to her.
Maio Tailasi is Mary Tracey and was
selected this year 10 sing Ere,d in the Monte
Carlo production Of "Das Rheingold' and
later appeared successfully in other roles.
Minnie Tracey still appears before French
audiences. who receive her warmly In
opera and concert.
Nine. Nader de Montjau, wife Of a son
il Nine. Fursch-Madi, is another successful
American singer in Europe. She is q native
Of New Orleans, Miss Lindsay, who sang
for five years at the Opera in Paris. 10 an
American, although most Of her life has
been passed in Paris, whittier her father
went years ago as representative Of a New
York merchant.
Caroline SHELTON is the latest American
10 sing in France, having recently made
her debut in Versailles as Mile. Starelle.
Lucille Marcel, who has sung in opera oo-
casionally at the Comique and in concert
at Ostend, is the f~avorite pupil Of Jean de
Reszke and travels through Europe with
the tenor; and Marguerite Sylvia, wife Of W.
d, Mann, one time manager Of the Herald
Square Theatre, sings in France and
Switzerland under the same name in which
she used to be heard in musical comedy
here. She was for a season at the Opera
ComiQue.
Edith de Lys is a Boston girl named
Rose Ely who has just been appearing at
the Sal Verne in Milan, singing Violeia In
la Traviata She was a pupil Of Jean de
Res2ke, so there was the usual complaint
of insufficient fundamental training She
made her first appearance last winter with
an Italian company in London in -Tosca,'
and the faults Of her vocal training were
not so numerically revealed.
Although she may not have cause TO be
grateful TO him for what he did for her
voice, Miss de Lys owes her teacher one
thing, 1t was he who interested in her a
rich New Yorker who enabled her to con-
time her studies with De Reszke.
Signora Volpine is no other than Miss
Blanche Fox Of Boston. although il Is under
the former name that she has made herself
well known in the Italian opera houses.
Alys Lorraine, who sang last season in opera
in Genoa, Ia a New Yorker who made her
preparations for opera under Nine. Mar
chesi
Catherine Carlyna is an American soprano
who has succeeded iR making a reputation
for herself in Rome,iwhere she has lung at
the various opera houses for the last two
years, Nine. DORA has been for several
years at the Theatre de la Monnaie 10 Bnus-
sells, is an American and first saw the light
in Boston. Martha Hofacker Is a New York
girl who has sung with success in various
German opera houses for several years
past and is now first lyric soprano at the
Court Theatre in K~onigsberg.
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France, from Germany to Italy and Switze--
land singing the coloratura operas, to which
she has devoted herself.
Florence Easton made her first success
In the Savage companies, although born
abroad, and she would never have been
invited To the Court Theatre in Berlin but
for her achievements here Her husband
Ia an American. Her recent success in Ber-
lin involved a tragedy.
The success Of Geraldine Farrar in OBJ
tanning from Count Won Huelsen the
privilege Of creating In Berlin the part
Of the heroine In Madame Butterfly" so
irritated Emmy Destinn, the London singer
Of the title part, that she tried in every
way TO break her contract with the com
pany. II was impossible, and all that
she could accomplish was to refuse to sing
for two months.
Miss Farrar had TO return to this country
when the Metropolitan season began and
the intendant Of the Royal Opera House in
Berlin was compelled to ask Nine. Destinn
to assume the principal part in the opera,
which had been 80 successful that it was out
Of the question to discontinue its produc-
ton. II IL easy to imagine what Nine
Destinn did under those circumstances. :
Her artistic honor had been attacked in
the first instance, she declared. and she bad
in vain protested against this particular
phase Of the American invasion. She did
what every prima donna under the same
circumstances would have done. She
laughed at the intendant and his PROPOSE
ton. She laughed long and loud in every
key and ohortled in every register Of ner
dramatic soprano organ
There had TO be more Butterfly" All
Berlin was crying for more Puccini. It
was then that Florence Easton, regarded
by many as the best OF the singers Of the
role in English, was called to the attention
Of the management.
She sang the part in German. met with
immediate success and is now ONE Of the
lyric sopranos Of the company. Other
Americans there are Frances Rose, a Colo
RADIO girl who succeeded Emmy Destinn as
Sdlome and won as much praise as the
original in the part, and Edna Darch, the
Los Angeles young womdn who was adopted
by Nine. Calve, who intended to educate her
for a musical profession. 1t wal not long
before the mercurial Emma thrust the
child into outer darkness. Miss Darch
hurried back to her happy California home.
The idea OF a career in opera was still
in her mind, however, and she stuck to il.
When she was old enough TO go abroad,
the scenes Of her studies were transferred
to Europe, and she has been fortunate
enough to get a post in the Berlin opera
for the next five years.
Among the flower girls at the Metropoli-
tan when "Parsifal' was sung first was the
beautiful Marcia Van Dresser, who had
made a name for herself as an actress and
a beauty before she decided TO throw all
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fully six months vacation under proper
treatment were they to have a fighting
chance. Mn. NewoOmb about nine years
ago took the nst steps to bring about her
project. The result is a fully equipped
hospital in the Adirondack woods repre-
senting a value something like 100000,
evolved from a rummage sale held by the
Chi Kappa Club, composed Of thirty
five young women who were inspired by
Mrs. NewcOmb. One year later, with only
$4,000 in bank, the %sanitarium, which eX-
perts said would need SlO,OOO TO build and
equip. was started. Stony Void hns now
been four years in active commission,
to do its share in combating the
white plague.
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SUMNER OUTINGS FOR GIRLS
ONE SOCIETY HELPS THOUSAND
or THEN E4CH YEAR.
Etarted by a Group OF Young Women Il Has
Grown Intll SOw II Runs Fight Houses
-%StOnywOld Home for COnsumptiNe
Women an OutgrOwth Of Its Work.

-StOnywold Home for C0nsumptiNe
Women an OutgrOWth Of Its Work,
Tho average working girl Of small wage
spent her vacation when she took any
vacation al all-at home, regardless OF her
physical condition. Then rs now rail-
road fares and country boarding house
price we're usually beyond her means,
After the S]inopion CLUB was organized
Il was different. At first no one took the
Sinopions seriously. The organization was
composed Of about a score Of young girls,
some Of them yet in their teens, who chose
the name Sinopion because II is the Greek
for mustard seed. L.
In the beginning the ~Sinopians searched
around a little 10 find girls in need Of a
vacation at a nominal cost, and these they
boarded for two weeks or less at a country
boarding house. As the clubs object
became known appeals from various quar-
ters grew more and more frequent and the
club was Up against the money question,
One Of the members proposed holding
a bazaar, having a $1,000 profit in view, and
tho others acGuiesced. although they we're
rNINcN IldN uuolOuN' NV 'iNNl'uiai NAM
1wenty-cighth street, wnA hired for two
u1ys at a cost Of siOO, and so well had tho
Sinopians advertised their scheme that at
the close " the bazaar S2,75O over and
above expenses was counted by the de-
lighted managers.
That was really the beginning Of the
Working Girls Vacation Society. A few
months later, in 1885, the society was in
corporated and its long membership list,
which Included the names Of many Of the
best known women in town, was supple
meatcd 10y an advisory board Of profess
sional mcn. The society had / ired a coun-
ty ho'-" for the sole use Of ia benchciaries,
AID tno.S't th!o was big thing.
To-day the society has in operation eight