Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-15

its freedom from the disadvantages in
separable from the theater. She has
sung In opera and knows. She was
born in Rochester, New York, but early
went west and received the grounding
for her musical education in Chicago.
Then she went to New York for further
instruction. To help pay for her les
sons she sought a position In q church
choir and finally found one with the
First Presbyterian church in Brooklyn.
Within a year she was Il concert star.
She resigned her position and. put
ting her earnings to still further study,
went abroad Merit and hard work
won her debut In London at Covent
Garden. in 1898 To most young women
1t would have seemed that she was on
the threshold of her career. But Cor
inne Kelsey sat down 10 think over her
situation. The beginner in opera, she
knew, had a long wait for doubtful
fame, certain competition with the best
voices in the world life without home
and all the whimS of managers and
jealousies of the profession to meet. SO
she decided she would go back to the
old field she had left-the church-as Il
profession. 1t was crowded field but
not with voices of her quality. THE
we'll do congregation of the First
Church of Christ Scientist gave her the
appreciation she crayed and had the
means to crafty it
Fascinating as her success seems and
easily as 1t wears the air of having
come Mrs. Kelsey would be the last to
advise another young girl to attempt 1t
unless she were very sure of her voice,
and very confident OF her presence.
There are no rules. but if Mrs, Kelsey
were to attempt to formulate one she
would make 1t short "Be sure" she
says.
A UNIQUE FOOT
When the invalid of the family COM
planned that the hot-water bottle got
cold long before morning. one of the
sisters devised a new sort of foot
warmer that was found perfectly salts
factory. 1t was simply q small down
quilt or puff. She first made a cover of
satin a yard square This was flied
with down. The quantity In d large
uncovered sofa pillow. bought at
department store, was found sufficient
An outside slip was made of some lisht
pink wool crepe which had once done
duty as wrapper Before putting this
cover on. the puff was fastened lightly
with knitting-cotton in spaces SIX
inches apart Soft ribbons were sewed
on two sides of the outside cover. For
use the pun was folded together. the
ribbons tied at the ends. and 1t was
put at the foot of the bed between the
sheets. When the feet were slipped in
thew were warm in few minutes and,
what was better. would keep so in
definitely y-Harper's Bazaar.
SURGERY WITHOUT SLEEP.
In the issue of Harper's Weekly for
Dec. is. DR. Robert T. Morris tells of
the views held by New York surgeons,
concerning the method of producing
anasthesla by spinal injections, in place
OF chloroform, as proposed by DR.. jon
nesco. the Roumanian surgeon now
visiting this country at is, perhaps.
he saws. the feeling of many surgeons
that we shall make use OF spinal andes-
thesia in certain selected groups of
cases and other forms OF anaesthesia
in other groups. Certain classes of pa
tients take the common anaesthct'cs
rather badIy-aIchoholics. for instance,
and drug habitues. as well as those
with diseases of the heart and lungs
1t Is probable that spinal anaesthesia