The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-01-21

to watch the men at work. one day,
though, she surprised them by coming
early in the morning to see that they
did a full days work. ] put up the
dinner. but she spread it out and made
coffee for herself and the men over a
sage brush fire. She spoke several
times of how much she enjoyed that
experience. When she first came she
bought a mans Stetson hat in Parma
and wore that constantly and plain
black tailor made suit. 1t was of very
good material"
How about the gold?" Interrupted,
well, during the time she was here
they expressed a great many boxes of
the sand back To New York, but the
process for separating the gold did not
prove successful and Madame dropped
the whole scheme. 1t was character
istic of her New England shrewdness
that she must see where her money
went; that the men must do full work,
and that the process must be proved a
success before she put more money in,
yet she was exceedingly generous. She
gave the men and others handsome
presents, and while she would not sing
for us, saying that my house was toe
small for her voice, she graciously re-
ceived a company of my friends and
neighbors one evening and even fur
nished the refreshments.
| Usually in the evenings she would
sit in the living room with the rest OF
US and help me with my sewing OF
mending. After she had gone | found
that she had put patch ON the right
side of my stocking heel and l won,
dered il that was the New England
way and if she had been taught to do
it so in order to make the surface of
the stocking smoother to the foot. Dc
you known"
] l confessed that didn't, but ii
seemed like a good idea.
when Nine. Nordica came back
from Portland she brought her sister,
Mrs. Castillo, from California with
her. She was the dearest, sweetest
little old lady, much older than
Madame. We all quite fell in love
with her. She has written to me Of
ten, and l received a long letter from
her after Madames death.
Mime. Nordica herself never forgot
her friends. Soon after she left she
sent me photograph of herself taker
specially for me, wearing all hel
pearls. How she loved pearls! She
told me proudly that she had the fin
est pearls of any woman in America
Mrs. Bremen showed the photo
graph and on it was written, nv
Mary T. Bremen with love. Lilliar
, Nordica, 1908"
when did you last hear from her?
J asked.
"In 1918, and that is quite story
too. Mr. Bremen had business il
Salem, Ore. and when he arrived h
learned that Madame was in the cit
and was to sing that night He wen
right up to her hotel to pay his re
spects but the clerk told him that sh
Ildu given SlllCl OihSlS tliett t7llS "a
q not to be disturbed. Then he went
the theater to get ticket thinkin
he would hear her sing, anyway, bu
every seat and even all the standin
u room had been sold.
1.-THE man in the box office was
t fellow Mason, so Mr.. Bremen told hin
T who he was and how anxious he we
o to see Nine. Nordica. The man prom
0 Used to get him in on the stage for tn
s reception after the recital which II
d management had planned. But Nm
Nordica was so tired that she refuse
e to meet the people after all, and M
! Bremen was standing on the side
d walk outside the theater feeling thol
g oughly disappointed when she can
e out to step into waiting taxicab.
IS "She caught sight of Mr.. Bremen
d face, for he was standing under
Y electric light, and though 1t was veal
n since she had seen him she recognize
k him Immediately and came up to hi
= Immediately with both hands on
stretched, saying how glad she was
y see him and asking after me. The
he she forgot all about being tired, turf
d ed off the cab and walked up to II
Is hotel, about two or three blocks, wit
IT Mr. Bremen, talking animatedly
q the while.
rs "She had him come up to her parl
" while she got out new photograT
lg for me and wrote a message on 1t, 81
" told him when she came back fro
" her trip around the world she WI
to coming to us for a long time just
rest and visit-but she Will new
or come now"