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io such a cbbb. But in nearly all cases
the penniless pupil with an exceptionally
fine voice is able to secure training,
while one with a voice that seems likely
to be the means of a certain amount of
profit to her will, as a rule, succeed in
finding an instructor willing to give her
lessons on one basis or another.
She may not be able always to have
one of the best known or most discussed
teachers of singing, but a that profession
is so honeycombed with frauds and
charlatanism that a pupil .is about as
likely to paBe successfully through a
course of training with an unknown in
structor as with a master of reputation.
It is lucky for the student of singing
that on her own intelligence depends
the entire ultimate development that
she may achieve. Many of the girls
helped in this way to earn a livelihood
uqver pay for their instruction if they
can in any way get out of doing so. Some
get tired of the burden or church sing
ing or the drudgery of teaching when it
s not absolutely indispensable to them
as a means of livelihood and Btop work
ing, thus cutting off the only means
they had of paying for their instruction.
Others seek, after trying different in
structors, to avoid payment on the
ground hat they have been badly
taught and rather than be involved in
litigation on a point so delicate, the
teacher allows the pupil to escape all
payment.
Yet the willingness of teachers to
take at all times pupils with voices and
prospects of success shows that in spite
of occasional, perhaps frequent losses;
the business of thus aiding poor appli
cants is not entirely unprofitable. It is
usually managed on the part of the pu
pil in this way. The applicant goes to
a teacher and her voice is tned. She
usually tells the instructor in advance
that she is not able to pay the regular
terms of tuition or possibly is able to
pay nothing at all. It the teacher
finds her voice good enough to give
promise of attracting attention some
day, or perhaps of enabling her to make
a living as a choir or chorus singer, he
may decide to take her.
In this case a contract will in all
probability be drawn up by which the
pupils binds herself to pay a certain
proportion of her salary after she be
cornea a singer to her teacher until her
indebtedness is canceled. Sometimes,
although rarely, the pupil executes in
favor of the teacher a formal assignment
of a certain part of her salary for five
years until the amount of her indebted
ness for instruction has been paid, al
though it is doubtful if such a docu
ment would hold in law, since the as
signment is of something that the pupil
does not possess.
If the girl has other musical accom
plishments besides singing can play
the piano, for instance, and make her
self useful to her teacher by playing ac
companiments Bhe is much more likely
to get instruction free. In any case the
amount of tuition she receives is likely
to depend in a large degree on the rate
of her progress. If it becomes evident
after a while that she is not studying
and practicing diligently or that her
study is not doing her the amount of
good it ought to because she docs not
understand it or that her voice is failing
to develop as it should under instruc
tion, the enthusiasm of the teacher and
her confidence in future compensation
are likely to wane until the pupil's les
sons are brought to an end.
There are very few church soloists
who have not some other means of sup
port. One soprano in a church choir in
Brooklyn not long ago was a well known
masseuse during the week and earned
more at that than through her music.
That was of course due to the fact that
she was a better rubber than soprano
and that an adept in Swedish movement
is more highly paid than a mediocre
Boprano.
The choruB singers in churches receive
from two to three dollars a veek for
about nine months of the year. The
choristers in comic or grand opera get
from twelve to eighteen dollars a week,
and the second figure is unusual. Most
of the famous European singers have
been taken as free pupils by their mas
ters. Marcella Sembrich never paid
until after her debut for the tuition she
received from the older Lamperti, and
Emma Calve began gratuitously her
lessons in Paris just after she arrived
from Aveyron. Mrae. Melba studied
for some years In Melbourne with an
Italian teacher, now dead, named
Cecchi, who taught her voice produc
tion and placed her voice before she
went to Europe, and she is said to have
been taken by him because of her beau
tiful voice, which he knew would make
her famous some day. Emma Eames
was enabled to finish her musical edu
cation through the kindness of friends,
who advanced the money, which the
prima donna has repaid in full. Few
of the persons who have achieved fame
in singing were able to pay for their
preparation, but were dependent on the
kindness of friends or the confidence of
teachers.
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Mid-Summer in New York.
Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, who is
a great lover of the city she lives in, and
spends little time away from it, even at
the hottest season, writes in the August
Century of "Midsummer in New York."
The seasons run at their own gait in
New York, little regarding traditional
time-tables. Winter often refuses to be
gin until after Christmas, and then
lingers so long that spring must com
press itself into five or six weeks for
summer is always over-prompt. A fort
night too soon (according to the calen
dar), it is introduced by Decoration Day.
And it proves its presence in two con
trasting ways: while "up-town" puts on
languid airs, and its crowds thin out,
its theatres close their doors, and its
house fronts shutter and bar themselves,
movement and gaiety increase in the
ever-lively neighborhoods of the poor.
There the small parks and the recrea
tion piers fill with mothers and babies
and idling, slouching men; their band
stands tune up, and their refreshment
stalls and barrows are spread with varied
and enigmatical cates. The wandering
icecream peddler appears. The soda
water man, fixed to his street corner,
polishes his nickel fountain. The free
baths along the river front open, and
everywhere among the tenements grown
folk and little ones spend all their un
occupied and many of their busy mo
ments out under the narrow Btreaks of
warm blue sky.
But in this early stage of summer up
town is not yet deserted. Fifth avenue
still keeps a companionable, and Broad
way a busy, aspect. Cabs and automo
mobiles still Hy about as though they
had ends in view. In every part of the
town, on many big, important-looking
buildings, flags are flying, which mean
that the city is still teaching its chil
dren. When the public schools close at
the very end of June, when the subur
ban resorts draw crowds on week days as
well as on Sundays, and railway sta
tions are jammed like theater lobbies
after the end of the play, then early Bum
mer IB dying. Anil mid-Bummer iB born,
vociferously, on the Fourth of July.
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Walking- skirts of Melton cloth in
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Wool cheviot dress skirts, taffeta j
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Heavy print wrappers with flounce
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