Show k today to day ABBOTTS mortal remaina were viewed by thousands and in a few days her name will be heard no more it will be uttered only by some student of history her fame has been consigned to the great past as are the deeds of all great persons miss EMMA ABBOTT was followed through life by good luck and she also possessed a remarkable degree of pluck a woman As a child she had wondered about barefooted bare footed and sang in the smaller towns of illinois to applauding multitudes and she used to tell that she then owned but ono dress made out of a course sack with best family written in in great indelible letters across her back while anus wandering CLARA great chanced to hear the little barefoot bare foot girl sing and hastened to help her cultivate her voice she raised money for EMMA and sent her to new york to be trained under tho best masters this little incident is typical of miss ABBOTTS whole career when she was sent to paris after a course of training in now york she was one day singing homo sweet home to a party of homesick americans in the dingy parlor of a french pension an elderly lady stole silently into the room and listened sing something else she finally requested miss ABBOTT complied ami the elderly woman after lag her left as silently as she had entered A few days later tho american girl received a summons to sing before one of the richest women in and the baroness de CHILD gave francs to EMMA ABBOTTS culture on the rec reci i of the great musical critic who heard her sing the old song for borne stranger in a little boarding housein paris good fortune smiled fon EMMA life and her wonderful voice end Vs rare r attainments i i i 1 aa a woman brought lier immense wealth t 1 l alt ft abc her death it waa that she owned no less nearly twice as much as owned by any other or actor A contrast her latter years presented to the days where she ased to sing on the streets of peoria barefooted and dressed in a flour sack the dress that she should have worn on the provo stagehand sta gehad she appeared was worth over while bei diamonds amounted to many more thousands but better still with all the wealth she great prima donna was throughout life plain and simple EMMA ABBOTT she was an american heart and soul and the flatter ies of the royalty of europe had no charms to her as compared with the applause of the multitudes in her own country |