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Show JENNY LIND'S GREAT TRIUMPH. H Won Jealous Rival by Sweetness of Simple Song. A beautiful little incident Is told concerning Jenny I.Ind and Grlsl, when they wero rivals for popular favor In London. Both wero Invited to sing tho samo night at a court con-cert con-cert before tho queen. Jenny Llnd, being tho younger, sang first, and was so disturbed by tho fierce, scornful look of Grlsl that she was at tho point of failure, when suddenly an lnsplra-tlon lnsplra-tlon camo to her. Tho nccompanlst was striking his final chords. Sho asked him to rise and took tho vacant seat. Her fingers wandered over tho keys In a loving prelude, and then sho sang a little prayer which she' had loved as a child. Sho hadn't 1 sung It for years. As sho sang sho was no longer In tho presenco of roy-alty, roy-alty, but singing to loving friends In her fatherland. Softly nt first tho plaintive notes floated on tho air, swelling louder and richer every moment. Tho singer seemed to throw her wholo soul into that weird, thrilling, plalntlvo "pray- cr." Gradually tho song died away 1 and ended In n sob. There was all- once tho sllenco of admiring wondor. The audlenco st.t spell-bound. Jenny 1 Llnd lifted her sweet eyes to look Into tho scornful fnco that had so dls- concerted her. There was no fierce expression now; Instead, a tear-drop glistened on tho long, black lashes. lM and after a moment, with tho lm- pulslvencss of a child ot tho tropics, Grlsl crossed to Jenny Lind's sldo, 1 placed hor arms about her, and kissed her, utterly regardless of the audience. Exchange. o |