The life and professional career of Emma Abbott . t family andEmmas shabby attire are without a shadow of father was not during Emmas girlhood or childhood awealthy man, neither was he able to send her abroad or even toNew York to pursue her musical studies. But the family never knew discomfort as her father earnedsufficient by teaching music, giving concerts, and some smallinvestments to provide the family with a comfortable home, Falsehood* Corrected. 21 good food and ordinary attire. Indeed there were compara-tively few in those days in the West who did more. Mi-Abbott was a
The life and professional career of Emma Abbott . t family andEmmas shabby attire are without a shadow of father was not during Emmas girlhood or childhood awealthy man, neither was he able to send her abroad or even toNew York to pursue her musical studies. But the family never knew discomfort as her father earnedsufficient by teaching music, giving concerts, and some smallinvestments to provide the family with a comfortable home, Falsehood* Corrected. 21 good food and ordinary attire. Indeed there were compara-tively few in those days in the West who did more. Mi-Abbott was a frugal housewife, possessed of excellenl ta-t«-and one of those who can make plain attire look well; henceEmma was always neatly and tastefully dressed, as all whoknew her personally will testify. The story which has beenwidely published, that she went barefoot on the Btreets andeven carried her shoes in her hand to one of her early concertsis as false as that of her shabby attire, and justice to her familydemands its contradiction. CHAPTER 1FTER returning west she engaged in giv-ing music lessons to small classes, singingin public whenever and wherever the wayopened, and in 1867 she introduced herselfto Clara Louise Kellogg at the close ofa performance in Toledo. Miss Kelloggkindly consented to hear her sing, and when she had told ofher great desire to study and fit herself for the stage, kindlyoffered to give her letters to friends of influence in New York;also to intercede in person for her with Errani. It was the remembrance of Miss Kelloggs kindness in listen-ing, when wearied with a difficult program, to an obscureyoung girl, and she a stranger,—that led Miss Abbott never torefuse to hear a young girl with ambitions for the future, was alwa}-s pleased, too, to find something to commend;something on which she could base encouragement; but shenever flattered; her honest opinion was kindly given, if ad-verse, with sorrow, but she was always true. In this con
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