The life and professional career of Emma Abbott . of dear friends, and may blossoms as beautifulas those you sent us, be placed about your couch to cheer vmi. In the winter of 90 Uncle Ben Baker died, and friendsset at work to raise means to place a life-size painting of thedear old gentleman in the reception room of the Actors Association. Just before Christmas Miss Abbott sent the last hun-dred dollars required to pay for the picture, and at the sametime, an equal sum to --Aunt Louisa Eldridge for the chil-drens Christmas. In remembrance of these generous derds. Harrison GreyFisk. editor of
The life and professional career of Emma Abbott . of dear friends, and may blossoms as beautifulas those you sent us, be placed about your couch to cheer vmi. In the winter of 90 Uncle Ben Baker died, and friendsset at work to raise means to place a life-size painting of thedear old gentleman in the reception room of the Actors Association. Just before Christmas Miss Abbott sent the last hun-dred dollars required to pay for the picture, and at the sametime, an equal sum to --Aunt Louisa Eldridge for the chil-drens Christmas. In remembrance of these generous derds. Harrison GreyFisk. editor of the New York Dramatic Minor, paid her agraceful tribute, worthy of a place lure bul unfortunatelynot available. The newsboys association of Detroit was remembered with apresent of one hundred dollars for their Christmas tree, andthe following testimonial was received the day beforeAbbotts death: The Newsboys of Detroit, three thousand strong, Bend you aMerry Christmas, and Happy New STear, and wish you bushelsand bushels of success. CHAPTER XIV. ^J XE of the most marked characteristics ofEmma Abbotts nature was filial love. Although separated from them for years ata time, her love for her father and motherwas as tender and sincere as when she wasdependent upon them for all she her father she inherited her musical talent, and this wasa strong tie between them. In talking of her father with a friend not long before herdeath, she said, Poor pa ! he gets downhearted and blue, be-cause all his ambitions were not fulfilled, and he will say to me,Well, Em, if I have made a failure, you are a success. Tobe sure, pluck, health and talent have helped me, and I amsaid to be a self-made woman ; but I do not forget that if I ama success, it is because he gave me the start toward it. Mymusical talent, energy and determination are all inherited, andmy parents deserve credit for much that I am. Nor is it strange that between the baby girl whose very soulwas music, possessed of an
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