THREE GOLDEN RULES FOR SINGERS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 276, 14 August 1908, Page 5

THREE GOLDEN RULES FOR SINGERS.

The "Star.of Empire" gives tho following rules, laid down by Tetrazzini, tho groat songstress, to girls who'want to becomo professional singers:—"Thcro aro thrco requisites tp success. '. First, they must have good voices, and the voice must bo absolutely natural. Next, they must liavo great aptitude for work, and bo enthusiasts among singing for its own sake. Third, they must have a genuine love for tho stage. The work is not so easy as it looks, and the'artist must mako up her mind to sacrifice herself for her art. As to. the best country to study in—study in-every country."

A WORKING-GIRLS' FLOWER FARM From America, that land that seems so commercially minded and so often sordid, sometimes como tho prettiest ideas, such as this of a flower farm for working girls of which tho. "Daily Mail" gives n description. It is a half aero of land on the outskirts of Now York city whero three years ago tliero was only wasto land, and to-day there is a beautiful littlo flower garden. Hero members of tho Dolly Madison Club and their friends, working peoplo all, in turns spend their 'week ends, hoeing, digging, planting, and producing as a result of their labours, flowers in', plenty for their sick friends in tho city. So successful are they that during their first summer they produced over £80 worth of flowers, 110110 of them for sale, but all for distribution among tho hospitals of ■ Now -York., Sometimes tho girls will spend their summer holiday of ono or two weeks "in camp." Often they ask a littlo sickly child or two to share their homely hospitality and build up health and strength in the sunshine. Many a tired working girl friend is invited out to the flower farrii for a week-end "Dutch treat" — that is to say, she brings her own provisions and contributes her mite to the very small runnins: expenses of housekeeping under canvas. It is part of the code that each such girl guest shall ."chip right in" and help to plant, water, and tend the flower garden. Many friends and relations of tho members como out on Sunday afternoons ' for a few hours "in the country" among tho flowers. And each must take a spade or rake and help this tiny farm to yield a rich harvest of sweet-smelling produce. % < To grow things is a liberal education; it loaches constancy and patienco over small details. The girls learn many a moral lesson with tho sprouting of their, seeds. To inspire them with such an industrious spirit of helpfulness to others in their holiday hours is something attempted, something done.