Misplaced Talent.
It is a curious fact that success is sometimes won by those who have no enthusiasm for the profession they follow. A brilliant young violiniste played one day before Mrs Gladstone, and the latter said to her : "lo there anything you care more for than your Stradivarim ?" The young lady coloured a little. " The violin is not an absorbing passion with me," she replied. " Perhaps you have artistic talent ? " the hostess suggested. •'Indeed, I have not," wag tha honest response. "But, Mrs Glad-tone, I love to cook. I really believe I could m»ke a chef, if I had the opportunity to practise ! "
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Otago Witness, Issue 2151, 16 May 1895, Page 49
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104Misplaced Talent. Otago Witness, Issue 2151, 16 May 1895, Page 49
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