TO-DAY'S DINNER.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 816, 13 May 1910, Page 3

TO-DAY'S DINNER.

{SpeoiaUy written for The Dominion.) FRIDAY. . Vermicelli soup. Curry and rice. Potatoes. Cabbage. Cream. Tapioca. Sandwich pudding. SANDWICH PUDDING. Four slices stale bread, 41b. butter, jam, 1 egg, \ pint milk, 1 tablespoon sugar. Remove, crusts and spread slices of bread ■with butter again; cover with plain buttered slices, press down, cut into , Jin. . dice, place these lightly in buttered basin, pour over beaten egg, add sugar and milk warmed; cover with .buttered paper end steam 1 hour. . v ■ FOR TO-MORROW. Bullock's heart. Potatoes. Celery.'" Onions. Coconut. Stale sponge cake.. . Paste. CLARA. CLEMENS. HABE TWAIN'S SINGING "■ '. DAUGHTEB. ,' Under the will of the late Mark Twain" (Samnel Clemens) his talented daughter Clara will come in for the bulk of the ',£200,000 which was loft by the author of !"The Innocents Abroad." The great American humourist passed his last years in the Italian villa near Redding, Connecticut, which had been purchased by him. and in October,: 1909, his favourite daughter was married, at the villa to Ossip Gabrilowitsch", a, Russian, pianist, .who has. toured the United State's several. times.' The two became acquainted while Clara Clemens was studying in Europo for. a profnseional career. The Russian jrianist wrote songs for the American girl, and the American girl sang t.nosb Bongs. The wedding nt the Mark Twain, villa was swiftly followed by a .chocking' domestic tragedy. - While Mrs. <3abrilowitsch was spending her honeynoon on the Continent, her'only sister. was drowned in a bath at home. The parried daughter returned to the villa in the United States to comfort her aged {father, and she was with him at tho yeryerid. ' . ....-■■ Although he had, little music in , his eoul, Mark Twain bestowed a benediction on the daughter who survives him when she decided to earn her living as a musiician. It was the girl's ambition to be a pianist, and she went to iLeschetizky, ■who had taught Paderewski and -Mark Eambourg. While studying in Vienna, Mss Clemens "found her 1 voice." ' She ■then gave up the pianoforte and tnrned ler attention to singing. Aβ her. voice developed, Miss Clemens studied with Blanche Marehesi, in London j with iGiorgi Sulli and Mrs. Ashforth in New jYork; with George Henschel, and Isadore ajnekstone.; Wherever chance took her isnd a. famous teacher resided, she did not Kail to. add a little to the breadth of iher jnusical education. Her debut was. made iin Florence, Italy—on the concert'platrform, not on fhe operatic stage. In January, 1907, the humourist's daughter ap(peared. in-Boston. In 1908 she gang in [London, and in 1909 she was praised by the New-York critics. , -

Mark Twain did not become, interested St. mnsio. until his daughter started to smg. When New..Yo*k was in a'state of excitement, over the introduction of Wngnerian works, the cynical, humorist ipleased the lovers of melodious Italian opera, with the Temark that "the music of Richard Wagner in opera isn't half as ;bad as it sounds." This learned judgment ■was pronounced after Mark had set another, controversy, to the/music of laugh--iter by saying that.,,in'his opinion, the plays of William Shakesoeare were not written by Shakespeare, but by another! man,of the same name. 1 - ■, .