I was much pleased with the letter from the little girl in Germany,
for I want to know all about music. I am thirteen years old, and
have been taking lessons five years. I play Jael's _Faust_,
_Sonnambula_, _Rigoletto_, etc., and I am very anxious to go to
Germany, the father-land of music. I am studying German and French,
and taking lessons on the violin. My papa says I may go there some
day if I study hard. I think our country is the grandest one on the
globe, but still I would like to cross the ocean and study under
such professors and composers as Joachim Raff, Frau Clara Schumann,
and the violinist Hermann. I am sure they would inspire me to do
more. "M. W." has certainly heard of our Edison and his wonderful
electric light. I have been to Spanish Fort, in New Orleans, and
seen the light; it is so brilliant that one almost imagines it is a
smaller sun in the sky. Then, too, we have here the telephone and
the audiphone, and these are only a few of the modern inventions.