Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1916 — PRIMA DONNA A FINE COOK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PRIMA DONNA A FINE COOK

Madame Miriam Ardini, a Native American, Takes Delight in Housekeeping Work. Every prima donna has a temperament, and every temperament possessed by a prima donna is nursed and cultured and made the most of. As a general rule the temperament, possessed by prima donnas prevents them from accustoming themselves to the ordinary things of life. Exceptions there are to this rule as to every other. The big exception is Madame Miriam Ardini, an opera singer who is gifted not only with remarkable talent as a pt ano — virtuoso —and—-Awmpflger, but Is also the possessor of a beautiful lyric voice which has won her fame In all the large cities of Europe. While the name suggests the foreign, Madame Ardini Is a New Yorker born and bred. As one of nine children, she soon learned the fundamentals of

housekeeping. Then it was discovered that she was possessed of a voice which brought forth exclamations of surprise from no less a person than the noted Bond of the Metropolitan Opera company. She gave up her domestic inclinations and started studying for the prima donna’s goal. Back again in her native land after years of study abroad, she has surprised her circle of friends not by her singing but by her cooking. AU the dishes placed before the guests were cooked by Madame Ardini. During her sojolirn abroad the natives of Italy were shocked because madame did her own shopping. There no woman does her own shopping, but delegates it to her servants.