Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1850-10-22
Chnroctcristics of .Lcnnr Lind.

The Chelsea Pioneer discourses as follows =
/ Miss Lind Is not far ftom thirty years of age. On
the platform she appears less than seventeen years
old She has of the Italian cast of beauty, but
Is really most interesting ootiug-young lively, and
as pretty and attractive as one would wish to see !;
as fair aud comely as one meets often in fashion
able promenade bright summers day. In all
| her movements there Is artIeSs wboIe-sOued ac-
| ton which commends her at once to your sympathy
She bounds upon the platform like fawn; trips
along before her numerous auditory lightly and as
unconscousy as a pet child and looks her auditory
directly in the face, with genial smile that lights
up her whole countenance; her entire manner is ell
oquent with confidence and happiness; 1t goes to the
heart and seems to say--'' We are all friends here;
now let US have good time and enjoy ourselves
Much Of the enthusiasm she creates arises from the
! appearance of the lady herself She appears before
the audience, bows loW,-loW enough for an oren-
tai STANDARDIZATION stands erect with all the con-
seriousness oftaIen surveys the entire assembly, on
the right hand aud left above and below, bringing
her full, modest face 10 bear, apparently, on every
counenance. Her beaming face, her confidence III
her auditory and in herself, her benevoence her at
tractive moral character, have won her audience be-
fore she has sounded note.
As a vocalist, we have never heard Miss Lind's
equal. Her bird-ie warblings, her clear bel-lle
tones that nger after the song Is closed the buoyant
ease Win WCl she uLlcfS iiEr most elaborate
difficult strains, are ndescribaby beautiful and must
be heard; they cannot be described. In her ''Echo
Song her lowest and most subdued tones reach the
ear Of the most distant AUDITOR full sweet, clear
Miss Lind seats herself on the piano-stoo, touches
the keys of the instrument for amoment, then places
her hands together before her, looks the assembly full
in the eye-pours out her gushing melody-convul-
ses her audience with the short, quick, hearty laugh
in her song-sounds the echo till it is heard in the
mountains and wales, fainter and fainter, and dies
in the most distant whisper aiar off; and as the
sound seems to linger, the lady herself has dsap-
peared, before her delighted hearers know that her
song is finished 1t is folly to compare Jenny with
any other singer. She stands by herself her music
and her mission are all her own. She has not been
overrated as a vocalist she is as inimtable as the
nightingale.
We think the community will reap substantial
benefit from the visit of Miss Lind America frbe-
yond its cost. 1t shows US that our community are
sufficiently educated to appreciate the highest order
Of musical talent. 1t proves that moral purity and
professional excellency may blend in the same per-
sou that success and pecuniary profit may be secur-
ed by amusement in which all classes and professions
can join, and that amusement, to be popular and
profitable need not be gross nor immoral. The sue
cess of Miss Lind's concerts will, we believe, ele-
vate our pastimes, improve our amusements, and
make houses ofrecreation what they ought to be
places of innocent hilariy which shall unbend the
mind, and not harm the morals.