The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-12
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From Our 0icn Correspondent


toward appearing in opera. For the past week
you might have noticed that paragraphs have
appeared in all the New York newspapers sus-
pecting, inviting, entreating, conjecturing, and
supposing, with reference to such event. All
of these paragraphs were put forth as feelers
by Mr.. Strakosch and Mr.. Fryer, the agents of
Patti who were doubtful as to how her appear
ance in opera would be received You may per-
haps remember that some years ago a sort of
boot, which 1t was thought would conceal her
lameness, was invented for her in order
to enable her to enact an operate role with
out pain to the audience. The attempt was un-
successful. The limp was very apparent, and
the only emotions which Carlotta excited we're
admiration for her voice and commiseration for
her physical misfortune. In the Magic Flute,
however in which she Is to appear next Tuesday
evening" little or no motion will be eXacted from
her. In the way of action the most that she will
be required to do will be to come up through a
tiap-door and descend by similar means. 1t is
worth remarking that whenever the Magic Flute
is performed, which 1t very seldom is, two arias
are generally ''cut" for the simple reason that
they exact range of voice which few prime
donne possess. Now Miss Patti promises not
only that the two arias shall be retained but
that she will give them with two tones higher
than any one else is able to do. She is to be
assisted by Hermanns, Habelmann, Wilhelm
Formes, and Pauline Canissa. Her success In
this city has been extraordinary. At the Satur-
day matinee the supplementary hall was threwn
open in addition to the large one, and both were
filed with ladies.
Female Psychologists.
To be q psychologist travelling around with
mannikin is the utmost ambition of q good
many women in this city, as l intimated the
other day. received confirmation of this fact
l. TO- n acfi 10
New Yorkeress who had been wont to attend to
the lady patients of her husband. She was as
pure blonde as ever appeared at Nlblo's, with
one of these fresh satin-paper skins that look as
though they were cream-lad, brown and golden
hair, in which the golden tints might be taken
for brown and the brown tints for gold. She
was the very picture of buxom little wife,
expressly invented by heaven for the light of
the ireslde, and the very last specimen of
womanhood whom you would dream of seeing
upon the lecturers rostrum. A few inquiries
informed me of her fate-for her former place
knew her no more-and my informant was her
husband himself. She has gone "up the coun-
try" to learn grammar and was now examining
"Lindlay Murray" among the brooks and Or
chards. After having mastered grammar, which
she had unfortunately neglected in early girl
hood she was to take up elocution and gesture.
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her, to be provided with mannlkn and to go
lecturing around the country. The subject was
to be physiology, and good voice, handsome
presence, winning manners, and the mannikin
were to do her business. A female psychologist
who had already taken her in hand and had
made some success herself, was to introduce her
to the public, and she herself had voluntarily
chosen 'public life" as relief to the ennai of
childless home. And many there be in New
York who follow in these female-phy sology
steps.
MIR. Fechter
is soon to make his reappearapce in this city,
and to appear at the French theatre both in
English and French. Necessarily he will be ex-
tremely busy, because he intends to do two
things which threaten to interfere with one
another. One of these is to faithfully superin-
tend rehearsals of several new plays, and the
other is to give sttings for portrait of Christ.
1t is said that the circumstance which is to be
represented in this portrait Is Christ wearing
the crown of thorns. The remarkable, and by
this time notorious, resemblance which the por-
trait of Mr.. Fechter, as Hamlet" bears to the
generally accepted pictures of the Saviour, pre-
pares US to believe that the likeness for which
these special sttings to be given will be very
striking indeed.
Handy Have in the House.
A certain physician of this city who has
electricity on the brain, and who so consistently
processes to cure by lightning every disease that
humanity is or can be afflicted with, that his
rooms are daily filled with patients, intends
shortly to flood the city with pamphlets in
forming the public of new idea that has got
into his noddle, and which writing about is
the only means of getting out again. That idea
is to have currents of electricity introduced into
every house in much the same manner as gas
and water are introduced now. He thinks that by
this means every man may become his own ply
sician, and that the sanitary effects are meal
culable. Just to think of it! To have strength
turned on at the touch of screw, and pains and
aches vanish at the application of n wire! To
know that you have at hand the negative and
positive poles and that one of them stands for
health and the other for happiness To have in
every bedroom in the house q special little
spigot which turns on unlimited quantities of
sound mind and sound body To know, when
you have got wrong side up, that all you have
got to do is to go to the battery in the same
way as you go to the bath-tub, and-there you
are! The idea is as beautifully poetic as it is
practical and you will agree with me that DR..
Chamberin's plan for supplying New York
with electricity is a handy thing to have in the
house.
Saturday Night Reporters.
One or two of the New York Sunday news
papers are so ravenous after news on Saturday
night that they adopt extraordinary means to
obtain it. The Mercury, for instance, employs
between forty and fifty reporters, and the Ne'os
hiraa hack for the aopOmmOdat its