The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-09-29
GOSSIP ABOUT NILSSON.
The Great Swedish Songstrcss No Fairy
How She Looks-Her Deportment-
What and How She Eats, &c.

Everybody will read with interest the fol.
lowing, from New York correspondent OF
st. Louis paper
Miss Nilsson looms up pleasantly in the fl-
ture; the gaunt. straight figure; the strong,
pale face, with the hollow cheeks and the
beautiful smile blooming on her lips; the kind
" gray eyes; the majestic toss of the head, and
the gait as irm and bold as mans. Miss
Nilsson Is staying now at the Everett House.
she looks much better than she did when she
was In st. Louis. The breeZes OF Newport
seem to have done her good. The color
other cheeks is better, aud her very man
ner betrays that she Is in much better
spirits. Miss Nilsson, personally, Is Charm
Ing woman. Her manners are decidedly
French; she is thoroughbred Parislan. She
is perfectly easy, natural and very graceful.
When a gentleman Is presented TO her she
don't nod her head as an American lady would,
but gives her hand with frank, Pheasant
smile, as II she had known him ever, ever 80
long: You are Immediately at your ease: You
will be prompted to say whatever comes upper
most In your mind, and she will look at you
astonished with her fine gray eyes, as il TO say
"You dazzle me with your brilliant intellect
She Is full of these articles, which make you
think her, after having been In her company
half an hour, the simplest, the trankest the
most charming woman in Chrstendom. 70
see her eat is o pleasure. She does not eat
like fine American lady, with her fingers on
the very tip of the fork. and as II she was Just
condescending to touch mortal food out OF
compliDent 10 her guests; no, she handles
knife and fork with freedom and vigOr. VIC
lates all the DEGREES of fashion in holdn. the
fork at the lowest end, and eats as II sae was
no lady OF fashion at all. but only
VERY RuNGRY wohAN.
She does not hover over the food; SIZE eats
it, and eats it with such ulacrity, vigor ard
relish, that 1t makes your mouth water. She
is very fond OF champagne drinks 1t ut all her
meals, and Is indeed the gayest. happiest
creature alive. If man Is consumptive, or
has the spleen. let him be q day In Miss Nils
sons company aud be will be we'll again. Tie
cure Is intalllble. There's no doubt OF 1t. Euro
peans all know how to enjoy themselves.
when Miss Nilsson travelled IN the West, ste
used to have little dinner parties with Brig
uoll, Verger and vieu1temps very olten, for
Strakosch, the masnanimous, gave Miss Nils
son unlimited sway with regard to incurring
dinner bills, so that she used TO Invite nearly
every genteel man who was presented
10 her, at least ence 10 dinner and cham
payne. These dinners were feasts fer
the gods. The talking. and laughing,
and Joking, and anecdute telling, ana
merrymaking that were going on there-Were
tucTe ever 5uCA JOllJ 49,"
full of iun; Verger was fuller; and Miss Nilsson
well, shall not say how she DID cut up; IL
would not be in keeping with the dignity oil
the muse and OF her vOtary, who has been gso-
rifed and rosifed until l thought nothing re-
mained more Of her than essence pure angel
ic; whose voice has been llkened to dripping
diamonds. falling or buobing crystal: over
whom this matter-otfact world has gone crazy.
Alas In beeisteak and onions the fond Illus
ions vanish, and Miss Nilsson IL, to the Gaze Of
him whose bread she kindly buttered-the
writer Is going 10 have this pleasant remlEis-
cence oil his lie engraved upon his tombstone,
If the present enthusiasm for the soDgs.srss
lasts
ONLY MORTAL.
Miss Nilsson herself, although she is vain,
like every one, Is quite cynical. She looks Ut
the aowery enthusiasm with which she is fat
tered through monetary speciacles, and has an
eye to the main chance. II you rave about
her in a newspaper, she likes 1t very well; she
Is business woman, aud knows exactly how
much 1t is worth. Butif you rave about her 70
her face, pay her a pretty compliment or so,
she'll laugh and look quite pleased; but she
will no more believe thai you mean 1t tnaa she
would suspect the man In the moon OF address
sing her. "These people come here and Hat
ter me because an u famous great singer,
she will say after you are gone, "because vi
that, II were pUer aud unknown DO one
would tell me I'm witty and beautiful Is she
right or wrong? She is smart, aud knows TIE
world. hat she Is not an essence h0allnS In
angelic kindness, but a strong minded, !nue-
pendent woman, every one ought to see al tue
first glance.