Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-03-26
NILSSON.
what p. Green Knows about Her
what she Eats and Drinks


She keeps about her, to manage her
affairs, old Henry Jarrett, who can count
you up more experiences in the concert,
theatrical and operate lines, than any
other man In the world; him and an Eng
lishWoman, named Mrs. Richardson, has
Nilsson to assist her In managing her
affairs, but she can just as well manage
her owns affairs entirely, and the princi-
pal use to which she puts these nice old
people is to help entertain her friends.
And must admit that, as entertainers,
they are a complete success. Nobody
gives such nice little suppers as the Nils
son. While she was in Chicago, they
came off on nearly all the ''off" nights
OF her concerts (and the bill made Stra-
kosch sweat to the tune of 1900 for
nine days.. They were attended by the
artists of the company-at least the more
joVial of them-Vieuxtemps, Brignoli
and Verger; also by few newspaper
men, each of whom was somehow made
to think that he was the real object of
Miss Nelson's admiration, and that the
others were invited just to keep them
from being offended. This is one of the
Missions strong Notwithstanding her
social favors pretty freely, and distribu-
ting them so skillfully that each recipient
thinks he is the favored one. And she
does it with such naive and natural way
that those who encounter it can't tell, for
the life of them, whether, as they would
fain believe, it is all spontaneous and
special, or whether, as seems most likely,
it is all in the way of business.
am able 10 say, from actual observa-
ton, that Miss Nelson eats and drinks.
It is Notifying fact, and one that plays
the iconoclast with some of our daintiest
imaginings; but she eats and drinks,
nevertheless. But am able to add that
her viauds and her beverages are much
more sensible than those of most young
ladies. She approaches saddle of NUT
ton with q feeling of easy confidence,
and she pours trifle of wine into her
glass of water as one who is thoroughly
mistress of her appetites, aDdin no danger
of over indulgence. She likewise seems
to take real comfort in appealing to her
matron for advice as to pastry, and on
that advice, takes only the fruit and
leaves the paste for the pigs or the table
boys. Cake, am qualified to state, she
generally eschews. AS to porter, it is
fact that she sometimes stimulates with
that at concerts; but not usually. In
opera, always.
That will do for Msdemoiselle's feeding
habits. l have only to add that she
speaks very fair English, with very pc
culiar and rather charming accent; that
she ''pans out" beautifully in converse
ton, being ready, frank, intelligent, ETC.;
that she likes Chicago much better than
St. Louis; that she desires very much to
see Salt Lake and Brigham Young; that
she never goes TO table d'hote;; that
she is very tender towards her fellow
Swedes, and gives good deal of her time
and her money to them; that she is quite
fond of excitement and novelty; that
there isn't dull hair in her head; that
her dresses are all made by Worth; that
she was decidedly on the French side in
the late European war; that she doesn't
like Adelina Patti at all; and that we shall
probably hear her in opera in America in
1872; and / have finished all that is really
first-clsss of what know about Nilsson.
For anything more minute, address,
with copious enclosure of stamps,
P. GREEN.