New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-04

lint tb,s vas remarkable success n ever caught
speaking in any terms those Of enthusiastic praise
OF auyshing which my wife is put as ono or tne ION
mittee OF Arrangements. let me no longer Oo cofre
spondent OF thine This was tho first time that hrs'
Paul ever appeared in similar characters-prnted IN
pink letters on eolored Garland she has been
too proud speak To SINCE She can now reach
down her clothes from the highest hooks without
the AID Of either lad ladder did, MT taat she did
any more than any else that she bought no tickets
morally certain for we both sailed In as members
OF the press, the most independent Of journalists; IN
deed. she was not aware that she was committee
man till the thing aud some one informed her
that her the programme; but now she con
sders that the OF the ar IS due wholly TO her,
did MT the CONCERT 20 of wei g. she remarks every
lady she meets whose name not on the committee.
gracously adding: seldom take part In such things'
hut this consented to act the object being
such laudable one. You know few prominent
names are necessary TO give the public con-
fdeuce that their money won't be i'll spent.
suppose now that you went because
you saw my name there" This pleases tho other lady
Of and she at kisses my wife on both cheeks
and beseeches her 70 her room and bring
her sewing aud spend every morning for week. ana
then goes down TO the spring and c0nides 70 every
friend she meets that she suspects that little Mrs
Paul better than she should be- she may be married
to that redheaded need chap with big feet that
goes round with her but she'd be q good deal
moro respectable II sue hadn't any husband
ALL rather than such looking that aud that
for her part she wouldn't have such husband for the
world Then she playfully alludes to my wifes back
hair perhaps and says she can't do II up more becom
ngy herself she had better employ hairdresser aud
she can't employ hairdresser she has business to DO
here at Saratoga, swelling around In a cOrncolOred
Barege cut in the neek way down to her
heels and maneuvering - get some one 70
stick her the Committee OF Arrangements
because that Notwithstanding husband OF hers
writes for the newspapers. The lady to whom
all this is conhded immediately comes TO my wife sud
tells her all that has been said aud this makes Il inter
esting and pleasant all around
I'm afraid that this has been rather a long parenthe
sis and that I've wandered away the Home Of the
Good shepherd. Return we TO sheep: Aside
from the fact Of my we's being Of the Committee
OF Arrangements the concert chiefly remarkable
for the debut OF Miss Mary Elizabeth Wadswortb, who
will make her appearance broader lyric stage
It gives pleasure to write Of this lady that she
has pure, sweet, flexible voice. evidencng careful
cultivation her manner is graceful aud pleasing
and she has another element Of success In
being personally sweet as VOL vOcaly.so. Do not
however, from my making this assertion. imagine that
bit her 20 try Some OF that sort who nothing
If not hypercritcal remarked that her voice lit
tie reedy the upper register" The phrase has been
used before, imagine, but the quite warm
enough without furnace heat did not look TO what
registers were on, and as for e" reedy,' II you
will just make that word seedy" it viii exactly express
my feeling this writing. I did intend TO say some
thing in connection with this OF the handsome
and accomplished room clerk Of the hotel Mr. Barrett.
but there did MT much chance 10 bring hun in,
and also wished mention the names Of few Of the
distinguished, agreeable handsome, and magn hcenty
dressed ladies aud gentlemen who ask me to drink and
smoke occasionally but have only time at present to
say that my wife was one OF the Committee OF Arrange
ments JOIN PAUL.