Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-07-23
Madame niIsson.Rouzeaud.

Madame Niisson-Rouzeaud.
Christine Nilsson, says n foreign
writer, does not look ns III she had |
ever been street singer, amehabIe to
the Migrants Act, and accompany-l
ing herself with fiddle for the
entertainment of provincial Swedes.
Y ct she began this life when tea years
old, and varied l,cr fiddle perfor-
,nances by AN occasional solo on the |
flute. which chcek-disiorting instrn-
tncnt gave hone but pleasant sounds
under her touch. One cold day at
nightfali, Count TcrnerlJelm, no.
bleman with as much wealth as
combination - heard
her W arble out her clear childish notes
rs she sllivered under the biting wind,
having earned but few coppers that
day, times being bad. lie took conn
passion on her aud caused her to be
well educated. She came out at the
Opera ia. Stockholm in 1860. bciag
then seventeen. and her voice was
admired; but she wanted method.
that which her patron supposed Paris
alone could give her; SO Ic despatch
ed her there to be finished, regardless
f, by NJ. Victor Masse and Herr
Wastel. Christine Nilsson was o!
gentle disposition, but little prim.
and with nO more sentimentalisn
than would ill nutshell. She had a
curious way of arguing, aud became
early imbIcd with the business
aspects of the career she was going
to embrace. Her first engagement in
1864 was at the Theatre Lyriquc. of
which Madame Minlam Carvallio.
wife of the lessee, was the star and
popular flvOriic. Madame Carvalho
was just the opposite of Christine
Nilss"n-graceiul, tasteful, playful,
French all over-anl she did the
Swedish girl not little good III
teaching her hy what arts +" capfi-
va'e that fanciful thing, the Partisan
public, which will not give rush for
a voice that is not warmed up by n
soul. Christine Nilsson's debut was
4 success, but not such n flashing one
| as PATHS had been. Paris found her
! notes too metalic-something like
| those of the silver flute on which she
continued TO be Il proficient, and with
which she would rcgale hcrarquaint-
aiices when they came 10 visit her of
n Sunday and sip the somewhat vel
low tea she provi;ird. But she grew
upon her public just as they grew to
like her, and. thanks to Madame
Mi"!nn. gradually learned to die in
the "IravIa.a' in Il manner to set
the audience TO snIvellIng in their
handkcrchiefs after the most ap.
proved fashion. She then lived in a
third story III a small street close to
! the Cnnaervatoirc, did her own mar
keting, and overhauled the butcher $
bills with n perspicuity deserving all
! homer. Her hands wero cold, her
smile aEniablc, her talk sensible. and
F.! her blue eyes keen. Frenchnen being
cnterprising all the world over, she
received presents, aud love notes
along with them. She had no ohicc-
ton TO the presents, if decenily offer
ell, bu, she burned the love notes.
She was very hard at driving q bar
gain. and had no idea of singing for
tuotihnT. Once. though, she must
have thought she had parted with
three whole songs, and all i'll one
night too, for nothing. 1t was ai
Madrid. She had returned from the
opera, and was in her room when Il
ladder was planted against her bal
cony, which looked Oh 10 garden
aud gentleman with a CLOAK aut
mask ciambered through the opei
: window. followed by i second and Sc
on till there were six of them. Chris
!; tine Nilsson. no doubt, thought the,
had come for some nlnney, but die
not pull the bell-rope, because there
was none. She asked them without
screaming what they wanted, an.
they explained in very choice Castil
. ian that, hriug too destitute to pay
tor adnitsance 10 the Opera at. III,
Increased rate of prices, they ha,
} come TO hear the songs i'll which they
were informed she cXcrilcd. Farley
proving Lootlcss, there was nothing
for it but to sing. and she did sin.
. right well. The CaslilIans bowed &c
) the ground, and assured her, as they
rctreatrd through the way they az
rived. that they had spent half ~
t hour i'll Paradise. But when they
. had vanished, they and their ladder
, she found they had lett diamond
! bracelet, worth II thousand guincaS
. which gave her to wonder in all pro
) babiiily why they had not introduced
} themselves through the front door, IL
/ no six men with u bracelet heed b,
: ashamed to do. She is Al member .
. the Academy of Stock holm. and viii
, converse like one about the stars, the
I moon. mathematics, or the tcmpcra
4 tnre OF Laplani, to your heart con
. tent. She is fonder of bankers thai
= OF peers, and Yet was disInterestc,
enough TO marry tor love. If tn
= Swedes ever raise Il temple to her
q she wOull he SymboIiz.t uutnr fh