Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-15
Patti
Social Depreciation OF the "Sonsstross."
Jucv II HoOner's Paris Letter,

Social Depreciation OF the "sonsstress."
Lucy II. Hooper's Paris Letter. e.
What a mistake she las made, setting
aside all the moral aspects of the case, did
this gifted, petted creatura, who, SO few
years ago, was as much a social idol As she
was theatrical one She was sought for
and caressed by the proudest danes of the
old French n0blesse, and the Marquise de
Caux had as brilliant and successful ca
recr off the stage rs Adelina Patti upon it.
Now all that is changed. Every door that
once few wide open at ller approach on the
Faubourg St. German is now closed
against her. She vas not happy in her
married life, it is true, but at all events
the husband was her own choice it was a
love match on her side, at least, and more
over with her lay honor, and good re-
pute, and the spotless name that had lent
lustrue to art, being that of its greatest
artistic. As famous prind donna said to
me sadly one day, "She had done as much
to lower our profession in the eyes of the
world as Jenny Lind did to exalt it," And
Door little woman, in the headlong Obsti-
macy of her infatuation, she puts it totally
out of the power of even her warmcst
friends to say, 81 do not believe it." She
will not even so act as to permit her friends
to ignore tie present state of affairs.
Nicolini is always en- eUidence, in box at
the theatre or behind the scenes when she
sings, at her side when she drives out, in
her drawing room when she receives COM
pany-he is always the prominent figure in
the scene, which is in abOminably bad
taste, to say the least of it. And from all
that hear poor little Patti did not improve
matters much by exchanging her thrall-
dom to M. de Caux for her bondage to III.
Nicolini. Her chains in the first in
stance might be heavy, but they wero
honest matrimonial letters at least. Now,
though they wear the semblence of gar.
lands of roses, am told that the iron un-
derneath the flowers is no less wcighty
and CALLING. Nor are the claims upon her
purse less heavyOr constant. Instead OF pay
ing the play debts of the Marquis de Caux,
she is now called upon to support the whole
Nicolini Cor NicOlas) family, to give them
their right name, including tho five chill
dren of the gentleman himself. Then the
purchase of the Welsh castle was another
immense mistake. 1t has cost her oceans
of money, and she can find no purchaser
who will take it of her hands, even at a
great loss. The residents of the neigh
borhood refuse to associate with her, and
even her servants treat the poor little
woman with marked disrespect. " [ even
give them champagne to drink" she said,
pitcously, ono day, "but that does not
make them behave particle better" She
actually fancied, this pctted darling Of So
ciety and art, that she could do as she
pleased without calling down upon her
head the penalties inflicted upon other
women. but she has found out her mis-
take when it is too latc to seek for rem
edy. What an ovation she would have
had in America had she gone there as the
Marquise dc Caux, as we'll as the Queen
of Song, the song-bird with unsullicd
wings as we'll as with silvery notes! Alas
for the folly of SO fair and gifted a woman,
one, too, who for SO many years walked
stainless amid temptation