Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-09

She Endows Companion of Her Youth
with Yearly Pension.
Neao York N0rning Journal.

Ae1o York Morning Journal.
About week ago Madame Monsini. an
old and now invalid chorus singer, who
lives alone in a garnet on Eleventh street,
near Third avenue, received an official
envelope notifying her that a registered
letter lay at the post office for her. and
that she must come and get it and be
identified. This took good deal of trou-
Bile. because Madame Monsini was next
door to bed-ridden and in the utmost des-
titution. After a large quantity of red
tape had been measured off she got her
letter, and on opening it found the first of
a bill of exchange for f15, with a letter
from the bank with which the great phi
lanthropist. Baroness Coutts, is con-
nected, and known as the Coutts Bank.
London, informing Madame Monsini that
this was the first installment Of a pension
of $50 yearly, which Madame Adelina
Patti had instructed them to send her. and
which hereafter would be mailed regu-
larly every three months.
That Madame Monsini's joy was ex-
travagant would hardly describe her con-
ditiOn. From the most Wretched destitu-
ton to be suddenly and unexpectedly
raised to a condition where there is no
longer any fear for the future is one of
those situations only fully appreciated by
professionals who are forever disbarred
from making a living.
Madame Monsini is one of the oldest
singers in the chorus of italian opera in
this city. About a year ago her voice.
which had been gradually falling her,
gave way entirely. She had been retained
to the very last because of her thorough
knowledge of all the Italian operas that
ever were sung, and when there
was no voice left she had necessarily
to 90. Shortly after this she was
overcome with partial paralysis, and for
a great part of the time was compelled to
keep her bed. Madame Patti heard of the
matter and called on the poor woman,
who, in her early youth, she had known
intimately Occasionally Madame Mon
SIM would receive some gift of food and
Wine from the charitable and kind-hearted
prima donna, often accompanied by a
little money. But when Madame Patti
left here she seemed to have forgotten all
about the old lady, and she herself had not
the remotest expectation of being remem-
bered in the way she has been.
From some of the Italian colonies few
particulars were CLEANED yesterday of the
causes that probably led Madame Patti to
make this gift. 1t seems that when Sal
yator Patti lived in Twentyssecond street,
in this city long time before the war.
there also lived in the vicinity an Italian
musician named Perilis Barili, the brother
of Madame Patti the elder. Salvador
Patti and PeriliS were quite intimate and
would gather together Of an evening and
console themselves with "reminiscences of
Italy and the playing of some of the chef
PGuCreS of the masters Ct their country.
Little Adelina, Carlotta and the little girl
who is now Madame MOnsini would pIav
about the cutters and in the fields near
by and make mud-pies in summer and
snowballs in winter. The little girls were
inseparable. But while Salvador Patti was
constantly at work on the voices of his
children, Perllis, who was a widOwer,
could not find time to devote to the must
cal education of his child. Thus, while
three prima dOnnas-Amalia, Carlotta
and Adelina-were growing up beside her
the little Perilis never learned more than
would make a chorus singer, which she
became. Then the roads of the two girls
lay apart; and while Adelina went out to
conquer the homage of the world, SignOra
Perilis married a man in her own station
and remained unknown. Perhaps for the
first time to-day her name has appeared
in print. From this kind act of the great
prima donna, it would seem that the alti-
tude of PATHS position has not made her
forget the lowly friends Of her youth.