The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-09-21
ADELINA PATTI.

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perennial. From time to time we say:
90, Patti must be getting old; she WAS
born early in the forties," and all that,
but the words are hardly spoken before
she steps before the fooIights on ONE
part OF the globe and bewitches all be-
holders. There are various reasons
for this. First, of course, must be
reckoned her wonderful genius, tor it
is more than talent, IS without that
none of the rest would avail. Next is
her beauty, which, no matter what the
calendar may say, enables her to ap-
pear before her audience as fresh and
comely as though the roses and the
spirits of youth still were hers-and so
they are, for there is one way in which
the hand of Time may at least be stayed
and no person on the stage has ever
better known or travelled that way
the way of temperance.
Patti above all things is an artist.
Temporarily speaking her idol is art
she worships it wherever found-in
Others and also in herself. All of her
lie she has regarded herself as the
temple of a rare gilt of God, and she
has cared for that temple with a relig-
ious zeal. At first blush this may
appear 10 have been selflshly done, but
not SO; often 1t has required the alb
slemiousness of an anchOrite and
the firmness of discipline of a gren.
adler of the old guard. Approaching
Madame Swetcnine's saying that
"I0uth should be a savings bank
Madame Patti has not only avoided
drafts. but she has eschewed the dissi-
pations of various kinds upon which
so many theatrical lives have been
wrecked. Not to say that she has no
other religion. she has certainly made
1t Il religious duty to be abstemious as
to food, regular in her hours, and care
full as to all indulgences. Indeed, her
life is as good a temperance lecture as
C0nld well DC preached.
That she is as fresh and young ard
beautiful and tuneful as ever was
shown only the other day owe in
Wales. 1t is there that she has her
home, that she is Madame Nj colini,
that she has a domestic side to her
character, and it is a very tender and
sweet phase of it, too. A few days
ago the Welsh national Eisteddfod
began al Brecon, and nothing would
satisfy the good people but hat Mad
anne Patti Nicolini should grace the
opening. as a woman and an artistic.
When she came the great building was
packed with at least twelve thousand
enthusiastic admirers and friends
her neighbors and her adopted
Icountrymen and women, and when she
appeared before them the scene which
took place aitested that if Victoria is
politically the queen of the Welsh,
Adelina fatti is the queen of their
hearts. ~.
When the little wOmaD advanced to
the front of The stage the band which
pressed her FACILITATING bosom covered
the Order of Merit of the czar of Russia,
aud The Crosses of the Societies OF
Paris and Brussels. She first sang
HAhi non credi," and a selection from
Z Ia Somnambula," and in response
Il rspturous encore she gave 1.-THE
Last Rose of Summer" as she alone
sing it. The people ros en- maSSe
''and thunders of applause rent the
The climax of enthusiasm, how
ever, was not reached until she sang
''Home, Sweet Home" and the Welsh
national song: "Hen wlad ty nhaudau"
land of My Fathers-lhen, the &C
cunts say: "Such a sight was never |
before witnessed in Wales" During
The singing of the former many were
tears, such was the putbos she i'm
parted to the words, and at the tel mi
nation of the patriotic song cheer after
cheer rang Ont upon the air commin-
gled as the voice of the ocean.
t Evidently Adelina Patti has lost
none of her power TO charm and sway
multitude, and evidently, too, 10 her,
is more, much more, in the pos
of this power than the ability it
gives her to obtain four or five thou
'snd dollars per night for the use of
ler voice, for nowhere could it eyer
nave been sweeter or more effective
han il was among those simple noun
ain folk where she poured it out so
Nv eetly as a free libation of her love.
May we all live to see and hear again
his surprisingly lovely queen OF song,
rHE BEHRING SEA CONTROVERSY.
No secretary of state has for a great
many years made himself 80 ridiculous
IS has Mr.. Blaine in his Behring Sea
controversy. Here he is Selling vessels
md making demonstrations against
,fhers which are laughed at by the en-
ire CT, ilized world. Either we have
ontrol of Behring Sea, either it is part
Il the waters OF the United States, or
'ur assumption of jurisdiction over il
8 %unfounded, and our attempt to con-
rol it absurd. The question OF pro-
ection to seal fisheries is only secondary
n this matter, as before we can at
to regulate it we must have