The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-09

Her Life in Wales apd Why She Sang as
Juliet.
Paris Letter In London Truth.

Juliet
Paris Letter In London Truth.
Since Patti has come back TO Paris to
sing again at the Opera-house i have en-
jOyed long tete-a-tete with her. She sent
away Baroness Stackelberg to be able to
talk freely. j had seen the diva at private
parties when she was the idol of the Italian
Opera-hOuse here, but never since unless on
the stage. She was then what the Irish
call ''girleen," and used = StrakOsch
pocketing her earnings and being charged
to furnish her with clothes-to be dressed
very, often in pink silk gown. But the
Orient sheen. In her high, youthful spirits
she was an ideal ROsina, and the first
cousin to the lark. But she had not those
full, expressive, medium tones which now
render her singing SO suggestive, or that
heart experience, with its deep sorrows as
well as joys, which bring her into the fam
lily lin point of voice. to the nightingale.
The other day found Patti as charming
as ever, and greater woman than ever
expected she could have developed into.
One must be owlish indeed not to feel and
see at first sight that she is no ordinary
person. Patti has O very fine voice in speak
ing-sweet, grave, and harmonious. She
bears the stamp of the best society. There
is unaffected and evidently, sterling: Her
health is phenomenal. The face is free
from wrinkles. / said: "You must be very
happy in your home life to wear so we'll"
Il should think So" she replied. ''YOu
have no idea what dear haven of rest my
WEIGH place is. 1t is delight to be in it,
and, when am rOming over the world,
delight to think that l am to return
to it, Everything has been arranged to suit
us. We have O lot of strong, useful horses
for the roads about are heavy-quantities
of flowers, heaps of dear, atfectiOnate dogs
-spaniels, settlers retrievers, cOllies. The
brooklets about are natures music" And
birdss Have yOu many such relatives at
h. La l. fD~xx. Of-O
~ you don't think creature with a parrot
throat your cOusinw But there's ca
nary" "And You have no larkp .'Oh, no;
the lark, you know, wants the liberty of
the sky. It's not bird to be kept in a
gilded cage, us it true that you were
thinking of buying ChenOnceau?" Eyes,
but / then got frightened, at the idea of
burying myself down there.'Not that Craig
y-Nos is near London; it's ative-hOurs' jour
ney, off. But l have grown fond of it,"
what do you think of ChenOnceauW "A
melancholy place now that there is not and
cannot be court in it,"
/ asked Patti why she sang again as
Juliet. Romeo" having been composed for
though matchless singer in her way,
PATHS upper register or phenomenal sill
veriness of voice. She said it was GOunOd
who induced her. The papers did not re-
port truly the little scene in her dressing
room in which he cOaxed her round. What
he said to her was: "Ma chere ct grande
artistic, reveneZ, je vOus Ell supple. Madam
dOnneZ pas mon enfant Juliette, que je vOus
NJ comic dams vOs mains CONNIE a sa mere"
The tears streamed from his eyes. Was it
possible not to say yes? And SO Patti is to
sing in his opera five other nights in De-
cember and January. She is then to rush
back to London for the Albert Hall concert
on the 22d, to come back to Paris for
weeks, then to start for Bordeaux, whence
she leaves on March 5, for MOntevideO,
and she has arranged to give a concert at
BuenOs Ayres on April 15. And how does
such "a? long sea voyage as 81, from Gironde to
does. suit me. am only. sick in very
rough weather, and then lie by in long
ocean passage. Those ocean trips help to
keep me strong" Patti is not afraid of
yellow fever. and would not object to go to
the capital of Brazil. But it has such o
bad reputation as a haunt of yellow Jack"
that she can get no artists worthy the
name to 60 with her.
Patti without h being r elums n formed is
and chest are powerful. Her waist keeps
shapely and, indeed young. She was
in lilac velvet dress, with V
gorget of cream tulle and q folded
q sign of jewelry except on the fourth
finger of the left hand. Invitations to din
ner from the FOubOurg ST. Germain lay on
the table The Princess this the Duchess
that, the Marquis de la Veille Roche, and
the COuntesse DIES Seize-quartiers were all
wanting to have her, as saw from their
notes. But she did not mean to go any,
where. AS she chatted Mime. Louise, her
companion of twenty-three years, showed
in two men bearing such floral and berib-
bOned trophy from RIFT and Gailhard. One
saw. that Patti was used to such tributes.
i asked her how she kept the velvet in the
throat from being rubbed away and the
timbre OF the voice so true and clear. She
said: Il keep at home SO much when Pm
not on the stage" Patti lives now entirely
for those whom she loves.