Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-02
veneration of her fathers memory, e'had
come hither from France.

veneration of her fathers memory, she'had
come hither from France.
Dress Reform Not in II.
There was deal of significance, consider
ing the sort of amalgamation, or rather at
tempted mixing of oil and wafer that lately
brought Delsartism and dress reform or
artistic dress in curious fellowship, IN
reply given to a question of this sort put to
Madame Del Sarte. When asked If her
father adyoecatd dress reform, her
beautiful ewes wore for moment
puzzled questioning expression.
Then she threw up her hands vigor-
ously, shrugged her shoulders, shook her
head and said "Non,' emphaticslly
When she grew calmer she explained that
Delsarteism related only to tie intel
lectual clothing and not to the bodily. For
q marvellous example of the wonderful
power obtained over the facial expression
Madame Del Sarte demonstrated the nosEl-
blitv of raising and dropping the corners
of the eyebrows 1t only requires one to
make an effort to try and do likewise TO under
stand the difficulty Of the task. OF course
this is but the mechanism, but Del Sarte's
position toward his pupils might be COM
pretended in ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, SAID
Samuel johnson to parasitic Boswell, II
furnish you with an understanding. Del
Sarte couldn't give his pupils what the
Creator had denied them, but he could vast
" improve what He chose to eEGow them
with.
Madame Del Sarte during the talk ex-
planned that her fathers system OF vocall-
zatiGn was entirely unknown in America
She exemplifed afterward, by reciting
fable from La Fontaine. the perfection 10
.f-b; +Lo bol q anal this hrancl
of his work. In her reading there seemed
TO be thousand gradations of feeling to be
described, and for every ore there was
corresponding infection of her beautifully
trained voice 1t would be a delight to
listen TO her for hours as she reads
The Name and Its Spelling.
The dual spelling of Del Sarte, which has
excited good deal of curiosity in America,
Is explained by AIadamN Del Sarte thus:
For professional purposes Francois Del
Sarte spelled his name thus: Del Sarte; at
home, in the social world, which he visited
little and cared for less, the name was
written in one Delsarte, as it il familiar to
us here.
Though Madame Del Sarte was the favor
ite child, she was not the only one. There
were two bows and another girl. The sons
are dead, and the daughter is professor in
the Julien Academy. Gastave Del Sarte
died in 1863, carried off by the cholera, and
his death almost broke the old
fathers heart. He was very
clever young man, anG was to have been an
actor. Dumas fils took an interest in the
youth and wished him to make his debut at
the Gvmnase, which he was preparing to do
when attacked by the fatal disease. Navier,
the other brother, was another genius in
this wonderfully gifted family. They
had wealth of intellect to
inherit from, for Madame Francois,
the mother. was a wonderful woman, and a
cousin of Bizet, the composer of the opera
Carmen" At IL years of age she won
prize in the Paris Conservatory, at u she
was a professor and at 20 she was a wife-a
wife and Madam Del Sarte. AS companion
and teacher she was scarcely less
successful than her husband, and young
American girls sent TO Partisan schools
thought it a privilege to enter the house
hold of Madame Del Sarte. She was very
fond of accompanying them to the opera
and thcater, and loved to train their fGcul-
ties of discrimination. 1t is for this mother,
who died last spring, that Madame Del
Sarte mourns.
Why Sslc Bears a Fathers Nae.
Concerning another curious fact-that
Madame Del Sarte, who is married, bears her
fathers name-it appears that daughter
inheriting estates or wishing to preserve a
name from perishing may attach her
patronyEic to her husbands name Mon
sieur Geraidv undergnes the penalty of |
marrying the daughter of a famous man, his |
name preceding that of his wife's maiden |
surname and being separated from it by a |
dash Were he in America, no doubt, he |
would have 10 bear with being irreyerently |
dubbed Mr. Del Sarte.
Besides her fine intellectual development, ]
Madame Del Sarte is clever artist and a /
thoroughly trained musician. In New York |
she has also delighted visitors at Mrs. Have |
meyers private little symposiums with her |
taste in singing. Her visit to America will |
necessarily be of short duration, and is |
likely matter of only few weeks.
Thus prettily does Madame Del Sarte tell |
how her father first discovered what after |
ward led up to his famous system of Del |
sartism. Grown tired of commerce that I'm |
kind step-mother OF many great man, Del |
Sarte turned to the stage. His teacher /
wished him TO express sentiment. and gave |
him its accompanying gesture. The fine |
instinct OF the pupil refused it |
as incorrect. He was awkward. He |
vas discouraged and in despair Sud- |
denly, as he walked and mused he SAW in |
real life an unconscious dclineaton of the i
Sentiment he sought, which was directly |
opposed 10 tina. OF his teacher In a |
moment Of inspiration Del Sarte realized |
that Nature must be his teacher, and there
upon Del Sartism was conceived.
Del Sarte pere at home, where the greater
number of his pupils was taught, lived in
house that had an historical past. 1t was a
little pavillion-a fayorite hunting lodge of
Henri IN, situated in the Qmdrtie, dH rie,tr
Csadlof. 1t was, of course, modenized
for its Nineteenth Century occupant,
but so skillfully was this done that it
retained all its old characteristics. It
exists no more, and in its place is one of the
large avenues leading to the Arc de Tri-
omphe. Thus modern Paris, in its march of
progress, ruthlessly destroyed the hunting
lodge of one of its most famous monarchs
and the habitation of one of its most widely
known teachers
MARION CRAWFORD GALLAHEP.