The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-11-11

Mrs Grote went off to Paris. followe,
soon after by my father, but before h
went he said to Jenny Lind: "Somc
thirg tells me that your m marriage will
not take place. If it should be broker
off again, write no letters and have n,
farewell interviews, but join Mrs
Grote in Paris Immediately.
Affairs had not been going on 81
smoothly as appeared Mr.. Barris hat
asked Jenny to insert in the settlement.
promise that she would never ac
again To this my father bjected, ant
he also insisted that Jenny was to hav,
uncontrolled power over her earnings
Mr. Harris said this was unscriptural
and the engagement was nearly broker
off, but renewed in consequence of the
despair Mr.. Harris exhibited. He also
terrified her by threats of torment here.
after If she broke her word; and last Of
all, when in the joy of reconciliation
She was singing to him, she turned
round and saw that he had gone to
sleep. Not long after Mr.. Senior reached
Paris there was tap at the door OF
Mrs Grote's apartment one evening
about seven o'clock, and in came Jenny.
The ill-assorted marriage was finally
broken off.
The emotions of the last few mon this
had told heavily upon Jenny Lind, but
with the sense of freedom the power OF
enjoyment soon returned, and she rode
in the Bois Gle Boulogne and walked on
the boulevards and in the Tuileries, and
listened to the nightingales. One day
she took my father to house in the
place dOrleans, near the Rue st. Laz.
are. 1t was built round courtyard,
with fountain in the middle. Jenny
gazed at it without speaking After
ward she said II was so miserable in
that house; envied the fountain be.
cause it was not obliged to sing"
| The house had been the residence of
Manuel Garcia, the most celebrated
master of singing in Europe, and she
alluded to the time when, in despair
at the loss of her voice from fatigue
and bad management, she slowly re.
gained it by means, first of rest, and
then of skillful practice under Garcia's
teaching.
The domestic happiness for which she
had so long sighed was soon to pe hers.
After singing in concerts and oratorios
in Germany, Sweden and Liverpool, she
sailed for the United States on August
81, 1850. Her success in the New World
was as brilliant as it had been in the
Old, and her charities as munifcent
Her company was joined in 1851 by Mr.
Otto Goldschmidt, who succeeded Bene.
dict as pianist A deep and true attach.
ment sprang up between the two young
nd m
ruary, ), 1852
Her horror of being lionized led her
sometimes to reject overturcs which
were made in perfectly good faith to
express the respect and admiration felt
for her; hence she was not always pop.
ular. She delighted in giving chill.
dren's parties. 1 remember one In 1865.
at her house in Wimbledon. and her
joyous participation in the amusement
she had provided, and again in More.
tons gardens, when she waltZed like a
girl with her eldest son. The last time
heard her sing was at concert she
gave at her own house in 1880 for the
prince of Sweden. She had become
very nervous about her voice, and it
was not certain whether in the eEd
she would summon up courage. Al
last she yielded to the persuasion of her
friends and sang the splendid cantata,
with violin accompaniment, from No.
zart's Re Pastore." 1t was thing to
remember for the rest of ones life.
In her later years she took litSl. |
house called Windspoint, which she ar
ranged aud improved till it resembled "a
Swiss cottage on the top of the hills
above Malvern Wells. We had, in the
summer of 1854, Il house just below
hers, and we saw her much more fire.
than was possible in the tur.
moil of London. We often used to sit
with her in the garden enjoying the
magnificent view. She was always un-
easy lest she should he stared at, and If
any presumptuous wight peeped in at
the gate, she would instantly shoot ur
a large red umbrella and shelter her.
self beneath it. My elder daughter.
who is devoted to music, frequently
went to see her alone. and one day
venturcd to ask her to write her name
in her birthday book They were in
the drawing-room. Jenny Lind rose
up, saying: "Well, / did not think Won
had been commonplace person." and
walked through the window. into the
garden. leaving my daughter to repent
her indiscrction. Presently her hostess
came back and gave her beautiful
rose, and went on talking as if nothing
had happened, and when Gaynor was
taking leave, Mrs Goldschmidt said
Now, where is your birth
day book"' and wrote her name in it.
1t must have cost her more than many
IN apparently greater sacrifice.
like to think of her as she stood in
,he hanging balcony of her cottagc
waving good-by, the sun setting be-
lind her picturesque figure. 1t was a.
Nindspoint that she died in 1887. At
.he very close of her life, as she lay on
Ter death bed at Malvern, in weakness ,
md misery, once, as her daughter
opened the shutters and let in the ;
morning sun, she Just let her lips shape ,
he first bars of the old song she loved: ,
AN den Sonnenschein." They We're the .
tst notes she sang on earth.
PRIDE AND POVERTY. :
kid-GlOved Young Lady Who Lost fla, | l