The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-15
R TOUR IS SUCCESSFUL
Miss Kaiser Writes Another Enter-
tanning Letter from Wales.
QUEER HABITS SHE NOTICES
For Instance, Men Sit With Their Hats on
During Indoor Concerts, and II Yop
Want a Programme You Are
Expected to Pay For it.
Special Correspondence of The Tribune.

tOWu III llIIle 10 QTeSS anu on DIT
usual time. The hall at this place Is the
hrst one in which we have sung in
Wales. 1t was recently built and, as l
said before, the pride of every town Is
It's concert hall. 1t Is certainly so in the
case or Tonypandy. Perfect in acous-
ties, Notwithstanding its large size
and beautifully finished in every par
ticular, 1t was joy to sing in 1t. We
took very well, all of US In general, and
Miss Allen in particular. They were
overwhelmingly kind to me, too, when
1 sang my work, and quite took my
breath away, l must admit, by the
demonstrative applause which / re-
ceived. They sent me up an earnest re-
quest to sing Home, Sweet Home" to
them, as an encore, but there are some
thoughts that do often lie too deep
Tor words" you know, and l responded
with something that was less pertinent
TO my thoughts than Home, Sweet
Home"
On account Of the length Of the pro-
sramme, We were obliged to miss our
return train, and came home in car
riages. We were all pretty tired, having
lost quite lot Of sleep at Pontycym-
mer, where We were so delightfully."- en-
tertained the first two nightsof the week.
Having worked pretty hard at the con-
certs all week, we have a reprieve to-
day and tonight and, OH how hard we
shall rest!
The Tour Extended.
We do not think we can stop concert
izing until Oct. "a, the night of which
date will see our last concert In Wales,
think. The tour has already been ex-
tended two weeks longer than was at
flrst expected, so, of course, the party
rnff 80 A
as they had arranged to come. I shall
most certainly stay over here, now that
l am here, and expect to enter the Royal
Academy Of Music some time in Octo-
Der, having only this minute made out
my application for admittance, and
posted 1t up to London. / have met a
Few students of the academy down here
In Wales, but fancy by far the larger
number of students there are from Eng
land proper.
We are having beautiful weather
again, for which let US be devoutly
thankful. 1t is becoming cooler, but
we are perfectly satisfied even II it is
cold, as all we ask for is-no rain. The
rain here is so very wet, and the fog and
mist and breeze that accompany 1t are
OF such sticky penetrating sort that
they give an American the bluest Of
blues, accustomed, as he is to our dry
climate and sun-shiny atmosphere.
dare say in fact, must say it, because
1t Is perfectly true, that the air here Is
much purer and more healthful than in
our part Of America, even if 1t Is more
damp. 1t really Is doing us a world Of
good, the air here. AS 1 said before, in
one Of my letters, 1t Is what some peo-
pie call ''like wine" OF course every
one knows that Adelina Patti lives here
in Wales, not many miles from where
We are now, on account of the beneficial
effects which the climate has upon her
throat and voice. And there Is cer-
tainly nothing at all to be said by any
of us against the climate here, from the
vocal point of,view, as we have one and
all been in very fine voice, ever since we
have been in Wales. But oh! how l
dread the wet and fogs Of November,
when / go up to London to live!
Whenever l am introduced now, and one
finds out in the course of conversation,
that am to stay in England this win
ter, while the rest Of the party go home
to the Stars and Stripes, he looks at me
and says: Then you will be up in Lon
don in November, won't you, just when
the fogs commence?" and then asks II
/ ever saw London fog. And when I
say no, that haven't, and what's more,
I don't want to, either, he looks compass
Bionate and heaves a sigh of pity for me
as he remarks: "Well, that's another
experience in store for you. Pleasant?
Well, hardly that"
Don't Remove Their Hats.
Sept. 20. I have had fire lighted in
my room at the hotel and am sitting be-
side 1t now. AS 1t crackles and sparkles
away in a fascinating little CRATE I
am trying to think OF something to
write about. The last concerts-but,
you see, they have gotten to be so
thoroughly alike, from our point of
view, that describing one Is describing
them all, except for something unusual
which occasionally happens. One
thing that strikes me as odd in Wales is
that people, men, too, all sit through
concert with their hats on. That is
the usual thing, not the occasional. I
thought that 1t was perhaps provin-
cialism belonging only to the middle
sized towns, but when we went up to
Cardiff the other night, to go to one of
the big theaters there, the men Of the
audience had their hats on, Just the
same as in any other Welsh town.
do not know why they do It, but, per-
haps, there Is good reason for 1t which
have not been able to find out.
AUOlH6T tnlIlB ABOUT u
Welsh audience Is the babies one finds
there. Some Of the company do not
admire this habit the Welsh mothers
have Of beginning the child's musical
education thus early, but cannot say
that / object to II at all. OF course,
they are the loveliest things on earth,
and as one rarely cries here In Wales
in concert, 1t Is very pretty thing
to see so many youngsters In their
mothers arms before you while you
sing. I must admit that to see children
in an audience always makes me bit
happier about my singing. They make
me think Of my own home full of chill.
dren back in Pennsylvania.
You Pay for Programmes.
Programmes are not given out tc
the audience over here, except to those
occupying reserved seats, and those In
the other parts Of the house who want
programmes must buy them of the lit.
tie boys who sell them for q penny
each. The other night received one OF
the most genuine and touching compli
ments / ever had from one of these
same httle programme sellers. I sup
pose he had been standing near the
stage while / had sung my solo, which
perhaps, had pleased the little fellow
very much, for, when I had gont
down to my dressing room and wa.
looking about for an encore upon which
the audience above was insisting, upoI
turning around to go back to the stage
there was this little man at my elbow
actually laughing with his pleasure a
my song. To see him standing ther,
enjoying himself so made me laugl
with him, and we both stood and mad,
each others acquaintance in tina
laugh. did you like that so much
little boy?" I said to him, but before h,
could say anything Mr.. Evans hurried
me back TO the stage. When / cam
back there was the little boy at my ell
bow again, and never did he leave M
until we took our departure for hom
that night. Once In while he woult
touch my dress softly, and I could SCI
that he thought that was pretty, too.
received many compliment that even
ing from plenty Of grown-up people
musical critics and musicians, but
really believe that I was never NOR