The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-19

sick Hans Christian Andersen with a
Christmas tree on Sylvester evening,
but in giving wherever she tarrled
thousands Of dollars to the poor and
needy-giving it gleefully, like child.
The only allusiOn she was ever known
to make to her wonderful talent was In
Copenhagen, after singing for a Home
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chill
dren. When she heard the unusually
large amount which her concert had
raised. her eyes filed with tears, and
she said to Hans Christian Andersen:
Isn't it beautiful that 1 can sing SOL
Despite the undoubted success of her
operate career, she lOnged constantly
for hOmely Hfe-sO much SO that she
decided to abandon the stage in 1S49,
just eleven years from that memoir
able March Z, the birthday of her gen
ius. This decision she never regretted.
She sung thereafter IN concert. or
poured out her soul in OratOriO. Men
delssOhn, who considered her the great
est artist he had known, wrote the
Elijah" for the peculiar beauty Of her
voice, and in that she was at her best,
for she said it lifted her into another
world.
Her retirement from the stage did
not spring from a puritanical aversion
to it She did not think it immoral, or
L
act nor would she have founded
school for the education of stage aspir-
ants. 1t was simply because, having
1 passed unspotted through the evils of
| stage environment, she felt worn by the
| artifcialities and difficulties of her
! progress and longed for the LONELINESS
of home.
| In England she was greatly beloved
/ and thorough recipFOcated this appre-
! Il 40 Of her
marriage she made that country her
| horne.
Jenny Lind's American tour under
| the management of ?. T. Barnum was
an uneQuivocal success. Although IN
| dertaking this venture with some trepi-
/ dation, Jenny Lind felt that she did
not dare to miss such a golden oppor-
tunity of doing good. She writes thus
to a friend: II have for long had the
most eager wish to earn, somewhere, a
| great deal of money. so as to endoW a
school for poor lost children in my
own country, and the invitation to
| America came as a direct answer; so
| that I go there in this confidence and
| l pray God in heaven out OF tuii
heart that he will guide me thlther as
| ever before with his gentle hand, and
will graciously forgive me my sins and
my infirmitieS. l shall have much TO
encounter; 1t is a very arduOus under
taking But since I have no less an aim
before me than to help in widening
Gods kingdom, the littlenesses of life
| vanish in face Of this
As a proof of this sincerity of spirit
| she sent for the mayor Of New York
the night of her first concert in Amer
| lea. and divided the proceeds, nearly
| $4,000, according to his advice among
the charities of the city This prece-
dent she followed throughout her trip,
! giving the entire amount received from
her American tour, more than 84O,0OO,
among charities.
This tour brought her a great sorrow
and a great JOY. Her mothers death
saddened Jenny Lind's visit to Amer
lea. While in Boston the prima donna,
then in her 3tst year, was married to
Otto GOldschmidt an accomplished
young musician, who had accompanied
her at several of her concerts. The
marriage proved a most happy one, and
upon their return they founded a home
in England. Here Nine. Goldschmidt
led the busiest. happiest kind of life
for she said she had found tail that hel
heart ever wanted or loved Before
settling in England the young wife
sang to delighted audiences in Hol-
land, Austria, Ireland and Germany
She sang thereafter only on special oc-
easions, generally for charity, some
times in oratOrio, sometimes in the
opera of Ruth" composed by her hus-
band, and osmetimes in concert with
Nine. Schumann, or alone.
To the last she retained the fire and
charm Of that resistless voice, which
was a combination of the special quail
ties of several prima donnas. One sur.
prising feature to her audiences was
her ability, upon attaining an unusu
ally high note Ito reach which he
hearers. through the habit of mind in
duced by listening to other great sing
ers, would suppose her to have expend
ed all her strength) to carol away will
the ease. the insoucianee of bird. Sh'
possessed, too, an original, wonderful