The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-04
PATHS HEALTH AND BEAUTY.
How She Preserved Them Both and
Made "a Fortune with Her Voice.

From the Chicago Times-Herald.
Mime. Adelina Patti, whose voice for
nearly half century was the delight
and despair of the musical world, as
she approaches the age of three-score
seems to possess the sweetness and vi
vacity OF forty years ago. These
phrases, half a century, "threescore'
and forty years ago." would be Ia
booed in the presence of a belle of
fifty eight summers were they not the
tribute of admiration for the youth
full freshness of their subject.
| To- day she is described by one who
visited her as alert and pretty as a
woman of 25 her eyes beaming with
aggressive luster, her smile as bewitch-
ing as ever, and her power to arouse
/ the enthusiasm of an audience undim-
minished. She still possesses that CHM
plicity of grace that has cheated that
odd cheater Time"
! Asked how she managed 1t, she
! frankly admitted that 1t was all due
to the cast-iron rules and management
of her brother-in-law, Maurice Stra-
kosch, who took her a physical weak
/ ling of and at turned her out a
musical phenomenon, healthy, clear
complexioned. steel-nerved."
The rule by which this transforma-
ton was effected reads:
Keep the mind clear of unnecessary
worry, the body clear of unnecessary
food-live with great regularity and
great moderation.
Little Adelina Patti was made to go
to bed at o'clock and get up at 6.
She had plenty of exercise and plenty
to eat, but never too much, and no rich
food. Her diet consisted then of a lit
tie roast meat, fruit, eggs, cheese and
milk. She never was permitted to
touch candies, tea, coffee, wine or beer,
and ate very sparingly of bread, pan
| cakes or starchy food.
AS to drink, Strakosch's orders were:
water. my girl; lots of water! 1t
washes the body free from all bad hui
mors.'
The rules of Strakosch became the
habits of PATHS later independent life.
She always insisted on enough sleep,
taken regularly. When she was sing
ing, her hour for retiring was a. m,
and for rising 10 a. m. Now she sleeps
from midnight till a. M, and nothing
is permitted to rob her of a minutes
repose.
In passing. 1t may be remarked that
PATHS teeth have never enriched any
dentist. She has no gold in her teeth,
though there has been gold mine in
her throat.
Winter and summer she sleeps with
her windows wide open, and she has
never caught cold from that source.
Her message to women is to simply
their social life, as complicated living
breeds worry. and worry is the main
enemy of health and happiness"
While Patti has given full credit to
the martinez discipline and diet of her
brother-in-law she fails to bear CRATE
full testimony to the watchful tender
ness with which Nicolini stood between
her and every draft that might have
visited her precious personality too
roughly. He inspected the sanitary
fittings of every apartment they were
to occupy, stood guard at the wings
of every scene where she sang, and
went to the length of forcing the stage
hands TO dry out with hot fiat irons
the dampness from a stage floor that
had been washed to save her dresses.
1t was Nicolini who saved the beauty
! Strakosch had reared from all the hard
knocks, irregularities and fatigues in
cident to touring of the universe for
the almighty dollar.
Moral for young ladies: Be cheerful
eat plain food sparingly. live regular
ly. sleep eight hours, marry a Nicolini
and you will never grow old to those
who love you.