The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-08-16
GROWS OLD BEAUTIFULLY
PATTI AND HER PERPETUAL
YUOTH.
How She Secured Her Health and How
She Retained it-Strakosch's Disci-
pline and Nicolinis Watchfulness.

Nine. Adelina Patti, whose voice for
nearly halt century was the delight
and despair of the musical world, as she
approaches the age of three score seems
to possess the sweetness and Vivacity
of forty years ago. THESE phrases half
century," three score" and forty
years ago" would be tabooed in the
presence of a belle of fifty-eight sum-
mers were they not the trioute of adj
miration for the youghtful freshness
of their subject.
Today she ls described by one who
visited her as alert and pretty as a
woman of twenty-five, her eyes BEAM
ing with aggressive luster, her smile as
Witching as ever and her power to
arouse the enthusiasm of an audience
undiminished. She still possesses that
simplicity of grace that has cheated
that "old cheater Time"
Asked how she managed it she frank
ly admitted that it was all due to the
castiron rules and management of her
brother-in-law, Maurice Strakosch, who
took her physical weakling of six and
at eight turned her out a musical phe-
nomenon, healthy, r-compleXioned
Steel-nerVed."
The rule by which this Transformation
was affected was: Keep the mind clear
of unnecessary worry, the body clear
regularity and great moderation.
Little Adelina Patti was made to go
to bed at s 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 little roast
meat, fruit, eggs, cheese anu milk. She
never was permitted to touch candies,
tea, coffee, wine or beer, and ate very
sparingly of bread, pancakes 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 it may be remarked that
PATHS teeth have never enriched any
dentist. She has no gold in her teeth,
though there has been a gold mine in
her throat.
Winter and summer she sleeps with
her windows wide open, and she has
never caught a cold from that source.
Her message to women is to simplify
lnelr social Ire, 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 n TtV ant
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 damp
ness from a stage floor that had been
washed to save her dresses.
1t was Nlcolini who saved the beauty
Strakosch had rearer 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 regularly,
sleep eight hours, marry a Nicollni, and
you will never grow old to those who
love you.-Chicago Record Herald