Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-03-21
PATHS PERSONALITY.
Former Business Representa-
tive Talks About Her.
LOVES TO KNIT AND sHUgs PASTRY

Howell r. Clark Says She Would
Not Allow a RE or Cake ON the
Cars In which she Travelled Dur
Ins Tier Last American Tour-why
She Hates Viorins.
Howell Z. Clark. who is the man
oger Of transportation for the Castle
Square Opera company, said to a re-
porter of the Kansas City Times and
Star the other night hat when Patti
ome to America next year on her
farewell tour she will undoubtedly
visit Kansas City. On each of Nine.
PATHS tours ia the United States Mr..
Clark acted as one of her business rep
resentatives, and it Is often said he
was about the only one who could man.
age her when she vas in one of her
'tempers." Nine. Patti is now the
Baroness Cederstrom. Mr.. Clark has a
verbal contract to represent her when
she N here next season.
"Oh, yes, Patti has a temper" said
Mr.. Clark. But there are other things
more interesting to tell about and
which have never been told in print.
Did any one ever tell you how Patti,
the greatest songstress of the age, loves
to knit? BY the way" added Mr.. Clark
meditatively, 'she does detest the
sweet tones of a violin. She hates a
violin. Why? Well, because her first
husband played the violin vilely."
Mr.. Clark knows Patti in all her
moods and all her customs. Though
the public has often heard and read Of
the great PATHS triumphs, it knows but
little of how she talked, ate, acted and
occupied her time.
Patti" says Mr.. Clark, twas very
regular in all her actions, and her daily
life was lived by rule. She was strong
and healthy. on the days when she
did not sing she always took tapioca
soup for breakfast; that and nothing
more. But before breakfast there was
first a bath. IN which she was assisted
by a creole servant who had been with
her for thirty years, and then she was
taken in charge by an East India WON
an masseur who is celebrated as the
finest masseur in all Europe.
cat u o'clock, always sharp at noon,
Patti ate lunch. For lunch the great
|songstress always ate boiled meats,
cabbage, carrots, onions and other
boiled vegetables; yes, a regular New
England boiled dinner. But of pastry
not a bit. Why. she wouldn't ever al
low a pie or cake ON the cars in which
we travelled. If any of US ever ate pie,
we did it on the sly. PATHS dinner
came at 6 o'clock. Soup, ~roasts, cab
bage, turnips, salads and wines Of all
kinds.
But on the days Patti sang" con-
tinued Mr.. Clark, "there was a differ
ent regime. Tapioca soup at 8 O'Clock
in the morning. the boiled dinner at 8
O'clock in the afternoon and then after
the production at night a lunch big
enough and hearty enough for a labor
ing man who had chopped wood all
day long.
81 never saw Patti have a cent" add
ed Mr.. Clark reminiscently, 'and I
don't think she knows the value of or
knows how to use money.
"She would amuse herself by knit
ting, playing with her little dog and
principally with gossip. She dearly
loved to watch a game of billiards, but
she surely didn't like to hear Nicolina,
her husband, play the fiddle. PATHS
favorite American plays were Hoyt's
"A Trip to Chinatown and De Wolfe
Hopper's eXtravaganzas. 1t tickled
her most to death to neal the song
Annie Rooney but one of the funniest
things about Patti was her small satch-
ell of s~carfpins which she always had
with her. To every hotel chef who
could please her with his soup she gave
a scarfpin. But no soup, no pin"