Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-19

modest apartment in the via Ferdinando
Bartolommeo. short thoroughfare
opening on to the piazza della 1ndepend-
enza, a block to the east of the famous
Villa Trollope. Its furnishing is almost
sober in unpretentiousness, and yet an
air of refined taste pervades it from the
salon, where she receives Sundays. to the
crimson draped hall of entrance. She
selected the furnishings herself; At pres
ent she occupies herself with her hous-
keeping. and with modelling, for which
she has great talent.
What have you to say about the SEN
sational reports concerning the Warsaw
concert at which Signor Toselli appear
ed?'' asked.
Untrue. like the rest" said Nine. Tosel-
Ii, 1.-The manager wrote my husband and
made him an offer to play in Warsaw. the
condition being that his wife appear in a
box. Enrico replied that he emphatically
declined the offer, that he was an artist
and played for art, that he was an Italian
gentleman and made no use Of his wife
as an advertisement. The offer, accord
ingly, was dropped. Later. after his Sue
cess in Milan, Herr Reichmanri the War
saw manager. made him an apology and
an offer solely as an artist. My husband
then accepted. and, far from being hooted
in Warsaw. received an ovation, and was
almost pelted with flowers He found the
city, however, i'll such state of revolu-
ton that he remained in his hotel the
twelve hours that he was In Warsaw. He
says the outside world has no idea of the
condition of affairs there and the atroci-
ties which are going on hourly and make
the city absolutely unsafe for visitors"
These statements of Signor Toselli con-
corning Warsaw, Nine Toselli easily
proves by the correspondence which her
husband has shown to all his intimate ac-
QuaintanceS.
There is one thing said Nine. Tosel-
Ii. that l should like you to emphasize
and that Is. that did I want a divorce
from my husband that I might remarry,
as the reports say, 1t would be an abso-
lutte impossibility to get it. We are mar
ried by italian law, the English cere-
mony being registered, and there is no
divorce in Italy. My husband is an Ital-
ian citizen. From every legal standpoint
divorce is impossible
AS for the young author" i'm question,
his personality varies so much in the Cos
sip in Florence-at one time, he is a
writer, at another an artist-that he is
not taken any more seriously than all
the other Florentine admirers Of the past
who have been thrust on the lady by re-
ports which have appeared originally in
a certain Berlin newspaper. 1t is strong
ly suspected that there is some spy in the
Toselli household, who fabricates sensa-
tional statements that have a slender
foundation. In fact, Nine. Toselli'S friends
say sometimes there will be actual re-
marks reported. which shows that some
one is eavesdropping but generally they
are put into the wrong mouth, which
makes a great difference in the signfi.
canoe which is attached to them.
You may emphatically deny every bit
of gossip or printed story which implies
that my husband and 1 are not living
happily together" said Nine Toselli end
ing the interview. 1t was necessarily
husband and her intimate friend. Miss
Helen a4immern, the we'll known art
writer. and about whom the author of
THE Struggle for Royal Child writes
so enthusiastically.
The statement of the ex-princess that
she and her husband get along hap-
PLY together is confirmed by friends who
visit them at their home and with whom
l have conversed. They tell me that
the couple joke and laugh and make
sport of the housekeeping business like
two grownup children Either they are
both consummate actors when company
is present or very much in love-" was
the way one put IL.
Enrico Toselli is, to all appearances
these folks tell me. a charmingly devoted
whose disposition is over
flowing with sunny. happy boyishness
and proud Of his success in making his
former very unpunctual wife ready to the
minute for meals. engagements. drives
theaters. etc. For the first time. they
say. she is just like any other. woman
trying to please her husband.
All this is the ToS1lliS' and the friendS'