Year: 1872

You must remember Missions origins


how many generations of her people
toiled unknown to luxury before the


yigor and virtue of the stock took vocal
form and opened the way into the world;
what traditions of hunger and penury,
and thankless labor must have come


down to her, and must peep like ghosts
Of memory into her mind when she


wears the regal robes Of ''Leonora, or
clorifes the fnery Of Violetta.P Do
you wonder at the pathos born in her
face2 She isn't ashamed o. her origin:
Not she. Didn't tell you she belonged
to tie royal line? Where did Grisi come
from? Some of us can remember when


the Marquise de Caux ran about bare
| foot in New York. Rubini was jour
| neyman tailor. Watched dreve cab in


Homburg. He told me so himself; and


many tenor he took to the opera house


before he got into it himself. The fact


is that these artists all fancy, when they


come to America, that their humble ORR
gin gives them patent of natural no


bility with our people 1t takes them


some time to find out that we Democrats


are rather ashamed Of it.


Nilsson admires the material pros


perity of the country. They say she
clapped her hands with delight when


they told her the wonderful history of
Chicago; and when that city disappeared


in night, like the dream that it was,


the tears came into her eyes. Every


where in the West she saw the poorer


classes happy and becoming prosperous.
She saws she sang better for it, Some
of her letters to Europe glow with


naire enthusiasm that is charming. She


never saw such warm-hearted people.
kShe never saw people make money so
ffast. She never saw such grand sight
as prairie. She fell in love with Peo-
ria, and when they gave her the Illinois
wine to drink she ordered it for her hotel
in New York, and bought q farm and
vineyard in Peoria. She said there was
more musical culture in the middle
classes of our society than among the


same classes anywhere in Europe.


About her fellow artists she was eau


tious, reserving her opiRions, expressing
only very decided admiration OF Miss
bKelloggs abilities. M 81 III 4,
She avoids society, having an actress
aversion to the assumption of snowy ap-
parel when off the stage. There are two
or three families up town where she
visits en- fdmille, and there she romps
and sings and abandons herself to the
freedom of private life with genuine re-
lief On the night she appeared in
Troyatore for the first time she sent for


me to come into her dressing-room and


sea the new costumes which had been


sent over by Worth for the occasion.


Those who saw her from the front that


night can have no idea Of the magnifi-


cence of the woman thus attired in a


room. To see her to the best advantage
lis to hear her. The stage lights throw
heavy shadows on her face at times, and
the most delicate and charming of her
facial expressions do not carry. She


stood up like another Queen Mary IN


the room, her tall and graceful figure
| duplicated by the mirror. The moment


we entered she held out her hands, and


with childish glee strobe about the apart
| ment, and called attention to the ele-


gance of the dress. Then she suddenly
threw her head back and listened, un-
| Willingly falling into an attitude of


beautiful suspense. Brignoli was sing


ing. She put her finger on her lip and


opened the door Of the dressing-room.
Magnificent a t


1t was the true Italian strain that


pleased her Something in the worn


voice, and something more in the method


of the once fayorite tenor, touched her,


as they sometimes will all OF us even at


this day &nE III W