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ALL and farewell are the | Home." which, first to last again, may |
be called her “long suit.’’
“If you will do this for me.” said the I
chief justice, “I promise to do anything i
you a. k me to.”
"Anything?” inquired the little girl, j
her black eyes sparkling with mischief. .
"Anything,” answered Matthews. I
Patti sang “Home. Sweet Home."!
with the voice of an angel. “Now, said j
elated for a certainty. Her recent fare- j she as the applause died away, “stand ;
well London concert in Albert hall was on your head, Mr. Matthews."
an ovation such as few women have j “you’re jolting,” gasped the jurist.;
received. Adela Jeanne Marie Patti Is But she was no! and insisted that he i
sixty-four years of age this February.' keep his bargain, and he was obliged to 1
The London papers are regretting her doit. The appearance o% the chief Jus-]
retirement, saying she should have put tice of the United States head down- *
it off till next November, which would ] ward, waggling his legs in the air was I
have marked her jubilee, not as a pub- ] a spectacle for gods’and men.
H words this winter from the
oldest and youngest of the
noted women singers—hail
to our side of the water from Geraldine
Farrar, the youngest; farewell to all
the world from the oldest, Adelina Pat
ti. After her lour of the British prov
inces next autumn she will never ap
pear In public again, this time it is de-
lic singer, but as a prima donna. In
England the people have never grown I
weary of Patti's singing. To this day j
nobody can fill Albert hall In London i
either with a voice or an audience as |
can Patti, the world's greatest soprano j
singer of any period. When she was a,
child in New York city more than fifty*
years ago the boy, along Broadway
used to call her the “little Chinee girl”
because her hair and eyes were so black j
and her skin was so yellow. |
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A varied beginning had Adelina. Her j
father was a Sicilian singer, her moth- i
er a Roman opera singer. She herself j
was horn In Madrid while her father j
was tilling a professional engagement!
there. She was brought up in Now
York and is now a citizen of Great
Britain. At the old Niblo’s garden In J
New York city her parents were tilling*
an engagement when the child who was
horn to nuisic began to take notice of]
things. She began to sing before she j
could talk. Her voice was an entirely
natural one anil never needed and nev- |
or had the training necessary for most ;
singers. In the poor lodgings where the
Pattis lived she heard operatic roles re- I
hearsed, and she imitated them to the]
last gesture, not omitting the “brava” j
which was expected from the audience'
at the end. The next thing the little*
girl took notice of was the poverty, hit- i
•er to bear, of her parents, true artists*
though they were. Intuitively Adelina
I’attl knew her power and never doubt- j
rd it when at the age of seven she beg- 1
ged her father to let her sing In Niblo's '
in “La Sonnambula.” She begged so
hard that he consented. After the first *
night the seven-year-old Patti packed
Niblo's as today the sixty-four-year-old
I’attl packs the largest hall in the
world's largest city.
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Little Adelina became a social idol.
First to last Patti is girlish, mischiev
ous, charming. Once, when she was
lliirteen. she was at a supper party at
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Mme. Patti, Baroness Cederstrom, is
now very rich. She is as shrewd in
finance as Hetty Green though not so
economical. And she lives in Wales
when at home at Castle Craig-y-Nos,
Ystradgynlais. Can you pionounce it?
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Geraldine Farrar, member of the
Royal theater of Berlin, under contract
to sing there whenever she is wanted,
now in America only by special leave
of Emperor William himself, confesses
that never in her phenomenally suc
cessful operatic career has she felt so
nervous and timid over i stage appear
ance as she did before making her firs',
bow to an Ameri' an public in her own
native land. And indeed New York so
called musical circles are. with a few
exceptions, so hypercritical and swell
headed as to arouse a suspicion that
they try to cover up a real ignorance of
music by making a big noise. Berlin
has accepted Geraldine Farrar enthu
siastically. So lias Stockholm, saiid to
lie the most critical capital in Europe,
yet she felt nervous over the thought
of tlie Now York newspaper young
men.
it
Few
weeter, n
rn told :h.
and mother
life. Both a
only, eighteei
Geraldine, tl
is now tw<
mother wert
her
tt ill
rapres.sive stories
it of the absolute
Farrar's father
uring her whole
iumt. her mother
■r.rs oi ler than herself,
youngest prima donna
nly-four. Her father and
1,t h church singers. When
they discovered their little girl had a
voice they decided to have it cultivat
ed. Emma Thursby was Geraldine’s
teacher in New York. Geraldine was
horn in Melrose, Mass. Her father, ex-
tlrst baseman of tile Philadelphia Base
ball club, had established a men's cloth
ing store in Melrose and was thriving.
At length it was found the girl was de
veloping a voi
training. Mr. a
MME. JOHANNA GADSKI.
the proceeds the Farrar family all went I stage as Patti or Ellen Terry. She is j
to Europe together and put Geraldine also one of the most beautiful women
in training for a musical career. “We In the musical profession. Her face *
are still young and can begin over and figure lend themselves admirably j
again, if necessary, afterward,” said , to stage make tips.
Mr. Farrar to his wife. Geraldine was i „ „
ixteen then. First they went to Paris, j
were all newspaper reporters whoj Doors and windows must be kept shut
wanted to Interview her. She says the or it will be impossible to see throng t
story of Germany's crown prince want-. the clouds of fur that arise immediatt -
ing to marry her is an absurd false-i ly there is a draft of fresh air. Even
hood, and her mother declares with em- : in their food the workers do not esea; j
phasis that Geraldine will marry no ! the hair. It is everywhere. The pro, -
titled foreigner. ; ess of, sewing may be simple, but
And still the handsome, loving Farrar sometimes the fur is in such narrow
family, father.’mother and prima donna strips that the edges are difficult ; )
daughter, travel always together, and find. From a pile of small, irregular!/
her mother is always behind the scenes shaped bits of fur on the ground bt -
when Geraldine sings. * side her the worker takes and sew ■>
I them together to cover the paper pat-
1 tern of a lady’s collarette with long
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All music lovers were pleased to the
heart’s center when announcement was
made that Mme. Johanna Gadski would
sing in opera in America this winter,
assuming the heavy Wagnerian roles,
such as Elsa and Brunnhilde. No living
dramatic soprano can take these tre
mendous parts more successfully than
] Mme. Gadski. They have been long
I the summit of her musical aspiration,
* she lamenting for years that she was
I not old enough to sing them. It seems
that no woman under thirty is consid
ered to have strength enough to be a
Brunnhilde and forty is still better.
Like Schumann-Heiak. Gadski is a
German, with a great big heart full of
kindliness and sincerity. She has help- l
ed many a struggling American music]
student and been too often rewarded
with ingratitude. Off the stage Johann^ i
(Gadski is Frau T.iuscher. and she has]
a magnificent home in Berlin. It is fill
ed with art treasures from all over the I
world. Mme. Gadski Is lavish in expen- |
diture and in hospitality. Herr and )
Mme. Tauscher have one child, a
daughter. Charlotte, twelve years old
sprightly and full of mischief as a kit
ten. Melba, that other great singer, is
the child's godmother and her mother’s
great friend. Gadski is considered to
represent the perfect type of north Ger
man beauty, with her delicate skin,
blue • eyes and golden hair. She is
warmly interested ip the development
of music in America and thinks Amer
ican women can do more than anybody
else to .promote it. She says we should
sing in our families, as is done in Ger
many. father, mother and children, all
together. To the American girl and
woman she says:
“Make singing a feature of social life
and keep your own voice in such good
condition that you will always prove
a ready pleasure to your, friends.”
ELIZA ARC HALID CONNER.
ends. This is usually three yards long
and four to five Inches broad and will
take about eight hours to complete.
- worth a European then to Berlin, where Lili Lehmann be- i After the Farrars had been in Berlin ;
d Mrs. Farrar would came the American girl's teacher. The • eighteen months an almpst unheard of
which was present Hon. Stanley Mat- not let her go to Europe alone. Neither keynote of Lehman’s instruction was: thing happened. The director of the;
thews, chief justice of the supreme would they bo parted from each other. ' Be sincere, be earnest and natural. No j Royal theater sent for Geraldine one I
court of the United Stales. Ho amused What was to do? fake emotion would do, declared this ; day and bade lien sing for him. She did !
himself with the little girl. Finally lie! Mr. Farrar’s clothing store was all he honest German singer. The result is so. Then the director asked her to sign !
begged her to sing “Home, Sweet I had In the world. He sold it and on that Miss Farrar is as natural on the • a three years’ contract with him. and'
she did that too. The prize both Ger
man and American singers strive for
sometimes till they are middle aged
was in the hands of Geraldine Farrar
when - she was, eighteen. Last fall she
returned to America, celebrating her
home coming by an engagement with
the Metropolitan Opera company, She
says naively that when she stepped off
the i.ship a row of fifteen young men
waiked tip to her and shook hands with
her. heartily. -She thought they were
old friends whose names she had for
gotten, but presently found out they
"GETTING ON WITH PEOPLE."
"Young people are so intolerant.”
says a worldly wise and delightful wo
rn in, and it is a fact that years aro
usually required to enlarge our sym
pathies and insight.
Pray Cod to koep thae from a narrow
j And its dear mate, a controversial mind.
| and of all bars to "getting on with peo-
I pie” real narrowness Is perhaps the
i greatest, for it is in itself so unattrac
tive and so difficult to rid oneself of.
Having once by a runny, genial dis
position—natural or acquired, as it can
be—and tho always indispensable)
savoir fairs, made a circle of friends)
the next tiling is to keep them.
And to this effect the first thing to
see to is that they should not—these
social friendships, so to call them—bo
too violent.
It is extremely difficult to live long at
high pressure, and many an intimacy
has faded away, if not died a sudden
death, from being overdone in the be
ginning.
Discretion and honesty are other ,
necessary virtues, for once our friends
discover we have “talked about them ig
with other friends—and when do they “ ,
fall to hear of it?—they would not ba ,
human if they remained our friends.
Again, we should not be too exacting.
Human nature toeing what it is, tlio
mere fact that we know Amanda ex
pects things from us, leads before very
long to our objecting to doing those
precise things. We should never lay
a heavy hand on friendship any more
than on love.
SELECTING CARPETS.
In selecting a carpet or rug for
steady use don't choose a large pattern
FUR SEWING. or one with glaring color combinations.
Perhaps one of the most degrading, j for small designs In soft, almost pastel
unhealthy and wretchedly paid trades | shades are smart this season and will
is that of fur sewing. The fut from • be found most satisfactory. “When
the skins, which have a most offensive ] buying a floor covering get a good one,'*
smell, not only covers everything in the says an expert housewife, “for there
room, including the workers' clothes, is nothing one puts In a house that
but gets into the throat and lungs, so gives as much value for the money in-
that the poor sweated women who do vested as a carpet or rug.
the major portion of this work often j
suffer from chronic bronchial catarrh | Mrs. Whltelgw Reid is having an old
and asthma, and the rate of infant : fashioned English garden laid out at
mortality in their homes is very high. I Ophir farm, near New York.
Women Who Know How to
Home
It Is a Matter of Tact an
Attractive;
: Exercise
of Taste
last, by
, are all
e. They
l crystal
often
know!
dom soars 1
ing stick, r
other trifles
multiplicity,
even deniec
presents de
MRS. BELLAMY 8T0RER,
WOMAN is tho making or the
marring of a man socially or
otherwise.
There are women who are
home makers and women who are not.
(jf course silly men think all the girls
they know belong to the first class.
They find out their mistakes soon aft
er marriage.
Your real home maker is interested
in her house. This does not mean that
sho is a slnve to it.
No, indeed! The type of woman who
is a slave to the dust on her parlor
chairs rarely ever has comfortable ones
that It is a
pleasure to sit
in. Her floors
are spotlessly
clean, but her
rugs are inartis
tic. ller cur
tains may be
bustling with
blue white
starch, but they
are out of date.
The woman
who Is interest
ed in her home
is artistic in lit
tle things. She
*L vV \\V\V\1 V \ 11 knows how to
-\ 1 * 1 11 pi ace each bit of
J to the dust on her household fur-
parlor chairs. nishing so that
. it shows off to
the best advantage. She lc^eps up to
c_:e without effort because siie loves
to decorate her home. She Knows when
green salad plates are in vogue, where
to get them at the cheapest price, and I
with what she has saved by this know]- i
edge sho buys some other little thing]
the table. Her sideboard is full of]
.'ainty things procured at a small cost. ;
:iir windows arc draped inexpensively.
:t to match each room. She is contin- j
\ making small improvements in!
■ house itself, removing a door here,
ting in a lattice work there, until
. • whole takes on an individuality pe
culiar to itself.
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In e. word she feathers her little nest
so that it is not only warm and com-
rtul'le. but a pleasure to the eye as
and an attraction to visitors.
I have seen women with tons of
money who were not home makers, and
:i the other hand women living in one
loom in a boarding house who had the
art of transforming their cramped
quarters into fairyland.
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One of the greatest mistakes a house
keeper can make is to have too dark
wallpaper or too light rugs.
Dark walls—well, who does not real
ize their depressing effect?
But it is Impossible to realize how
monotonous a pale colored rug may be
until you have been forced to live Ath
one. ^ j
No matter how beautiful it may have ;
been at first it soon takes on a dingy 1
THE COUNTESS OF WESTMORLAND.
In 1S92 Anthony Mildmay Julian Fane. Baron Burghersh, thirteenth earl of
Westmorland, was married to Lady Fiby! Mary St. Clair Erskine, daughter of
the fourth ear! of Rosslyn. Lady Sibyl Mary, etc., thereby became Countess of
Westmorland and one of the handsomest and most vivacious young matrons
in London society. Tho Rosslyn blood is vivacious. Among the numerous ad
mirers of the fascinating countess, so 'tis said, was a staid, grave middle aged
widower American millionaire, who left his own country, so 'tis said again, be-
cause Arne-lean society was too mixed for his taste. Once more tis said the
serious minded American multimillionaire gave the lovely countess such gor
geous jew is that society just had to sit tip and take notice of the friendship,
likewise to talk about it. But who knows?
tone and gives a drab look to the entire
room.
The rug should be in rich warm
tones, the walls delicate in color to in-
sure a fire eiif’Ct.
After ail. given the proper walls and j
floors, the rest is easy. i
High lights are another disfiguring]
feature. Chief among these may be
mentioned the high flaring gas jet with ;
the white globe.
There are gas fixtures which come i
which can be pulled up or down on the
byrner even the most old fashioned of
gas jets is much improved.
I am much in favor of lamps and
open fires. Even the homeliest rooms
apd the barest are made to appear well
furnished by mfins of crackling logs
and prettily tinted lights.
On the contrary, if you have every
thing in a bright’ glare the furnishings
of a palace are necessary to produce a
good effect.
Really I think a woman may be de
void of personal charm and yet be per
fectly desirable, but the woman who is
lacking in taste—well, there is some-,
thing fundamentally wrong with her.
now with closed tinted globes similar to
those belonging to electric lights. These
throw the light downward instead of |
upward. If these prove too expensive, j
bead fringe is very pretty and inexpen- I
sive. as it costs only 75 cents a yard. ]
This is fastened around the top of the *
gas globe and allowed to hang straight j
down like a lamp fringe.
In pale pink, yellow or red it is par- *
ticularlv effective. Then when you use
one of the little chain arrangements *
Take the question of dinner parties.
It is not the large, stiff formal ones
which count. It is the small’informal
affairs where only from eight to ten
persons are gathered and those are
perfectly congenial.
The wise hostess pays off her obli
gations by giving two or three of these
little affairs instead of the one dinner
party which was
formerly the
vogue.
The tablecloth
nowadays is cov
ered with a mul
titude of small
objects—bonbon
dishes. favors,
silver candle
sticks and com
potes.
come
ornamented with
leaves and flow
ers done in gold
The diary It a necessity, leaf. They t—
used In
one at each end of the table, and i
filled with bonbons and candied nuts.
You have no idea how they "dress up"
a table.
The centerpiece is still low. It Is usu
ally a cut glass dish filled with loose
flowers and trailing ferns. One or two
blossoms are scattered over the table
cloth. Two dishes of cut glass or crys
tal and gold sparkle here and there.
They are filled with salted nuts and
olives or radishes. Candlesticks, either
of glass or silver plate, are fitted with
colored shades matching the scheme of
decoration. At each place there are a
name card and a favor—usually of a
comic character or a take off on the
pet hobby of the guest.
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The favorite dinner service Is one of
plain white and gold. It is not used
throughout the entire dinner. For in
stance, the saiad dishes are apt to be
fancy ones and the ramekins for the
fish are also of a different design of
rather heavier china, so they can be
put in the oven. Very often the ice '
■ cream sets are different, and the after
dinner coffee cups of course always are.
j The fad just now is to have these lit-
' Lie cups, all different and the spoons of
the weirdest designs obtainable,
j If wine Is served, water goblets, claret
. glasses and liqueur glasses all match,
, as the other kinds except possibly the
rhine wine glasses, which are some-
i times colored The handsomest glasses
| of all are edged with gold,
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] Perish the .thought that “only a fool
| keeps a diary!” It is a necessity for
] the up to date woman.
Precious little space, if any, is given
to sentiment. Life is too busy now
adays.
Each day is neatly divided off into
“engagements,” “plans,” “purchases,”
and at a glance, the fair owner can ;
what she has to do, what she wants to
do and what she has to buy.
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Sofa cushions matching the different
rooms are another 1907 fad. The old
variegated effects are passing away,
and fine embroideries in the prevailing
tones of the room figure on the divans
of up to date houses.
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I don’t want to say anything against
the phonograph, but sometimes it is
carried to an unholy extreme.
There are some people, don’t you
know, to which it is an exquisite tor
ment. I mention no names. In fact, I
have heard it said that it was in the
same class with the rubber plant and
the canary in the window.
” “ ad
mirers of mechanical music, I shall cut
my remarks short. Only, don't you
think there are some people who ram it
down your throat, so to speak? For
instance, after a recent dinner the en
tertainment consisted solely of the rau
cous interpretations of one of these
Admirers of mechanical music.
machines murdering the voices of
Eames, Caruso and other perfectly well
meaning artists.
Of course at an entertainment (?) of
this sort the proper thing to say
“How wonderful! I have never het
phonograph before so little like a
nograph 1 ” What you really say
wardly after the torture has lasted
hour is—well, this is th° Kate
I’m afraid that
- J one thing sure. You
go to that house again.
The wife of the ex-ambassador at Vienna was Marla Longworth, daughter
of the late Joseph Longworth, one of Cincinnati’s richest and most public spir
ited citizens. He gave to the Ohio city its noble art museum In Eden park. He
was noted for his strong will and pronounced opinions, and these Mrs. Storer
seems to have inherited. She established the famous Rookwood pottery at Cin
cinnati. While her husband was minister- to Spain she busied herself with art
studies and investigations that are of value. Her mind was too active, how
ever, to confine itself to art. It branched forth into the political and diplomatic
field in Austria and occasioned a difference of opinion between the Storers and
President Roosevelt.
New York.
SENTIMENT IN GIFTS.
Present giving is at all times a prob
lem difficult to solve where the sterner
sex is concerned, and a gift is more
,_i not bestowed with the
i that it may be viewed by
.ver with feelings wherein
gratitude plays little part. In the
minds of many givers imagination sel-
1 “ cigar case, walk-
and one or two
: which most men have a
We are in these times
i bestowing of those
• to the hearts of our
grandmothers, those horrific works of
art known as smoking caps and wool
work slippers, whereon were depicted
the heads of animals in wool and beads.
Yet these have their pathetic side, too;
much love and hope and patience hav
ing no doubt been expended in their
making, and secret hurried stitches,
too, for in grandmother’s time they did
not ask, as do their practical descend
ants. what present was desired, but
worked by stealth.
Many black costumes in the hand
somer materials are heavily braided
and have just a glimpse of color intro
duced into them somewhere. A touch
of blue is pretty. Brown and black are
being combined a great deal this year.
GLEANINGS GATHERED FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
| cooking.” Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chem
ist fur the United States department
Little girls’ coats made of velvet, vel- * favor. They are in brown and green of agriculture, is quoted as making this
Vctetin or corduroy, with collar and and varying shades to'match the win- statement.
cuffs of broadcloth, are among the pret- ] ter costumes. Some of the most strik- I A cousin of the czar of Russia, Coun-
tieat developments of the winter and ing of the umbrellas have a border of teas Romanow. a revolutionist, is i-nrn-
tnake exceedingly attractive as well as ' a contrasting or harmonizing color. ing her living on the vaudeville stage
thoroughly comfortable wraps. * “Divorce will decrease about 90 per in Paris by appearing in a series of
Colored umbrellas are coming into i cent when women learn the art of (Classic poses. She is very beautiful.
Her father was the Grand Duke Ser- '
gius. who was assassinated. She was i
his daughter by a morganatic marriage.
If when drying curtains they are I
hung double over the line, they will not
stretch at all. as is so often the case
when hung up by the edge.
Vests are seen on a great many of j
the new gowns. One in a black and j
white striped cloth had a vest of coral ] children. Her latest volume is called
chiffon broadcloth. | “The Punch and Judy Book.”
Mrs. Helen Hay Whitney, wife of Muffs continue to be big and flat.
Payne Whitney and daughter of the ] One of the newest was shaped like a
late Secretary of State John Hay. is a ] crescent and had two fur heads and a
writer even more gifted than her father ! cluster of tails by way of a finish,
was. 3 .*• has written many strong and | Theodora and Marguerite Shonts,
exceedingly graceful lore poems and daughters of the Panama canal com-
songs, She excels^also in poems for j missloner, are not twins, as is generally
supposed. Theodora Is thirteen months
older than Marguerite. 4
Though most women prefer having
their names—that is, their husband's
names—spelled out in full on visiting
cards, initials may be used in this way:
Mrs. A. Leopold Black, instead of Mrs.
Alfred Leopold Black, or just Mrs. A.
L, Black, if desired,