Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

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. | * «t j 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. X It 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 X X 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? •t X 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 It It 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. *t * 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. X. * 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. •t X 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, j X X ] 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. X X 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. X X 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,