Show THREW IIER DOWN STAIRS carlo patti left a daughter by his veryl new orleans wife who developed into a very handsome woman and was adopted h by tier her aunt adelina after the latter had ti become mane but soon eon afterward the young lady was hurried from the hotel 1 where here the Nicoll rals were staying and somo some of the busybodies buey busy bodies gave it out that it took a long time to appease clifine mme anger at what she la Is said eald to have regarded ded as the girls wicked ingratitude carlotta Carl olta an a n exceedingly handsome girl it and ild magnificent singer sprained her an lite while in her teens the cause for this has been variously told but neighbors of the patti family who lived on oa east tenth street assert t that balme ame mme patti mere was a lady of positive will and of 0 energetic action and that an urgent argument between mamma and daughter on the top ton of 0 a ight of stairs resulted in the rapid desce descent n t of 0 the daughter accelerated by somo some unseen propelling agency others havo have stated thai lat carlotta missed her footing on the stairway but bo be that as it may the poor girl was lamed for life and may thus t ius she has been obliged to limit tier her vocal career to the concert stage although sho she has occasionally essayed operatic roles and on one occasion with no less lees a tinor than marlo mario yet tier her florad bell toned voice ranging from C below the line to I 1 I 1 above tailed failed to compensate for her detective defective gait carlotta married AT the cellist on avril april ath 1810 the night previous to Ad adelinis Adell elinas nas birth aime mino patti sang bane norma and signor patti polito and the grand theater madrid and the birth of this child cost her gilted glued mother her voice A year later found the patti once moro more in now new york where they settled tor for some years owing to their limited means adelina went to a neighboring public scho school and her wonderful ua ear and bent voice enabled tier her to sine all the gems then warbled in public by tebesa bems harodl aroda and jenny lind land yet all her playmates wre were from the dowry bowery and she was an acknowledged adept at skipping hopscotch and other juve juvenile mile sidewalk sports of 0 that remote day means of 0 radiant heat springfield republican |