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Show PATTI'S CAREER DRAWS TO H A CLOSE. The Famous Singer Will Make One M More Farewell Tour of Eng- H land Next Year and M Then Retire. H It has recently been announced that H Mine. Patti, the famous singer, ha M determined to bring her long career M to a close with a short tour through M England a year from this fall Prob- M ably the greatest singer that the world H has ever known, the Baroness Ccdcr- M strom is now in her sixty-fourth H year. She made her debut when only M seven, and for the past fifty-six years M i.as been in the public eye. In this time Patti's wonderful gciw H ins has met with full appreciation. It H has been no uncommon experience M for her to receive as much as ten M thousand dollars a night, and her M voice has earned for her a large fort- M unc. According to tl.e English peri- H oaical Home Notes, from her early H childhood she has been thoroughly M aware of the fact thai people would H pay for the privilege of hearing her H sing, and some present had to be H forthcoming' before she would consent to appear. M The famous singer has always been H a favorite with the English royal fam- H ily. Just before the marriage of the H Prince and Princess of Wales, Al- H frcd Rothschild gave them a dinner, H at which the king drank the health of H " my old and valued friend, Madame M Patti," and then went on to describe H how the queen had held the little H Prince of Wales up to kiss the prima H donna in order that he might be able H to say that he kissed the " famous H Patti." Woman. H |