| Show I FAREWELL TO OPERA I h M 11 T said aid Ihy to the operatic tk ilia If A th II other night In Ne New York Th Thu bIll hili wait If up of tois trio fron three ira will which Mm nm ha has been duro dur duron n ng hr 1011 long iZer r It of the act of Don DoG ual tM the second ad tt of f Ii art lere lit di and I the he drat wt of in the ha hanl acne nl of Mme was heard In songs lIOn and 4 In a dust duet with Mr lionel In hr hot apartment In the voy hotel Mm to a I Herald reporter tile the other day at about lr her oming to the operatic I In tilts country 1 It I ii a real tel farewell she hl ld wIth wItha a sigh followed b by a bright MI india The popular prIma donn donna ha hits bean tsO t p wih with th the public min mind with all that UIt I bright ad and cherl end d effervescent itt In mUt musical If life that It I IS hard to 10 think of her r I as In al any mo mood lt that of bubbling mirth and mi gayety ty In D Don Pits ul D Ilone I Li NOM d dl Ja 1 I I dl di vIII and L La du do Mm wi will ala always h hi mem I RI the embodiment of high spirit 1 and T to b be sure I in ra lala and RIC Rigo and a dosen other hr opera P ut that 10 lots In elo gloom a he h has hd had t to t the deith o of woe but probably the public hll has always J more or 1 his ret fisIt tt that thus waa but a n tbt that hid fo for a moment t tilt I smiles an anti lutr laughter of lb b It great greatsinger singer R Reatie R and I all of Ih them m the synonym 01 o of 41 11 th that is Ill light and nd graceful I and In comedy a the sort of pacts In whIch jibe h will be remembered with Ith plunA pleasure A or r regretful tul Boint I ii un ald and Mine was by byno byno no means dil even at the thought or of tl the tep Ih she I ii abut about to ta tab tabI I a ant 51 glad I she e Id said th that some of at Ih the newspapers have bave ol tb the t tt t thre no I I reason wh I 1 bould That t I ii JUt just whet J I F year N I 1 hv have been n raving to mf myself that I 1 hold leave t the public t th public In me I It would kill klU ml mc to 10 h have people 8 sa that I 1 11 had not haa heard the th C cue Jop that must lt corn cm to all I artist bIg or little to 10 m w way for tor the next generation Now I turn m going With nothing but o of m my 1 yeas e eon on lb t What Whal a lO long und And delight tl fui tor tory I It ha has been to me since lc Ih the da when the th little Kuha went trembling blo before tb the Pt great Pp Papa Lt to let 11 him jud Judge a o h her The old maul man PUt luI hi his hand 0 on m my ha head when I hai draWing ms me meto to him said Id You ba her thur hr pair of wings II little on one 0 I which hll pra to fly t I me You Tou cat 11 b I great pianist l t great 1 Violinist or ir a gradt et singer knots I want to it and th the pIano at m me I lt wits when hn I 1 W Was S pi I student that thi I mt met i toy my teacher and nd no now I my Al Ac a child I 1 had tnt talent for the piano M father 1 lived In Wil Wits nok a vIllage 11 Ic 10 Poland lie WM wee the n near I 1 as II a mtr matter or of course our one ne at f the po poorest t men mel A Ahe As Ashe he had taught himi himself tOUsle 0 he un my education send nd my first on fl the lila piano earn am wh I was tour four u t te the age 01 six Ix I b began the on a an tutu he had mid made for fr I the with th his ble own had hand T There were 1 fw pupil In the 0 Ih there was SI soon ppl a useful ful 1 1 field for my tan talent t I cou could play u lbS piatto for the parties n of the richer children lf 01 th the neighborhood al and m my In this work soon on I made m my services much In demand Now No that I f am a giving up the stage t I have hav splendid resources ur In my pino and violin Old Did you ou know that tbt Some ago I gave a concert In at Pet I furnished the whole I 1 pi for four piano piece tour violin pi pIeces and I sang e tour four songs forget either Ut that Mr r rAbby Abby Abbeys In th the Metropolitan O Opera ra hou house nearly 2 26 year ago J I 1 played a violin concerto by P D and sang nf the Ah non froth frothI L I And at t the end nd of th the concert I played the violin for Mme Mm NII when she hp Ass Aa Marln t sang Mall Ne Need you U ask ak m me what ht I am m going t to do when the footlight a are Wed turned down don for ml me for th the last It time en non Mme X My husband ano send I wi will dev devote o oat t a aa we oen Often do to pl playing lne the bt best thinK thing or if Beethoven and oth other tel We hv have a beautiful v vUla I on OD the Lf Lake of Geneva t ler near Lausanne where we 1 m make our home hom Mr ut and ht hi family and oUr other musical mucal lIve near r 1 so that w we shall hl not Wt want for or society end a chance ha to 10 talk over old 01 days dy In I 1 am tilling the ha house wih with ad and programs of every ry lm Im part o opera In which I he have ten taken After my t to the stag t b bI bet betI I a tO 10 a 1 few th tutu In RerUn In br TM Then to Dren Dresden w wh I 1 Imade md made my op operatic dut la in 1 for tor A farewell cerlee m A th that I 1 am to sing a few Um time In Ylan Vienna Ild and Pt t Petersburg and nd then to Lamberg I in RUl Russia m tny native town OW wI where I 1 shall bl apr appear fo for m my f dual lt lest farewell 1 to 10 th the stag t Net year fa I 1 a am to me make a I hosig eon con concert fOrt cert tour II in Ike United I I 1 teal 11 th that In ln song JIl recitals I 1 ra can be o of help to TM The art of 01 song g as our predecessors knew I it seem m to b be In Indr dr of A As the reporter left It wa hard but Mme lime and 4 Protes er sot I I wee were aut about to Mart tt ot out for forI fora I a lour four mi tulle wk walk thru through Central path and around thE the reservoir T The storm 1 only adde added lest t In III the This 11 Is th ert ort of exercise tt that ha a en Ih pim prima don donna t to k heap her br gid Cd limbs Iok and high through t 10 ye or of tp the mOt moat exerting cr known to an n a ud and t t 1 say farewell 1 I to It its gloria with a contented t 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