Show the childhood of 11 adelma delina A patti it would seem almost unnatural to begin the story of a great success with the a assertion they N were nere ere born rich ft hen lien adelina patti first saw the light at madrid sixty years ago her ees opened on the world at a time when the affairs of 0 her parents were sorely straitened and the mother of the lit ill tie one who was later on to bring bright days to her had to sing at her post at the madrid opera house the very night that adelina was born writes a contributor to success when she was barely three necks old her parents collecting their little all started for italy there the two elder girls amelia and carlotta were put in a boarding school at milan the baby being of too tender age to be left behind was taken with them to new york where they hoped to bet ter their fortunes amid newer and more promising surroundings than the old world had offered the earlier years of adelina Ad elinas s life were spent in part like those of the little american children about her and in part in a way that served to fit he her r for her future calling she trundled her hoop on lower broadway with the rest an easier accomplishment then than to day and by the time she was five spent her evenings behind the scenes at the opera where her father and mother were singing there she first heard the roles in which she was later to become famous and by peeping through a hole in the scenery got an idea of the plays and gestures that accompanied them when she went at night with her little bead head in a whirl from all that she had heard and seen she says she would steal out of bed when the rest were safely asleep and enact the prima donna role to which she had listened throwing herself wreaths made of newspapers at interesting points she was barly outspoken then as she Is to day and one night when a new prima donna had won on a success to which the little singer felt she was not entitled she said to her at the end of a trill which bad had won enthusiastic applause I 1 think sou did that very badly in deed you should have bung sung it so then she illustrated the point tor for the surprised lady a benefit and though I 1 had never studied the trill I 1 seemed to get it right she added other wise she was very like ilke other children devoted to her doll and waiting for the sound of the ice cream mans man a voice |