Show CARE or Tim VOICE Pew people In the audience that ap laud the popular linger at the Metrn Killlan Opera Home reallic that the regimen they are compelled to fallow Is I very et etlng end show hem llttlr opportunity to I Indlll < tr ln many of the KJnymenta nmtlblr tu persons not HI imout or apparently o much to be en ted What they hall eat and drink v i h stutters nl their dllr llfr arr wlm them question tu serious I llul they do not dare to transgress the rule which they decide are nece ly for I them to inflow Mme Melba ee told a Sun re inner that she had never allowed her elf tn eat any sweeto sine the men a me-n rr and that from certain other are Iclrt of food the felt II at Important tn biln Mme Mrlba U I a linger 1 ol nat heal endowment tn great that the la I In a measure relieved from some ol the ahnr neceaaary in oilier prlma donnas hut Illa them she Is I compelled to 11 low rule that would appear very severe to the omen thai watch her from the audience and applaud her sit s-It Is I only by suet precaution that the olce ran be preserved One nf the most popular singers In Germany a omparatlvelv young woman hat lost her voice entirely She was a linger praised on account ol her artistic melh ode 1 and as atone lime her voice had been powerful and beaullltil those who knew her only from her appearance on the stage were aurprlied at the prema lure failure of her power Hut lo thoie hoknew her In Ihethratrean ejplana lion wa not hard In find Her husband was alto a musician and slur used to go with him lor nipper every night to a rttitirant where they tit until very hale eating and drinking The place Oat al 1 wars thick with tmoke hurt woman lade It her habit tn meet her husband there even when she had not lung and I irv were there every evening fire sev eeal 1 hour To this recklessness In par rular the early decay of her voice U I Itrlhued although she wes In the hh nl committing other ImlUcretlont hat Invailahlv astonished her aaaoclale One nlvhl between two act ol an opera hat wa very arduous for her the drank a qnirtolchamptgne and ate a bon nl irdlne What anuied her aitocUle yen more wa the knonledge that ate thought nothlnc taking a ilmllar meal whenever < during the prngrettn A per nrmance shut felt the nerd 1 of It Emma Hjinet It I frequently teen In he nilghlKiihood I ol her uptown hotel walking I briskly II In the company of a I ilend and her Inevitable datchthund She does not confine her ocrclte lo clear weather and venture out lor her dolly walk with the protection ea and a macklnloth even when the weather It I mural unpromising Some ol lie rritrlctlon ol a tlngcrt life may be gathered from her case She It never able to acorpt any Invltatloni on the nb JI nlgut before the lrlg as the segtdii manta ol convcriattdn might make her ilk or at all event laugh o much n I o ttraln her voice Or there might lie t tome imoVe which would lie tullldfnt 10 have In bad effect Anything rf the kind on the day I on which she U to ling la oh course out of the quettlon She scarcely nor touches wine and limit her food to simple article Mir never leaven the home under any clrcumilan ce bilnie 3 oclock 1 In the afleimwn II Ihat insures the neccMary time for the dally practice which might rent begot be-got through with II the regular morning hour Jr I paned When Tampagno was In this country the tail lime he walked about In the coldett weather and even when the mow lay il cp on the street with only a light overcoat on and made apparently apparent-ly no particular effort lo protect hlmtclf Hut ho li a man ol unusual vigor and itrcngth Like the other ling n he wit always very temperate In hit wnyol living It tiled tn be uld ol Patti that the had realned her power In I such remarkable condition became she had during her entire career tatrl nerd everything lo her tnlct She has alwavt kept Its preervallon In mind Jnn de Hetlket own eflorit In Ibis ill rerllon are known to all bin lilrnd and the splendid Ie of hit inln inlay la I proof ot whllIl la pmtthle for i man to do lie live very quietly at the lilltty hose keep llmwlf prrlr t t > h slash condition and allow himelf tn Indulge In no load or drink that would prove disadvantageous to him During his UIIIIer vacation In ItaaJ ho live constantly th pen air 1 and on his return hire every all always eult raiment owing to his reduction In right Edouard d1 Keakelt I at care ful and allow hlmiell the liululttnceof a very limited number ol Kuilan el gairttei When Ylctor Maurrl 1 was her ho was the most persistently athlrtlc nl f nay ul the artists lie boxed n gultrlt al1 l required re-quired the uclu lve sect Icu ol s plink ular Inner who traveled mrr lull country coun-try with Isles and is I now In Enron tttll helping the baritone tr V p hls flgur downandhUmutcIn up Iol P I II Is I another ol the tlngrn who HI their voleea lie JftloutyIt Mrirv rand IlS a r-and Uviry temperate nt > nn dei0lev allhungh ha occatlonally cal favorite beverage r j o jj t < pagne and mlnlfil 1 t < e b singing and alt v lt i < llevlng the drj uca r La Mut this u a ry rare s seas Mme Mlba only I v t hiV I satin about iwettt when It uuntcs tn a qum tlon of I sugar and water Thli U I the only thing the ever take during a per ormince to relieve her throat halo Campanlnl wa not careful about hula health and did not give hit voice 1 the consideration It required and he lost It long before he wa an old man Ht Lnul Kepuhllr |