Show CARE OF THE VOICE few people in the audiences that ap plaud the popular singers i at the metropolitan opera house realize that the regimen they are compelled to ollow follow and allows them little it is very exacting opportunity 0 to o indulge in many of the enjoyments enjoy ments possible to persona person not so eo famous or apparently so much to be envied what they shall eat and drink and other matters of their dally life are with them questions question I 1 so 60 serious that they do not dare to transgress the rules which they decide ire are necessary neceta ary for them to ollow follow mme ame melba once told a sun reporter that she he had never allowed hersell herself to eat any sweets swede since she became a singer and that from certain other articles of food the she felt it as important to abstain abs atme mme melba is a singer ainger of nat ural endowments so great that she is in a measure relieved from some of the labor necessary to other prima donnas but like them she is compelled to follow rules that would appear very severe to the women that watch her from the audience and applaud her it Is 16 only by such precautions that the voice can be preserved one of the most popular singers in Ger germany manya a comparatively young woman has lost her voice entirely she was a singer praised on account of 0 her artistic method and as at one time her voice had been powerful and beautiful those who knew her only from her appearance on oil the stage were surprised cd at the premature failure of her powers Butto but to those who knew her in the theatre an explanation was not hard to find her husband was also alro a musician and the she used to go with him for supper every night to a restaurant where they sat gat until very late eating and drinking the place was wae always thick with smoke the woman made it lier her habit to meet her husband there even when she had not sung and they were there every evening tor for several hours to this recklessness in particular the early decay of 0 her voice Is attributed although she was in the habit of committing other in discretions that invariably astonished her associates one night between two acts of an opera that was very arduous for her she drank a quart of champagne and ate a box of sardines sard sardi lies ies what amazed her associates even more was the knowledge that she thought bothin nothing g of taking g a similar m eat whenever during the progress of a performance for mance she felt the need of it emma eames is frequently seen in the neighborhood of her uptown hotel walking briskly in the company of a friend and her inevitable she does not confine her exercise to clear weather and ventures out tor for her dally walk with ith the protection of golosh es and a mackintosh even when the weather is most unpromising some of the restrictions of a rin singers ers life may be gathered from her case she is never able to accept any invitations on the she sings as the requirements of conversation might inight make her talk or at all events event laugh so much as to strain her voice or there might be some smoke which would be sufficient clent to have its bad effects anything of the kind on the day on ahlich A aich she is to sing is of course out of the question quett lon she scarcely ever touches wine and limits her food to simple arti articles cleb she never leaves heaves the house under any circumstances before 2 in the afternoon as that insures the necessary ary time for or the dally daily practice which might never be got through with if the regular morning hour is passed when campag 0 was in this country the last time he aked about in the coldest weather and even when ihen the snow lay d ep cp an the streets sree ts with only a light overcoat on and m ide apparently no particular eff effort ortto to protect homsi if f but he Is a man of unusual vigor and strength like the other aln sing rs he was always very very temperate in his way of living it used to be said of patti that the she had retained her pok powers ers in n such re remarkable mark able condition because she had during her entire career sari sa ri faced everything to lier her voice she has always kept its preservation in mind jean de own efforts in this direction are known to all his friends and the splendid stice stace of his voice today is proof of what it is possible for a man to do ile I 1 ie lives very quietly it at the GI allsey I 1 sey house keep himself in p perfect e phy physical S I 1 C at condition and allows himself to indulge in no food or drink that would prove disadvantageous to him during his summer vacation in poland he lives constantly in it the open air and on his return here every fall always excites comment owing to his reduction in weight edouard de keis is as careful and allows himself the indulgence ot of a very cry limited number of russian cigarette garet teb when victor maurel was as here he was as the mott persistently athletic of any of the arllys ar elsts ile box ed regularly and required the exclusive services ber vices of a ular boxer s ho tra traveled aled over this coun try with nith him and isnow Is now in europe still helping the baritone to keep his figure down and his muscles up pol is another of the singers who guard their voices jealousy ly he never sulo smokes kea and is very temperate about drinking although he occasionally calls for his favorite beverage a mixture of cham chain anti and mineral water when lie he is singing and feen feels tie the necessity of relieving the dryness of his throat but this ins Is a very rare indulgence for li him I 1 m alme melba only oril y relates 1 olater her ruler bout about sweets when it comes to a ques ones tion lo 10 of sugar and water this Is 16 the only thing the she ever takei take a during Z an per firmance for or mance to relieve her throat italo Campan int war not careful about his health and did not give hit his valc voice the consideration it required and he lot lost it long before he was 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