JENNY LIND

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1559, 16 May 1887, Page 3

JENNY LIND

Apropos of the mention of Mme. Goldschrnidt's namo (Jenny Lind), a private letter brings news of the great singer of i a sorrewh'jt novel kind. It is, m substance, that fhe is plain and white haired now, with ft eovere expression of ooan- | ten&nca. She has latto:ly grown most bitterly pious, and most of hor talk is devoted to bemoaning the days when ehe was sinful enough to appear on the Btage. She Is intolerant towards young Bingers, sneering at their voices and their vocation alike, and rebukes any one who ventures to address her by tho nnme of Jenny Lind, a name of which she was more than proud once. Fnquent incidents of this kind are cited, ono m pw ticular being that of a young Swedish soprano, who, after being rebuked, burst into tears and left the room. The voice that once charmed two continonta is still aingularly sweet and pure, but it finds no exercise now Bave m ainging an occasional hymn. Her homo, just out of London, is a gloomy-looking stono house, standing back among snubbery aid trees, with rows of long windowß curtained with lace, and nothing to indicate that its owner waa once the most famous singer of her day. — " Philadelphia Times."