PATTI'S GODCHILD. A Little Girl Who Won the Favour of the Songstress.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 194, 12 March 1887, Page 6 (Supplement)

PATTI'S GODCHILD. A Little Girl Who Won the Favour of the Songstress.

When Adelina Patti was in the heyday ot her triumph at St.- Petersburg she lived at the Hotel Demuth, then a very stylish place. Noxt door to her lived the Bairds, great iron founders, of Scotch-English family. Tho Bairda and Adelina were very iptimate, and this intimacy continued after tho divas-m arriage to the Marquis Do Caux. The youngest) child in the Baird houeehold was named for Patti, and was a particular pot of hers, Every day the baby Adelina was sent in to see Patti, and often about 6 o clock, which was the baby's bedtime Patti would ajip into her neighbour's house and, running into the nursery, &ive the little Adelina her good- night kiss. The baby girl, being astute after the manner of her cox, found out that Patti could sing charming lullabies, co whenever ehe appeared the little Adelina would demand a sonj?. 15 was nothing uncommon to see Patti in a splendid dinner dress holding her little namesake in her arms and singing her to sleep. Years went on, and Patti loft St. Petersburg and her husband behind hor. She had formerly had great social success in London, but when she returned there in 1878 she found a painful difference. The Bairds had a London establishment, and one of the first drives Patti took after coming to London was to the Baird house She did not send in her card, but sent word for the little girl to come out to her. Adelina came flying, delighted to see her old favourite and godmother, and the two had a long and affeotionate interview. Although the Bairds did not resume their former intimacy with Patti, they put no obstacle in the way of i the two Adelines seeing each other, and they are still the most < intimate of friends. The little Adelina is now a young tady, lately launched into society, and Patti is as proud of her as over, Bvery birthday the diva remembers her goddaughter, and the beauty and costliness of her gifts are extreme