THE FUN OF BEING A TENOR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 980, 21 January 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE FUN OF BEING A TENOR.

! this amusing letter from' the wife ofVttefe btated tenbr is going the rounds of the mu'si cal papers:,'.'''"' My Dear Jenny-It is as you say, we have 150,060 francs aiyear; 1 the praises of my hus. band ate sounded every day in the newspapers) he" is applauded every night He sings, 'and is .a very king in his art. But you don't know wha] it is to be the.wifeof a tenor. Those who flatter my,.husband;' and they are numerous;' are incessantly telling him;'"Monsieur Miohj ael,: you have'a mine, of diamonds in your throat. 'That may be-true, I don't say it is not; but if'you could understand the c'o'ni sequences it mine of diamonds in. a man's throat! Michael is always as cross as a bear because of the state of the temperature) A barometer is less variable; ' He is conlinut ally opening and shutting the windows. When they are open he 'wants them shut, and when they are 'shut he says he stifles. You have ntj idea of the trouble we have at 'hotel's,'to pre) vent his'taking cold. Even the style of carpet becomes a study. And the cart-load of furf we carry about with us! And the difficulty we have with the fires I There is also a long chapter as to what he may and may not eat; this is,too strong and that is too weak.. And the night he. sings there is a syrup which he must drink five times' during an act, and a wash'of brandy and camphor with which he must rub his throat; From morning till night a tenor thinks of nothing but himself; he listens to himself sing; : he studies poses before a looking-giass •' he calls after' the servants;: "Jean, muffle the door-bell, it's noise affects my nerves, '■ Briggitte, don't pass before me again j - ' you make a draught. ll. He interrogates his throat every ten minutes,: laj la, la, Ifjl' ask him to take me out on a fine day, he runs, to the 1 piano and exercises his la; la, la. Ancl so I remain your friend in sorrow; . '■ \ ' f;:: ■ .Marguerite, ,;'