Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1901 — Vocalist in Moscow Laundry. [ARTICLE]

Vocalist in Moscow Laundry.

A short time ago lovers of singing at Moscow were thrown into a state of great excitement, having heard that a songstress like Adelina Patti had been discovered among the laundresses of the ancient Muscovite capital It turned out that the individual In question did really possess a marvelously sweet voice, but her chances of rivaling the great artist had disappeared. She is already 35 years of age, so that she Is too old to have her voice trained. Still she might have proved an excellent singer for the chorus, and a rich patron was ready to send her to the Conservatoire and meanwhile to endow her with sufficient income. Unhappily all these plans were frustrated by the lady’s spouse, who stubbornly asserted that a woman who went to the Conservatoire was of no use for ever afterward. The husband was obdurate and refused to yield, and so the world will hear nothing more of this diva of the blanch isseuses.—London Telegraph.