Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1889 — Why Patti is Beautiful. [ARTICLE]

Why Patti is Beautiful.

Paris correspondence. Patti is fast becoming a rival of the famous Ninon de PEnclos,who preserved her beauty to such an extent up to her sixtieth year that the grandsons of the men who loved her in her youth adored her with as much fervor as their ancestors had done in their days. Patti is, to say the very least, along way from “sweet and twenty,” more like “fair and forty,” without the third, qualification, yet people who saw her the other day in Paris could see no visible change, no

mark pftfte last tpn or fifteen years upon her. She was stiiras slim and rounded, still without a gray hair in her head, or a wrinkle upop her. There had not come under her chin that small break in the contour of the throat which is the first knell of dead youthfulness. Her hair lay in rich, beautiful black Ipcks about a brow where not one line was to be seen. Her eyes were clear and bright as a child’s, her cheeks smooth and pink, her teeth snowy and faultless and the delicate lines Of her figure just exactly what they were a score of years back. Some impulsive woman seized her and demanded to be told the secret juf her eternal youth, and this is what Patti revealed.to her. Shesaid: “When lam at home I go’ to bed early—at 10.30 I rise early, that is, early for singers, which means 10.30 i So you see when l am not-singing I sleep nearly twelve hours in the twenty-four. Plenty of sleep, that is the secret of beauty and freshness. I don’t sleep until 10, of course, but I make it a point not to get up at once when I Wake, out to take a glass oi hot water and a lemon and read my letters before getting out of bed. It’s a mistake to. jump up right away after waning. I bathe in tepid water and then sponge off with a cold sponge.’ On singing days I take a light and early dinner at 3 land only a biscuit and a cup of hot bouillon after the performance. No great quantity of food and plenty of sleep, that’s the way to keep one’s complexion and figure intact. I rarely touch wine; a liqueur-glass full of whisky after luncheon or dinner, sometimes a glass of champagne. Nothing more.” But the real and main screet of Patti’s perennial youth ana the one she did not dwell upon, is the fact that she has never given away to any emotion. She has avoided all feelings of every sort, as far as possible; hate, love, everything that might make a.line On her fair face.