Patti is charged with having said
in a recent interview that she has
‘•been singing since 1861,” and finds,
the public “just as eager to hear her
as when she was 18.” Os this
latter there is small doubt. Indeed,
the public is far more eager now
than then. On the other point hot
memory is “away off.” There arc
scores of people who can remember
hearing her sing in public in 1856.
and who were then impressed that
she was certainly more than 15.
An Ohio firm announces its ability
to supply sermons, lectures and
literary productions to ministers
throughout the United States. For
stock sermons the terms arc $1.5 );
for a sermon on topic assigned, $.”•.
Ixjctures arc. from $5 to ssd, accord
ing to style, length, etc., and the
firin pledges itself not to duplicate
any production within a radius of 20 •
miles. It might be that if the Ohio
offer were generally taken advantage
of, the quality of the sermons
preached throughout the country
would be more or less improved.
