WHAT IT COSTS PATTI TO LIVE.

West Coast Times, Issue 4925, 6 June 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)

WHAT IT COSTS PATTI TO LIVE.

Patti makes a good deal of money, and she spends a great deal. At the rate she livep, it must cost her something like £200,000 a year. She has a retinue of people and a large suite of apartments at the Windsor Hotel — private table, of course — and her own chief, whom the brings with her. Then she has a castle in Wales to keep up, and that is an enormous tax upon her income. Even when Bbc dees not live there, she has ten or a dozen people taking care of the house, and as many more on the place. The castle itself is as large as a small hotel. It has forty-five furnished rooms besides other rooms that are not furnished. It ia a whim of Patti's to keep up this place, and she has enough money to indulge herself in expensive whirae. Besides the money Patti earns, she has £40,000 that cno never be touched ; at least the principal cannot be touched ; she has the use ot the income, but this she does not lay much stress upon. The income of £40,000 is a small item to a person who makes as much money as she does. Christine Nilsson is really wealthier than Patti, because she has more laid up and better invested than is Patti's money. The castle in Wales, which represents a litte fortune, is an expense rather than an income. All the money that Christine Nilsson has in real estate brings her in a good round interest. Then Nilsson is thrifty. She spends very little money compared with Patti. It is hard to say ■which is the wiser — the one who spends as she goes or the one who lavs up her money. Patti will always have that £40,000 to fall back on : she saves very little of her earnings. Tbere is no one to come after her, except Nicolini's children, and to these she is very liberal now.