The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-05-19
July list, 1906"
RICHARD FELTON,.
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Au Essay 0n:o l2susjak.

"Alusik has charms tew sogtlI a savage,
Tew reud rock, and bust kabbage J!
So they tell me, but shud rather try a
revolver on the savage, a blast ov powder
on the rock, and good sharp vinegar on the
kabbage. | liant sarched history to dis
kiver who gave the first concert ov musk.
We are told that in those daYS ''the stars sang
together" bur in these days you cant get stars
to sing together. We often heard it sed that
such person has a good ear for musk :.
| don't 1elIership with this remark; awl 8
person wants tew understand musk with is
a good soul ''good ear" haint got emmy
more tew du with it than good set of brain
has tn du with charity. Musikal crickets
insist that if the gammut amt rite, the mu-
sic amt rite, that is all nonsense; the gam
NUT haint got any more tew du with mu-
six hungry man than nife and fork has
with his dinner, if he is real hungry and kin
eat with his fingers.
Musk want got up tew maik us VIE, but
better natured How much opera musk du
YOU suppose it wud talk tn maik man cry
Folks will tell you that such ian overture
fra dubuIo," Cor sum luther furrin big named
thlng) was most heavenly rendered" tina
mite as well tell men that pumkin pie was
heavenly rendered What do i care about
the rendering, if don't get a pece oy thepie
Let sum Prime Bonner, or Meier, or Beary
town Base, or sum SIGH larmin individual,
cum into this village, and hist their flag and
have programmy ov singing as long as a
sarch warrant, and as hard to spell out IS
chimes proklamashum ritten UP side down,
and tax seventy-five for preserved seat,
and most every body els duz, and will sa,
now and then, (out aIoud) chow bewitching
/ how delishus ! how egstatick p and nine
teen out of every twenty one ov them would
not kno it if the performance vas a berlesk
on their grandmother.
Wouldn't it be fun tew Gee one of these
opera singers undertake to rok baby tu
sleep? | guess there were wud be two parts
! carried tn that song about that time Sup
poZe va shud cum home at ulte, a weary
/ boy, and lay yure he'd in mothers lap, anc
she shud let out all OPERA good Lord Woulc
not yu think yure muther was lunatik, Oh
ought to be one at onset, tew save her kar
akter. "Korrect taist, " is another bigwurd
i've hurd folks uze it whose finger nails wan
ted cleaning -1Iusill after all, IL zumthins
like vittles, the more cooking and seasoning
we uze, the more we have tn have, till afte
a while we kant enjoy emmy thing ov the Wit
ties but pepper.-Opera don't hav emmy more
loosening affect on me, than caster lie woulC
on craven image. | set and gaze, anC
bark, and Gee the whole aujence in hiroglp
hicks, and awl i kan do IL tn git mad tina
SIGH stuff is zalled musik.-But awl the rea
soning in the wurld wont konvince mem.
people that tina haint got tew go into tit
over the opera tina don't understand wurC
ov it is the fashion tew expire and hav
their soule dissolved in latin at the rate 0
4 seventy five cents, and it haz got to be did
Sink or swim, survive or perish" lfenn.
body wants tn so and hear a man or wo
man disgorge musk, that has more kohl
than melody into it, isuppose (under the con
stitushun) tina hav just the same rite as th
hay few crusif themselves emmy other wa, 70
somebody else's sins that tina don't know th
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