Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-04-22
sayln,s and Doln,s % Joah RnlInrn
AN EssA ONTO NU
t'SIuSik has charms teW sOoIh a savage,
lew rCnd rOk, and bust a CabbaEei''

SMusik has charms tew sOoIh savage,
lew rCnd rOk, and bust Cabbagei"
So they tell me, but shud rather try
revolver on the savage, blast oY now
der on the rUk, and COED sharp vinegar
on the kabbage. hant sarched histry
tew disEiver who give the fust concert oy
musk. We are told that in those DAYS
"the stars sang together" but in theze
days you kant git stars to sing together.
We often heard sed that such person
has good ear for musik!" don't
fellership with this remark; awl person
wants tew understand musk with is a
good soul; ''goOd carr haint got enny
more tew do with it than a goood sett of
branes has tn du with charity. Musikal
criekets insist that if the gamut amt rite.
the musk amt rite, this is awl nonsense:
the gammut haint got any more tew dl
with musik-hungry man than a nife or
fork has with his dehner, if he is real hun.
cry, and kin eat with his fingers.
Music want got up tew maik US wize,
but better natured. How much opera.
music dew you suppose it wud talk tn
make n man cry? Folks will tell Won
that such an Overture fria dubulo" Tor
sum luther furrin big-named thingl twas
mUste heavenly rendered." tha mite as
well tell me that punkin pie was heaven
ly rendered. What do care about the
rendering if don't get piece ov the piei
Let some Prime Bonner, OF Mezzer Som
sauer, OF Benrytown Baso, or sum sicb
latin Individual, cum into this village
and hist their flag, and hav proseammy
oV Singing az-lOnS az a chinese prokia,
mashun rittuu up side down, and tai
seventy-tive cents for u preserved sent
and most everybody else duz, and will sa
every now and then, tout loud) "how be-
witching! how delicious! how egstaticl
and nineteen out of eVry twenty.one OF
them wouldent kno it if the performance
waz burlesk on their grandmother.
Wouldn't it be fun tow Gee one oy these
opera singers undertake tn rok n baby In
sleep2 gees thare wud be two parts
carried -tu that song about that time
SuppOze yu shud come home 40 mite a
weary boy, and la you're he'd in mothers
lap, and she shud let out opera, good
LIrdl would not yu think ynre mother
was lunatik, or ought to be one at opst,
teW save her karakTer. F'Korrect taist. d
Is another big wurd; i've herd folks use
1t whose hngcr males wanted cleaninp
Musk, after all, il something like Wit.
ties, the moro cooking and seasoning we
u1e, the more We hav to hav, till after a
while we kant enjoy ennything ov The
whites but the pepper. Opera don't hay
emmy more loosening affeck on me, than
caster lie would on craven image.
set and guys, and bark, and Gee the
whole aujenoe in hirogliphicks, and aWl
kan du il tn git mad that SIGH stuff is
kalled music But awl the reasoning in
the world wont convince menny people
that tina haint got rite tew go into cts
over an opera tina don't understand a
word oy; IL the fashion tew expire and
have their souls dissolve in latin at the
rate oy seventy-fVe cents; and it haz got
to be die, sink or swim, survive OF per-
ish." If emmy body wants tn 20 and hear
man or woman disgoree musik that
has more kOlik than melody into Il :; ann
pose (under the Constitus6On) tina bav
lust the Same rite as tina hay tew crysif
themselves emmy luther wa, for sumbodv
els's sins that tina don't know the nstnr
OF