The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-09-21
COMMUNICATION.

l. nave Doeu given 10 understand that CIl0T'
is much Misrepresentation and ignorance
with regard to the new and beautiful method
of teaching, for the piano and organ, which
I have adopted and practiced now so sue
cessfully for years. have eve en- been in
formed, that old school teachers have called
the work "a humbug," and have done and
are doing all that lies in their power to pre-
JUDGE this community, and all persons with
whom they come in contact, against myseli
and my teaching. I have heard Of these
things repeatedly for the past year-my on
ly reply being, an invitation to the teachers
of music IN this place, to come and see me
before they pronounced judgment; but they
have none of them "put in an appearance"
They do not, I suppose, choose to be inform
ed of the truth. They W i'll not come and
learn achat this is, which they condemn SO
hastily. They wilfully remain in ignorance
of the work-having never seen or talked
with me, or sought an explanation of that
which they do not understand. I ask the
public then-that American public which has
often done me JUSTICES this fair They
condemn they know not what-surely it
would have been easy to come and see. The
ground is all their own. came to the Water
Cure an invalid, for treatment; am still
feeble. They have beaten and stabbed a
PROSTATE .t'5ead-pro strate, through bodily
weakness. Will the kind public call this
fair ?I use the word "friend" advisedly, fol, if
/ can show these teachers better and more
valuable mode of doing their business well,
surely am their friend. I'll can instruct
them hoav to do in months, the work that for
merly occupied gears, and to do that work
not only aceU inSeVery sense, but to the en-
tire satisfaction of heir employers, surely, /
ought to be welcomed, not only by the COM
munity, but also by the teachers. have not
come to make Kenosha my home, have no
intention of doing so, as, the moment it may
please Providence to give me strength enough
shall leave for other and more extended
fields of labor.
/ would add that'this " method" has now
been taught for more than fifteen years.
Prof. Robbins academy is No. 6, Bedford,
COIHST w bOu OOGGOd1 nv
his wife, and dozens Of assistants have all
they can do. We have now more than one
thousand teachers of the work, from Maine
to California, the number gradually increas-
ing, and many of them form erly fine players
and teachers in the old method. Surely, it
can be no "humbug" in which so many are
engaged, and We wait confidently for the day
to arrive when prejudice and old fogyism will
die together, and be decently buried by our
hands. 1.-THE writing is on the WALL" now,
and 'the day" is not far distant
would close by inviting you, Mr.. Editor,
ana any nther nnprejudieed musical persons
in Kenosha to come here and see for your.
selves q little daughter of Mr.. Pennoyer, aged
nine years, beginner, who has taken lessonf
Of me now for three months. I think it would
be difficult, to say the least, for any of the
old school teachers, to produce such men
tai musician as she is, at the end ofthat time
Iremain, sir, respectfully yours,
MRS. 0. s. DOUGLAS.
Kenosha, Wis. Sept. 18th, 1871.
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