The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-20
SGryian Dana and SOnm.

snendthrift perusers to ponder over.
SGryian Dana and SONG.
ThoServian correspondent of the Lon
don Telegraph says: :'Kolo is an ex-
ercise suited to the torri;l weather
reigning. II it do not excite the be-
holder. it does not warm the perform
er. Laughter makes one hot, but
looking on the Servian dances causes
only puzzled smile. What manner
of mon are these who. in European
dress. in cloth Of Leeds and arms Of
Sheffield, can find delight in holding
one another by the waistband and dane
ing just like bear? I have tried in
vain to distinguish Shuif1es OF cuts. or
any form Of step. They slowly raise
one foot and slowly drop it down, then
the other, and then the first again.
Admirers OF Servia declare the mill
tary intelligence Of her people so
great that no drill comes unvelcome
to them. / should conceive that
the goose step and marking time
were peculiar favoriics. Saving only
that they don't hold each others
Waistbantl, nor perform the evolution
in Il circle, they may quite fancy that
they are dancing kalo all, the while.
When the lasses joint sport which I
have not Yet been SO favored as TO see
-the party revolves in stamping. [
ain told this makes The dance much
more graceful-one does not quite see
how. II one bear is not thrilling TO
watch, neither will ten be, though q
she creature or two be distributed
among them. Other fair haired young
soldiers sing. For my pnrt | prefer
the dance.
It may be silly, but it is not painful
There is one person in the world might
feel moved by the Scrvian song. Mr..
Darwin would be delighted with it, as
a surviving link. Thus, perhaps, the
primeval man expressed the Simple
sentiments of his 1lnsophisticated soul.
y;swns, and baWis. After discoursing
such music through the mouth until
the ambient air is thrilling. they re-
peat tie melody through the nose. 1t
is terrible to hear the Gospodin Pro
fessor recite the lament Of the ancient
Serb, who f1ies to escape the Turk. Of
how many velses this ballad consists
is unknONrl-neVer yet has the end
been reached. For the mode of COM
position has that elasticity character.
istic of an ineXhaustible imagination.
The refugee bids adie1l to each men,
Der Of his family. A verse to his
wife, one to his brother Ivan, another
to Milosch, a fourth TO his maiden
aunt, etc. Suppose him to have a
large family-lOtS Of brothers, sisters.
and children, not to name his parents
and his mother-in-laW-each OF them
must have a verse. differing only from
the others before and after by the
change Of q Christian name. If the
nearer survive this enumeration, there
remains an ineXhaustible fund OF DO
etry on natural objects about the ex-
lies home-the church, the tree, the
brook, the mountains, and SO on. All
the music have heard as yet seems
to be included in q compass Of four
notes. No foreigner here-;snd we are
many-has ears so keen as to distin-
guish one tune from another. But
there must be more in it. You see
eyes light up and faces flush at the
strain which seems to year :lnaccus-
toned hearing all one stupid moHo~
tone. The Oriental character is evil
dent, and q man skilled in that extra.
ordinary science would probably dis
play to you a score Of delicate gIada-
tons where you only recognize one
draWl. The chants we heard at mass
to-day were an exception, but they
have probably descended from an older
time than the Turkish conquest. Some
Of them had a Tilt and ring very diff
ferent from the measured strains of
our own sacred usuage-so different,
in fact, that they resembled q spateT-
song Of the earlier sort.:'