The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
The Choir's Quarrel.


Il think you treated us very I'M
kindly in saying that we had fight
in our choir" murmured the contral-
editor placed for her and straighten-
ing her hat. you hurt the feelings
of everybody, and don't see any good
of it,"
But didn't you have a fight ?" pro-
tested the religious editor. didn't
the tenor say the soprano didn't know
any more about music than a loga-
rithm does about the doctrine of in
FAINT baptism ?"
Il know that" con eeded the con-
tralto. "And he was right. She
don't. But she is croSs-grained old
maid and the sooner we get rid of her
the better"
"And didn't the basso take the
sopranos side and hit the tenor on
the nose?" continued the religious
editor.
Il know he did," replied the con-
tralto. And he was all in the wrong.
That tenor is perfectly lovely, and
the soprano got mad because he was
to sing duet with me. But l don't
see why you wanted to pitch into
him. Why didn't you say the soprano
had been flirting with the barytone
for six months, in spite of his being
married man? What did you want
to put it all on the tenor for?"
81 didn't know ANYTHING about
that" retorted the religious editor.
somebody told me the tenor took
you to the church picnic and that all
the row grew out of the fact that the
soprano told his wife,"
$50 she did, the meddling old maid.
1t was none of her business. He
di int take her. and he isn't likely to.
We never had any trouble in that
choir until she got to poking her nose
into everybody's business. Say, L
wish you would come out and state
that the choir is perfectly harmoni-
Gus, and the paper was mistaken in
its report about the difficulty"
"Of course | will, if there is any
truth in it," responded the religious
editor. us the difficulty all over?"
at will be as soon as the tenor gets
his hands on the organist. He has
been giving his mouth holiday and
saying that the tenor wants to get the
soprano out so he can get another one
in who used to sing in the same
church up the country. AS soon as
| heard of that l told his wife she had
better keep lookout for her husband.
She told him about it aud he said
there wasn't word of truth in it,
and now she is keeping watch on
him and he can't go home from choir
practice with me until it blows over.
l don't see. why tenor's wife should
be so jealous of him."
$50 he's going to thump the organ
ist, is he?" inquired the religious edi-
tor.
IF he can catch him before he gets
over his mad, he will. l wish you
would say that all the differences in
the choir have been settled, and that
the congregation are anxious to have
a new soprano. Will you do that for
me?"
Certainly" smiled the religious
editor. Didn't / hear something
about the alto leaving the choir ?"
mo such luck as that" sighed the
contralto. shes as much a fixture
as the contribution box. She and the
bald-headed basso are as thick as the
notes in long run, but have put a
spoke in her wheel by telling his wife
that he held her hand all day when
we were practising the Easter music.
She won't bother me and the tenor
any more until she gets out of that
scrape. L wish you would criticise
that baSso'S voice. He can't sing any
more than lobster, and when he puts
me out the leader looks hard at me
and says l will have to do better if |
rm going to stay in the choir ! I'd
like to see him try to put me out
My husband would wiring his neck
for him."
$50 you're married, too. are you?"
murmured the religious editor.
"Of course am replied the con-
tralto. "You needn't say anything
about that in your old paper, because
l never allude to my husband unless
he is around. Now | want you to
write nice article about us, and say
that of all the church choirs in Brook
Ign there is not one so perfectly har-
monious and devoted to its duties as
ours. VIII you? That's good man.
And the religious editor hadn't the
heart to refuse her