Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
The Choir's Quarrel.

he GhoIf,S quarrel.
(From the Brooklyn Faglel
SO think you treated us very unkind
ly in saying that We had fight in cur
choir!" murmured the contralto, taking
the chair the religious editor placed for
her and strengthening her hat. ''You
hurt the feelings Ct everybody and /
don't see any good for it. "
But didn't you have fight ?" pro-
tested the religious editor. "Didn't the
tenor say the soprano didn't know any
more about music than logarithm does
about the doctrine of infant baptism?"
81 know that, ;" conceded the con-
tralto. "And he was right. She don't.
But she is q cross grained old maid and
the sooner we get rid of her the better"
"And didn't the basso take the
sopranos side a2d hit the tenor on the
nose ?" continued the religious editor.
CT 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
a 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 baritone for six months,
in spite of his being married man
What did you want to put it all on the
tenor for?"
" didn't know anything about that, 3"
retorted the religious editor. "Some-
body told me that 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.
It was none Of her business. He didn't
take her, and he isn't likely to. We
never had any trouble in that choir IN
til she got to poking her n0seinto every
-body's business. Say, wish you would
come out and state that the choir is per-
fectly harmonious, and the paper was
mistaken IN its report about the diff
Guilty"
"Of course I will if there is any truth
In it, responded the religious editor.
SIS the difficulty ali over %
SIT will be as soon as the tenor gets
his hands on the organist. He has been
giving his mouth q 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 in the country. AS soon as
7 heard Of that I told his wife she had
better keep a lookout for her husband.
She told him about 1t and he said there
wasn't a word OF truth in it, and now she
Is keeping a watch over him and he can't
60 home from choir practice with me
until it blows over. I don't see Why 3
tenor's wife should be SO jealous of
him."
$50 he's going to hump the organ
1c+ &c bo o;
tor.
eff he can catch him before he getsoyer
his mad, he will. wish you would say
that all the differences in the choir have
been settled, and that the congregation
are anxious to have new soprano. VIII
you do that for me ?"
Certainly" smiled the religious ed
itor. Didn't l hear something about
the alto leaving the choir?"
"No such luck as that" sighed the
coutralto. "She's as much fixture as
the contribution box. She and the bald
headed basso are as thick as the notes
IN long run, but I have put a spoke in
her wheel by telling his wife that he held
her hand all day when wa-were ;practic-
ing the Easter music. She won't bother
me and the tenor any more until she
gets out OF that scrape. I. 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 I will have to do
| better if I'm going to stay in that choir!
I'd like to see nina try to put me out
My husband would wiring his neck for
him p
So you're married, too, are you?'
murmured the religious editor.
"Of course I am" replied the con-
tralto. 4" You needn't say anything
about that in your old paper, because [
never allude to my husband unless he's
around. Now L want you to write a
nice article about us, and say that of all
the church choirs in Brooklyn there's
not one SO perfectly harmonious and de-
voted to its duties as our9. Will you !?
that's good man.
And the religious editor hadn't the
heart to refuse her.