Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-28
THE U METHOD.

ne Sunday afternoon in an upperroom
ia German hotel in New York. On
be sofa lay a violin, on the table were
eyeglasses, and fondling these glasses
Fere two young men. The converse.
on was in German, which I translate
bto English.
"You have done we'll to come to
merica, if it is for money!" said the
der of the two men, lingering his
lazy watch chain, and eying compla-
Fntly his genteel boots.
at is money I want" answered his
Pmpanion-"money to buy me leisure
bd freedom. 1t shall be the servant
my art. 1t is the life of a dog, this
nhing. It will kill in me the crea-
T. Five years in this land, you say,
ntwenty in Germany. Five years of
e dogs life will buy me fifteen of the
uician's."
"0h, Carl, you lamb of an Innocent"
I'D the other from out a cloud of
BIKE. "You landed yesterday. You're
yet Americanized. 1 tell you this is
e place to win money, and the place
find out what money is worth. There
nothing money can not do in Ameri-
}. You would buy leisure! You will
ant your money to buy good clothes,
pod company and a pretty wife,"
Carl shrugged his shoulders in pro-
That is what 1 have done. Between
two am a humbug, and I am a toll
ably successful humbug. They do not
spect it, They are gullible when it
pines to q bargain in fine arts. Let your
Er grow long, rate your talents high,
Tx as bad English as you can, and be
hat the ladies call so charmingly for
gn.' There you have it."
"Ah, Friedrich, you are changed"
I'd Carl. with a laugh and sigh and
shrug: "And have you forsaken your
T. DO you rise no higher? Are you
Carl, that is all your German senti-
ent You have something in you;
We always seen that. But if you mean
amount to anything, you will not go
0onlng round with your head among
: stars, talking eternally about your
You will find yourself in a garnet;
a' Is What art does for a man in
PAeFlca. You have a rare chance with
Tor a friend; excuse my plain speech.
~ nave come to give lessons on the
ano and violin, and to play when you
H. How much English do you
Enough to eat and drink and Sleep"
You could not tell a laundering girl
wv 10 hold her hands %properly?"
i could quickly learn, L think.
We the English books"
That will not do. You must take a
nIer way. Let me think"
lafi walked over to the window and
vAe' curlously out on the foreign
Eeet scene. He was a well-formed
puns 'ellow of twenty-five, with leu
ae features and complexion. His
NJ was. tossed back from a square
vao forehead. His eyes were dark
~ aeep-set. and would have been
Maleholy as the traditional artists,
" not an occasional flash revealed
AT lne boy, too, was still behind them.
is1eorlch had called in his pipe to
a ~ MS m%editations. 81 have til" he
~ ut last: "You have no objection
N.hnS a little in a good cause? Or
mere is no need of that. I will
~ sou' young man, this is your
saSe Find out an American music
~ !" and take lessons of him for a
. %eeks. Pretend you do not know
nnH hote from another; make every
, nn,'es conceivable. Then store up his
H.. and l will wager six weeks
pr rHal will give you more of the
7"s! you want than six months OF
etb dictionaries. 1t is tine natural
or s'0u, which they are all going crazy
r,auveur would advise you as
men drop in when 1 am giving
ess9ns-I give fifteen or twenty .
ma lesson Of a..half-hour-and catch
C r.. you al Them"
"ii heightened. There was a flavor
~. II%enture about this scheme.
M. VIII be q very good joke on the
kyer MASTER" he said. ssHe will
Es, guess that 1 havs played before
b afr, ~ viii be very mischievous. ]
eb' WI" VIII not hurt him" laughed Fried.
Don lou would better look for him a
% a. :. o. can. I must leave you now
bat !; ~ uine with the Vandenhoppers
! have achieYed.n