The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-20
THE CBoIRs QUARREL.
The ContraIto Calls on the Religious Editor
for n Correction.

Tor correction.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
81 think you treated us very unkindy in
saying that we had fight in our choir" muir
INJURED the contralto, taking the chair the reli-
gious editor placed for her and Strengthening
her hat. "You hurt the feelings of everybody,
and don't see any good of it,"
"But didn't you have a 6ght2" protested
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 ?"
al know that" conceded the contralto.
"And he was right. She don't But she is a
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 ?" contin-
ued the religious editor.
81 know he did," replied the contralto
"And he was all in the wrong. That tenor is
perfectly lovely, and the soprano got mad be-
cause he was to sing a duet with me. But |
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 -
al didn't know anything about that" re-
torted 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 meddhng old maid. 1t
was none of her business. lie didn't take
her, and he isn't likely to. We never had
any trouble in that choir until she got to polk
ing her nose into everybody's business. Say,
| wish you would come out and state that the
choir is perfectly harmonious, and the paper
was mistaken in its report about the difficulty"
"Of course will if there is any truth IN il, {"
responded the religious editor. as the
difficulty all over p
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 in the country. As soon as | heard
OF that told his wife she had better keep a
look out for her husband. She told him
about it end he said there wasn't a word OF
truth in it, and now she is keeping a watch
on him and he can't go home from choir
practice with me until it blows over. / don't
see why tenor's wife should be so Jealous
OF him."
$50 he's going to thump the organist, i:
he ?" inquired the religious editor.
"If he can catch him before he gets ovei
his mad, he will. | wish you would say tha
all the differences in the choir have beer
settled, and that the congregation are anxiou.
to have new soprano. Will you do that fol
me %
Certainly" smiled the religious editor
"Didn't | hear something about the alto
leaving the choir p
mo such luck as that" sighed the con
tralto. "She's as much fixture as the con
tribution box. She and the bald headed bassC
are as thick as the notes in long run, but
have put spoke in her wheel by telling his
wife that he held her hand all day when WI
were practising the Easter music She won
bother me and the tenor any more until shl
gets out OF that scrape. | wish you woulc
criticise that basso's voice. He can't sin,
any more than lobster, and when he puts M
out the leader looks hard at me and says
will have to do better il | am going to stay il
that choir I'd like to see him try to put m
out My husband would wiring his neck 70
him. "
$50 you're married. too, are your" muir
INJURED the religious editor.
"Of course am" replied the contralto
'You needn't say anything about that in you
old paper, because never allude to my nus
n band unless he's round. Now want you t
| write nice article about US. and say that
l all the church choirs in Brooklyn there's nc
I one so perfectly harmonious and devoted I
its duties as ours. Will you? that's goo
Z man."
And the religious editor hadn't the hea
to refuse her.