Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-04-24
BILL NYE AND HOFFMAN,.
Any One May Become . Child Wo1dsR
Ea " In Life IL BE Sticks to II,

week be ridlng on the bounding buloW borne
toward his home. | wanted to ask him .
great many Questions relative 10 music and
other things and so had iotted down a few
which would assist me and refresh my mefn-
CRY | wanted TO ask him wien it first &C.
CURED 20 him that he could succeed as
prodigy, also what books had helped him,
and whetl3er Hofmann was his real name or
only a NON d. plume. 1t was my idea that
/ co4l1 take him on my knee and while
told him about JACK and the Beanstaik ]
could ever and anon read his very soul and
alterwarl print several columns about him
/ called at TIC pleasant house Of DR. Lam
bert and his sister, on Twenty street,
and for half an hour talked 20 thesd about
myself in a very chatty but interesting way,
while we waited for Josef to come down from
h.s own room, which was very pleasant one
Oh the first floor facing Twenty-seventh
street, and not only large, but very lastly
furnished ami CHEEKY. For another half
hour talked about my struggles as a child
wonder and tod Ily friends how | had sue
cre,lesl at last, at a tlmv OF life when II
brpugh; me very little joy.
Dr. lambert said it certainly must be dis
h4rtening to lind myself at last Within
reach OF my goal and about to wiz place
FIR myself az an infant prodigy, hut, alas, at
q Feriol Of nay life whei. / no longer l]o1ed
wei in n Garabaldi waist and knicker-
boclsers
Master Hofmann in the meantime was up
stairs developing negative il a dark room
I-c waa given i camera, etc, by Mr.. Falk the
o.lcr day, and now he make very good
picture and tell you how he does II. While
VIC were talking about 1t he marched in with
t., ne ,ltive under his arm. lie wore a kind
0. Le..el blazer OF soft dark red and black
STRIFE aai Euickerbockers and dark hose
HIS turn doygn collar fastened with a
white scarf with pale pink dots on it, and he
had tie air Of Il very busy man weighing
aJOJt lorty-sevcn pounds.
lie held out his hand to me and took it
in mine rs | would little stornbeaten tom
tit, | addressed him in easy, well modulated
tones, telling him that had read about him
H. tAe pa ,jcrs and that | had come 70 play
viii. han AID stay all night. He then drew
away fron me and went in another room.
but returned in less than an hour and talked
freely with the family III Franco German
way about matters that were entirely foreign
to me. lie speaks French and German flu
eatly and | enjoyed his gestures very much
lie has been somewhat spoiled by adulation,
and gathered from some OF his gesture O. hat
be was very much bored by something do
not understand French 1t runs know some
French idions, but he did not seem to use
any Of thusc while | was there. German |
slcnk with n strong, female seminary accent
but wicl try to converse with people VINO
have never hal the advantages Of an Amerl-
can seminary | do not succeed in riyeting
Their attention. | remained some time talk
l1y with DR. Lambert and then Master IIof-
mlun said gpod-by to me and went upstairs
to hci from which | gathered that the inter
view had terminated
do not claim to understand the German
language when uttered in the rapid and reck-
los, HstImutic tone assumed by Germans
who rely upon it solely, but | judged by the
way Josef took of his boots upstairs and
sail his prayers that change of scene and
rc5t would do Inn good.
lie Is certainly very bright boy, ex-
ty.lcly nervous, precocious AID very natu-
rail- spoiled by the gross nattcry he has re.
ccjs,d Wule here As "a matter Of fact, his
parents have almost lost control of him since
hcf1i4 been so worshiped us he has here
Aud what can a parent do with 10-year-od
boy who can fill the Academy Of Music and
turn people away every night for weeks with
his wonderful musict Can you reprimand
the ia;l-lcal hero of the season. or shut up
tIe I'''t.F "i an orchestra IN Il dark closet!
Gan goa deprive pianist OF his PIE
"hen he may retaHate 10y refusing to
p'ayf ''h You spank party with
iechHlqu' or TAN the jacket OF virtuosot
Cih yon compel composer to remain In
oi'er s'h''', or boz tAe ears Of maestro!
Ma, nay. Behind his divine fortissimo and
mlN-cHi mont he Is SAFE hcn he sud to
himself, II VIII become a child wonder" he
bean To ou' row the rules which govern the
notions ct a.. acr children and, saving up his
p'nut'' uA'" he hai enabled himself to pur-
c.'s' a concert -r.lhI piano, 1t was not long
u..l h' h&1d '-ohn'qua which sounded first
r".'.
josef Aoimann has shown us that steady
i".HN'rF ana Devotion to one object Will ut
Ia, oJ'c""L lr7 shoaii te2"h H. n valuable
lFe'o,L II Shows u That ono may become
ch.lI "oud p oariY II HE If he will SCI hila-
sell about X ana stick to 1t. DO not be dis
c"Hrl Il about becoming child wonder on
nrcpuHi Of YOUR youth, lersevere ana you
mn win al last
S.nl. greatness brings its resulting ponal-
t,' lADti' Josef Hoffman,, at time whcn
o'Aef bows are Jut waking UP 70 the sad
ia that "tLe COW Is IN the Lot. tho pig is
tA tIo ST., 'the sun IL ~ AMI we are up,
too ct, is receiving mail Ike a member
OF congress each day, and in il people ask
hl.l a.,ut his methods. and tde.- ship large.
( lie riisl auto -rHph Albums to him and ask
bi.l Z , wr,.. in tar.n and they send alfi.-1tor
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S, .ls nlfG" 10y local penmen IA violet ink and
blu5I 1'.o, albums IN when Hetty asks
AI.rltl &C.! ZIG remembers the dl. they went
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