The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-04-06
BILL NYE AND HOFFMAN,.
Any One May Become Child WONDER
Tatfy fra Life 10 He sticks to IL.

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week BE- riding on tho bounding billow borne
toward his home | wanted TO ask him a
great many Questions relative 10 music and
other things. and SO had jotted down Few
which would assist ne and refresh my mem
| orr / wanted 10 ask him when IL first oc-
| Cured q him that he could succeed as a
prodigy. also what books had helped him,
and whether hOfmarn was his real name or
only a nom lie plume. 1t was my idea that
| | could take him on my knee and while
| told HIM about Jack and the BeanstalS
could ever and anon read his very soul and
| aiterNard PRINT several columns about him.
1 called at the pleasant house Of DR.. Lam
| bert and his sister, on Twenty seventh street,
and for half an hour talked 10 them about
myself in very ohatty but interesting way,
while We waited for Josef to- come down from
hi, own room. which was very pleasant ono
on the first floor facing Twenty-seventh
street, and not only large, but very lastly
! furnished and CHEEKY For another half
hour talked about my struggles as a chld
wonder and told my friends how had sue
ceeded at last, at a time Of life when it
| brought HE very little JOY
Dr. Lambert said it certainly must be dis
heartenng TO find myself at last within
reach o.. riy goal and about 70 win a place
for myself IS an infant prodigy, but, alas at
q period OF ms life when no longer looked
well ia a Caubaldi waist and knicker-
| bocsers
Master Holman ia tho meantime was up
stair, developing negative in q dark room.
| He wa given q camera. etc. by Mr Fail; the
] T 10.
/ picture AMI tell YOU how he does it, While
we were talking about IL he marched IN with
tn NEGATIVE under bis arm. lie wore "a kind
/ OF bclted blazer OF sot, dark red and black
stripe aud knickerbocker, and dark hose
Iii, turn down collar was fastened with a
white scarf with pale pink dots on it, and be
/ had the air OF a very busy man weighing
about forty-seven pounds.
He held out his hand 20 ne and 1 took It
/ ia mine as / would a little stormbeaton tom.
/ tit [ addressed him in el~.. well molulated
! tones. telling him that had read about him
| in the papers and that l had como 20 play
with him aud stay all night. He then drew
away from ns and went i'm another room.
but returned in less than an hour and talked
freely with the family In Franco German
l
10 me lie speaks French aud German tu-
emily, and enjoyed his gestures very much.
He has been somewhat spoiled hv adulatiOn,
and gathered ir0m some OF bis gestures that
be was very much bored bv something lido
notunder,tand French MS IL runs know some
French iloms, bu- he did not seem % USE
any OF those while 1 was there German 1
spea., with q strong female seminary accent.
bat when | try CD converse with people who
hay. never hal the advantages az an Amorl-
can seminary do not succeed .n r.yotug
their attention l r1mainei some time talk
in- with DIT Lambert and then Master H0t-
maun said pool-by 70 me AMI Went upstairs
% bed. from which gathered that the inter
yiep had terminated
do not claim o. understand the German
language when uttered iu the rapid and recl.-
less a,thmatic tone assumed by Germans.
who rely upon it solely, but / judged by the
way Josef took OF his boots upstairs and
SAID his prayers that change of scene and
rest wouid do HIM good.
lie is certainly very bright boy, ex-
tremely nervous. precociOus and very natu-
rally spoiled by the gross flattery be has re-
celyed while here As O matter OK fact, his
parents have almost lost control OF him since
be ILas been ~ N0rshiped as be has here
Aud what can parent DO with l0-year-old
boy who can I'LL the Academy of Music and
turn people away every night for weeks with
his wonderful music Can You reprimand
the musical hero Of tie season. or shut up
the leader of an orchestra IN a dark closet
Can You deprive d pianist OF his Pic
when he MAJ retaiiaJo Ly refusing 70
play, Cau YOU spank @ party with
technique or tan the jacket of p yirtuosot
Can you c0mpc! composer 10 remain in
after school or box tho cars cf a macstro'
Nay. may Behind his divine f0rtissimo and
musical motif hc i, safe, When be- said 70
himself. IL wall become child V0nier.n lo
bean 70 0utgr0w thc rules which govern tho
actions OF other children and, saving up his
pennies ultil b. had enabled himself ID pur-
chase q COsccr- grand piano, 10 was not long
until be lad technique which sounded first
rate.
Josef llolmaun has shown L. that steady
industry and devotion q ono 90 ject Will at
last succeed This should teach Us q valuable
lesson. Il shows Us that one may become
child wonder carly ia hfo ii be Will set him
courared about becoming q child wonder On
account Of YOUR youth. Porseyere and you
may win ~ last.
Still, greatness brings is resulting penal
tics. Little Josef Holman, at q time whom
other boys are just waking up 10 tho sad
truth that the COW j. N the lor, the pig Is
In tho sty,' "the sun Is up and sc arc up,
TOO. p etc, is receiving q mail like q memOer
Of congress each day, and in it people ask
him about his methods and they ship large,
fat, plush autograph albums 10 him and ask
him T. write Ia them, and they send alligator
covered albums and low proved leather al
buns and meek little floral albums with IN
fafneI bouquets Oh each leaf and fancy de-
signs made by iocal penmcn IN violet ink and
bluiu.. also. albums in which Hetty asks
Alfr!da III she remembers the day they went
over 10 Uncle Stiseleather's
People Wr!to u ask him 70 como % their
horne5 O. onuse them, for they are tired ot
other things aud pine for a phenomenon.
lido not blame Josef for going home where
freedom is not run into the ground Had be
remained here another year ho would have
COMO home with softening OF the brain or ST
Yitus' celebrated glide Even q great, strong
man like Chauncey Depew has all lie can DO