Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-12
Wine and Music.

From the Gentleman's Magazine.
Beethoven penned most of his sublime music
at favorite coffee-house. or at tavarn hard
by; Schubert's many and inspired melodies
were written in a tavern amid the clatter of
glasses and berry argument: Mozart wrote
much of his beautiful music during his inter-
walls OF rest, when playing billiards and drink
ing at a restaurant; Rossini was like the other
1itans of music-with this exception he not
only composed many of his lavish melodies i'm
the wine shop, but after he had been turned
out of it, which may account for much of the
sparkle and exuberance in the many humor-
Gus and jovial strains for which the .'Swan of
Pesaro" Is responsible. But we need not look
away from home. Cathedral singing men are
proverbially thirsty souls-as many city's
tavern could testify: and there is probably
not a London church choir which has not
its ''house." The profession" generally.
too, Is prone to observation-disclosures often
liquid in nature than solid, and few con-
certs are planned without taking into ac-
count something for the singers'oin respect
to which item 1t is only necessary to remark
that If those performing acquit themselves as
satisfactorily unsteady as they do physically
the result must be highly gratifying to the
entrfprGleun' or concert-giver. The union is
indeed, hard to disconnect and difficult to ac-
count for. We're it apparent in the case of
singers only it would not be SO strange, and a
dry throat might be the apology for frequent
moistenings; but musical theorists that genus
which gives itself up to the solving of harmo-
NOUS myths and mazes of their own creation.
and to the unraveiing of contrapuntal networks
by others-these all drink, some folks say.
like fishes" And some Jolly" good fellows
are found among instrumentalists-i
performers upon such as the pianoforte or
gan, and violin-and the playing of these can
not surely make one abnormally dry! Here is
ample ground indeed, for the psychologist
and philosopher.
himself rather "out of Sorts" determined to
consult some of his medical brethren on the
subject, for few physicians like to trust them
selves with themselves. He accordingly called
upon five eminent members of the faculty in
succession. and it is positive fact that each
one of them gave different opinion as to the
nature of his disorder and recommended
different mode OF treatment. 1t is his own be-
lief that they were all wrong.-Ne,o York
Ledger.
"Ahr' groaned Haffapound, as he leaned
over his little counter, 'here / have stuck to
this miserable little grocery business until my
hair Is growing gray, and / see no chance of
ever being better off"
''Why don't you move down into Alabama
or Mississippi" asked the man by the raisin-
box; "there are no shop-keepers there-they
are ali prominent merchants"
In the .'V"-shaped corsage of evening
dresses eight out Of ten women seem to prefer
the capital letter.-C hdmbersbtny Vdlley Spirit
The height of woman's ambition is to make
| man blush and to pretend all the time that
she is unconscious Of the fact.-Boston Tran
script.
Wife (petulantly) .-''Such lump of selfish
ness! The house was full of strange noises
last night, and didn't dare close my eyes
once; and there you were sleeping like log.
Burglars might have carried us both off and
you wouldn't have known it,
Husband (wearily) Don't fret dear. If
hrl uar o1r
-Neso York Weekly.
Mother-'I am glad to hear you went to
church to-day. What was the sermon about?"
Adult son 10 reporter ~ don't know, mother,
haven't written outmy notes yet"-Nes York
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