Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-27
THERE Is AT LEAST ONE LOCAL IN

THERE Is AT LEAST ONE LOCAL IN
l. stisution at the capital Of the nation which
neither time nor distance ever effaces IN the
mind OF the average washingtonian. Admins
trstions come and 60, but the band plays on
forever.
II there is full grown, half grown or grow
ing resident OF this District who has not at
some period Of his or her existence attended
Marine Band concert at the White House
grounds on a bright and sunny Saturday
afternoon he or she ought to get right up
near the band when it begins to play today and
get couated- Ii is pretty safe to assert that If
there could be found q few such individuals
they are exceptions to a general rule. You
may think good deal of your new clothes and
never tire Of watching the graceful shadows
you throw across the graveled walk in that last
brie, hour of the suns glory, but all the time
Won can't but wonder how men whose clothes
lit them so snugly can manage to expell such
quantities Of wind into the brasses as do the
band fellows But putting all these little
eonside rstiOns aside, IL you have music In
your soul. the real article, mind you, that
love Of harmony and sweet and soft. or tin
king OF Ginning sounds, and you don know or
Won don't care whether it's classical or sum-
mer OPERA tunes or whether il il a fugue or a
sonata CT a symphony or an oratorio, you VIII
Do certain 20 Keep on sOius w thc hAaSAS-
FaoH BABYHoOD DAYS
The fact 10 that the Saturday afternoon music
gosr 10 not at all responsible for the habit He
or she Was inoculated with it in infancy. Ten
TO one when the :. a. m. z. baby fond
mamma or A proud papa pushed the embryo
citizen there IN aperambulator OF in the charge
of a nurse the Importance OF seeing ut least
once IN a week the relocated marines
Was firmly planted IN the infantile
mind. Life is too short to follow up the career
Of any one OF the thousands Of occupants OF
baby carriages who have formed in the years
gone by a most entertaining part of these
audiences. The babies at the music are q fea-
tire Of Il. Ths little desrs have been play
ing to hard luck, or at least the band
did MT have chance to give
,he chil.iren's concert this season. even with
the President of the United States directly in
toTested in it, success. The weather was
against outdoor festivities, but somehow or
other 10 frightened up just as soon as the chill
dren's day was unannounced. Two weeks ago
today, however. the children were present In
such numbers that nothing LIKE was ever seen
except y an Easter Monday egg-rolling. The
band PLAYED lots % things besides lullabys and
the little people went home contented. So did
The big people for that matter and so they do
every saturday.
RAIS on SHINE
The hand has played to audiences there who
have listened while the watery drops warned
the musicians IL 1t did not them that il is also
sell to know enough to 20 indoors when il
rains Al Other times the band played between
shower.. and the audience IN Its esgerness TO
hear dbl not seem to mind walking over
'he vet srass. But there Is always more sun
shine than showers and 10 was the brightest of
AL bright afternoons when The srARs sketch
artist selected these types Of the regular fire.
qnenter.
OF course when You go the music there is an