The morning call., 1892-06-12

kind had lately an opportunity to acquire
the house ia which Handel was born at
Halle. A brewer, who used the grounds
for a beer garden, is understood to
have got possession, but if he has
nOt closed with the vendors the ad-
miTers Of Handel may convert the building
| into museum TO commemorate the great
musician. 1t is strange TO reflect on the
distribution OF fame this composer enjoys.
| In Germany, his native land, he is not pre-
eisely worshiped and holds by no means
! the first place in musical circles. In
France he is hardly known. In England he
| is the composer whose merits tower above
| those OF all others, and festivals are held In
his honor every year musical gathering
without Handel In England Is almost lta-
possible. To a very much less exalted eX-
tent he is appreciated in America, but our
taste for Oratorio is not rampant and mas
terlul, and orat0riO is HandePs strength.
A German doctor has discovered that Ion
gevity is promoted by rising late and going
to bed early in the small hours of the morn
ing. In the case of 10 persons who were
each over 50 years Of age, eight went to bed
late aud slept late. TINS physician thinks
that the physical powers are more quickly
exhausted by rising early than by sitting up
at night, and he even hints that getting out
of bed at sunrise would be dangerous to
I
many healthy examples of old age on this
! TeutOn'S preceptS. Much depends on the
manner Of life, as the farmer explained
when he said his crops depended on the
kind Of seed he put into tie ground. Since
the introduction Of good candles and gas
and electricity man has the option of turn
ing night into dav without injury TO his con-
stitutiOn. Sunlight is necessary TO a cab
bage, but is degree or two less necessary
to a human being. In those remote times
NUh al lcrbf nd haft urar
and costly mankind rejOiced in the solar
| beams and went to bed and oblivion be-
cause there was nothing else to do. We
have now attained TO such perfection OF
substtutiOnal comfort that Vanderbilt
could make himself happy down a cOal-pit
or in diving bell. 1t is unfortunately a
patent fact that IN all countries the agTicul-
turistS are heavy in the legs aud dull in the
brains. They rise with the sun, and often
90 TO bed when it sets. On the other hand
those who dwell in cities aud are very active
locOmOtively, and in brain as well, have
q ViYaClty Of constitution which carries
them through the day as If they were alive,
and far into the night, as II their vital en-
dOWments were ascendant and not sOporihc.
This dictum Of scorning delights. and
living "laborious nights" for the sake of
longevity will doubtless excite numberleSs
good people who go to their dreams early
into wrath and yexatiOn, They have much
treasure of maxim and apophthegm to draw
upon from the ancientS and from the cur
rent Of human life, down almost to our own
day, in favor Of directing our course Of
dluEnal duty by the sun. But then the an
clients knew not how to strike a light.
They were little better in that art than the
sayages who rub sticks together ana
produce combustion without knowing why.
But the man who rises early has at least an
advantage over the mortal who keeps TO the
blankets until banking hours begin, or
later, If be Is privileged to be the son OF
millionaire and can order his breakfast by a
dumbwalter The late riser has the benefit
OF all the chantieleer serenades IN his neigh
bOrhOOd. The rooster who stands we'll with
his harem never OmitS the qualification Of
salutiDg the morn. He begins his challenge
of supremacy at break of day. and as long
as he has a rival a mile of, in good chorus,
he keeps az il in the voice Of defiance and
music combined. The hapleSS night reveler
who has tucked himself away between the
sheets at IN the morning IS bestITred on
June morning about 1 or 3 by tie waIlke
responsibilities Of the Vigilant rooster. and,
II at ell nervous, farewell sleep until that
rooster is permitted liberty with his con-
sorts in the back yard parade ground.
In cities there ought to be prOhibitive tax
on the insanity of keeping roosters and
parrots A light imposition Of So a week on
the luxury of keeping a rooster as s0loist
at dawn might enrich the municipal treas
uTe chests and would certainly keep in
balmy sleep many a worried seeker after
repOse, whose only misfortune is not 10
keep up TO local standard time in the regu-
lalion Of Dis habits. Thomas Carlyle knew
well what anguish the shrill call OF chan
ticleer pierced him with. lie was so terri |
bly, overcome by the TOOsters OF his neigh
bOThOOd that his wife was involved In |
plague of negotiations to have them sup
pressed and sent to table preseniable for
gustative revenge, and the magistrates
knew more about the sage through aversion
TO gaIlinaceOus enemies than his philOsO-
ply. But the red0ubtable Thomas is not
the only victim of this birds pTOpensltes to
be musical al untimcly hours. Ia the Lon
don courts a few years ago magistrate
was asked for an order 10 decapitate per-
sistent offender. He sympathiZed with the
complainant OF TPpose disturbed. He even
appealed to the good dame who owned the
Growing nuisance. why" lie asked, "kce0
this useless birdY And in amaZement the
fair owner smote the magistrate with this
reioinder-"a useless bird! There are four
hensH Nevertheless the magistrate Or
dered the execution Of the unbearable
rooster. He perhaps was late riser.
Mr.. Stead is nothing if not enthusiastic.
He has found out the merits of teaching
languages according to the methods of NJ.
Gouin, who proceeds upon the principles
followed by children. Children pick up
language by ear and connect the language
with things observed by the eye. They
swallow sentences as applied TO meanings,
and words are not spelled BY children. The
adult miseducation in languages arises from
working the way to perfection through the
grammar and through analysis instead Of
leaving the philosophy Of con nstruction to
the last and going ahead in the first instance
with speech, correct or incorrect. Book
Superflciality IN language IS really time
wasted. 1t interferes with the effort of
speech afterwaTd, by OccaSiOning hest
fancy Of UtteraDce unless the phrases are
correctly woTded. 1t may well be asked
what is the use Of the language-teachiDg
which goes on in so many of our colleges
and universities. The students are cOmpar-
atvey ignorant of the languages, both |
ancient and modern, ana yet their |
time is driyeled away in trying |
to learn not only the language, |
that is, the faculty of Speech-but the think |
ing which has been evolved by thinkers in /
that tongue. 1t is almost certainty that |
the teacher OF language and the instructor |
Of the thought evolved in that language /
cannot be found IN one and the same per- |
son. You have n good man In one depart |
ment and a muddler in the other. 1t is not |
important in Spanish, Italian. French or |
German TO coach the student In what has |
been achieved in those tongues, not nearly |
so important as 10 know Wnab mas Oeen /
done in English. But if made fairly well ac-
Quainted with any OF these tongues, the stu
dent can study the literature for himself. A /
restaurant waiter may often put to shame
the most accomplished students that leave
our universities with certificates in Ian /
guages. They can use the tongue, aud the
student cannot, and probably never Will, |
with all the weakened application inevit- /
able in after life. Even the heads OF unl- /
versites, when they use French or German /
in phrases to ad0rn public speech, are often |
egregiously out Of pronunciation and glib |
ness of use, by reason OF the fact that they |
have pored over grammar and neglected |
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