The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-24
WHERE MUSIC IS LEARNED.
Breezy Notes From BOStOn'S Great
Conservatory.

Lady Becomes a Tutor-Other MAT
ters Of Special Interest.
Boston, Mass, Sept. 20.-Since meteo-
rology is becoming so fashionable a
science, and Mr.. Clayton of Blue Hill
predicts with accuracy, week and some
times month in advance, the state of the
weather, it is allowable to mention it
without mourning the suspicion of men
tai bankruptcy
Our summer has not only been calcu-
lated to make a southerner homesick, but
now the first fall month languidly de-
clines the autumnal injunction to ''brace
up" and mods under a sky as blue and
ardent as that of July in the land of the
oleander and the orange blossom.
To 90 shopping in these narrow streets
is TO invite the fate of the
I'm pulsive old person of Stroud.
Who was horribly jammed in crowd
besides returning home in mood de-
cidedly melting and bangs by no means
what they were frizzed up to be.
Conservatory students, however, are
just at present too busy setting them
selves in their different cells in this bee
hive TO spend much time even over the
Apropos of bargains, / may mention
that handkerchiefs are literally given
away, possibly TO enable those disap-
pointed by hard times" in other lines to
indulge in good cry' at the least ex-
pense!-which is considerate of the shop
keepers, think.
The usual army of paint
ers, upnoiStererS, ScruboerS, and
carpenters utook possession of the con-
serVatory during the summer, and those
who would study despite the hot weather,
concluded that the principal signs of the
times were those that shouted paint at
one in letters foot high. An army of
workmen went about in white garments
like ghosts, and by degrees the old build
ing put on its new fall dress. The year
opens on Sept. 10, but four or five DAYS
before that the students began to come
In and sit in patient rows before the reg
istrar's office. The big dining room is
full and already the newcomers are be-
ginning to feel'at home
The comfortable little cafe downstairs
has. not been discovered yet. apparently the
students following a natural law in pre-
ferrlng to flock together until the new
ness wears off. But by the end of the
first term, when each one has learned
the ropes and heard all the standard
Jokes and compared notes, musical and
otherwise, with her friends and ac-
quaintances, there will doubtless be the
usual Saturday rush for cafe tickets,
lust for little change, you know
and seat at the midday dinner will be
a prize orGsideof the dining hall.
The lecture season of Sleeper Hall was
inaugurated on Tuesday evening by Mr.
Charlton Black, who delivered a series of
lectures last year on literary and artistic
themes This year he will conduct the
department of literature in the conserva-
tory and the, object of the first lecture
was to place before the music and elocu-
ton pupils the advantages of a course in
English literature in combination with
each ones special line of study. For
those students who have not had col
lege education or exceptional home train
ing such course will recommend itself
The broader the culture nowadays the
wider. the field Of opportunity in every
line of work.
1 think, however, the majority of
women just graduated from schools or
colleges are apt TO be better posted on
the Elizabethan era than our own, and to
have better general idea of the condi-
lions obtaining in ancient times than in
our day, which is great pity; for look
at the things of absorbing interest that
present themselves on all sides. The war
IN the east would afford an opportunity
for glance at ancient history under the
might begin at A, with Africa, anarchy
airships and arbitration and follow every
letter with list the very
barest mention of which would
make one realize powerfully
that the last days of this century, at any
rate, were at hand, and great light
ablaze for all who will turn their faces in
its direction.
1t would be wise to understand the mo-
tive of the movement inspired by such
men as William Morris, Vogue, the Wen
csc philosophers, 'Tcherniskcvsky, Dudley
Warner lin his later noyels) and How
ellis, in his ''Altrurian Letters" We are
as far removed from the ideas and ideals
of the first days of the nineteenth cen
fury as If we had stepped from the Tier
ra Caliente to the table-land of the Tenn
plada. A glorious and far-reaching
view meets our extended gaze; and
II the mountain peaks seem to dwindle,
1t IS only because of the immensely of the
infinite ocean encircling them. What our
younger women need to-day is a catholic
comprehension of contemporaneous life;
a realization of the great and impending
changes in its every phrase, and deter
mination to adjust themselves to those
changes with open minds and generous
souls.
think the bicycle seems to have de-
veloped into a perfect Eankenstein for
the opponents of dress reform for women.
1t has done more to reconcile the
public to the sight of women in
boomers and sometimes in knickerbock-
ers, than all the speeches ever made on
the subject.
After all it depends on the individual
woman, as all fashions do. If a woman
looks we'll in aacostume, if it is appro-
pirate and evidently suitable forthe occa-
sion, she is forgiven for any departure
from the usual mode.
The questions now resolve themselves
into the apparently simple one: Are BIZ
cycles good things for women to ridel"
And so the battle gees gaily
on-and the 'cyclers, too. Some
of the faculty of the conservatory
are enthusiastic bicyclists; notably
Mr.. NOVEL; (the pianist) aud the director
and his wife, Mr.. ana Mrs. Faelten.
Mrs. Faelten does not live in the con-
servatory, in fact none of the teachers
ana their wives do. But she is woman
so lovely of face and fascinating of man
ner that the students fall in love with her
at first sight and sigh TO think they can
only have glimpses of her at receptions
and recitals. But she has two or three
pretty children of her own TO occupy her
attention and must of course prefer
the quiet of her own home.
The faculty are all most hospitable. and
one OF the greatest pleasures
student enjoys is the frequent
invitation TO spend the evening