The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1894-03-19
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uOuSe IuTuISueu, lOT tudJ biIlle. L
am rooming in a private family 'in
reduced circumstances who take
dodgers merely as a matter of ac-
commodation Ito the lodgers)."
"My room faces a verandah and /
sit there in the evening and smoke
and cogitate on things mundane
ard things spiritual till nearly bed
time.
81 could not but admire the beauty
of the sunset this evening. 1t had
been raining heavily all day and at
sunset there was just little strip Of
blue sky in the west, and above II
pile on pile of the most fantastic
cloud.shapes | have ever seen. As
the sun dropped low the strip Of
blue changed to brilliant crimson
and the cloud masses were touched
with red and gold, while some Of
their edges we're as white as snow,
aud fitting across these colored
masses were light patches of clouds
of jet black and gray. | could not
help wishing l was painter; not ex-
actly house painter, don't you
know, but one OF those mild kind Of
cranks called artists, as Nell would
say.
"No, don't know of anything very
bad about your Burt. | believe he
was engaged at one time to a Miss
Ethelberta Dan. At any rate, he
was in her company q good deal,
and we used to- call them the two
{ &C.. l.,,s l.
and perhaps no engagement. cant
say positively.
"fve several musical neighbors
now; some Germans have three
rooms en- mjtc adjoining mine. Two
play the violin, one toots the flute
and fourth coaxes out "a concor.
dance of sweet sounds from (think
of itD an accordion. When | sit
here o nights aud listen to the med.
ley floating through the board part.
ton (the house amt plastered) to
niue enraptured ears there is only
one thing that l devoutly wish |
could play, aud that is the-well, his
sable satanic majesty. For I'd real
ly play him with them at times IL
could.
"But this isn't all by any means
There Is yet another infection. In
the parlor is a piano, old and sadly
ont Of tune and fashion, and on this
ancient instrument the daughter OF
the household is learning to play.
Al least that is what her mother
tells me. am not much Of a Judge
of music, so | can't say with any de.
gree OF certainty whether she is
learning or not.
But, anyway, she has a series oI
charts and exercise books for self
instruction on the piano. forte.
There is one tune that she has par
italy learned, and on that unfor
tunate air she practices with patien,
assiduity until late at night and
every night till l wish that l could
or dared to, utter the thoughts tina,
arise in me- II is Blue Bells oI
Scotland | used to love the prett,
melody and often hummed il to my
sell. But ] hum II no more. ! hav,
conceived u dislike for il. A dislike
by Jove. ] positively hate i'll With
as fendish and diabolical a hatrec
as anyone can feel for little hump
backed, black faced, knock kneed
notes Of music, and there are mo
ments when IL would give mo tn,
widest Joy to have the composer oil
that air Tar, far from civilization
Alone! In the woods. With q ton oil
giant powder aud barrel full Of as
sorted kinds OF sudden aud violent
deaths at my disposal.
at is related Of Mozart that some
time after his marriage he went &c
Berlin to compose an opera. He
left his wife behind. Great com
posers usually do. Then they fee
more composed and can compose
better The anecdote is getting q
little tangled but you must pick il
to pieces somehow.
"Sou see had a bottle Of porter
with friend awhile ago aud b.,
some mysterious process il seems Il
have got into my head instead o.
my stomake. That doesn't look jus,
the correct style Of spelling, but
pray don't infer that my stomach
ac chow do you spell acheD Well
it don't matter. What was | going
to say-Well, Mozart wrote to hi
wife and told her that there wer,
two angels in the room below him
q suppose he must have meant
girls, for boys belong to the othe
SEX That is they belong to tn,
other sex when the other sex marriel
them. That sentence also seems Il
be rather mixed and | don't eXactl,
know what l meant when ] wrote it
Aud then il also strikes me that i
they were angels they should hav,
been above and not below, but NJ
matter. Well, these angels wer,
learning duets on the piano ant
Mozart says in his mild mystic Ger
man way; they played furiously,
and he naively adds:
You can imagine the discord,
and then he goes on to say that i
does not disturb me in the least
Indeed it stimulates thought and
think twice as East
sand, would you believe it, II ha
the same Mozartic effect upon Inc
| think twice as fast; | think O
dynamite and nitro-glycerine, ant
the hoe, the rack and thumb screw
and the knout and the dank, darI
aud dismal dungeons OF Siberia ant
! wish was the Tsar and that al
OF these musicians were my convict
ed criminal subiects 40 that | cOul(