The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-30
BOSTON IN COOL CLOTHES.
EFFECT OF THE FAR FAMED EAST
WIND ON BIG SLEEVES.


The Conservatory Looking Like "a
Garden of GirIs"-How the Fair
DamseIs Give Different shades 40
Their Hair-Attainments Necessary
10 Get a Diploma ut the COnserva-
tOry-The Boston subway Begun.
Miss Smart of savannah Winning
HOnOrs at the Conservatory.
New England Conservatory. Boston.
Mass, May 25-BOston has put on
her summer clothes "for keeps" it seems.
in spite of the tendency Of the thermome-
ter to drop on the sly every now and then.
The far-famed east wind has cool way
Of making balloons Of big sleeves and wide
capes, not conducive TO comfort or good
temper when one goes out thinking How
stylish I ami and goes on looking like
caricature from Punch in 1892.
The conservatory looks like a garden
Of girls" since the rage for shirt waists
has set in. In the dim corridors, with
black skirts on, the girls go. observable
from the waist Up only. Animated busts
of all the colors Ct the rainbow. and with
almost as many different shades Of hair.
Apropos of hair. 1t is a trihe funny and
not little confusing to find a student
who enters the first term as pronounced
brunette shading through the year and
finally making debut in the last term
more pronounced blonde. If she has dark
eyes and brows, and the complexion be-
longing TO them. it is bezarre to say the
least The peroxide blonde never seems to
know that real blonde hair compared to
hers gives the latter completely away. But
1 suppose as long as the world revolves
women with dark. hair will envy their
neighbors' golden locks and copy them as
best they may. It's good thing that per-
oxide of hydrogen Is so harmless. The
graduating classes have survived the tor
ture by question and go about
radiant 1t is no slight or
deal. this final examination. and
the examiners from long experience can
easily spot the diffldence of nervousness
from that Of ignorance and no one may
hope TO pass except on merit alone. A con-
serTatory diploma is the outward and vis-
bic sign of inward and mental attainment.
Here are the examination requirements
forte, violin and violoncello schools. Ono
concerts of the classic school. one of the
modern, two sonates, or other works Of
! larger form, two groups of shorter solo
works. The board Of examiners select
programme Of about an hours length from
this repertoire to be performed by the APP
plicant not later than thirty days after no
tihcation. Then the obligatory studies; two
years Of counterpart. composition, orches-
tration. score-reading and art of conduct
! ing. The regular course Of graduation in
eludes the pianoforte Cor the chosen instru-
menD solfeggio. theory. harmony or coun-
/ terpoint and the free course in musical
history, with final demonstrative examina-
lions at the end the sixth grade. But like
all difficult things in life. the conservatory
course Of study is robbed of It's apparent
Hsurmountableness @ by time itself. The
hill is steep, but the ascent is gradual. You
can even mind around the cminence IL your
lungs are weak, and stop for a while on
various plateaus to regain breath and take
/ heart for another pull, cheered by /. back
ward view of the stony patti so hardly
won. We are having a very entertaining
and instructive course of lectures on plano
forte construction by the general
manager Of the conservatory, Mr.
L. W. Hale lie Is also
at the head of the tuning department and
/ I daresay could make piano oil by him
/ self, if necessary. These talks are es-
/ pecially beneficial to those students who
! may hereafter be IN small towns or in the
| country where tuners are either unknown
| or better dead" The entire construction
( of the instrument IS carefully explained
| and illustrated on the stage. Every por-
ton of piano-anatomy Is pulled to pieces
aud the logical process of action" eN-
! planned. The various simple disorders to
] which delicate pianos are liable are de-
scribed, and the remedies prescribed. OF
course, no one can hope to be able to tune
piano after hearing these lectures, fol
! that is knowledge requiring a year or more
| of pretty steady work and hard study; but
ore can know how to treat piano so that
it will be kept in tune better, and by I'M
| Outstanding the Independence of hammer,
| screw and string, be able to rectify any
small trouble. 1t is like a iayman's
knowledge of medicine, admirable for
| keeping the physician at bay-preventa-
| tive, rather than remedial.
After a prolonged fight, over a location,
| the work on the Boston subway is at last
begun. do not blame the people for cher
| ishing evry scrap OF the Common 1t is
joy to walk through IL now. and a quiet
| delight to the eye. Such superb trees
! arching over smooth wide walks; here a
! wide sweep of vivid emerald lawn, now a
gentle slope dotted with elms and naples.
The soldiers monument in marble and
! bronze browning a soft hill with the his
toric frog-pond at its base; here and there
foutain, and dominating all, like a
! bubble over the sweet green
foliage. the golden dome of the state house.
The crowd of tired dusty pedestrians al
ways turns aside from fremont street,
with its ceaseless roar of electric cars and
| heavy wagons, to breathe little under
| these leafy alleys. There are always peo-
pie sitting or lying on the benches, some
times on the grass and the background is
generally a scene of animation over the
great American game. Just across Boyls-
ton street lie the no less lovely public gar
dens, full of rare trees and flowers. One
corner of it has been torn up and the great
tunnel for the subway Is making very
perciptible hole in the ground. / thought
men dug tunnels as moles do. Just burrow-
ed. But it seems not. They dig huge
trough, lay the necessary tracks. tack a
roof on, and there you are. believe the
cars are to run under the Common, but
that will not hurt it, only I do not see
what they will do with the roots of the
| trees.
The recital in Sleeper hall last Thursday