The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-01-16

th is .,'s ON ocean ships deck, in answer
to1a question, 'Whither are you bound:
W ~. s,o;re 10 Berlin and Paris to study
az : WHAT" l said. After all Your
I'D renowned successes ID music, going
to study .rro,e,h what hard
,broupb what self deninls, through
sh'p.' 1,,,ost killing fatigues, she had gone
~, or5er TO be Il singer, ana tla0 "llei IA
~ oo,lier DAYS great teacher CT music |
Ia +old her there were certain nOtes she |
I'D never reach, she said, WlIl feach
.Sa,, ,: and through doing nothing e!se
Int nractice for five years she ola reach
.h.m Oh, how many heroes ana heroll1e'
~ ,nnsical achievement! There are songs
rbich are easy to hear, oNI i1ost oliliC"'O
vnonder When Handel, with ne" ora
" w. a,,tared a room wbere a group OF
'ons,cians had assem- bled and said, Gen
.lo,nen YOU all read music:' They salc,
.Ves we play in church. Very Well
aid the great composer. Play tins. buo
the nerformance was so poorly dohe 1t'n
Sel stopped his ears and said: You play
IN church! Very we'll, for we read tho I-ofo
islopg suffering, of great Kindness, ana lof-
giving of iniQuity, transgresslon anu SID.
pnt vou shall not play for me- Pure
,s,. whether fingered on instrument or
TITLED from human lips, is most dlthcn!o.
pu, one of the easiest songs to learn is the
como of the drunkards. Anybody can learn
q Tn q little while you can touch the
highest note of conviviality or the lowest
NOTE of besottedness Begin moderately, q
sin here and sip there. Begin with clafet,
90 on with ale and wind up with coghac.
First take the slim ulant at weddlhS'
then take it at meals, then take 1t between
meals, then all the time keep your pulse
under Its steaithy touch. In SIX months
the dnllest scholar In this Apollyonic mu-
sio NAV become an expert. First it will be
sounded in hiccough. After awhile it
will be heard in a silly ha, hal Further
on 1t will become wild whoop. Then 1t
will enable you to run up and down the
five lines of the musical scale Internal.
Then you will have mastered 1.-THE song
of the drunakrds.
Never Too Old to Learn.
The most skillful way is to adopt the
modern theory and give the intoxicant to
your children, saying to yourself, They
will In after life meet the intoxlcants
everywhere, and they must get used to see
ing them and tasting them and controlling
their appetites." That Is the best way OF
teaching them the song of the drunkards.
Keep up that mode of education, and ii
you have four boys at least three Of them
will learn the drunkards' song and lie
down In drunkard's grave, and If ever
laid wager l would lay wager that the
fourth will lie down with the other three.
Or If the education of the children In thi:
music should be neglected, it is not tor
late to begin at 81 years Of age The young
man will find plenty of young men who
drink. They are in every circle to b'
found. Surely, my boy, you are not
toward and afraid of it, Surely you ar
not going to be hindered by sumptuar.
laws or the prejudices of your old fathe
and mother9 They are behind the times
Take something. Take it often. Some o
the greatest poets and orators have beef
notorious imbibers. If you are to enter
parlor, 1t makes you more vivacious an
Chesterfeldian. If you are to transac
business, your customer is apt to buy NOR
you have taken with him a sherry col
D!ef II you are to make q speech, 1t wi
give you glibber tongue. Gluck coul
compose his best music by having h
piano taken into the midst Of meadow
ana bottle Of champagne placed on eac
noe OF him. The earlier you begin to lear
sne song of the drunkards the easier it !
pus none OF you are too old to learn. Yc
can begin at so or 60, under prescriptic
" " doctor for aids to digestion or brea
rs,f IA