Evening star., 1898-01-22
BOOM FOR BAGPiPEs
Tbs Pipers Hsroim at Dargai ssts q
Fashion.
The DrOning, Wheexy wfndbaxs Nav
he Seen Anywhere in the
Streets Of London.
From the London Man.

From the London Mall
| Fifteen months and more ago there was
recounted in these columns the genesis and
| CROWN OF threatened bagpipe boom, For
a time the craze hourished, and promised
| I'd do much; then it languished, and the
| young ladies' and gentlemen who had
bought such beautiful sets Of bagpfpes for
SOCK their hobby and disposed of their in
| struments at a loss, or laid them in tha
sarret along with the old spinnet and the
| crce-fashinoable banjo.
BUT now Presto! something has happen
| ca. 1t has happened long way ofY-out I'm
! lndfa, In fact-but 1t has given such a f,I,3n
\ to the popularity of the baxpipes that at
this moment of writing their fame ia
sreater-dnhnitely greater-than at any
| time since the 'bonny skiri O. The Cock O.
| the North swept proudly DER the bloody
| plain Of Waterloo"
| VINO cares whether the story Of the gal
iant piper at the recent charge of Darsai
Is true! Who dares to say it is no.? Ara
| mere not at 500 music halls in London and
the provinces twice 800 pipers nightly en-
acuns the scene as 1t was described by
neuters correspondent-to the intense en-
thusiasm Of the audiences and of all En-.
ehshmen-we beg pardon-Great Rritons
world? ei'in@eo
When shall the glory of the bagpipes die?
great metropolis, but in Iivernoo, c.a.s
gov, Manchester and Birmingham-has ito
paper at some hour of the day Thev have
con Home 10 Carmelite street early in the even
ing 10 1ret the souls Of the long-dead friers
| ana to set beating the pulses Of the scrihas
Itaiedonian and otherwise-whose ears
are nogged by the raucous wall Indeed
ana;, any o, tne most trenchant columns of the
TO the tune Of Annie Laurie" or tho "C,iri
Left Behind Me- Our sporting editor
mas found IN Scots Wha Hae" a most fe
cuno cum inspiration; inspiration; and our leading article
When Jamie Gangs AVA"
but n takes two pipers to do the thing
properly. One of them marches up and
Gown playing the instrument Cor is it a
handling a sheathed sword The bearing
or both performers is proud and marital
ana Scotch. Anybody could tell thew were
1S oGo'cn-even Saxon infant in arms. One
oid gentleman in Finsbury circus was so
pleased by the aspect of one of these bag.
pipe couples day or two since that he
gave them each sixpence. saying:
.. En- n, mon. 40 ye prefer playing the music
the Donny name land in musty Lunnon
streets to marching across the heather Ix,,.
the wind in your teeth?"
Ihe hrst Scotchman looked at him in sur
pIise. ihe second was taken suddenly with
eHgI0sslng pains In the pit of his stomach
Whatcher talkin abart, gov'nor? Me
an my mite buyed this ere arm origin an
THIS ere rig out down tn Ditch when the
bagpipe boom come in. It's a lot better'n
SHOWN a bloomin barrer tryin' to sell
oranges when the people has got too MANY
or EN- at home already. Oh the business
amt so bad, cept for the chilblames Won
gets on your knees, and when the kids
don't stick pins in the b'iler O. the engip'.
Me an my mite, we do wish, though. when
people give us coin, they wouldn't go tawin
of US in bloomin' furrin' Iangwidge
But, good heavens. how did you learn?
How do you manage to play?''
Ow? Eeasy enough. Nobody ain't
compiained yet Yer just squeezes the old
balloon an lets 'er squeai herself sic<
An, Lor' bless you. the sicker she soueaIs
herself the more people seems to like It.
Bl1mey, there amt no accountin' for tastes
put me an my mite makes a quid a dye
an that's all we knowsr