Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-11-10
1HU.MMlNe IN Pu BIT AcEs.


mon, moro OTten tri,an women, Arc
Guilty OF tho Ntsdep,eanor. .$S.t
:. (which 'l'sg IS Il, men or &csSiefs, who
are most given to singing 6" queried
the woman.
"Of course do not mean to ask
whether there are more men OF. We
mon musicians No one cares any
thing about that AS long as tho
piece of humanity which claims to
be musician is one the lover of
music does not care whether it wears
trousers or skirts. %ft%,,s5 #. %l n
''But the singer mean is that ias
dividual you sit beside in tho cars or
pass in the street who is humming
a}tune. Physicians, believe, have
proved that such little idiosyncrasies
| show q weakness Of the brain In 2er-
tain directions, but If it is 80 it is Of
such a delicately superficial nature
that other niortals, who have other
like minute weaknesses in other di-
rections, would never know tho diff
ference, yet the street singer is fun
ny, unless you happon to be tired Or
cross. Then he is maddening.
II sat beside one of these singers
in the surface car the other day.
noticed him casually as sat down,
thinking, without putting tho
thought into words, that ho was a
fine looking man. / had view Of
his profile later, and tLat confirmed
my first good impression.
"Ho was rather past middle age,
just reaching the iron gray ago Of o
we'll preserved man. Ho was portly,
well dressed and evidently gentle
man. He had dignified air, and
his face was almost stern. This OK
preston was emphasized by the
mouth, which had thin lips pressed
closely together and dropping n lit
tie at tho corners.
II should never have thought of
him again II l had not heard, as l
sat looking through my shopping
list, strange sound, which seemed
to come from beside mo. It was n
peculiar sound, coming at regular
intervals, something between tho
sound of saw and the purring of a
bass voiced cat. | turned involun-
tarily to look at tho man. The sound
certainly proceeded from his throat,
but there was not tho quivor Of a
single feature, and tho stern mouth
was as immovable as before.
II was fascinated. l looked away.
and, with studied carelessness, look
ed back again, again looked away
and again looked back. Tho samo
buzzsaw sound was coming from
the same direction, and there was
still that stern, smileless face.
should almost huvo thought my ears
had deceived me il those deep bass
notes, which, it seems, must have
been a prelude, had not suddenly
changed to tum, tidy dunn, did-y
dunn, dunn, dunn, rising and falling
III tho most lively fashion, though
there was no tuno which could roc
ognizo. Evidently my noighbor was
not musician in the accepted sense
of the word, but there was no mis-
taking the fact that the singing,
such MS it was, proceeded from his
vocal organs, though there was ney-
er once while sat there, SO far as I
could SEQ, the movement of q muscle
of that importurbablo face.
"You will find woman humming
occasionally, though not so often.
She huns in II steady monotone and
is moro likely to show outward and
visible signs Of it, and don't think
| over passed n woman in the street
who was humming. Why is it9
don't know, | am suro, unless it is
another evidence Of sex in gray mat
ter. Now York Times.