The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-18
sTRIDENT TONES CALLED DOWN
Violent Singer in Church Gets I'm
welcome But Deserved Hints.
From the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
81 think you sat behind me in church
just now" said the long, angular man
who was making his way leisurely along
the avenue, apparently not gin so much of
hurry for his Sunday dinner as the
majority of the well-dressed people throng-
ing past him on the sidewalk seemed to
"Ah?'' sad the affable Individual TO
whom he had addressed the remark.
VERY likely"
YES, l should recognize you by your
voice, even if 1 had not seen you.r
Yes. 1 heard you sing. You will ex-
cuse me, 1 hope, If l say you have a re-
marka BILE voice."
Il am glad Is pleased you"
II didn't exactly say it pleased me. If
I might venture to make a suggestion.
should say that your voice, with proper
training, might don't say it could abso-
lutely, but il might--be made to fiji quite
well in congregational singing"
You think it might?'
Yes, in large Congregation, you know
1t is rather remarkable in point of vol
Il don't remember ever hearing anybody
find fault with 1t before. | thought l had
a pretty fair voice"
with freedom that was terrifying. If
anybody had ever told you, for instance,
that you sing through your nose
II think l should have told him he was
well wouldn't do that, because there
is a woe pronounced upon that kind of
talk. You will find ii some where, I, think
in the fifth chapter of Matthew. Besides
he might not be a fool"
I'D just as lief call him liar"
THAT would be unjust, because he
wouldn't be lying He would be inaccur-
ate, of course, in saying you sing through
your nose, for the truth is that you don t
your nose were stopped up
Perhaps it doesn't occur to you that
you're getting 10 be rather familiar on
short acquaintance.
'sWorse than than. I'm rather familiar
on no acquaintance-
Il think you are. / don't know you, sir
from Adams off OK.
And l don't know you from Balaam' 5
ass, except that Balaam's ass probably
sang through its ears. But that isn't the
point. have simply ventured TO tell you,
as a favor. what you acknowledge nobody
ever told you before
II don't acknowledge anything, sir"
"Well, then. you avow it. Nobody ever
told you, according to your own statement,
that you nave a voice like foghorn with
the influenza. It's great pity. Some
body ought to have told you years ago. 1t
did anybody ever tell you about that
bunch of gray hair on the back part of
your head?"
about that a thousand times. But that
ANY one ever call your attention to the
hump in the middle of your nose?'
~ can see that hump for myself. It's
n great deal more in evidence than your
miistache is. But let us not be extensively
personal I can't help the hump in my
nose any more than you can help the
spa rseness of the vegetation on your up
per lip, but you can help singing, you
II don't know what sort of idea you have
about a man minding his own business, but
II IL wasn't Sunday
LET me beg you not to raise your voice.
NV friend NOT only does IL take on that
foehorn quality. with the peculiarly nasal
intonation when you put the pressure on.
but it will cause all these returning
churchgoers to look at you curiously and
wonder If this man with the glazing eye
balls and the vibrating chin is the same
man they heard singing with such JUNCTION
\ few minutes ago, My soul, be on thy
guardi Ten thousand foes ariseW Can't
YOU see I'm doing you the kindest turn
one man can possibly do another2 Why,