The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-15
MUSICAL NOTES.

A specialist in nervous diseases
whose opinion is an authority in Ger
many, has recently published an article
in La Science Illustre" in which he
asserts that the abuse of music in
general and of the piano in particular.
predisposes directly to most kinds of
neurosis. chlorisis, dyspepsia, brain
trouble and other malidies of this tyne.
ly "abuse" the author means for ex-
ample, the premature age at which
parents cause young children to begin
the study of the piano, prolonged ex-
ercise at scales by young girls for three
or four hours a day, etc. According to
the observations of DR.. WetZhold on
1000 women who had begun piano les
sons at the age of twelve years, more
than 500 are today subject to some
form Of nervous disease. on the other
hand, of 1000 women that had never
touched a piano, scarcely 100 had ever
suffered from nerve troubles The
author declares i'm conclusion that the
study OF the piano should never be
begun before the age of sixteen years.
The Scranton Glee society on Tues
day evening filled the air with sweet
music as they passed through different
avenues troly riding. A series of sere-
nades were given by them at the homes
of Hon. William Connell Colonel f. II.
Ripple and Charles Robinson. The
singers are of the best that have ever
been brought together in Scranton. Mr..
John +. Watkins, the musical director
of the Glee club, has given a fair sam
pie of the excellent singing which will
be one of the chief events of the mail
carriers convention in this city in Sep
tember.
w. D. Bloodgood, a New York broker,
has secured a South Dakota divorce
from his wife, katherine Bloodgood,
the noted contralto singer and stage
beauty. Cruelty was the alleged cause,
although it is said the action of the
woman in selling her kisses at auction
to bidders who would pay anyway from
500 to $500 at a st. Louis charity fair
year ago was the case. Mrs. Blood
good, who is a remarkably handsome
young woman, was introduced To
Scranton audiences three or four years
ago, by Professor George b. Carter,
and created a very favorable impress
sion.
over in Philadelphia the other day a
friend of Mrs. Sousa. who was quaker
City belle when she married the gallant
leader of the Marine band, told me the
following story, with which goes a
Philadelphia affidavit. says a writer
in the New York Telegraph. 1t seems
that when the musician set forth like
a modern Jason, from his native Greece
to find the golden fleece Of success on
these shores, His sole luggage was con-
tanned in chest marked:
JOHN p. so. L. S. A.'
Ry some custom house freak Mr.. Sos
destiny and his destination became so
cntangled that when he landed at Cas-
tie Garden he found an addition tackled
onto his name, and himself and his
luggage labeled:
JOHN p. SOUSA."
He accepted the addition as an omen
that the u. S. A. was his, and proceeded
to make it so And certainly if there is
one musician more than an other who
owns the United States at this moment
it is the gallant little man who was
born So and baptized Sousa by the au-
thorities when he landed among us
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