The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-09-20


scent Organ Causes Her Audience
TO Follow = Romance of Love and
Travel by the Sense of Smell Alone.
Description of Organ Used.
Rhinotica (nose music is the latest
and Signora Rita Piselli is its prophet
says Heloise, Comtesse d'Alemcourt.
special Paris correspondent of the New
York World. Artists who sing through
their noses have always been plenty,
the Lord knows, but to appeal to the
musical understanding through the
sense OF smell is a novelty, at least in
public performances.
On the Midway Plaisance. between
Loie Fuller's stamping ground and La
Roulotte, between fire eaters and danse
Gu ventre artists, stands the pavilion
where the mistress of the music of the
future holds forth. Cards admitting
several hundred invited guests at her
opening night bore the proviso, Gen
tiemen who smoke and ladies using
perfume cannot enter"
The hall was bare Of decorations;
not banner or flag, not q garland or
curtain visible. Under the big opening
In the ceiling was an arrangement of
FANS There was an organlike instru-
ment on the stage, the unoccupied
space being shut off by board walls
plainly painted. After awhile a gen.
tlemanly barker" stepped before the
audience to explain. Music" he said,
''has grown to be power which over
hod fha R<.Fk ~, ~
ems the health of civilized nations by
excessive irritation of the nerve of
hearing. Directors Of insane asylums
say that music sends them thousands
of victims, mostly women who sue
cumbed to attempts at Paderewskism
or to the din of barbarous brass COM
bined with the below of trumpets, Vio-
Inns. drums and what not"
Here the speaker dropped his voice
to whisper. Ladies' and gentlemen"
he said, you are all conscious of the
power of smell. There isn't one among
you who was not at one time or anoth
er carried back to long forgotten scenes
by coming upon a rare flower or per-
fume which you knew in the past as
the favorite of some person dear to
you. We have harnessed the perfumes
of the world to serve the new art"
The barker withdrew with a bow to
make room for the signora- Signora
Rita also unburdened herself. She said
she had decided to give her first smell
symphony with word accompaniment
The theme was "The Voyage" The
room was darkened, and presently the
stiffness was broken by ''click" from
the orsanlike instrument. 1t sounded
as If a valve had been opened, and the
smell Of fresh tar invaded our nostrils
Immediately.
Tart 1 thought of coal gas, the trag-
edies so frequently enacted by this pop
ular means of suicide in our capital
and whispered to my neighbor, III
must be journey into higher regions
But the signora knew better. Her per
suasive voice told of the gulf Of Ma
pies, its shipyards and forests of masts
of the red capped lazzaroni, of sailors
| living on the strand or working because
| they got tired of being idle. Next
| gust of wind; the fan was chasing tai
and lazzaroni heavenward, and som'
more pressing of the button empha
/
| The lovers were going to some flow
er strewn island. We shifted, one afte
the other, salt laden ozone, balsaml
land air, the fragrance of mile heur
and southern orchards. Signora Rita
noetrv took a mignonesque turn an
eitron changed to incense. We were Il
church. A wedding being "on," ther
were plenty of dressed up and enviou
women and girls; hence the magnol
perfume descending from the organ
It was a telling trick and impresse
mo unite as much as the romance" i
schumann's D moll symphony when
heard it for the first time.
The audience had warmed up littl
by little, but now succumbed TO IN
charm and expressed it's interest
whisDered exclamations. surmlses an
! prophecies.
After the magnolia intermezzo ther
was more incense. / imagined
, could see the priest bless the happ
connie. his white hands stretched ou
"Noyv off for the wedding tripT Hal
+ nv people, they went by carriage! WI
b noes the smell of horses. The JouTne
vent through a sunny landscape; yo
conld smell the leather Of the caTrlae
broilinC under the sun. After awhl
thev sat down to an imprompta lunc
= The practical bride fried eggs over
chatting dish, adding slices OF hacon'
was most appetizing. After iunch
stroll into the country. New mo"
bovp cried six or seven ladies at on
d and everybody applauded.
d We accompanied the uaVeie
"a through a pine forest and put up L
:e the night at the bridegroom's ancestr
ID Roll The steward had arranged
o,cIock tea. All these past weeks
bod dined and lunched on Chinese nc
rors but no one remembered the
- when Rita sent the aroma across I
6arkened footlights. The lovers n
ID II troiled sardines on toast. Finally I
tenants appeared to offer congratul
lions We smelled the smoke OF tn'
torcbes and almost heard the oool
i'd hoom Of the cannons, so lively was
NJ odor of powder. .
of As to the instrument producing
ly various perfumes it is on the oroer
an organ. is played by finger keys a
". nadaIs and consists Of large numr
- lines Mt the ends Of which the ?
fp,nery reservoirs are locateu- =,