The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-02-23
THE AMATEUR REFORMER
He Attends a Concert and Pays He
Respects to an Encore
Eiend.


haws. was applauding with all his
might.
The other man was sitting with
folded arms and with a look of patient
endurance on his face.
A young woman with voice like
the upper part Of a picket fence had
sung a something in Italian.
with a Goose Island accent-and the
customary paroXysm of the encore
was on.
Rather a fine-lo oking girl" eau
tiously remarked the man with the
folded arms.
$50, 'so,' replied the man who had
been applauding.
"Somewhat-er pleasing singer?'
80, 1 don't know. I've heard bet
ter"
Acquaintance or personal friend CT
yours, perhaps?'
Never saw her before. Don't know
her from the Goddess of Liberty"
POSSIBLY friend of some friend?'
Not so far as I know"
"Then perhaps you won't object to
my saying that she can't sing in the
same class with a well-trained OWL"
Not at all. That's all right"
II wouldn't mention it to anybody
whose feelings it might hurt, or who
might carry it to her, but it is crime
to encourage singer like that to per-
severe in the desperate career on
which she has entered"
"Hey?"
81 say"
l. no
woman came on the stage again, with
smiles all over her face and a piece
of sheet music in her hands. The rap
turous applauding of the forty or fifty
persons responsible for her recall
ceased, and she sang ballad of four
or five stanzas-in English, as all great
singers do when encored-which was
acknowledged by a small, but earn
est, claque of devotees scattered
through the hall, after which she was
allowed to retire, with only one more
recall for the purpose of bowling her
thanks.
The man with the folded arms drew
long breath.
''Thank heaven!" he murmured.
eve don't have to go through that
again!"
A young man made up in the SIM
iiitude of Reuben from central In
diana appeared next.
His act consisted of local hits, inter-.
spersed with reference here and there
to some business house, probably
by previous arrangement with the pro-
prietors of said business house, and
wound mp with song.
He was recalled by another small,
hut persistent and noisy, claque. and
favored the weary audience with an
other song.
How many numbers are there on
the bill of fare?" asked the man with
the folded arms.
''Twelve.'
"How far down have we got?"
"This is the sixth"
''Then we have only IL more to pass
through. Why cont you clap your
hands a little louder? Maybe you can
bring him out for third song. There
are at least Is or 20 other persons rails
ing hullabaloo. Have the worth of
your money while you are about il"
eff 1 wasn't getting any more good
out of this performance than you are
I wouldn't stay to see it over"
20, yes, you would. if your wife and
sister were in the front part of the
house, where you couldn't get at them
to drag them out. without raising a
disturbance, and you had promised to
drop in before the thing was over and
wait for them. Clap harder, man, or
he won't come. Stamp your feet lit
tie"
81 reckon a man who wants to hear
performance repeated has right to
call for it, hasn't he, sir?"
Certainly. And if he's here on a
6eadhead ticket"
"By cash, sir, didn't come in on
deadhead ticket! 1 paid my way!"
"Then, of course, you ought to in
sist on getting your moneys worth.
If you can have two concerts for the
price of one, have them, by all means.
Haven't you the right? Most Ger
tainly. What are the rights of the
$50 people who don't want two con-
certs in one compared with those of
the so who do? Who cares for their
sufferings? Let the so have their way,
Clap harder, man! Clap harder!"
''I'n clap my hands all 1 want to.
See?'
"Yes, see. 1 cid you the honor at
first to think you might be friend of
some of the performers, but I mis-