The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-22

l -hODerI Burns.
Paderewski recently met with a singu-
lar rebuff from London shoeblack. Up
/ on being offered an extra sixpence the
/ urchin replied: mo, sir, keep it your
/ self; you need it more than 1 do. Take
1T and get your hair cut"
| We have great faith in the humaniz-
/ ing power of music, andespecially of mu-
/ sic in the house and the home Even in
a moral point of view it is thoroughly
harmonizing in its influence. To see a
family grouped round the piano-forte in
the evening, blending their voices to-
! gether in the strains of Haydn or Mozart
or in the better known and lover melodies
of our native land, is a beautiful sight
| a graceful and joyous picture of domes-
tic happiness. The mother takes the
piano-forte accompaniment, the father
leads with violin or flute or, ii may be,
supports the melody with the bass, while
the young group furnishes the soprano,
the alto, or tenor parts. What is more
likely to make home attractive, or to
cause children to grow up love or do
nestle life than such a practice as this?
The young ought to be sedulously taught
music, so that, when they grow up, no
youth no operative, no man, nor woman.
may be without the soIace Of song. Let
taste of home music be cultivated in
the rising generation, and we shall ans
wer for the good effects.
Music is a language, the ideal Of speech;
we can Imagine its existence before ar
ticulate speech was known. Birds sang
in the garden Of Eden before Adam gave
them name. \ singing-bird was the
first music master; the wind breathing
through water-reeds. signing through the
forest, kissing through tall grasses. the
rhythmic beat of the crested waves the
monotonous bass Of the waterfall. made
harmony and melody before Pythagoras
dreamed OF the music of the spheres or
Herpes declared music to be the knowi-
edge OF the order OF all things We call
& pretty conceit Of the old philosopher
who believed tho order OF the stars 10 be
a written scroll OF music, two stars
(Which are said to have appeared centu-
ries after his death in the places he desig-
nated) only wanting TO complete the ce-
lestial harmony. There Is en- extremely
poetic belief among me High .anders that
ly keen AZ the approach OF death that IA
lures divine symphony can 5e heard
with all It's ravishing sweetness. d8Ilirg
the sense Of pain and reconrifng the sou!
to its departure. From this superstition.
II We VIII. comes their custom a the
last moment approaches, Of bearing the
dying from the close sheaine 10 the
open air, where undistur5ed he can lis
ten II the fo7ds OF Humboldt. 70 the
thousand voices % nature speaking %
the thoughtful and pious soul o. man.
II S related OF Davis. ire vioiinist. that
NJ once dropped his Sow from his tre1lb-
ling hand. although he had just PLAYED
in his accustomed mastery manner. ard
that when he vas much excited h c51,d
never produce q good staccato. AteBne
Patti asserts shat 70 this day she al
ways feels anxious when she IS 90 sing
onlethi-g new for the arst tine, no mat
Ter now well she may hsrs studded g.,
Another priu1e donna, Il said could
rst he persuaded 70 ST towr even foz ene
moment upon ths day % her app ezrarce. .
but walked the ro7-n necessarily. cceu- .
pied win her needle, O. huuirning Ter .
part. but never taking ssat uut:l the