Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-10-31
THEIR MUSICAL EVENING.
How a Trained Artist Was Enter
tanned at an American Conn
try House.

try House.
The man who has no music in his soul
now and then gets his innings-wit-
ness this rue tale of a man who did
have music in his soul. He had also a
fine voice, carefully trained. He had,
indeed, spent seven years and much of
his patrimony with the best masters
abroad. He cares nothing for Society,
with the capital letter, but since he
chances to belong to an old and rich
family and is, moreover, the soul of
good nature, it is impossible wholly
to escape visiting at some of the great
country houses, says the Washington
Star.
One of these visits CHANGED to be at
the home of a young woman widely
known for her wealth and her chart
ties. She lives in a palace in one of
New York's SWEETEST suburbs, so the
musical mans friends felt that he was
playing in great luck to get an invita-
ton. He himself may have had a dim
and shadowy notion of the same sort.
If he did, it died young. It was a week
end visit. He expected, of course, that
some part of Sunday would be given
to music, and so took along various
sacred and solemn things, fitted to the
time and place.
He guessed right-there was music.
The young lady herself made it, sing
ing Moody and Sankey's hymns. TAX
ing the leading part herself, while the
visitor was assigned a second. She
said graciously that he sang well-she
had NOT hopn haffor ooonnanoo:aI h1,4
a few times in her life. This, she let
him know, was high praise; for they
were a musical family and always
played and sang with their quests.
There was one exception to the family
proficiency-her brother Jack, Just
home from college. He could neither
sing nor play-but then he loved mu-
sic we'll enough TO make up for the lack
of it.
Then she turned the artist over to
Jacks tender mercies. Jack demanded
songs-coon songs, lots of them. When
the musician demurred, Jack said. in
great amazement: "Why. say! We
thought you were a musical fellow!"
ooh, SO l amin a way, but, you see,
my American education has been a bit
neglected. I truly don't know a single
coon song" said the visitor. Jack whis-
tied and stuck his hands III his
pocket, declaring: 81 call that a
shame" Then he frightened and
added: "But we'll have some fun even
if you don't. Ever see that thing
which plays the piano? No? Well,
I've got a bully fine one-In put it on
and wind it to play all the verynewest
ones-then you can go back and tell
the fellows in town that you learned
more out here than Paris could teach
you"
"That will be great" said the Wis.
flor.
Jack was as good as his word. He
rolled out the Angelus and worked it
industriously for three hours-a So
ciety for preventing cruelty to coon
songs does not yet exist. When the
youth babe his visitor good night he
slapped him on the back and said,
cheerily: "Now. you see what a man
loses by leaving home. Tt would have
been jolly to hear you, but I don't
know that we lost so much-we had a
fine musical evening after ALI"
House Ventilation in Bombay.
Most of the new houses in Bombay
have a fine show of windows on the
outside, but no corresponding open
ing to allow a current of air to pass
through. The mean annual tempera-
ture is 1918 degrees Fahrenheit, and
the mean relative humidity " per
cent. The mean annual range of tenn
perature is 1913 degrees, and there are
periods during the rains when the
diurnal range of temperature does
not exceed two degrees, and, unless
there is wind, ventilation is practi-
cally stopped because the outer air
and that in the buildings are reduced
to nearly one temperature. With the
thermometer at 50 to "a degrees, and
the air heavily charged with moist
ure, the surplus heat of the human
body escapes too slowly, and much
discomfort ensues. AS it is not pos
sible to dry the air in an ordinary
house, the usual remedy is to pro-
duce a current by means OF a punkah.
and although the influence of this is
very local, it has been found hat IL
the worst Bombay weather life is
made tolerable in its current. The
chief drawback of the punkah is the
punkahwalla. He is dirty, unreliable,
especially at night, and his work,
counting day and night, costs "a ru-
PEGS per month for a single punkah
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