River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-11-13
WHY WOMEN SHOULD SING.
Il Ix q Habit Which Makes Them
Cheerful and Helps to Make
Them Robust.

| There is little or no doubt that the
woman who is even only tolerably
good looking, but who can sing we'll
enough to appear in public finds more
ardent admirers among the opposite
tex than the merely pretty woman
who has no similar ability. Even men
who are not at all musical feel attract
ed toward girl who has good voice
! md is not too nervous to use 1T, says
| household writer.
| Women who sing are generally
.obust and cheerful. This is absolute
! s true, sweeping as it may appear to
| be at first glance. "A woman who
would sing we'll must learn the art of
filing her lungs with air in one deep
| breath; she is bound to do this or she
won't be able to sing. When she has
| learned how to do this she has learned
one of the profoundest secrets of
| physical fitness, and cheerful dispo-
sition follows perfect health as night
| follows days. A woman who would
| sing we'll must learn the art of putting
her mind wholly out of touch with
worrying details of everyday life for
at least given time every "a hours;
she can't possibly think of matters of
domestic nature while engaged in
her daily practice. Should she do so
she is but wasting her efforts and will
never become a singer in the true
sense of the word.
These two points are all important;
they in themselves will be enough to
secure attention from discerning
young ,wife-seekers, yet when in addi-
ton to these points there is good
voice as well, how can anyone have
ground for asking why women who
sing succeed in getting husbands
quicker than the women who don't?
Women who sing go to twice as many
house parties and picnics as their sis
tiers who do not sing. This being so,
it is but natural that they should meet
twice as many eligible young men.
Again, the songstress who is at a
party or picnic is singled out and
begged to add an item to the enter
tainment programme. She accedes to
the wish and for time she rivets the
attention of all present.
Her good qualities. are bound to be
seen. for the simple reason that she
is criticised, as she could not be were
it not for the fact that she stands
alone for a space and is the goal of
all eyes. Her own nonsinging sister
may be just as pretty and lovable
girl, but her most attractive qualities
are not discovered half SO quickly be-
cause she is dumped down among the
crowd of visitors and is not invited TO
stand up for notice-an inspection.
The girl who sings doesn't know what
| indigestion is; she is making her blood
! purer and richer as she sings, every
note being a blow at the torpid condi-
ton from which indigestion is known
| to spring. AS she is free from this
common ailment among girls she is,
as result, free from the dependency
and gloom that follow in it's train. Her
| happy face and laughing eyes do not
| fail to arouse first the interest and
| then the admiration of some nice
young man who is earning a good sal
AIRY and who is beginning to think that
| it is about time he took unto himself
| a wife
The girl who sings, having learned
how to put away life's little worries
during the practice hour, learns also
how to put them away at other times.
This enables her to keep an eye open
for the pleasanter side issues of life.
She sees the beauty of the sunset and
| the charm of noble action. These
things put a light into her life that is
reflected in all her words and deeds.
She is elevated for no other reason
than that she is put in possession of
| dreams that are unknown to the wom-
al who does not sing. Added to her
| gift of voice is the benefit that has
come to her through strictly training
| it-for no one will argue that only
voice is necessary to a singer. Art is
needed almost as much as voice, if
singing worth the name is to be had
The girl who sings is asked to become
member of a choral society or per-
| haps choir. Any mere man knows
that directly a girl joins choir she
may become an engaged young lady as
if by magic. Girls who become mem
bers of choirs are never old maids
unless they are determined to be so
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