Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-05-06
A COMPOSERS TROUBLES.
He Is So strenuously Musical He Thinks
Of Little Else.

Lawler is musician by birth,
breeding education and every in
stinct of his nature.
His father was a musician. and so
was bis fathers father. So. as his
wife plaintiyely puts it, according to
the Chicago Daily News, Gle really
can't help himself, poor dear" But
even her charity does not cover the
multitude Of sins (which heis guilty,
all on account of this prediction
handed down to him by his ances-
tors
OF course, being musician and &C.
centric, he chose pretty, dainty little
wife, with eyes and ears for something
else than the strains Of piano.
Mrs Lawler has her own troubles.
One night when she had exacted
promise from her husband to behome
to dinner on time, as she was to en-
terrain some out-of-town friends who
had been invited especially to meet
him, he arrived home just as coffee
was being served Mrs. Lawler swal-
lowed her wrath and said, sweetly:
81 am sorry you were detained at
the office, dear"
q wasn't actually detained, " Law
Ter blurted out.
The guests looked up in surprise.
''You see, my dear" Lawler began,
as he drank black coffee, unmindful
Of what should have preceded it, "that
fool conductor carried me six blocks
beyond the transfer station and l had
to take a car back"
"That shouldn't have made you an
hour late" she protested.
But you see, the second conduc-
tor carried me as far the other way"
"Oh" coldly.
"And-queerest thing-the third
carried me back again, and"
@GeOrgeW severely.
eyes, Marion"
weren't you composing?"
She might have fitted the same
tone to "Weren'tyouintoxicatet?7
''WeI, thetruth is, was going over
a little thing Of Browns. It's good,
but it needs a few changes. l think
I've got just as want it. Tltry it
on the piano"
Mrs. Lawler sighed, but followed
her guests to the music room. She
doesn't see the use Of being so streuu-
ously musical.
One Of the most trying ordeals in
Mrs. LAWYERS life is going out to con-
certs with her husband. Should the
number holding their attention hap
pen to strike his musical soul with
unusual force his head drops
forward, his shoulders follow and
soon every part Of his body is NOV
ing in perfect time to the music. His
head goes faster and faster, his mouth
flies open, his eyes glow and he is a
living embodiment Of the song.
When it ends he drops back exhausted
and perspiring.
Mrs. Lawler makes it her wifely
duty to watch him and gently pull his
coat sleeve, reminding him where he
is Then Lawler viii sit up guilty,
like a sleepy man in church, and look
about him, as much as to say: I'm
wide awake. Can'tyou see amp
The other day Mrs. Lawler went
out Of the city for several days.
Lawler, sauntering along a down
town street, heard strains of music
that he recognized as his own coming
from vaudeville theater. Naturally
interested, he went in and sat down
in conspicuous place in the front
row. 1t was a ragtime song and he
had taught the two performers to sing
it.
He listened closely, and gradually
his head fell forward, his mouth
opened and the usual performance be-
gan. Lawlerin pantomime, was more
interesting to the audience, evidently
than Lawler on the stage.
Suddenly a strong hand fell on his