The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-19

Inc pdtnos is not, certainly, Subtle-it is
| not In the later manner of Henry James
| but Ii is, as a rule, sincere. 1t discusses
| young firemen killed on duty and the grief
of their children and wives. 1t discusses
| young and innocent maidens whose lives
are ruined by wicked millionaires 1t dis
cusses the sorrow of mothers over their
| dead children.
A typical illustrated song is when the
| Robin Red Breast Sings His Home, Sweet
Home" The words are:
Meath tree beside the river sits woman
While the sun is brightly shining and the
In her hand she holds letter. old and worn
| ,-, and stained with tears.
It's a promise from her sailor boy, love OF
other years.
They say she comes there daily. since the
In the summer many years ago. and hopes on
meet her nevermore.
But still she keeps his letter. and she reads it
Chorus
When the robin redbreast sings his home.
will meet you by the river where we always
loved TO roam,
And my heart is filled with yearning for the
| When the robin redbreast sings his home, sweet
home.
They were playmates fond and happy at the
- schoolhouse on the hill.
- there beside the mill
That he told her how he loved her. and he
. won her gentle heart;
1t Is there in tears he left her when he told her
- they must part.
| Then one day came a letter. reading; Sweet
heart mine. be true,
When the robin redbreast sings his home. sweet
49, nome. I'll be with you
Now she's watching and she's waiting for her
And sun believes he'll meet her as she reads
these words again:
-Cbor,,.
When the robin redbreast sings his home. sweet
1 will meet you by the river where always
And my heart is flled with yearnins for the
When the robin rsdbrsast sings his home, sweet
home.
AN OUTDOOR SET OF PICTURES.
Mr. Lubin has illustrated this song with
sixteen pictures The pictures were made
out OF doors. The photographer Of Mr..
Lubin might have been seen, on a fine
morning IN the spring. journeying toward
the country on a trolley In company
with boy and girl young woman,
sailor. and an aged lady Of sixty-eight or
| seventy years. These were the models
wherewith the song was to be illustrated.
The group got off the car at a house
that resembled a schoolhouse and on
the lawn, In the shade of great trees a
photograph was made of the boy and girl
This photograph illustrated the line
They we're playmatss fond and happy at the
schoolhouse on the HILL
The photographer now led the way to
a place two miles farther on, where there
was a picturesque old mill Here in a
tender attitude, he photographed the young
woman and the sailor.
Look tender and affectionate," he said.
Remember that you are illustrating the
lines
They were sweethearts in the village and twas
there beside the mill
That he told her how he loved her. and he won
her gentle heart.
The young woman now posed in an atti-
tude of heartbroken grief She leaned
against the mill wall. and the sailor, some
picture, his back to the poor girl Thus
was illustrated the line
1t ives there in tears he left her. when he told
her they must part.
"A mile to the east" said the photog
rapher, lies a stream that will serve for
river. We must get over there now. We
must walk mile because this song writer
did he need to 90 it? Is the song any better
for rivers presence in it?"
Not Bit said the old lady.
In this illustrating business" the pho
tographer went on, there have been times
when have had to walk fifteen or twenty
miles to introduce into a picture a ruined
bridge. l have risked my neck to pose
girl on a rocky eminence. Once l trav-
eled three hundred miles to get a photo
graph that would illustrate the line:
In her cot beside the rock-girt sea.
Here the photographer made a gesture
or disgust and contempt.
why 'rock-girt?'" he cried. 1.-The sea
would have been all right. But 'rock-girt'
there Is no rock-girt sea in this part of
be more careful. The way thew drag in
scenery is scandalous"
BY THE RIVERSIDE
Conversing pleasantly, the little party
came in time to the river. Here with a
letter in hand, the old woman posed She
sat under tree, and the sunlight Law I'm
pools at her feet, though to get this sun
light. effect the photographer had to climb
the tree and cut away branch with his
penknife. The picture that he made was TO
illustrate the lines:
Meath tree beside river sits a woman, old
While the sun is brightly shining and the robins
singing gay;
In her hand she holds letter, old and worn and
stained with tears.
In this manner, taking infinite Mains and
consulting every little while the text of the
song, Mr. Lubin's photographer made his
pictures. He made sixteen pictures i'm ALI
That Is the number that goes. as a rule
with each song.
Mr.. Lubin has illustrated a great multi
tude of songs with both plain and brilliant
~ colored pictures. The pictures are fur
nlshed to the theatrical world in the form
of lantern slides. Everybody knows how
the illustrated song singer works-in a uni
form usually, standing at one side of the
darkened stage.
The following are some of the songs that
have been illustrated The names of these
songs are enticing. Reading them. who
would not like TO read the songs them
selves?
THE Convict's Letter from Home"
Please, Sir. Don't Ask Me Again" "A
Castle of Wasted Hopes" I'm jail on
Name Upon a Tree Just a Little Attic
but It's Home" He Sent Me Back r.
YOU" You Can Mend Broken Promise
but not Broken Heart" He's Sleeping
in Lonely Southern Grave"
Two popular illustrated songs here do
scribed in pictures are Jerusalem and
THE Miners Home, Sweet Home" Every
body is familiar with the words of "Jerusa
lem. " beginning Last night 1 lay a-sleeD-
! ing. The dream of heaven and angels
beautifully told in words is Illustrates In
pictures of heavenly scenes in which
children posed as angels.
1t Is story of happy home life that 10
presented In the pictures illustrating the
song, THE Miners Home. Sweet Home"
The outdoor scenes in this SERIES including
the one given here, showing the miner
climbing over the fence, with his smiling