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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
who Invented the Alphabet.
Harper's Magazine for March.

The two nations credited with this Won
derful achievement are the Phoenicians
and the Persians. But it is not usually
conceded that the two are entitled to any
thing like equal credit. The Persians, prob
ably i'm the time of Cyrus the Great, used
certain characters of the Babylonian script
for the construction of an alphabet; but
al this time the Phoenician alphabet had
undoubtedly been in use for some centuT-
les. and II is more than probable that the
Persian borrowed his idea OF an. alphabet
from a PhOenician source And that. OF
course. makes all the difference. Granite /
the idea OF an alphabet. il requires no great
reach of constructive genius 10 supply a
set of alphabetical characters; though even
here, it may be added parenthetically, a
study OF the development of alphabets will
show that mankind has all along had a
characteristic propensity 10 copy rather
than 10 invent.
Regarding the Persian alphabet maker,
then. as an copyist rather than true in
Ventor. IL remains TO turn attention To the
Phoenician source, whence as Is common
~ believed. the original alphabet which be-
came 1.-The mother of all existing alpha
bets came into being. II must be adj
mitted at the outset that evidence for the
Phoenician origin OF this alphabet is ira
ditional rather than demonstrative. The
Phoenicians were the great traders OF
antiquity: undoubtedly they were largely
responsible for the transmission of the
alphabet from one part OF the world TO an
other, once IL had been invented.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20

present opera season, through the middle
West with the Theodore Thomas Orchestra,
which will occupy his time until the 1st Of
June. after which he goes 10 Italy, where
a number of special operate engagements
have been arranged for him. Ia October
next Campanari is 10 begin transconu-
mental concert tour at the head of his own
company, which will include Mrs Cutter
Savage. soprano, Miss Dorothy Hoyie, Vlo-
linist. and Mr.. Ward Stephens, pianist.
Mr.. Elliott Schenck's grand opera Tess. -
with a libretto based on Thomas Hardy's
famous novel of Tess of the D'Urber-
villes," is promised a production late this
season or early next by Henry w. Savage.
1t is said that Mr.. Savage regards the
young composers work worthy to rank
with masterpieces by any of the modern
grand opera composers. Tess Will prob
repertoire of the English Grand Opera Com
pany, which will be at English's this week.
Ysaye the great violinist, viii begin an
other American tour next November, the
contract having been closed by cable last
week. The violinist is at present guest
of the Prince of Monaco at Monte Carlo.
Two concerts will be given in New York.
and Ysaye will visit all the large cities of
the United States. 1t will be his first APP
pearance here since 1888.
One of the weTl-known members of Henry
w. Savage's English Grand Opera orches-
ira is Lucia Morealle. the harpist Signora
Morealle is a sister of the conductor. Eu-
gene Morealle, formerly conductor of Mr..
SaVage's orchestra. She is an accomplished
soloist as well as orchestra player.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
Miss Atkins's Recital.

One of the most talented of Indianapolis
contraltos. Florence Gallup Atkins. will ap
pear in song recital at the Propylaeum next
Friday evening, under the auspices of the
First Baptist Church. She will be assisted
by Miss Carrie Hyatt. the accomplished
pianist, who will play her accomplishments,
Miss Benaldine Smith, the violinist, and
Edward Z. Igelmann, 'cellist.
Miss Atkins who has voice of remarka-
bic sweetness, studied for three years in Chi
oago with that excellent voice trainer, Mrs.
Anna Croft Bryant and prepared during
that time for a career as a concert and ora
torio singer. She has already filled a num-
Der of important concert engagements in In
diana, Illinois and Tennessee, and scored
great success last summer as the soloist at
various Chautauqua concerts Miss Atkins
appeared in recital in Chicago during her
stay in that city and won words of praise
from the music critics of the Western me-
tropOliS. The musical editor of the Chicago
Examiner said of one of her performances:
Her singing is artistic and she possesses
personal beauty that adds charm TO
her song" She has been engaged for nu-
merous recitals in different cities of the mid
West during the spring and will spend the
summer singing at Chautauqua concerts in
the East.
The programme for Miss Atkins's recital
Will be as follows:
ca The Years at the Spring" Beach
(a) MY Heart at Thy Sweet Voice..
From Samson ct Dalila"
(b) ''Habanera OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. BiZet
From Carmen"
(c) 'Nur Wer die Schnsucht Kermit.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. TSchalkowski
Violin Obligato, Miss Smith:
(a( Sapphic Ode. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Brahms
So} Mohin ...;;;..i................... .Schupert
(c) fruhlingS CLAUDE ......-.........Sc Schubert
I'D Old German Love Rhyme.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Meyer Helmund
Ncl NiuInunS
"a AIR Tor G.. string. .......... Bach w llhelml
Violin with Cello ObligatO. Miss Smith
and Mr.. Igelmann.
Miss Smith.
(a) The Lass with the Delicate Air"
Cb) Wed Better Bide Awee" (Old
oNVlShl .-............-.... .NtidIlDcl
(c) THE Ould Plaid Shawl (Old Irish)
I1dylleS
cd "Bendemeer's Stream (Old Irish)
..s- ....-.--.-.-...-...-.... bdlty
(e) Sweet Genevieve' ................. Tucker
(a) May Day" .......................W Matthew
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
Ate ~ Soft Boiled Eggs
Kansas City Journal.

Kansas City Journal.
Three and one-half dozen soft-boiIed eggs
were eaten by Isaac Brady. commission
merchant. inside Of an hour and half at
one OF the restaurants IN the city market
yesterday, and at the conclusion of this
feat Brady wanted 10 bet s. that he could
make away with another dozen.
Il amt feeling very well this morning
still. / feel as if / could eat two dozen
eggs" observed Brady to Fred Bescher
The egg-eating began when Bescher said
There is - cents; that will buy two
dozen eggs. IL you eat them III pay the
bill. and If you don't. you are 10 pay
The bet was taken up by Brady and two
dozen eggs were bought at stal and
turned over TO the restaurant keeper TO be
boiled The first installment consisted of
nine eggs and these disappeared with sur
prIsing speed. Nine more went rs readily
the same way. and the remaining SIN were
promptly disposed OF.
Brady smacked his lips. looked despair
ing!y on the .heap Of empty shells before
They just gave me an appetite. l wish
i had a dozen more.
BET you can't eat dozen challenged
the restaurant keeper.
ITS a so. Get the dozen ready, was
BradyS acceptance.
Twelve more eggs. soft-bOiled. were set
before him. ard still the champion egS~eat-
er showed no III effects
a half-dozen more would not go amiss. -
he suggested, and he was taken up. Those
who We're footing the bill became alarmed.
and with the view OF winning at least one
bet the bettoTs put few drops OF syrup OF
ipecac into the eggs. Brady discovered
' the presence of the drug and made a wry
face, but that was all. He pitched into the
eggs and ate them without a murmur.
"In bet - with any man that i can eat
another dozen challenged Brady.
No one could be found with the temerity
90 ri3k that sum. 50 Brady got down from
the stool. saying: II ought 10 have some-
thing 20 drink 20 wash them DOWN
He stepped across the street into a sa-
loon anu washed them down" with two
big glasses OF beer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
Musical Notes.

Adele Hippins relates a new anecdote of
Hans Won Bulow in the Allgemeine Musk
Zetung. \ lady said to him: Il have
heard that you once publicly played a piece
which you had never studied or played. but
had simply memorized with your eyes A"
The eminent pianist replied: Many fool
ish things are related about me, but this
story happens TO be true. L had promised
a friend 10 play of his compositions at
my next concert, but had not been able TO
find time 10 play il over even once. / took
the score along on trip. studied my part
in the carriage, and in the evening played
il at the concert. This kind OF study first
with the head, then with the fingers
recommend TO every artist. Musicians
should never travel without taking along a
volume of music to peruse on the way
Signor Campanari. the popular baritone
OF the Metropolitan Opera Company. is 20
make concert tour after the close OF the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
Golden Jubilee of the Maennerchor.

The indianapolis Maennerchor will cele-
brate its fiftieth anniversary with three
days jubilee festival, beginning Thursday
evening, June 23 The Maennerchor was
organized June, 1854, in little back room
on Washington street by seven young Ger
mans who missed the many pleasures of the
popular songs of their fatherland. To-day
the MaennerchOr has over 500 members and
stands foremost among the German singing
societies of the West Its home on East
Washington street, with its beautiful hail.
is one of the finest clubhouses in the city.
Edward Longerich and Fred p. Rush, two
of the founders. are still members, the
others being dead.
Great preparations are being made to
make the festival worthy of one of the best
singing societies in the country. The active
members of the Musikverein and the Lieder
kranz of this city the Liederkranz of
Louisville, the Maennerchor Of Columbus,
o.. and the Liederkranz of Cincinnati, max
ing combined chorus of 800 male and $50
female voices, will assist in the festival.
besides several SoloistS. The Philharmonic
Orchestra of Louisville, consisting of sixty
performers, has been engaged. THE chorus
will be rendered under the direction of
Professor Bellnger. The Maennerchor be-
erbund, the executive officers of the bund
with Professor Deiler, of New Orleans, as
president, will also participate.
The festival will begin with a reception
at the Maennerchor hall on Thursday even
ing. June %, TO which only members and
invited guests will be admitted. A concert
will be given at Tomlinson Hall on Friday.
evening. The hall is TO be handsomely
decorated for this occasion. All the singing
societies. with the Philharmonic Orchestra
will participate The combined societies
will render several numbers. 1t will be a
treat long to be remembered when all these
voices with years of training, join together
In song. assisted by the Philharmonic Or
chestra Saturday afternoon and evening
a great forest festival at the German Park
in Sugar Grove avenue will be given. At
this festival a large stage will be built in
the grove, where categorical musical num-
beTs will be presented.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
The Coming '.ParsifaI, Concert.


The New York symphony Orchestra,
which is to make its appearance here in
April. under the leadership of Mr. Walter
Damrosch, is, perhaps, the best-known or
ganization of it's kind in this country, it's
fame not being confined TO New York city
or the East, but extending through every
section of the United States and Canada.
Its members are composed of musicians of
the highest standing, who are devoted
clusively to the playing of symphonic and
other music of the highest class. The or
chestra was founded by Walter Damrosch
eleven years ago, and since that time mas
given, besides its regular series OF New
York symphony concerts. hundreds of like
concerts all over the country, also taking
part in Mr.. DamrOschs Wagnerian opera
productions both in New York and on the
road. During all these years Mr.. Damrosch
has drilled them TO a point or perfection
and made them an instrument on which he
can play the whole scale of human emotions
as cryStalllzed into artistic forms by the
great masters. Among the members of the
orchestra are several solo musicians OF
worldwide reputation, including Mr.. Da-
Vld Names first violin and cOncertmeister;
Leo Schulz, first 'cellist, and NJ. Charles
Mole, the marvellous 1utist. AS a proof of
the high standing of this orchestra in New
York, it may be said that there is now list
of seventy-five men waiting for the first
vacancy in the ranks of the orchestra. The
affection existing between Mr. DamrOsch
testimony at the closing symphony concert
given in New York a few weeks ago, when
the members of the orchestra presented
their conductor with a huge silver laurel
wreath of Seventy-five leaves, each one
bearing the name of a member of the or
cheStra.
y great many members of the present or
chestra have played with Mr.. Damrosch for
the whole eighteen years that he has been
conducting, since his fathers death, in 1885.
Walter Damrosch is the first great conduc
tor in this country who may be said to have
brought music of the higher class within
the reach of the masses. He has boldly
entered into the domain usually occupied by
the brass bands and at Willow Grove in
Philadelphia and at the Pittsburg exhibition
for many successive seasons he has played
to nightly audiences often reaching in num-
berS into the tens of thousands, playing mu-
sic of the higher class at prices of admiS-
sion which made ii possible for every one,
even the poorest, to enjoy it. Opera, or
chestra and lecture engagements have for
several years kept Mr.. Damrosch so busy in
the East that of late he has made no ex-
tended tours, but this year he not only plays
through New England and the middle
States. but will be heard in Canada and
through the South, Southwest, West and
Northwest, the present season extending
into May or June, and the coming of this
magnificent organization with its famous
conductor to this city will undoubtedly give
much pleasure and much enjoyment to hun
dreds and even thousands of music lovers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20

Orville Harold. a tenor soloist of Nun
Gle will sing at Christ Church Sunday. Mr..
Harold is the young singer who won the
first prize for singing the best tenor solo
at the State Eistedfod recently held at An
derson Alexander Ernestinoff. with whom
Mr. Harold is stud gins. is exceedingly en-
thusiastic over the probable future of this
gifted young singer. The following musical
program, with the full vested choir of sixty
voices. assisted by Mont y. Van Dyke. vio-
linist, will be given at the evening service:
Festival Magnificent" .............. Bra ckett
"Bencdic AniGa' Mea' .............. Bracket
Anthem. tenor solo and chorus, Seek
We the Lord ......................Ro Roberts
Quartet. with violin obligato), My
Faith Looks Up 10 Thee. Schneider
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
Thomas Orchestra week
Chicago Organization German by bea-
trice Hubbell randF Music

IHE event of the musical week IN
indianapolis, aside from the festi-
val of grand opera at Englshs'
tzTIlYl will be the concert at the Ger
- man House on Thursday evening,
to be given by the Theodore Thomas Or
chestra. under the direction of Frederick
Stock. Sixty members of the famous Chi
caeo organization will come TO indianapolis
and the concert will be. without question,
the finest orchestral entertainment OF the
local season. The soloist of the evening will
be oliver Willard Pierce, who VIII play the
Tschaikowsky concerto. in which he scored
such :. triumphant success recently in a re-
cital at the German House. He, will have
the assistance Of the full orchestra in rem
dering this magnificent composition.
Frederick Stock has operated in conjunc-
ton with Theodore Thomas for a number
of years. He conducts the solo numbers in
all performances in Chicago as he did here
during the last appearance of the orches-
ira in Indianapolis. The Theodore Thomas
Orchestra will not again be heard outside
of Chicago. excepting at the May music
festival in Cincinnati In the near future
Mr.. Thomas must occupy the position of a
musical Nestor and the heritages of his
work and the burden of conducting this
magnificent orchestra must naturally fall
upon the shoulders of Mr.. Stock.
The programme for the Indianapolis con-
cert is essentially virile, as well as new,
and one that will appeal TO the general
public as we'll as to the trained musician.
The Wagner and Weber numbers are the
oldest on the programme. The others are
so new that they may be spoken of in
terms of the present. Elgar, Greig. Saint
Saens and Tschaikowsky are all composers
OF to-day. The programme in full will be
the following:
"Huldigungsmarsch ................ Wagner
Concerto for Pianoforte, No. /, b fiat
minor, Opus % ........... Tscha ikowsky
Allegro non troppo motto maestosO. AL
legro con spirito. Andante semplice.
Allegro con fuocO.
Military March-"POmp and Circum-
Suite-"Peer Gynt" No 1, opus 46
Morning Asses Death" Ami
tras Dance I'm the Hall of the
Invitation to the Dance. go. Weber-BerlioZ
Sypathetic Poem-"Dance Macabre" m
Observation-Disclosures ..... Wagner
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20

Beatrice Hubbell Plummer, Soprano
who has been winning an enviable reputa-
ton on the concert platform, will be heard
in recital at the Propylaeum Tuesday even
ing under the auspices of the Central Col
lege of Music. Mrs. Plummer is an Indiana
woman, although she is better known in
other parts of the country than in her own
State. She recently completed a very sue
cessful concert tour of the Pacific coast,
Her voice is said to be of wide compass
and exceptionally powerful. A well-knOwn
New York critic says that she sings with
much expression and with artistic phras-
ing. She will be assisted Tuesday evening
by Miss Carrie Hyatt, one of the best of
indianapolis pianists. The following pro-
gramme will be rendered:
Recitation and aria from Carmen" Bizet
(a) The MadrigaP' ................ Chaminade
OBJ "Obstination'' ................ Fontainelles
(c) "A Romance .RublnSteln
(d) ''Ich Grolle Ncht' ............ Schumann
(e) Itch Iiebe Dich" ........ Meyer-Helmund
% "Lenz ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .Hidach
(a) '.The Swing" from 'The Daisy
OBJ 'If No One Ever Marries Me-" from
THE Daisy Chain" ............ Lehman
(a) s'Thy Beaming Eyes MacDowell
OBJ The Robins Sing in the Apple
Tree -::.............-,....... MacDowell
Co The Sea ........:;:......... MacDowell
(a) Three Roses Red" ................. Norris
(b) mot from the Whole Wide World
.....-..................... Rogers
(c) Sunshine ....... Carrie Jacobs Bond
Song cycle. 1.-The Wandering One.
N ABSENCE o. doubt Not SaC Is, FG The
Prayer" ca THE Letter." 90 "1he Re-
turn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20

He event of the musical week III
indianapolis, aside from the festi-
val of grand opera at English :,
will be the concert at the Ger
man House on Thursday evening.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20

Little Dick has been kept very busy all
winter, and is now still engaged in earn
ing his Easter money, by delivering bread
with his little red express
Devotion wagon for capable young
to Duty. suburban woman who sup
plies whole neighborhood
with excellent homemade loaves. Suddenly
a precious old aunt of little Dicks family
circle died of pneumonia, and the bread
lady, on hearing the mournful news, pre-
pared, in some dismay, to search for an
other delivery urchin as faithful and re-
liable as little Dick On her way along the
lane she met little Dick trudging toward
her house, pulling the familiar little red and
yellow express wagon behind him.
why, Dicky," the bread lady exclaimed,
lis this you? 1 was just going over to see
if l could get Joey Thompson to take the
bread around for few days. l didn't sup
pose you could do it. account of your
Aunt Eliza, you know"
Joey Thompson can't have my job
said little Dick, with much indignation
Course, Aunt Lizas dead. an l think lots
o. Aunt Liza. an mother said L better not
come, but told mother you wouldn't have
no other boy but me, an the neighbors
wouldn get no bread, an L couldn let Aunt
Lizas funeral interfere TIL my business,
no how"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
Some Little Stories
About Little People

Grandmother was inspecting herself in a
new frock which had just come home, and
was not entirely satisfied with the result of
the inspection.
A Juvenile THAT skirt says a
Fashion Note. little in the back
she remarked aloud
to herself Il think I'll have Madame Snip
make me little bustle-just a little bit of
a hustle"
No, gran'ma," interposed small ten-year-
old Edward, who was supposed TO be
studying his lessons in nearby chair.
you don't need any bustle-they're fiat in
the back, now
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
Mrs. PIummer at the PropyIaeum.

observation-disclosures" 1900.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20

The average four-year-old girl is just at
the dangerous age for absorbing all the
household talk she hears, and, when occa-
sion arises, she does not
An Extrava- hesitate TO give forth her
giant Man. own comments on such
parental characteristics as
she has taken note of. Economy, now and
then, in the Simpson-Jones family, is
favorite theme on the part of the man of
the house. Mr.. Smpson-Jones dearly loves
to spend money in large sums and for large
matters, and then in painful attacks of re-
pentance and apparently impending pow
erty. he urgently insists on household econ
omy in small matters Mrs. Simpson-Jones.
too, in the presence of, and in the absence
Of Mr.. Simpson-Jones, is wont to express
her opinion of Mr.. Simpson-Joness rash
expenditures and his theories concerning
economy.
The other morning little Alice Simpson
Jones was unlawfuly prowling about in
the lower drawer of her fathers chiffonier.
She pulled out two unopened packs of play
ing cards. held them UP to her mother
and exclaimed in a shocked voice:
Mamma, just look at that; papa's got
two packs of cards-when one would have
done just as WELL
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-11-04
Diet for CONSERVATIVES.

Everybody's Magazines: You have 10
eat at a sanitarium for consumptives.
hungry or not. There are no big gorges
to overwork the stomach. but there are
six meals a day of moderate size. Some
patients can eat ull meals and then
swallow thirty-siX Raw eggs a day. The
aim of the treatment in these sanatoria
is to get the sick man to drink three
quarts of milk and eat a dozen raw
es gs a day in addition to his regular
meals of simple food.
And you must eat meat and plenty of
it. Don't cut the fat off. The COW get
most of the good out of the lean in her
lifetime. The fat is what will do you
good. All that there is to cod liver oil
that makes it worth while is that 1t is
a fat easy to assimilate. Bacon fat is
nearly as easy to digest and about 500
times as easy to take.
Fruits and salads you may eat, mere,
iy to amuse yourself and pass the time.
But you are wasting stomach room on
them. Milk. eggs. meat and hard
breads for you if you are to get well.
Not a great deal at a time. but often.