The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-25
SHRlEKs MADE MUSICAL.
BABIES TO BE TRAINED TO
 YELL IN HARMoNICs.
Music Advocated as Sure Death to Mo- squitoes and Panaeea for Rheuma- tism-Good Bait for Mouse Traps.

squitoes and a Panacea for Rheuma-
 tisni-Good Bait for Mouse Traps.
 If the goddess of music had been a guest of the Professional Woman's League yesterday afternoon she would have drawn robes about her and de- parted in just wrath. Mrs. Amelia Weed Holbrook told how music was used as bait for catching mice, and said it was cure for rheumatism, sure death to mosquitoes and of ectinable valuable in training babies to cry in certain keys. so that harmony would be produced instead of ear-splitting shrieks
 No woman should be so weak, an nounced Mrs. Holbrook with an air of strong conviction. .sas to let her baby cry-yes howl sometimes-off the key"
 That statement aroused the mothers and others to intense interest.
 'No,' continued Mrs Holbrook, such crying can easily be avoided by mothers if they will only carry forks in their GONhe'tSs " 44CAA bdUy Stdl LC LO llOWl she paused and Srniled-"that is, to cry, just give baby do or re on the fork whichever is most pleasing to your ear. Baby will follow your lead unconscious ly, and you will find him crying on that key in a way that will be harmony to the most unmusical ear. If there are several babies in the family, teach them to cry in keys that harmonize. The effect will astonish you.''
 Many mothers eyes frightened at that hopeful suggestion. They saw visions of being able to go to sleep, 1ulled by the harmony of their babies cries, and of husbands who no longer could say it was such sounds kept them from home O nights
 Perhaps the front rows will cease to charm our husbands if they have such harmony of sound in their own homes" whispered one young matron.
 You will find certain little fiber in the ear of mosquito" went on the speaker, earnestly, that will respond to certain musical sounds It has been found by experiment that if these musi- cal sounds are repeated rapidly enough the vibrations in the mosquitoes tynn- panun will produce a temporary par alysis.
 Now" waving her hands in her eagerness ii impress her audience. If a musical instrument of the right pitch and quality of tone could be worked automatically to attract the mosquito we would have a sure cure for the aw ful pest of Jersey, Long Island and Staten Island. Automatic music boxes could be surrounded by wiring charged with electricity, and when those beasts come flying near the music they would perch on the charged wiring and die" There was round after round of ap- p1ause, and someone murmured pr. Darlington's name.
 ''Yess' said a woman: why didn't you invite fin?''
 As a bait for mice just place lit tie music box under the trap,s con- tinued Mrs. Holbrook. Mouse is en- tranced by the harmony, which must be of "a peculiar mouse-like character. When the mouse enters the trap down goes the spring, the mouse is caught, and the music stops.
 s'Then, of course, you all know she resumed, when the applause had stopped, what an excellent cure music is for rheumatism and all sorts of other diseases. Every one of you women must have read how the wild animals in Chicago were affected by music in a recent experiment. A lioness and her three cubs went to sleep when they heard a lulIably, and they frisked about and stood on their tails when they heard the Irish Washerwoman." Not to be outdone the German stork did the most undignified things in a way unle- coming to one of his bering. The lizard kept time with his tongue, and the ele- phant felt the spirit of the melody so much he tried to stand on one leg and danced a guinea pig around with his trunk until. from sheer exhaustion, he fell to the ground. ."-New York Press.