The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-12-27
MUSIC HATH CHAMRS.

MUSIC HATH CEIAMRS.
One of the disadvantages of living
in small town like Denison is that
starvation Of the soul that comes
from being out Of touch with the
great masters. AS rule we have to
content ourselves with mere echoes of
the great world Of thought and poesy
and music. Our art we must get
from the magazines and the calendars,
our drama from 81 Perkins, our lect-
ures from campaign orators and our
music via the monograph. The
trouble with canned music is. as Mr..
Sousa eloquently points out. that it
units US for better things. Thus it
is that when sdal-raising musical
combination strikes town. via the
lecture course. it finds US totally un-
prepared. Our souls are stunted. and
when bunch of musical gymnasts
cones Wayne rian stunt we fail to
catch the inspirational effect, and long
for mere melody. Neither does the
poetry of those lines dedicated to the
Z owl and the pussy cat strike re-
sponsive chord in our benumbed and
Nuncultivated bosoms. We know that
we are cross and provincial. and we
regret it. We know that we ought
VT strive for "better things" and
strpggle to.attain higher ideals.
Eare not boastlng, we are bowed
Hui grief intense over our lack of
o6lfulness. We fell that we would
passed up as bad bargain on the
"a cent counter of any culture show
n the land. Hence we mourn. We
ought to enjoy these things, but we
dom t.
That tenor should have brought
tears to Dir eyes. but he didn't. We
eHen suspect there was not wet eye
in the house when the tale of that
/ pussy cat vanished on the other side
of the moon.
And they sailed" trilled the ten
or, They sailed, they sailed, they
sailed" reiterated the man on the
second base with an emphasis that
sholIsss have brought conviction.
Sailed away, away, away" Nsobbed
the other middis man with a catch in
his voice that sounded like pepper
mint lozenger. "Sa;led, sailed. sail
ed. sailed. sailed, sailed" growle,
the basso profundo. That was as far
as we could follow them at the time.
After that it was catch as catch can.
Sometimes the tenor appeared to be
having the best of it and then the
basso lined out home run and it
lseemed that it was all over but the
lshouting. For man with cold in
his head, however, the baritone had
Athe best staying qualities of any man
1--we ever heard. He stole bases on 'em.
made some grand stand slides and his
FIELDING was immense. Once he
sicaught hot line right of the tenor's
#bat ard made clear gain of ten
yards before he was tackled by the
Nbass and held for downs.
After we had been repeatedly as
4 sufed.of the successful aunching of the
/ distinguished fowl and the DER fond
3 feline. came the grand climax in
a which was disclosed the destination Of
h the happy couple. in language to-wit /;
sSass the 9th, to the 9th. to the 9th,
other side, other side, side of the moo,
of the moo oo-oo, of the moon. of the
NIGH, of the moon. We left them
Thu fe. with the tenor sky-larking way
sybffJ lin the Milky Way and the basso
lost in the Dipper. It was great. it
was sublime. We told our friends
10 az we walked home and they as
Sured US that it was rare treat. and
from the bottom of our hearts we
were glad that it was SO.