Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-11-01

YOU Iluillt young NOilltn ioI DtliiS
scarce as household servants in
Salem? If women who require house
servants would pay Il respectable and
living wage. they would have no
trouble in securing help. The trou-
Bile is such employers want the girl
to be a slave and work for wages
that a Jap would turn his nose up ut.
Dogs as Food in Germany
Mans best friend" " the dog. is
beginning to attain the dignity of
figuring in statistics in Germany.
In the kingdom of Saxony, last year.
the slaughter-housc registered the
fate of 3, 1876 dogs, which had gone to
satisfy the tlesh-hungcr of people too
poor to afford pork, beef, or even
horsc-mcat. In other parts of the
empire the consumption of dogs was
not proportionately as heavy, but
was sufficient to have Il pcrceptible
effect on the public peace of mind
in dog days. If Germany will be
pleased to continue the policy of
holding her people at the mercy of
their landlords, through high duties
on foreign meats, the empire will be
in Il fair way to be cleared of rats
also.
The Violin and the Fiddle
When one says fiddle there are
always present those who say: "You
must not say fiddle, say violin. "
And do you know. while they can
tell Il clarinet from Il drum. probably,
these same sclf-appointcd critics of
instruments really do not
know there is difference between II
" fiddle" and Il violin" But there
is, and vast one, at that. Let us
investigate: The violin is the aristo-
crat, the patrician of musical instru-
mentS. The fiddle is the boss. The
violin is an instrument of harmony:
the fiddle is the voice of melody.
The violin is played chiefly by men
with pied names and long hair, and
women with specs. The fiddle is the
instrument of the man who wears
galluses, and underclothes only in
the winter time. The master of the
violin is Il virtuoSo; the master of the
fiddle is merely Il mighty good iid-
dler. The instruments are very
much alike, from ear to tailpiccc.
The difference is in the players. The
violin leads the orchestra at the thea
ter; the fiddle leads the dance.
Paganini, Joachim and Wicniawski
were vlolinists. The fellow who
played ut the country dances you
used to attend, chcwcd tobacco, spit
on the keys, called out the changes
and stamped his foot with every bar
of music he ground out by drawing
the hairs of q horse across the bowels
of Il cat, was fiddler. Arias are
executed on the violin; tunes are
played on the fiddle. Nocturnes are
for the violin; the fiddle makes
" shindig' music. The violin voices
the music of Mcndclsshon, Hayden,
Verdi and other foreigners; the tid-
die sings ''Old Zip Coon" or Turkey
in the Straw, Irish Washwoman,
' Money Musk. ArkanSaw Trav-
rlrr,' and later productions. includ-
int old or young tunes, song, hymn,
lay, ballad, ditty or piece" grave
Or gay, the melody, rythm, jingle or
syncopation of which appeals to the
but natural and susccpti-
BILE ear, and that possesses the power
to please and soothc. to arouse SYM
pathy and tenderness, or to cause
men to laugh, weep or fight. This is
the power, the office of the fiddle.
The violin is merely the iiddlc's edu-
Gated brother. The ncighbors ad-
mire it for its learning and aris to-
cratic bearing, but they think it
puts on too many airs, and when they
want fun they call for the flddlc-thc
universal in the land of
the plebeians. LUE +. VERNON.