The sun., 1908-03-26
TERRIBLE EFFECTS Or NOISE
THERE SHOULD BE DIET IN MUSIC
TO MAKE 1T THERAPEUTIC.
You May Sins the WrOnE Hymns IN a Hos.
pltal n You're Not Careful-shadows
OF Murmuring Sound Could Have Been
seen Had the Machines Worked Right.

and the cat was tone deaf till you began
TO play There's Joy in My Soul To-day"
whereupon the cat would slt up and stop
being just cat, but would take an interest
in art. There was young man In another
fat too, who had 80 powerful a baritone
voice that he didn't dare own any delicate
vawzes or bric-a-braw. The minute he
began 10 sing tone waves almost every
thing but the agate ware was put out OF
business.
Up in the lecture room Of the New
Thought College in Carnegie Hall last night
you heard about the cat and the man with
the big voice from the speakers Of the
National Society Of Musical Therapeutics.
The society, as its name suspects, deals
with the effects Of music on the nervous
system and things. A fiat and b fiat are
the great medical tones 10 cure things,
but middle 4 is really the centre OF the
whole works. Speaking about pine trees
soughing, every pine tree that ever soughed
always did il in the key Of F. II pine
tree tried 10 sough in d natural il would
be a horsechestnut, perhaps, but never
pine tree.
All these facts and many quite as inter-
esting we're contributed to the general
storehouse Of scientific knowledge by Prof.
James Z. Homans and Miss Eva Vescelius,
the speakers Of last night. Miss Eva, who
presided, is founder and president OF the
Musical Therapeutics Society, but her
sister, she says, brought out Elsie Janis.
Her sister is Nine. Louise sheldon Nine.
Sheldon tried to have her singing notes
cause a visible record Of sound waves to
register on a machine invented by Prof.
Homans, but the delicate mechanism bust.
Causing, Of course, an effect OF the
molecular influences that relapses and
soothes," Miss Nescelius was saying from
her notes as one entered and began 20
sharpen ones pencil, often It is better
that the musician be in another room,
away from the patient, the speaker went
on after the pencil had been shapened.
For insomnia | should suggest that music
indicative Of green hills and quiet valleys
he played
Here the speaker dropped her notes TO
protest against the singing Of religious
music in hospitals II the spirit is receptive
to the divine influx, oh, very we'll But as
the lecturer pointed out there is nothing
in this thing Of singing 'Over The River
They're Reckoning TO Me- or. what is
much worse, Almost Persuaded But Lost,
in a hospital ward on rainy Sunday after
noon in Philadelphia. There should be
diet in music, as well as in victuals.
Betore attention was called 10 Prof
Homans's platform Nine Sheldon added a
bit Of diversion by sitting at the piano and
breaking into song. Her few remarks were
10 the effect that girl had heard her love IN
the depths Of her heart all day long but the
came not. although high noon was on tho
roees He came not, as a matter Of fact
even when noon upon her soul reposes
But night is on the hill and the moon Is on
the sea. and starlight, and candl light and
dreamlght, and then no comes to me, on,
then he comes to muh.
Before giving demonstrations OF his sound
mechanics and stereopticOn expositions OF
oyertones on the fundamentals rs registered
on smoked glass Prof. Homans explained
that if YOU ask him what he knows about
sound he could say without stopping 10
think that he doesn't know thing. lap
plause =,
Sound. a." he continu ed, "is an effect Of
force. Applause 1t Is yibratory en-
ergy. IRfpphng applause, And VbTa-
tions of sound are Immensely and tremen-
dously minute. Take keely Of Philadelphia
there was a strang sort Of guy He tried
10 pull of a motor and got Mrs, Bloomfield
Moore TO blow $50 900 on II and II did every
thing but mote. It'slke these guys that
Wen somebody opened window and the
lady presiding officer recovered enough 70
be able to give the distinguished scientist
the high sign. He switched.
1--WE built machine. he went on when
permitted, that could talk. ] made u
mouth, teeth, tongue, lips and all that sort
Of stuff for IL. And then | sat down and
began to teach that machine to talk like a
baby. | got it saying papa, mamma
and things like that; but one day | got
fresh and tried to teach It German, The
whole works smashed That's why !
haven't Eot It here to night to show you.
But It was great machine while 1t lasted.
Applause aud sighs Of disappointment
AT this point the professor said he'd like
10 have the lights lowered So that hc could
show pictures of the machine on the stere-
opticon sheet While he was back in the
dressing tent arranging the slides lady
sneaked to the piano under cover OF total
darkness and got away with another. Some
body flashed the lights.
The first picture after this (when the
lights again had been lowered with hesi-
tationl looked like chocolate cake TO the
low browed layInan. As a matter OF fact
the brown layers we're atmosphere and the
white lines that you'd call icing were regis
tered and specially delivered sound waves.
The amperes were working directly on the
ohms, but perhaps only in nugatory way
when all is said and done Still you never
can tell about these things. The big white
sDots scattered about on the plate at tracted
most attention because Of their Clearness.
These however, so il later was learned,
were places where the slide had been
scratched by the transfer company. A
driver named Mike was taking them over
10 Williamsburg one afternoon IN January
and rested his feet on the glass slides TO
keep out the piercing oold-and there you
are.
The best thing the professor has DONE
mart 10 his eidophone-whch was held
until the last TO close the show-was ma
chine that was to register visibly Nine
Sheldon's singing, There was long film,
smoked, that slowly was TO be drawn across
the eye Of the stereoptioon lantern and
there were to have been white lines regis
tered while the singing prooeeded' The
variations Of the white lines would show the
eiects Of Nine. Sheldon's voice on the
film.
onisted down and watched from the dark
hsil the first Of the white lines that appeared
ON the moving gray field that the smoked
Aim threw on the sheet. During the first
few notes the light lines and masses took
on the form Of group OF tripe in It's death
agony, but as the singing proceeded the
lines grew attenuated. like folks absorbing
spaghetti from individual eating sPools.
Blt after the song was all over and the
applause had died down the professor, was