The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-13

Moat eoRTythimg
when Mr.. Loomis began hia searching
and compiling his purpose was TO make
up boob primarily % educational value.
The SING books for school children
10 use had plenty Of talk about snow but
little Or none about the cocoanue OF the
palm treS. The little SOuthsEner dosa
not enjoy singing about tho robin all the
time when he does not know the robin
at flrst hand MIR LOOMS admits that
90 school songs the major part Of the
work has turned out q failure.
In the first place. says he. dialect In
HE schools won't 10. Then much of the
material found lent itself 10 artistic effects
far beyond the capabilities Of school
children. Nevertheless. many aimple
songs Of the industrial type. In the pre-
paration % which Mr. Loomis has bepn
assisted By Marie Ruef Hotter. are 20 DO
bound apart for the use % children. Here
the dialect has been eliminated. % In tho
case of The Rice Harvest The cir
fairly hlts In its waltz time;
Slckiss keen nov aulckly o.
an through the summer day
Bind tae sheaves 70 stack End dTy.
Thea ~ the mill swayi
Happy hearts make shSr, the mile
Under tue suns bright ray:
Toll 10 sweet 20 these VINO smils.
LABOR Is asefsl playi
Harvest ths rico TO-DAY.
Thea to the min sSay;
The educational value 10 here paramount
end the frat motto 10 indeed In part sost.
~ in the patriotic type which brings
in the inevitable Here n the earthly
Paradise In reference to the sunny
south. But the whole world relationship
10 shown In:
Dr. Brawder built . house
FOrty stories high.
And every story In that hoass
Was Ailed with chicken pie.
The educational compilations include
all subjects that belong naturally 70 the
southern. cline. The Virginia reel. chin
auApin nuts. the mOcking bird. the whip
poor-will. the alligator. coral reefs-an
are celebrated.
But IL cannot he denied that those
songs are most interesting which never
had aught TO do with thu word instruct"
and still show what they stood for In the
DAYS ago. Leather Breeches' gave the
title to an old old collection--no one
knows how old:
q. mah utts boz
Who made 20 bresshs>'
NANNY cut dem cut
Daddy -ewsd tire siiiches
LessheT breaches.
Pun Of stitches:
Leather bresrhes-butioRs
Nanny pulled me cut o haid
CuH had man breaches On.
Much more s~rious and pretty enough
IN thought 20 warrant its more elaborate
treatment 10 -Four Flowsrs.- which Mr..
Looufs has put into straight English:
te.-smins bloom
WIN aeent Q whole room
MAgnSiia IL almost sweetsT
But somebody knows
A JaoquemlR0' roe
Most of the lyrics ara 80 abort tina, 1t u
almost necessary 90 add to them to M
any present. day practical purpose. Many
of them exist in the form % remnants
90 tatter~d that when patched tbs finished
product stands made nearly from whole
cloth. Thus -wishss-
Water ist de asbes
Honey 70 Dc bee.
nesos~ 20 Septembsr.
But what's 70 me-
visit I had . evMaes
wIsha Asd bun
Daddy has q fambb
A I'm his
Even when patched thu little pieces
give tho impression Of fragments. weird.
haunting little fragmsSts which are Get
70 music Of courDe. but still sesm 20 b
more sOmsthinG else. II may b the
presence Of that which made even the old
street cries themselves the haunting things
thsy were. Under the title % sunny
sonRs Of the Southland the criss and the
SONGS will soon be publiahed in their re-
vived. Transmitted. musical form.