Okolona messenger., 1911-03-09
MAJ. PERKINS
Treats the Subject of rIusic From
a Scientific Standpoint

| am mpelleu 10 put out SO1t Ut De'
come overloaded When | got oui
my writing Implements, rolled up my
sleeves, and wiped the sweat from
my noble brow, Gerusha said: Whats
up now, going to impose on that poor
ediur gain? He Jest lets you treat
him any way. | bound his wife makes
him stand around. I'm sorry for him
myself"
Now don't you waste no sympathy
on that edimr, he gets out one of the
best county papers in the state, and
with the idees he's gettin from me,
there's no telling where he will land
in the soon future.
want to tell him what | know
about music. Gerusha said write the
word nuthin, and sign your name and
that's all there is to it.
| am going to treat the subject from
an entirely original and scientific
standpoint Wimmen don't know
nuthin about sience nohow. When
the henhouse was on fire the other
day, and you throwed hot water on it
and while ! was trying to show you
accordin' TO science the water was
hotter than the fire and made it burn
faster,-by George the hen house
burned up. So you take this quarter
and hire you a niger to work out
your inguns, for | cant think scientific
where a woman is ! undertuk 10
to read sum books on the subject, but
when found | knowed more about it
than they did, | laid EN- aside and |
shall proceed to tackel the subject in
my own inimitable style.
Music is the art of agtatin the
so that when it comes in
contact with the drum Of the ear
it makes you want to dance, or cry or
'un, according to the kind you are
gettin. 1t is divided into three parts:
music Of the soul, music Of the brain,
and last tho not least, music Of the
leeI. A darkey's heel being more
,asiIy affected because it is made Of
mum rubber This kind Of music is
,eter adapted to the wants and I
reeds Of the human race than any
'ther and is called the music of the
common people, and like good gov
it does the greatest good to
he greatest number.
10 appreciate it fully, you have to
i've it expression, and if you and
um Of your friends will come down
> Owl Hollow and spend the night
nth me, III get out nv old fiddle q
ever learned to play the vioIin) and
end out for the elect Of the town and
hen | play Cotton-eyed Jo, Arkan-
aN TravIer, Jennie Put the Kiale
IN, and such as that I'll show you
ancing that will do YOU good. We
on have none Of this huggin' and
~ingin' and dyin away kind called
lie modern dance
Ours is business strict and strait,
are back Steven and dance up Daisy |
wing corners, and if you cant trot /
lie time under your feet, you amt in |
splitting rails is light work COM
ared to it. 1t makes you SWEET like +
igger at an election in August.
hree hours is all you need, it's inter- I
sting while it lasts, and when you
It through you feel like you had
one something. I'll not say more on
is part Of the subject, for you can ;,
.e | understand it scientifically, IL
oroughIy, and you would say physi- h
lily too, if you could here me play = =
evils Dream, Fishers Hornppe, and II
few more Of them light steppers, 81
And now comes music Of the brain :, :,
in hiEalutin parlance, classic, (good II
,rd deliver US )up and down screech
and scraping, and only hits the '
ne every ten steps, and they say the
st of it never hits the tune at all. d
When | was up to your good town r
: last time, young lady played me {
piece Of classic | thought she '
'uld tear that old piano all to pieces; d
hung on to the chair like grim ="
ath to a sick mig ger to keep it from k
Irin me all to pieces. When she "
THROUGH | told bar ,,,s co u a,