Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-31

| business has been terribly overdOne but
that is because there have been too
many OF them and there has not been one
particular text tnat shone forth. CYou
remember that old popular song OF some
fifteen years ago about Love one An
other, What Is Home without a Mother,
are the Aiottoes That Are Hung Upon the
Waii,' and so on).
The musical editor Of The Bee has
adopted for 1919 this motto. and as he
retires from this work he leaves II with
his readers. They can adopt Il or not
but IL has proven to be very whoegome
thought In the past
The motto Is this: sufficient unto the
day Is the evil thereof"
II you prefer another reading OF the
same motto, it Is this: Every day has
trouble enough OF It's own" CThis you
will find in the Twentieth Century New
Testament)
Or still another reading Is this: Each
days evil Is enough for Itself" CThis
version you will find In the American
Blble.'D
Or stili another way you can put IL:
sufficient for the day IL It's own evil"
This form Is the one contained In the
Syriac New Testament translated from
the -Peshltto versionJ
sufficient unto the day Is the evil
thereof"
Isn't II true. and true beyond question.
that almost the entire lot OF our trouble
comes from relieving yesterday or the
past, and fore-llving tomorrow and the
future? IL Is 30 true that we 6sn't
really grasp the force Of It. and Il Is 80
simple and so evident that we cannot see
II. NE
wood'-wo are always going back over
what someone said to us or did 20 us.
WhenY oh, month ago. a year ago. a
week agoi We should say; when7 To-
day No, not today Then let us not
discuss u. This is today, Yesterday was
yesterday. Yesterdays account is
closed. Sufficient unto today is the evil
thereof.
And then We are apprehensive about
the future 81 must do some Disagree
able duty and so forth. Cheer up, you
may not have to do IT, Just think you
may be lucky enough TO break your leg,
In the meantime, and then you won't
have TO do anything but just lie there. Or
you may get run over by milk wagon,
or have an seroplane fall on you, then
what would be the uso Of all your worry
and anxiey2
Sufficient unto Tomorrow is the evil
thereof. Sufficient unto a Week from
Monday is the OWL OF a Week from Mon
day Think IL over once In a while!
And remember that there Il nothing
said about sufficient unto the day Is
the good thereof" That Is different. You
may think OF the good OF yesterday and
Of last week and Of last year until you
are tired. and Il win do you no harm.
You Gun anticipate the good, and fore.
live the good future. and dream OF the
good that is coming to you. Surety This
Is not forbidden. Keep thinking OF the
good OF the past. present and future.
But Just make Il a motto for 1912 that
sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof"
IL you want TO read sood book spend
the price and the time necessary for The
Musical Amateur'-'A book on the
human side OF music" IL is by Robert
Haven schauffler and Is published by
Houghfon. Mlfflin g. Co. Don't deny
yourself this. II is worth quoting from.
but It would take too much space.
.
Another good book for the singer to
set is Correct Principles OF Classical
Singing" by Max Heinrich. uIothrop, Lee
4 shepard). The chapter on choosing a
teacher is worth the price of the book,
and there are many musical illustrations
and examples which are well worth while.
A oontralto singing. HE Was Desplsed."
had better be careful to consult BbeneEer
Prout's full score OF ''The Messiah be-
g.. ~ ali
rioh's suggestions, and one singing the
Brahms excerpt from Opus i05 No. had
better look up the German text for ac-
euracy, but otherwise this book is well
worth dillgent study.
.
Baltzelrs Dictionary OF Musicians Is
one OF the 1911 books on music which has
come from the Ditson Press OF Boston.
This dictionary Is concise In It's biograph-
lcal sketches and very particular TO give
the correct pronunciation of the names
OF the musicians OF the past and present.
This Is specially true OF the Russian
composers and others whose names are
at first sight almost unpronouncable.
The Oliver Ditson people have here a
neat. practical up-to-date book which
should certainly find place waiting
for IL.
Another book on singing (and when will
they eeaaeO is from the pen OF w. T..
Haslam with q predatory note signed by
him at Paris. July, 1911. The publisher
Is G. Sohirmer. New York. Mr.. Haslam's
convenient little book Is dedicated 20
his pupils. ana Il Is entitled style in
Singing" lie gives some very sound ad-
vice and says many things which the
ambitious young singer win ignore and
with the usual resultsl lie says, The
vocal education OF many students Is now.
adays hurried through with a haste that
is eauallcd only by the oelerity with
which such aspirants for lyric honors
return TO obsourity."
There Is sonAthing 70 be thankful for
in the last section. These meteors do
not burn long. They arc soon out. But
another would-bo singer Is disappointed
and aggrleyed because the world did not
rush 10 the opportunity offered TO possess
itself OF the supposedly wonderful and
ridiculously over-prRised beginner; and
when laryngius comes and the public
does not care and the doctor Is TO be
seen. then the singer so often blames
the affair to bad luck. or climate, aud
never thinks OF connecting the hurried
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