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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-30

| Probably two-thirds of a woman's
| troubles como because she reasons with
| her heart instead of her head.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-30

Charity covers a multitude Of sin
ners.<
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-30

Satan uses many different kinds Of
bait. but he can catch all the loafers
he wants with a bare hook.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-30

The more dignified a man Is when
sober the bigger fool when full.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-30

A good book Is an excellent mind
tonic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-30

1t may be to a mans credit to forge
q lot that he knows.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-11

ertbusiastic appreciation If the mos.
stirring song is placed last. the rest
Of the group consisting 81 songs !"
varied moods.
mistake frequently made by some
Of our best known vocal artiSts
the adoption Of one or two programmes
to be used during an entITe season;
The songs that thrill audiences v.
small towns in which only three o,
four concerts are held each year, VII,
often fail to tickle the jaded musIca'
palates Of metropolitan critics; theh,
too, the obvious inference when tne
programme remains unchanged durins
AN entire season must DE thaI ''o
singer is downright lazy or that ne
lacks comprehensive repertory: NoI
flat the artist must sing rubbish IN
ordor 10 please the casual concert
ger; the standard Of musical appre-
citation in this country has grown to
surprising extent, and the demand TOT
what in theatrical parlance IS terme"
"sob stuff" has been reduced to neg
lgible minimum.
II might be well at this point to
mention the fact that, while an exteh-
sivc repertory Of from five hundred 10
one thousand songs IS an undehiaDle
advantage. the knowledge Of from
sevcnty-fve to one hundred should
nrovc sufficient for the construction OF
programmes for an entire season. And
this repertory must be built up not
solely from songs that seem to appear
most to the singers voice and style,
but rather with an eye to definite
scheme Of programme construction.
The beginner who is clever WI iearh
few songs from the OLD Italian hiaS-
t,rs Iieder Of Schubert, Schumann,
Franz Brahms and Grieg, some OF the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-11

best OF our American compositions
and few songs from modern Ger.
man, French or Russian composers. ac-
cordiBg to the .aste and ability Of tho
singer. Armed with "A moderate sized
repertory Of this character, he should
be able TO devise programmes satis-
flying alike to musician and layman.
Young singers are often harshlv
criticised by the erud 10 gentlemen OF
the press for presenting novelties in
the shape Of longs by unknown com
pOsers, to the apparent neglect Of the
classics. Granted that the singers
art has been we'll founded on the great
songs that have come down 70 US from
ages past, who is TO discover and en-.
courage the unknown composer II not
the young American artist? Some
novelties Of to-day are, Of course the
banalities Of tomorrow, but Bach.
Handel, Beethoven and others bearing
great names we revere were cOnsid-
cred heretical and revolutionary in
their times, and who shall say which
of the composers now striving for
recognition shall receive the homage
Of future generations?
Let our artists place novelties on
their programmes together with songs
Of recognized worth; let them seek
to develop in their groups the attri-
butos Of contrast and climax; let them
select songs neither solely TO their
intrinsic musical value nor for their
effectiveness, hut rather those which
combine both elements; let hem,
above all, seek to display 20 advantage
the song rather than the singer. Then
will the artist be in a position 20 give
of his best; and then will the tired
business MAJ" find enjoyment in en-
tertainment othcf than in the girl
and-music shows" Of Broadway
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songs or old Italian arias. following
with songs from the classic writers
of the German, or French schools, con-
GLIDING with group OF modern songs.
OF course. when special programmes
ia prcspntcd as one entirely OF Llcdcr,
This system cannot he empl0yed' Du,
il is n safe one for general fer',nl
work, and a good foundation on which
to build.
Nov enters the alI-important e'e-
mont of contrast. With rare eNcep-
tions. two songs written III the same
vein if placed together Will ncutraii|e
the effectiveness Of each other. dla-
mond of the first water may lose it3
attractvcness in an Inappropriate SET
ting. and a masterpiece OF painting
NAV utterly fail to impress II lnJudic-
iously hung A dramatic number may
be followed by one of humorous or ro-
mantle mood, but never by announcer
dramatic song.
A well known tenor recently began
n recital with group Of three arlas
"Sound an Alarm" by Handel; Lend
Me Your Aid" by GounOd, and the
"prize Song" from "Dic Meistcrslng-
er." Splendid. stirring numbers these;
had the singer used one or even two
of them, judiciously reinforced by
songs of smaller scope, their effective
ness would unquestionably have been
heightened.
The quality Of climax is more often
attained than that Of contrast, most
singers prcferring to place the big
gosi" song at the end Of the group.
Even this arrangement may he
changed TO advantage, quiet niue
number with high mezzo-vofe end
inc often proving very cfcctiv" as a
conclusions; but it is safe 20 depend on
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-11

of how to bulId a.,
gramme. A good example OF 'n,'
condition was shown at the re-
cital of young American VINO aaP s
reared in New York last winter ~
man was heard to remark, she has hasa
beautiful voice and sings viii, with n ma ,bs
intelligence, but somehow toward i inc
end of the concert | quite. lost my IN
tcrcst in her singing" An eXamihna;,
lion of the numbers explained ms
waning enthusiasm. The singer, ,,w wn,.d
presenting a programme constructed
along conventionally correct INES hau
neglected two important factors con-
trast and climax Three-quar'ers o,
her offerings were written IN the same
mood. and in none Of her groups was
there an arrangement calculated 10
hold the auditors interest to the very
end.
A favoritc method Of constructing
n recital programme, and one having
much TO recommend it. is the chrono-
logical, beginning with group oil io'K-
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ly received INV ~
tention demanded
by it's importance.
The singer of to,
day is launched
on his career.
often with a well.
trained voice and
with a good in
tcrprctative iac-
ulty, but with abb
solutely no idea
IL s.en
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-11
TIE CONSTRUCTION or A RECITAL
PROGRAMME.
n, REINALD wEHRENRATH.

Programme making is frequently
art but one that has scarce
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-11
.J.WARREN ANDREWS
Organist &
Teacher
WARREN AMERICAN GUILD or eRGsAISIS

A series Of short courses covering
special POINTS in Organ and Service
Playing for those who can spend
but A short time in study. Address
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The child who plays truant-,he true
JOY loving child-is punished and put To
shame. And after school and college
one inevitable demand is asked, What
are you going to be?' Too often the
purblind parent arbitrarily decides what
the child shall be.
In school the modern child is started
wrong. In classes, after a routine man
ner, he is taught all sorts of things.
never from the standpoint of discovery
and magic, never with the idea that life
is fa!ryland TO wander in and love.
Children are taught to read. not that
they may enjoy imaginative romance
and the wonder Of poetry, but that they
may acquire useful" knowledge.
Every study is made a task in our
scheme Of education. The childish
ina ginatOn Is massacred by enforced
competitive labor. Therefore as long as
they live the children who are driven To
study reading in routine manner will
find the lotus land Of literature but
Sahara of barrenness.
1t begins this way: Children are i'm
pressed with the supreme importance of
heading their classes. not to excel by
love of their studies, but to study that
they may go ahead Of their competing
is made IA mimic war fitting the child
one day for playing the stock game or
assaulting a hank. The minds of chill
dren are filed with unlnspirlng arth-
metic, geography, physiology, biology
and facts of science. They are taught
dry administrative facts. The child's
mind Is not adapted to facts a child
should be taught by means of symbols.
In botany. for instance, children are
| taken Into laboratory where flowers
and leaves are sliced and labelled
Physics IL made "a matter Of gloomy
facts and figures-of chemical processes
and reactions. The titanic design of the
armament Is expressed by the illustra-
| ton that II will take a train, running
so many miles an hour, just so many
years to reach the sun, Saturn or Mars.
| Instead Of enjoying a revelation of the
wonder and glory of the uniNerse-as it
In set forth. for instance, in the book of
Genesis-children find their minds
hammered with horror of space and
cosmic chemistry. The poetry of the
world is wiped out by facts about speed
and specific gravity.
Children should never be taught the
exact truth about anything. How. you
ask, shall they be taught? Just as the
truths Of creation are laugh, in the book
Of Genesis: just as truths are taught in
the parallels Of the New Testament.
The education Of children should begin
with fairy tales. The whole Of life, after
all, Is an astonishing fable.
| 1t Is wrong to make children too wise.
Ideal education should possess the won
der Of folklore. The spirit Of the Ara
bian Nights should inspire learning.
| Take geography Children are taught
to regard the world as a bali which can
be girdled by a Cooks tour in forty days.
The wonder Of the world departs.
would have geography taught as Mande-
vile taught II; as Sir Walter Raleigh
wrote about II. When Raleigh described
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1t is quite
Author Says Dancing Germ Has Attacked Mostly Middle
Aged and Old Because in Their Long Struggle for
Success They Ignored Romance, and Now, Fearing
Death, Go Madly in Search of Love and Pleasure

his quest Of the golden city Of FL Dorado
along the Or!noco he compared the
height of the great falls he discovered
to the church at home, and the sound
as resembling a thousand bells changed
unanimously together. That gave a
picture. Children to-day are taught by
means of the foot measure and "A scien-
tific explanation Of the volume of water
with its horse power.
You can tell the truth so accurately
that you really tell lie: you can be SO
precisely scientific that you eXpel the
imaginative Image. This Is what mod
ern educators forget. By their methods
they destroy that element of the mar
vellous which the young Imagination
would naturally build ahead of its en-
perience. Later, when the grown child
goes about the world on a forty day
Cooks tour he returns remembering
nothing without mental stimulus-just
where he was when he started
The modern boys attitude toward
girls is that Of puppy dog brought up
in the presence of a Phidias statue. He
is so well aware Of il he isn't even in
,eres;ed. The modern young mans atti-
tude coward women is Indifferent. SUI
P'II'i IL tIlIl'i IL
fool in slavish and unintelligent passion
or a dolt; he knows too little and ton
much.
Romance goes out of our old and
scepic youth before it has had chance
to dawn. Marriages are no long
glorious gencros!ties-rathcr they are
made with increasing frequence Tor
material and social reasons.
The mystery Of sex has been he
haunting dream that has inspired the
world II noble living and high achieve
ments. The less a boy knows about
the nightmare Of sex the fresher, finer
and higher will be his regard for
women. In oldcn days men fought and
died Tor women. But to-day-when
white slavery and its kindred subjects
are discussed in schools men no longer
carry a lock Of hair. "A wthered rose Il
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man who seeks the will-o'- the-wi of
financial prosperity and the girl who
seeks the sutton with a bank account
and automobile sacrifice the greatest
things OF human existence-love and ro-
nance. the JOY OF living. the transfigur-
ing spiritual adventures which vitalize
the soul. They realize this too late.
The opportunity for happiness has al
ways existed in the world. To-day in
America there Is little IL any real happi-
ness. We have utterly hartered this for
"A mess Of greenback pottage. The cur
rency issued from the mint is clamored
after and ideals-the true currency Of
the ages-are neglected. There is no
happiness in the feverish frenzy Of the
tango: there Is no romance in the win
ter woOings Of the old.
Love, in the romantic sense, has de-
parted from life-love OF parents, love
Of ideals, love Of romance, love Of God.
Fear dominates our life. Fear is the
first emotion inst!led into the modern
child. Fear Of parents first: fear of
pleasure; fear OF committing petty Of
fences; fear, not OF sin. but OF its dis
covery and consequences: fear OF sex.
fear OF disease. fear Of competition, OF
failure, Of life.
ne IL Taught 10 DOTTOW. not
the experiences. hut the dislllusions Of
its elders; II IL taught to fear being
outdistanced in the race for pecuniary
success. All the childhood training and
the education OF a boy are focused upon
eventually acquiring n bank account.
and OF girl on acquiring a husband
who has one. AT 80. when these are
secured. the man or woman, waking to
what they have lost in their centred
gross pursuit, learn to fear another
thing-death.
Youth should mean decentralization
10 make experiments even the taking
Of wrong roads the appreciation OF SEN
sations. a gay anarchy of impetuoslty
and defiance. The first thing parents do
is to restrict their child with "don'ts"
and ifs" They rear their young with
out understanding. intelligence or
reason. not to speak OF sympathy
They urge their dimnutive tots to study
in school and get ahead Of their class
and boast Of their averages" in monthly
reports
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not the young but the middle aged and
old. Look into bathrooms cafes and
cabarets anywhere and you will see
humming bird matrons Of 40 to so,
rOuged and painted, and butterfly grand
papas Of 20 comforting furiously in the
turkey trot. the castle glide or the
tango Why liz this? Brought up to
fear life. in their fear they forgot and
forfeited the JOY Of life; having gained
the mess OF pottage or material prosper
ity. and finding 1t insipid. they are now
trying to forget that they have got to
die.
Never in the history OF the race have
the young people Of both sexes been so
destitute Of romance and freedom OF
| spirit: never have matrons Of 40 been
| so audaciously coquettish and feverishly
pleasure seeking. nor bald headed and
withered husbands and grandparents Of
so so Obsessed with a morbund desire
for romance. To-day II is not the youth
Of 20 who desires to fall in love. nor
does the maid Of II wait for some
Romeo. Both plunge into life with a
desire to secure material advantages
the youth enters business and the girl
weds with the main purpose Of worldly
security. ON the other hand. the mid
die aged engage in intoxicating revel-
ries: not knowing the reason, they
tango out Of an inner instructive fear OF
the eternity concerning which they are
dubious and uncertain.
We boast OF our scientific progress, OF
the discovery Of disease germs and
serums; of the transportation of living
tissues; the perfection OF electrical APP
planes. the wonders OF radioactivity
and astronomical explorations of the
stars. We swell with pride at the con-
temptation Of our commercial suprem-
acy, the extent Of our exports our navy,
the size OF our skyscrapers. We eNtol
our system Of education, our colleges
and regard with pity those past genera
tons which received no university d.
plomas or business school training. In
doing so perhaps We have not realized
what we have sacrificed for these things,
nor that OF what We are so heartily
proud We should be most ashamed.
To-day we begin life wrong and we
end il wrong. The parent who sends his
child to public school commits II crime
| compelled by society. The child who
| seeks to distinguish himself in school or
| college unwittingly commits spiritual
suicide compelled by parents and teach
| ers.
The father who starts his son in bust
| ness. urges him in application, and the
mother who launches her daughter into
| life with the sole idea of making a
successful marriage are guilty OF an
latrocity equal to murder. The young
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blighting effects from the kindergarten
into big business The student must
get diploma, make high marks. be
prepared to go into the world to sue
coed. He sells what affections he may
have for the thirty pieces OF silver of
degree.
The games of college illustrate my
point perfectly. Games are not played
because young men love the sport, nor
for the pleasure of playing; they are
simply games to win. The system OF
physical training at college is only de-
signed to make the body an expert ma
chine for whatever work the student Is
to take up after his graduation.
Graduating from college the young
man starts in to succeed. Every effort
is bent upon material success. His
youth. out of which JOY was crushed,
was hut tedious preparation for the
sordid battle in which he now engages.
Frightened of pleasure. of women, OF
love. of life. he bends every energy and
devotes his time and thought to success.
lie marries for advancement-mar
a wife who likewise. in waiting for a
catch" has never known romance.
Then one day he wakes up. He has
succeeded. Eut what has he got from
success men he mas become frog
in his own pool. has country house,
automobiles. a bald head and indiges-
ton he suddenly hears. afar off, the
pipes of Pan. He pulls the cotton from
his ears He feels the dancing music
in his feet; but his Joints are rheu-
matte. He looks at women-he finds
them allurng. He feels distressed and
strange.
He becomes aware Of the approach OF
death. He has lived. and succeeded but
"a what purposc-to die ana leave his
automobiles to others To speed. Sud-
denly !, all comes to hm-that the
game he has played was not worth the
winning. I've not got much longer to
live" he thinks. What can I do" He
begins To- take trips To European baths.
He learns To tango.
Another Thought besets him. I've
never loved" he cries with dismay. He
begins To- 20 to- after theatre suppers,
seeks the "mplacahle Aphrodite" among
chorus girls.
rive never even enjoyed myself" he
ldmcnts He turns into speed fiend.
races his automobile. II he gets an
attack of acut" INDIGESTION out West he
viii hire special tram and come East
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handkerchief next their heart. Til.
mere suggestion of such a thing curls
the lip in ridicule.
People have become matter Of fact
to the point OF folly. Romance is
visualized as n harlequin at a village
circus. Romeo is considered Ounce or
fool. And for this coeducation is largely
responsible.
Coeducation is utterly wrong. 1t is
one Of the things that have changed
our young into precociously ancient
cynics.
A boy sits beside a girl In school or
in his classes. At a certain time in her
physical development a girl is brighter
and more eager than a boy. She goes
ahead and humiiates the boy. Not I'M
Outstanding the physioloric reason for
this. the boy resents the girl. The corr
petitive system Of education makes the
girl a rival.
Moreover. a boy has opportunities to
witness a girls meanness to another
girl-and usually girls is the pettiest
sort Of meanness. The boy learns to de-
spse girls. A boys code Of honor is
more sensitive than any he may after
ward acquire. He regards girls with
calculating derision and despises them
as companions Not until he is 81 or
10 does he look back and understand
his early misconception and get over
the scorn which intimacy and rivalry
developed. Not until then does he realize
that woman is not an inferior thing
and only then. and too late, he begins
to appreciate the mystery and allure
Of womanhori which coeducation de-
stroyed for him.
Then he has reached the tango age.
He may try to romance and get young
again. But the dream is dead Tn"
shutters Of the house Of romance are
closed and the key Of the door is locked
and flung aside.
Before a boy goes to college all that
exists within the college walls is "A
matter Of fascination. lie fares forth
with the idea that he Will capture knowl-
edge. But in colleges IN" evils of early
school education continue.
Within the college hoy finds that
everything has tag attached, He
learns that he is not SO much expected
to acquire actual KNOWLEDGE as the APP
pearancc of having knowledge. Consc-
quently he does not study for the love
of knowledge, but with the sole purpose
of heating others and winning honors
He continues To hr a victim of that
competitive system which continues its
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-12
By CONINGSBN DAWSON.
Author VI The Garden without Walls."

w IhI Is the turkey trOt! Wnat
M is the psychological explana.
" ton Of the tango madness?
Certainly the dancing hys-
terra which one can observe nightly in
towns and cities throughout the country
does not represent normal quest Of
pleasure. nor a means OF recreati ton on
the part of the young. The young may
dance. but to close observer the
greater percentage Of those who cavort
hop. jump and skip in the tango. turkey
trot and hesitation are the middle aged
and old.
The reason. in my opinion. will be
found where you are possibly least pre-
pared to look for it. The tango Is a re-
suit Of n reversion and perversion Of
normal life.
In America We are accustomed to
boast Of two things-Our education OF
the young and our unparalleled COM
mrrcial success. In educating our young
and in achieving this commercial
supremacy We have committed the
greatest crime Of which humanity can
be guilty. II evolution from lower life
forms has resulted in an intellectualized
mankind. with n hope for future spirit
ual transformation. We should then. in
the very things Of which we are most
proud, find the greatest shame and re.
gret.
To-day We witness n phenomenon new
in the history OF humanity. There are
no young people except the compare
lively aged in years; there are few if
any I'D people except the young. BY
our methods Of education and our striv-
.ng for material success we have re-
>e!s-d the pyramid OF life.
our young men ard women are
mentally old. spiritually decrepit
w.zeued and blighted of that normal
youth which in former ages made for
romance, love and the joy OF life. In
our schools and colleges the youth Of
the and are dried up mentally and
liehted spiritually. made cynical, selfish
ana hase; they are made to fear life
and failure.
Atter attaining success in business or
marriage. and when the period of
normal youth has passed, our middle
aged # not old men and women. az by
Son' cvil witch spell. waken to n false
indian summer Of youth and become.
hIt too late, grotesquely. insanely. alb
-iri.y young. This is because they fear
death And this Is the reason. therefore.
thai hey tango.
To any observer, however casual it
j. '.I'" plain that the dancing craze
N.,A has hit this country has affected
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