The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-17

The women are botfnd - 0fve ~
some new thines In politics. 1nstrucs-
Ing = Glass Of feusa1o stump speakers
at Chicago, Miu y. x. Lyons says: "A
- painting: IT. sequence of ideas
should resemble the natural panDage
Of chords Of music Avoid = surplus
Of scattered ideas." It's AL right to
Try i. Heretofors the stump spssch
ing and . natural passage Of chords
of tomfoolery without any surplus Of
ideas, scattered or cong1omotatod.
Beautiful word. pictures. melody and
idea: may really make = hit. But let
ffcacy OF the stump speech depends
vesy much ON tn adaptatlou to H.
crowd surrounding the stump. TIE
beeuetful painting ana chords Of mu0c.
In other words, should harmoniSe with
tho audience. For instances Paint
Jeff Davis ON . sour apple tree or sing
John Browne Body Goes Marching
before Georgia crowd and there viii
be ono effect. Whereas q picture Of
that old anthem. I'VE Won't Go Home
Until Morning would have an entire
~ different effect upon the same
crowd. The objects OF stump speaktng
are conversion and corporation and.
to arrive 1T these. the pictures. the
music and the crowd must be en- rap
port. We once knew stump speaker
to announce to the crowd in the
bloody Fifth" that the ward was 30
bad that in entering 1t for social calls
he always hog-tfed his horse and pad
locked his busy wheels. the picture.
in this instance. was slkillfully painted.
but the speaker was last heard Of hid
ing some distance from his stump.
However, let us not be construct a.
ton Of the higher arts In political
meetings. Anything the women can
do to soften the blasphemy and tone
the political stump speakiags will be
gratefully received. Indeed. In every
crowd there are some who predicate
their politics on much worse THINGS
than pictures and songs. There's .
| lovely bunch Of such folk In Chicago.
anyhow.-Wichita Beacon.
NEW SOUL TEST.
| Among the many new fads which
| theorists have devised to reconstruct
the world, none seems more astonish-
| ing than that Of learned musician
who has discovered that marital har-
mony depends solely upon the proper
relation of the voices of the married.
Thus, we are told that q soprano should
only marry tenor. and q contralto
only a basso. We are also told that
| while tenors are good mixers, cordial.
sympathetic and excellent business
men. contfaltos make the best moth
ers live longer and are more honest.
true and dependable. 1t II sincerely to
be hoped that this theory IL false. for
it betokens an immense amount Of mis-
cry in the world. AS in well known.
the crop Of tenors Is exceedingly short.
Won Bulow once said that tenor voice
was a disease. There certainly are not
ltenors enough to supply the sopranos
with husbands, for the high singing
voice IL most common among women.
If bassos must only marry contraltos
their lot is hard. seeing that there are
50 few contra1tos. which Is a great
pity II they are more honest. true and
dependable" and by long odds the best
j mothers. Now It IL q fact which any
census win demonstrate. that the So
pranos and bassQs are In the, great ms
3offty, and this refers not 70 profess
SIGNALS, but to the ordinary persons for
whom the musical theofist has issued
his dictum. The true soul test IL in
loving and trusting and using some
common sense. The world has gotten
along very well ON this plan. in spite
Of the divorce evil. and IL likely to do
! so for q good many generations to
come.-Philadelphia Inquirer.