The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-07-15

your she said Eyes. gladly. It Will
be merely absurd after what you heard
this afternoon. Iplay like a hundred
thousand other girls, and like It I'm
glad when anyOne's willing TO listen.
and if you" She stopped. checked
by sudden recollection. and laughed
ruefuliy- But my piano won't be here
after tonight. I'm sending it away
tomorrow I'm afraid that If you'd
like me to play to you you'd have to
come this evening
You'll let me?" he cried.
Certainly. if you care to-
If | could play" he said. wist-
fully. IF l could play like that old man
in the church l could thank you"
All. but you haven't heard me
play. l know you liked this afternoon,
but
Yes, said Bibbs. at was the
greatest happiness I've ever known"
1t was too dark to see his face. but
his voice held such plain honesty. and
he spoke with such complete uncon-
seriousness of saying anything especial
ly significant. that she knew it was the
truth. For a moment she was non
plused, then she opened the gate and
went in. You'll come after dinner
them
Yes he said. not moving. would
you mind if 1 stood here until time to
come in?'
She had reached the steps. and at
that she turned, Offering him the re-
Spouse of laughter and a gay gesture
of her muff toward the lighted win
dOws Of the new house. as though bid
ding him to run home TO his dinner
That night. Bibbs sat writing in his
notebook:
Music can come into blank life and
fill il. Everything that is beautiful is
music, If you can listen
There is no gracefulness like that Of a
graceful woman at a grand piano There
is a swimming loVeiineSs Of line that
! seems to merge with the running Of the
sound. and you seem, as you watch her.
10 see that you are hearing and to hear
what you are seeing
There are women who make you think
of pine woods coming down to a sparkling
sea The air about such woman is brac-
/ ing, and when she IS near you. you feel
strong ana ambitious; you forget that
/ the world doesn't like you You think
l that perhaps you are great fellow. after
| all Then you come away and feel like
I
| Sunday school teacher You'll be whipped
! for it-and ought to be-
There are women who make you think
( of Diana, crowned with the moon But
/ they do not have the Greek profile
| do not believe Helen of Troy had a
/ Greek profile" they would not have
/ fought about her If her nose had been
| quite that long The Greek nose is not
/ the adorable nose The adorable nose is
about an eighth of an inch shorter.
| Much of the music of Wagner, 1t ap-
/ pears. is not suita BILE to the. piano. Wag-
ner was a composer who could interpret
/ into music such things as the primitive
| impulses OF lhumanity-he could have
made machine shop into music. But
/ not If he had to work in it Wagner
was always dealing in immensities-a ma
| chine shop would have put a majestic
| lump in so grand gizzard as that
| There is a mystery about pianos, it
| seems. Sometimes they have to be sent
| away" That is how some people speak
| of the penitentiary- Sent away" is q
! eUphuiSm for '-Sent to prison" But pianos
| are not sent to prison, and they are not
| sent to the tuner-the tuner is sent to them.
| Why are pianos sent away''-and where?
| Sometimes glorious day shines into
| the most ordinary and useless life Hap
| pinesS and beauty come carOling out OF
| the air into the gloomy house of that life
as If some stray angel just happened to
perch on the roof-tree, resting and sing
! ing. And the night after such a day is
! lustrous and splendid with the memory
/ of it. Music and beauty and kindness
/ those are the three greatest things God
| can give US To bring them all in one day
| to one who expected nothing-ahI the
| heart that received them should be as
/ humble as it is thankful. But it is hard
| to be humble when one is so rich with
| new memories 1t is impossible to be
| humble after day of glory.
/ Yes-the adorable nose is more than an
! eighth Of an inch shorter than the Greek
| nose. It Is full quarter of an inch short
| There are women who will be kinder
to a sick tramp than to a conQuering hero
| But the sick tramp had better remem-
! Der that's what he is. Take care, take
| care, Humble's the word