Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-06-15

your she said. ''Yes, gladly. 1t will
he merely absurd after what you heard
this afternoon. l play like 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
ruefully. but my plano won't be here
after tonight. I'm sending 1t 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, IL you care to-"
IF l could play" he said, wist-
fully, 'if could play like that old man
in the church could thank you"
"Ah, but you haven't heard me
play. 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 sucn complete uncon-
seriousness Of saying anything especial
ly significant, that she knew 1t was the
truth. For a moment she was non,
plused, then she opened the gate and
went in. "You'll come after dinner.
then?"
YES" he said, not moving. would
you mind IL 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 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
I'LL 1t. Everything that Is beautiful Is
music, II you can listen.
There is no gracefulness like that of
graceful woman at a grand plano. There
Is swimming loveliness Of line that
seems to merge with the running OF the
sound, and you seem, as you watch her.
to 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
ing, and when she is near you, you feel
strong and ambitious: you forget that
the world doesn't like you. You think
that perhaps you are great fellow, after
all. Then you come away and feel like
boy who has fallen in love with his
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 net have the Greek profile" I
do not believe Helen Of Troy had
Greek profile;" they would not have
fought about her II her nose had been
quite, that long. The Greek nose is not
the adorable nose. The adorable nose Ia
about an eighth of an inch shorter.
Much Of the music Of Wagner. 1t APP
pears. is not suitable to the plano. wag-
ner was a composer who could interpret
into music such things as the primitive
impulses of humanity-he could have
made a machine shop into music. But
not II he had to work in 1t. Wagner
was always dealing In immensltiesza ma
chine shop would have put majestic
lump in so grand gizzard as that.
There Is a mystery about pianos, 1t
seems. Sometimes they have to be sent
away" That is how some people speak
of tho penitentiary. Sent away" Is .
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 II 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 II. 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
humblefas 1t is thankful But 1t is hard
to be humble when one is so rich with
new memories. 1t Is impossible to be
humble after a day of glory.
Yes-the adorable nose Is more than an
eighth of an inch shorter than the Greek
nose. 1t is full quarter of an inch short
There are women who win 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!