The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-11-30
THURSDAY. NoVEMBER 80, 1916.
introducing a Little Sentiment.

tion of community orchestra. 1t IS
going to start the ball rolling toward
the development Of the musical In Ke-
nosha and already we are looking for-
ward to the time when Kenosha IS
poing to have great community
chorus, made up of people who maybe
would never star in grand opera or on
the vaudeville stage but who can get
into the spirit of melody and help
make discord of heart tone which
after all is the sweetest of melodies.
Some time we expect to see this big
chorus made up not only of the young
sters but men who have lot or the
AtSilver Threads Among the Gold"
lust caroling away "the songs the old
folks loved'' A lot of them will have
ITO have book because we have been
so interested in finding out that
fTThere is Little Bad in Every Good
Little Girl" and Everybody Has a
Pretty Baby" that lot Of us have
forgotten the words of "Seeing Nellie
Homev and Old Black Joe" and
ftDublin Bay" and "Pass Under the
Rodn and yes, "The Sweetest Story
Ever Told" and Cloves Old Sweet
Eong.o When this chorus gets TO
working. and gets to recalling some OF
the old time songs there is going to be
tears coursing down the faces Of lot
of people in Kenosha. When some old
time leader picks up the tuning fork
and snaps the tone there is going to
be great mingling of cracked voices
and the old time songs are going to
ring out with heart tone which is
going to do hearts good and which is
going to convince some people that the
vaudeville stage of today has nothing
to offer in comparison with the old
time songs Of the fathers and the
hQrandmothers. We want the children
ito have chance to know them.
I'VE don't want the older people
to have chance to forget. Some
night when the old chorus is working
well we want to hear them sing,
7" Rock of Ages" and "Work for the
Night is Coming" and "Just as /
Am" and old "RefugeN and a lot of
those other old songs so dear to the
hearts of men and women who went
to church years ago. Of course you
can still hear them singing Coward
Christian Soldiers" but that is be-
cause it has a sentiment which appeals
Ito a modern militant christianity.
The good little girl that has the
touch of Lavender in her is all
right for Saturday night holiday, but
the good old songs which have those
beautiful sentiments in them should
mot be allowed to die out. Maybe some
time when the winter weather gets
cold the community orchestra can lay
aside the classical long enough to go
back and play "Maiden's Prayer"
and when they get out the old book
which has as its first Offering General
Grant s Funeral March, the men with
the violins and the drums will find a
lot4of old timers just teeming with the
melody of long ago. 1t is possible that
an the old book they will find Some
DAY III Wander Back Again. and
alongside of it "Home Again = and a
lot of those other dear old songs which
5radiated love of home and the first
things which made life worth living.
There is still an inspiration in the old
time songs. it's the inspiration which
goes back with the sentiment about
mother s knee 1t means a lot to a
lot of people. ''The Shadows Fall
Across the Dim Old Room Again . and
we can see those "Dream Faces and
they grow sweeter through the gather
ing mists of passing years. 1.-THE
Days When You and I Were Young,
Maggie" are going to be made a little
more real just because we are going
to sing all of the old songs again.
OF course this is not town boosting
but it is boosting the things that reach
down into the hearts of men. A little
sentiment may go long ways but if
we are going to have only little SEN
timent, why not have it the sentiment
of the old songs? The memories they
WI bring back are too dear to be
Neglected or forgotten. Those old
songs inspired men and women in the
past and the inspiration has not been
lost on account of trailing years and
changing conditions. Music in the
community is just as valuable as music
sn the home. 1t lends refining and
uplifting influence that can be brought
by no other agency. What it needs is
your voice to get into the chorus, your
aid to make the chorus real one. The
crack in the voice is only the avenue
for the expression of the sweetness of
the old time songs and hymns. Maybe
they could not sound the same without
it. Possibly you recall how that when
mother sung them at the old melodeon
years ago, her voice was just a little
cracked and fathers bass was not all
that the modern conductor would de-
1nand.
Yes, this is all sentiment, but really