The Washington times., 1917-01-27
POPULAR MEDICINE
BYDR. HIRSHBERG
Intelligent Observation of Rules
of Hygiene viii De- q.
crease Illness.
By DR.. LEONARD X. HIRsHBERG.

By DIR. LEONARD X. HIRsHBERG.
There's q little bit of music in every
tuneless mortal There is such sweet
compulsion in music Saul was charmed
out Of his blue funk by David's Tyre. To-
day a certain well known surgeon per-
forms his operations to the strains of
beautifuItmeIodies.
There's a reason that a few people
may have no music in their souls, for a
tone-deaf ear is more often due TO a
neglect Of discipline, instruction, train
ing, and stimulation. II the parents.
adults, and others around the child give
forth no sweet sounds. il the infant and
growing youngster hears no old-fashion-
ed melodies, songs. orchestrations or in
strumental solos, IL Is no more to be ex-
pected that such a child will know or
love music than blind child could APP
preciate a sunset
Prof. Edward Maryon, Of MontcIair,
N j., has devised a method whereby
this hidden, dormant perception Of musI-
cal pitch and color vision can be applied
toward the development of a musical
sense"
Prof. Maryon's method shows you how
to obtain and retain absolute pitch by
means Of your memory for colors. Color
vision is the keynote of the plan of in
struction which is intended to make
children and grown-ups sing in absolute
correct pitch at sight.
Founded In Motion.
Color sense is no more q gift OF
heredity than is tone sense. The one
Is born as dormantly in man as Is
the other. 1t is merely the accI-
dental availability and universal ex.
tension OF various light vibrations
in the environment OF infants AMI
children, which so early, quickly and
completely arouses the latent per
ceptions of color sin the human
units" as Professor Maryon calls
mankind.
The sources of both tones and
colors, sound anil light are vibra-
lions or movements. At bottom they
are the same-merely motion. They
differ only in the mediums through
which each passes to the eye or the
ear: the universally of occurrence
of the one-sight-as contrasted with
the comparative rarity OF the other
-sound-and the speed and power of
each.
Light Is the movement or vibra-
lions that are swift and penetrable
to many more things than sound. It
Is particles sent through the thin
nest matter, called "ether" They
enter and stir the eye almost the in
slant after birth in a variety Of
speeds or "colors."
Practice Is Needed.
Sound is the result of similar vibra-
lions in denser matter, such as air,
water. wood, bone, drumheads.
strings, brass and metal. They reach
the ear and are perceived as a cry,
noise. a tone or a symphony in one
pitch or many pitches. The babe, the
child or the adult may never be
placed in surroundings where tue
tunes and pitches are various and
beautiful. The upshot of this will
be an auditory life of tone-deafness
or monotony in several senses of this
word
Prof. Maryon says that by his meth
of the native ability to perceive and
memorize pitch and tone. while ror
as easily stored and brought forth
as color can be cultivated and mo ds
to be real by lifting II from poten-
TALLY into actuality."
Briefly, you must be made to think
pitch, just as you now think red.
Thanks to Sir william Crookes, the
great English scientist, who invented
the CTookes tube, which led Roentgen
to discover the N-rays, ii has now been
known for four years that color and
tone go together.
Four years ago Prof. Crookes meas
ured tones and colors simultaneously
in vibrations of light and sound. He
found that you can think Of "C' in
the exact pitch when you picture red
"If you see violet you can
with a little practice sing b."
With a proper amount OF discipline,
training and practice the
ear, by this association with the
minds eye, can be easily and quickly |
taught pitch and tone. 1t is a transla- |
ton OF mental colors into outwardly |
muscular Instrumentation |
OF productive tones.
(COpy't 1917. by Newspaper Feature service.) |