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KINGSTON, ONTARIO, --- WNelsic: Music In Canada. Sir Edmund Walker, the Inaugural rehearsal of The Men- delssohn Choir of Toronto, expressed | surprise that in a comparatively | short time the people this Con- | tinent had been able tofbreuie even | a moderate interest in Music and the | other Fine Arts. Mentioning'the fact that he himself was born in a log cabin on the edge of a clearing, he set forth in some detail the task that faced the pioneers who settled in the great forests of this Province. They were forced to fight the wilderness | for a mere subsistence. In the effort | to clear fields large enough to grow a crop of wheat or potatoes among the stumps, the giants of those days had no time to look for beauty. They could not pause to admire a flower. They could not love the majestic iree that stood between them and a lives lthood. Sir Edmund, continuing, pointed out the fate of the Pioneer's son. He received the farm from his father when it was only half cleared, and the whole of his life was spent ig un- | remitting labor to finish ti sk and | to pay off the mortgage. Two gen- erations were sixty years, more or] less. It was folly to expect any great artistic achievement until the third and fourth generation. Even the old- er sections of Ontagio we were not vet in the fourth generation from the pioneer days. For this reason the the rising interest in music as shown not only in Canada but in the" United States, The plain good sense of the utter- ance must commend itself to every thoughtful Canadian. We have no occasion for distress if we have pro- duced so far no outstanding compos- er, if the average business man never heard of Tschaikowsky and imagines that Correggle isa kind of cheese. | Music like all other forms of culture is a growth, It must be planted in the hotbed of leisure. It is pot sur-| prising that for many years, partic- ularly in the United States, progress in the appreciation of music was due almost entirely to the interest of the wealthy classes. Only as the great orchestras were established did the | man or woman of ordinary income] get an opportuniéy to hear the mas-| terworks of the great composers. | The taste grew and to-day in every| city where an orchestra is found] there is a solid musical public ready | to give all reasonable support. The time is rapidly approaching when Toronto and Montreal will find | the demand for regular hymphony | A Piano of Merit & Quality This beautiful Williams Master Touch player In very different from the Melodian made 68 years ago, hut the quality of the Williams product -- the durability that has proven itself By a 65 years' test, is still maintained through efforts of Canada's brains and expert work. manship. Call and see the many models at our showroom. We will arrange aT. to sult your pocketboo -J.M. Greene Music Co., Ltd. Cor. Sydenham & Princess Sts.;'Kingston SAGE TEA BEAUTIFIES AND DARKENS HAR Don't Stay Gray! It Darkens So Na- turally that Nobody Can Tell. | GERMANY IS FACING A FINANCIAL CRASH Tax of 60 Per Cent. of Income Needed to Extinguish Debt at Present. Amsterdam, Feb. 14.--An interest~ ing event has taken place in the Ba arian Chambers on the financial situ- You can turn gray, faded hair ation'as brought about by 'the : war. beautifully dark and lustrous almost over Mght if you'll get a bottle of "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com- pound' at amy drug store. Millions of bottles of this old famous Sage Tea Recipe, improved by the addition of other. ingredients, are sold annu- ally, says & well-known druggist here, use it darkens the hair so fhaturally and evenly that no one can tell it Has been applied. clusions so ss a Sulphur. Compound "you'll be detighted with handsoms hair and your uge within. a few is preparation is a toilet requis ite hs i$ mot tended for the cure, Count Praeysing, introducing an in- terpellation, said the empire, states, and municipalities, would - have to pay on the debt a yearly interest ' amounting to £975,000,000, which} was equal to 60 per cent. of their in- come. In peace times the percent~ age was 13.5, It was, he went on, impossible to cover that tremendous amount with- out war indemnities. Without d4n- demnities the collapse of the federal) stats and a dangerous disturbance of the empire's economic position were seriously threatened. To cover any appreciable proportion of those fin- ancial requirements by direct imper- fal taxation was out of the: question i as that would mean tapping uu sour which ought to he 1 to the federal states, peo demnities only one "Tins. romn and that was a stu us SEniged. tion of private fortunes. Hert von Breunig, Finance Minis- ter, in reply, admitted the highly ser- ious state of the financial situation. He pointed out that yearly yield sufficient to of war taxes was § war expend cover about two ture, He foret increased taxes | 4nd concluded by saying the respon- sible statesmen must strive tain war Indemnities. to obs Nationalization of railways was{f urged at a joint meeting of the Hydro-electric Railway pal Electric Association- at Da Pesitors and » bondholders mitigation or prevention of disease. jon Permanent ceive 80 cenin Gn Ine dalla: and Munich at Toromto. } Loan may re} ts too insistent to be overlook-| ed any longer. There is abundant | wealth in both cities to provide the| necessary guarantees. All that is). needed in an inclination. The story! of Col. Higginson should be read a- | loud to a number of our wealthy men. When he was asked on one occasion | why he spent $50,0y0 a year on the | Boston Symphony Orchestra he re-| plied "Some men prefer to spend that | : amount On a steam yacht. The or- chéstra is my yacht." By means of this public-spirited expenditure he not only served his own pleasure but provided a civilizing satisfaction for unnumbered thousands of his fellow- citizens. Orchestras will arise in Canada. We have only to await a little longer "till our little wings are stronger," "Bringing Music into Lives In a recent interview, Reginald De Koven said that the greatest good any musician can accomplish is to make music a pleasure and helpful part of the lives of the masses. For that reason he is inclined to consid- er the pooylatr song a 'definite and important factor in musical develop- ment. Pérhaps the popular song of the past was not of a high standard but it played a large part in devel- oping a latent musical interest. De Koven's leads on to ask' what is being done to-day to give the mass- es music. Los Angeles is making music lovers in a democratic way through the publie schools. Instead of confining themselves to the ordin- ary instruction in singing, they have over 100 separate and organized school orchestras embracing some 1400 players, are working through the high school. Every pupil who pursues mushou. | studies with an accredited teacher 1s -------------- 'Your comfortable, healthy, well-to-do neighbor uses Instant Postum instead coffee. Ever ask him the reason ? of tea or -- especially if "you are one of those 'with whom tea and coffee don't agree. speaking at [4 | done, no other has given me more | than money; { opened many pleasant homes for. me | any means. | uncertain, but this is his criticism of | as far as its sound went. 1 | I myself did so in | of In a Texas town they | the ee | given credit for that in the totals made by his terms work, The Prin- cipal gives a hearty endorsement of the plan. In other places the idea is being car out through municipal band concerts in the parks, civie financial aid io bands, orchestras, choruses and such institutions, and the encour- agement of all musical programmes in churches, and concert halls by pub- lic spirited citizens. The results aimed at are to pro-| duce the type of person who in later | years say with a well known business | man: 'Of the many things I have pleasure than the fact thae I learned # little music in my youth and kept" it up as I advanced in years. It has never brought me a dollar, but there are plenty of ways of making money. My bit of music 'has given me more it has been the key that and won for me the friendship of | many good people." { Two Views of Music. Great men do not always agree by | Music has been defined | as a combination of agreeable sound for the purpose of expressing such feelings, ideas, and emotions as it is beyond the power of other arts to! portray. Notwithstanding this, and | notwithstanding Mendelssohn's as- sertion that 'sthough everything else | may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing and carries us so far from town, country, earth and all worldly things that is is truly a blessed gift of God," the great Ruskin did not al- ways see it that way. Whether he ate something for dinner that did not digest properly or whether the Opera he attended was actually very poor is it: \ "Of all thé bete, clumsy, blunder- ing, boggling, baboon-headed stuff I eyer saw on a human stage that thing saw last night--as talffas the story and acting went, of all the affected, sapless, soulless, beginningless, end- less, topless, bottomless, topsy-tur- viest, tuneless, scrannel-pipiest, tongs | and »oniest doggeral of sounds I { ever endured the deadliness of, that eternity' of nothing was the deadliest never was so relieved so far as I can re- member, in my life by the stopping of ann sound, not excepting railroad whistles, as I was by the cessation of the cobbler's bellowing; even the serenader's caricatured twangle was a rest after." Saint Cecilia's Day. Saint Cecilia's Day, November 22nd, is generally observed with great pomp in the Province of Quebec, and al- most wholly neglected in the Pro- vince of Ontario, / It is traditionally a musical festival and Milton wrote a | famous Ode for performance upon that day. , Most of the church choirs in Quebec will have special services of occasion. Mr. Fred. Pelletier, writing in Le Devoir of Montreal, is inquiring' concerning the programmes to be presented in the city churches, He continues as follows: Why not form programmes of Canadian works exclusively The thing is not only possible but even very easy. I may be pardoned Perhaps for saying that 915 in the Church aint James. At a service given in the afternoon the programme cofn- prised a 'Cor Jesus," an "Ave Maria," an "O Salutaris," a "Salve Regima," a "Tantum Ergo," id a "Laudate," all written by Canadian musicians, and these works, without reference to the manner of their performance, had as |' much intrinsic merit, as many others signed by foreign names, Last year the choir of Notre Dame Church gave a Festival Mass by Mr. Achille For- tier. If in such exacting music as that of the Roman Catholic Church, Cana- dian composers are making them- selves known, it is not surprising that there is benig written in this country a good deal of admirable anthem mu- sic suitable for the services of the Protestant churches. Most of = the city choirs throughout Ontario are in the habit of giving special concerts in autumn. hy would it not be possible now and then to make the programmes entirely Canadian? 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These two stanzas from th Music: God in Thy mercy bless Russia the free Grant love and righteousness Her faith may be. Russia, be brave and strong, Tyrants might defying: Root out the wrong, Wl free your land! ngs may , Freedom lives y belongs to all Life's 'B oo P's command, a may * the DumaYring Joy to the Slav: wi trath their counsels ring, eace they have. ig eg your chant on high: Raise heal your nation: Earth, sea and sky Will A help your Love shal Joins nx ve an elation. Ri Jn song rejoice, For Slavs are free! undying: Since the Russian revolutions, Ca- i red what senti- ressed in the words nthem of the New pen of Allan Cooper form a sugges- tion which appeared in the London and monarchs fall, Jour glee. Nature's voice It helps teeth, breath, appetite and digestion. The should in return for a possible arrangement with the Austrian Slave for the dismember- ment of Austris-Hungary renounce certain claims to the of the Adri- atic promised her by the treaty of London in 1915. Most of the news- papers are favorable to these conces- sions, which can be made now since tifere Is no fear of a southurn Slav: most in 'Milan declares that this in, absolutely necessary as the nations must use every means In their power, and every possibie wes- pon agalust their enemies, 7