12 Pages NO. 132 Why Do You to Music? 'Why are so mapy '"'unmusical" people so musical? Why is the de- mand for music 'so universal while the strictly "musical public" is lim- ited? 'The truth is, music has a most uncanny way of interweaving itself into the texture of a man's iife, regardless of whether or not he is given a musical education. Just as a scrap of melody associated with a certain character or situation is heard again and again in the course of a modern opera, each time with a new meaning, so a tune learned in childhood may become a sort of "leit-motiv," cropping up continu- ously as the curve of a man's life rises to maturity and sinks to oid age. "Silver Threads Among the Gold," heard in childhood is mean- ingless save a preity tune that daddy sings. Later, when daddy goes a way of all flesh, it becomes « hallow- ed memory; and we may hear if ol- ten without its having any signifi- cance whatever until one fine day-- well the silver threads begin to ap- pear in earnest. . "Writing about music must be lots of fun when you have opera or symphony to write about," said a musical friend, 'but how on earth do you swallow so much ragtime and popular music?" Swallow it? It is in some ways the most fascinat- ing part of the job. Immersed in musie from childhood, we know bet- ter than most that a symphony can appeal only to an audience predis- posed to music as an art. A popular song belongs to everybody. It shakes the tired office-man out of his rut; it takes the stiffness out of a party of Belf-conselous guests; it is "camouflage" for the mating of the younger generation. Take ZTipperary.". for ..inspance. Four 'years ago "Tipperary" was 'whistled or sung by everybody; some of us now might have diffi- culty in®recalling the tune. Yet to many a man and-women-in-Englind it has become a holy thing---the last hb in the away gaily on a sultry evening in August, 1914, never to return.. And practically every song is somebody's "Tipperary." The part music plays in every man's Mle is a curious one. It seems that all through his life a man stands midway between a two-phase current, one sweeping forward to the future, the other reaching back to those stored-up experiences wheh we call memory. From childhood to adolescence and a little beyond, the forward-looking current flows strongest---the future holds so nruch and the past so little. In maturity, the period of a man's fullest develop- ment, the two flow evenly side by side, so that a man looks behind and before him with a balanced judg- ment; and finally we come to dwell memory of some man who went ro more and more upon memories of the past, beginning perhaps with the romance period---the time when, as boys; we threw our school-books be- hind us and succumbed to the glam- our of the "Great White Way," or as girls we went to our first bat and quit wearing our hair in a pigtail. And the older we gN\ow the further back we look, so that the childhood memories of a very old man are usu- ally more acute than _those of his maturity. A music plays its part all through. Seventeen-year-old Eileen, constant- ly straining forward, discords the melodies she learned at her moth- er's knee for the very latest, up-io- the-minute fox-trot. And her bro- ther chucks side the old school song- book with its "Juanita," "Last Night," "Old Folks at Home," fond- ly believing that he has done with it forever, not knowing that these tunes will come back to haumt him in after years, along with the first waltz he danced with some miracul- ous, blue-eyed blonde, whose very name escapes him a year later---on- Jy to come back rose-tinted in a couple of decades. To us, this year's favorite song sounaE aie" piciously but not to the youngsters. They find something about it just a Che BD KINGSTON, One little different and discard the form- er favorite 'with a contemputuous "old stuff." So it comes about that a popular song is never so defunct as a year after it has been on every- body's lips. Yet its influence re- mains, and when memory plays its larger part, these tunes return like bread upon the waters. And still later the tunes from the old song- 'book are heard again. Women Piano Tuners. Before the war no one ever heard of women fpiano-tuners in piano manufacturing houses, but latterly this 1ine of work has been thrown open to many women in England. According to one woman pioneer the work is found to be exceedingly in- teresting and wages may be expect- ed after an apprenticeship of six months. She says that a correct and sharp ear, the power of concen- tration and an abundant fund of patience are as important as the "strong wrist" for tuning. In the factory 'workrooms girl workers fit the keys, screw them down carefully and regulate the instrument. After this there is the wirst careful tun- ing, with a second following a day or two afterwards; and when the" final polishing and finishing is over, another and last tuning takes place before the piano goes out into the world. There has been much dis- cussion in England of late regarding women's capabilities in the field of the manufacturing of pianos, but the London Globe maintains that in view of the Imperative necessity for fighting enemy trade after the war pianos and their making might well buyi ance, less finish. YOUR new Piano must pos- sess artistic lines and beautiful finish, otherwise it will quickly become a sorry sight to your eyes. 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"CANADA'S PREMIER PIANO HOUSE" models which are Arrange- be made to apply of your old instru- or LY %0 |was a boy. aily British Whig ONTARIO, | NINE BOILS Kept Coming on Neck One After the Other Anyone who has ever suffered from they make you feel, When you think you are about car- ed of one, another seems ready to take its place and prolong your wret- chedness. All the poulticing and lancing you may do will not cure them and stop more coming, Boils are simply bad blood burst- ing out, and the bad blood must be made pure before the boils disap- r pear. Burdock Blood Bitters is the great- est blood purifier known. It cleanses the system and removes every par- ticle of foul material from the blood, then never another boil comes and the cure is permanent. Mr. Geo. Ayers, 302 Gloucester St., Ottawa, Ont., writes: "I wish to tell you what I know about your won- derful Burdock Blood Bitters. In the spring I suppose my system needing a cleaning out, for I had nine boils come on my neck one after the other. I quickly got a bottle of B.B.B., and before it was half finish- ed I felt a great change, and it cer- tainly put an end to my boils, other- wise I might have had a lot more. I recommend B.B.B, to all I can, for I know it to be a great remedy." be given an important place in the recognized sphere of woman's work. Liszt as a Practical Joker. Franz Liszt greatly enjoyed a practical joke, especially when he The following is frou one of his letters: "When I was very young, I often amused myself with playing school- boy tricks, of which my auditors never failed to become the dupes. I would play the same iplece, at one time as of Beethoven, at another as of Czermy and, lastly, as my own. The sccasion on whidh I passed my- self off for the author, I received both protection and encouragement: 'It_ really is mot (hadi for his age.' The day I played it under the name of Czerny I was not listened to; bus when I played it as being the com- position of Beethoven, I made cor tain of the 'braves' of the whole as- sembly.' SEVERAL CHANGES iN FINAL DRAFT Stations of Ministers in Mont« real Conference For the Year. ---- It was after ten o'clock on Wed- nesday when the secretary of the tationing committee of the Mont: real Conference SS reading the final draft of stations for this con- ference. There were several changes from the first dmaft, but general satisfaction was expressed with the results of the committee's strenuous deliberations. The changes finally approved are as follows: Montreal North ~Distriet--8her- brooke street, Rev. Thomas Scott, from St. James' church; Trinity church, T. C. Cassidy, from La- chine; Rawdon, W. Doherty, from Perham; Mascouche Rapids, J. Snellgrove; St. Faustin and St. Jovite, G. W. Clayton. Montreal South Distriet--Wesley church (Notre Dame de Grace), Robert Smith, from Sherbrooke street; Lachine, Isaac Norman, from Huntingdon. Matilda Distriet--South Moun- tain, R. Calvert, from Delta; Ma- tilda church, Lorne A. Pierce, Ph.D., and H. E. Curry (for sustentation work); Chesterville, J. B. Hicks, from Lennoxville; Auitsville, C. D. Baldwin, from Addison; Moulinette, George W. Snell (remains); Finch, James Leach, from -Escott. Brockville Distriet--Lyn, George 'Mossop, from Ashton; Mallorytown, C. J. Curtis, from Newboro; Addi- son, W. Wells, from Auitsville; Delta, J. Holt Murray, from Brins- ton; Escott, J. Puttenhum, Finch. Perth District--Lanark, John W. Shier; Haston's and Jasper, A. Fair- bairn. Pembroke = District--Cobden, G. H. Forde, from Sawyerville. Ottawa District--Bell street, Ot- tawa, George S. Clendinnen, presi- dent of conference, from Kingston; Ottawa South, A. A. Radley, from St. Lambert (Montreal); Rose- mount, Ottawa, J. Howard Philp, Ph.D. (remains); Westboro, W. H, Raney, from Ottawa South; Met calfe, Alex. F. Fokes, from Rice Quebec District -- Richmond, Telesphore Roy, from Trinity (Mont real) ; Sawyerville, C. W. Hollings- worth; Marbleton, J. C. Rowe, from Bast Waterloo District--Dunhani, | F. J. MdClement, [rom Montreal (Wesley). : i A commission was appointed in the dying hours of the study the question of the amalga- mation of South ¢ FRIDAY, JUNE 17, boils, knows how sick and miserable]. 1918 . > Best Offer of the Year THIS SPLENDID OUTF IT Grafonola and Record Cabinet SENT HOME TO YOU ON PAYMENT OF $2 DOWN "Just for Saturday' is this generous offer made, and we reserve the right to accept not more than twenty orders. 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