12 PAGES Ge Imes YEAR 85. NO, 290 See Daily British Whig KINGSTON. ONTARIO. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13' 1018 PAGES 9-12 ------------------ SECOND EECTION -- For Chris Columbia Grafonola T wo of the joy you can bring. into the home with a Columbia Grafonola-- All the music of all the world' --great sin- gers to enthral vou with their song---superb arfists who give you the very best of music on the master of instruments, the violin--and the hosts of other entertainers, to say nothing of the rollicking dance music. The Columbia Grafonola type 'X' illustrated here is the most popular model. This Grafon- ola is very large for the price and is of a design that is very pleasing to the eye. Finished in red mahogany, golden oak and fumed oak. Com- partments with a capacity for seventy-five re- cords. Size 40% inches high. 18% inches wide, 203% inches $1 15 deep. PRICE ... . ona One Price Only--OCash or Credit. Other Oolumbla Grafonolas from $30 to $325 from ... ... ... .. ..542.50 to $550 Columbia Records from -.90¢ up \DSAY, Limited L cu kl ew a Hl" 121 Princess Street :: Kingston Other Branches at Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec, Belleville, Brockville and Three Rivers. v VY WR Vv v v Insist on Getting CHARM TEA s i « In Packages Only ; Black, Green, Mixed. At all Grocers. i | = A Survey of School Music Activities. { It is only when one travels this {continent from Bast to West and {from North to South that one gath- {ers the least conception of how tre- | mendous a part music is playing in jn educational system through the | public and high schools. First let jus visit a city of 100,000 people. | There for four years the high school {ehorus has been giving "The Mes- siah' each Christmas at a concert free to the public, the school hoard | detraying all expenses. This cho- rus, will give "Elijah" in a few t months. In the next centre the supervisor lot music in the schools has aimed at laying a foundation from the lowest grades in the public school that will bear fruit in abundance ih the high school That he has accomplished his purpose is evident trom the fact that the high school maintains two orchestras, one of forty-five players and the other of thirty; a chorus of one hundred and fifty voices, and a military band of twenty pieces So well have these musical activities de- veloped that the schools of the town are planning to combine in giving = Spring Musical Festival. In the public schools of a western city a well planned course has for some time been in operation, includ- ing assembly singing, musical his- tory, orchestra and glee club practice A short time ago a three days' musi- cal festival was held, one day of which was given over to the schools orchestra of 150 pieces and a mixed school chorus of 400 mixed voices. The programmes these organizations gave were so well received that it has been decided to make the school participation an annual event. To encourage choral work in an- jother town a, local daily newspaper {has donated a prize for the winners | of a chorus contest: In till anoth- ler, the school pupils are treated to a series of concerts to acquaint them i with the best music. At: some of the concerts a lecture is given put- ting some phase of music before the children in simple and attractive form. Another city has a munici- pal orchestra that provides weekly concerts at popular, prices and the final rehearsals are given before the pupils, each school in turn Again there is another city which boasts of a highly efficient Boys' Glee Club, a Girls' Glee Club, a" mixed chorus, and two orchestras of forty players each; and which is proud of its school Musical Society which gives monthly programmes that are well attended. The plan of AMow- ing credits for music studies takeén under duly, areredited private teach- ers in operating successfully in hun- dreds of the United States schools. The plan is one in which Canada should loge no time in following suit 9 Wasting Money. A music teacher once agked a little girl if she would be willing to pay a dollar for something, and then go back again the next week and pay an- other dollar for the same article, "No, I wouldn't do any such thing." the pupil answered quite em- phatically. "But," said the teacher, "that is Just what vou are doing now. Last week you pald me for a lesson in which we went over the work very carefully and which you seemed to understand thoroughly. But to-day, instead of teaching you something new, I have to spend the whole hour in going over the same work that you had last week, simply because during the lesson #nd while practising, you did not concentrate your mind en- on DEPENDENTS of our [ERCHANT SEAMEN Prepare Your Claims ario Division) has received from Thomas Mulvey, Under- of State, report. all that may be m y de- ts of sailors lost during the while serving in the Merchant rine. A a rise : ough to remember what you had been taught And so you are throw- ing away your father's money by paying me again for something you paid for last week." A flashing of the pupil's eyes show- ed that the illustration had appealed to her, and from that day there was a remarkable improvement in her work. « m-------------- Two Musicians Went Fishing. Norway is indebted to Scotland for her greatest composer. For Edward Grieg was a descendant of a Scotch- man, Alexander Grief, who only went to Norway from Scotland after the battle of Culloden. Grieg re- quired to be away from the din and distractions of life to do his com- posing So he built a little hut away in a beautiful but inaecessible spot in the mountains, where he worked much of his time. On one occasion he went on a fishing expedi- tion with a companion who was also a musician. During the day a new musical theme came into Grieg's head. He noted it down on a pibce of paper which he deposited by his side. A gust of wind, unknown to Grieg, bléw the paper into the water, The companion went after it, looked it over, concealed it in his pocket, and started to whistle the tune, "What was that?" said Grieg as quick as a flash. "Only an Idea I just got," return- ed the companion "The devil you say!" ejaculated Grief, "I just got that same idea my- self." The spot where @Grieg's remains were interred at his death is as ro- mantic as his favorite environment was during his lifetime. A steep cliff juts out into the fjord. Half way up is a natural grotto, accessible only by water. - There in that grotto, chosen by himself, lie the ashes of | the great and gifted musieian mark- | ed only by a brief simple inscription. Sharps and Flats. Mere age does not make a violin valuable, A good band has been termed 'a symphony orchestra in brass."s You cannot listen to music and worry----you cannot sing and be sad. In, playing the piano or organ a well-trifned thumb is a great asset The little folks should be encour- aged to sing--but to sing softly. Shouting is harmful to tone produe- tion. To obtain the most desirable tone from your violin, the hair of the bow must cross the strings at very nearly a right angle and parallel with the | bridge. A soft brass drum stick covered with lamb's wool is preferred by bass drummers for concert work. Usu- ally for parades and open air playing | the hard felt stick is used. ' Do you play to your counting or count to your playing? The ques- tion cannot very well be answered until you get a metronome. Any- way you need the assistance of the metronome's clockwork precision. After an experience of fifteen years 1 music teacher observed that with the exception of pupils who were well advanced when they cafe to him, almost ®veéry one of them who made good progress had parents who took a keen interest in the child's musical studies. Grieg, the exponent of Norwegian music, once became interested in an old folk song which he overheard a dairy-mald singing while milking a COW, Grieg placed a piece of paper against the cow's side and recorded the air as theygirl sang it. = He af- terwards told a friénd he had a new ! melody "fresh from the cow." The Origin of Accidentals. The flats and the" natural were nown and used at a very early pe- riod, certainly long before the time of Guido (about 1025). The sharp, or diesis. has not been traced back farther than the latter half of the thirteenth century, when 'we find it in some French manusgripts in the form of a double St. Andrew's Cross, as in Adam de la Hale Rendellus's Fines amourettes, Dr. Hullah, in his Six Lectures on the History of Music, says that the accidentals be- came recognized signs about the mid- dle of the twelfth century. ------ ria Function of Naturals. Naturals serve four purposes: 1. As signifying white keys, rever black. 2. When used to negative sharps jHve double sharps or double flats | ; Mallorytowst Tidings. WAR. PUZZLES] nein st om BOR CE Li they are, in effect, flats, 3. When employed to negative flats they are, in effect, sharps, 4.-- Single naturals entirely nega- after spending the past two weeks in Kingston at Aléxander Munroe's. Mrs F. M. Purvis and Mrs, Lang at- tended the memorial service in Lyn [Or Pte. Carman Jones on Dec. 1st. Thad Purvis is in Kingston re- ceiving treatment for his eyes. A number from here spent Saturday in Brockville. © The remains of Holmes Morrow, Caintown, were placed in the vault here yesterday to await interment. Dr, A. Judson was in town reecen Soprano of the Metropolt. tan Opera, proving there is no difference belween her voice ond The New Edison's Re-cregtionofil. Jack was so set on having Music this Christ- mas. The problem of "which phoncgraph" distinctly "resolved itself into this: Could we contend ourselves with an imitatation, a mere resemblance of Music, or should we have Music itself. "If we want our enjoy- ment fo be genuine," figured Jack, "the source of it must be real also." So he arranged at once to have the New Edison delivered to our home Christmas Eve. Now we can enjoy the voices and playing of the great musical artists of to-day not by imagining from what we hear what their actual performance must sound like. For the New Edison "Re-Creates" all forms of music, and with such fidelity that during 1500 public tests where the living artists sang or played in direct gomparisen "with their performances on the New Edison, none of the 2,000,000 people who heard these tests could ' distinguish the slightest. shade of difference between the living artists' performance and the New Edison's "Re-Creation" of it. Only this is Music. Wh are buying the Christmas phonograph be sure you are During Music. Hear thé New Edison, No needles to change. Can play all makes of records. Easy terms if you wish. : GREENE MUSIC CO. 166 PRINCESS STREET EDISO) : "The Phonograph with a Soul" * 27 Fim,