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Music W ithin the R each o f A ll
Noted Instructor Exlains How It Is Possible to Learn Art by
Correspondence Course.
The editor received this letter the
other day: “ I hope to keep my
girls at home with me on the farm.
They both want to learn music and
tell me they must leave for the city
to do so.
Please advise me what
to do.—Mrs. E. ”
You put a hard problem before
us, Mrs. E. But we felt there must
be some way out for such girls as
yours, and many like yours. To Mrs.
McCurdy, head o f a famous school
o f instruction in music, we said:
“ Can music be learned by m ailt“
This is her reply:
BY FLORA McCUBDY,
Director American School of Music.
FEW years ago any one advocat
ing self-improvement by means
o f correspondence instruction was ridi
culed, but in keeping with the general
trend o f progress, ideas in this regard
have completely changed. Now every
one recoguizes the value o f a corres
pondence course as a practical and ef
ficient means o f securing the knowl
edge sought.
Music, however, to many has seemed
the one subject that could not be suc
cessfully taught in this manner, but
those who have investigated this means
o f acquiring musical training are loud
in its praise, many o f the features of
the correspondence system being far
superior to the methods used by the
ordinary personal teacher.
Then, too, it is a well-known fact, in
giving a personal lesson, the teacher
is explaining while the child is more
or less confused in trying to find the
right note to strike and listen at the
same time, and it is safe to say that
half o f each lesson must be taken over
at additional expense and loss o f time
to the student.
Lesson Always Before Student.
By the correspondence method the
lesson, thoroughly explained and illus
trated, is always before the student.
No part o f it ever need be lost through
forgetfulness. The courses have been
compiled by teachers of the highest
A
Stories at Which You
WU1 Smile
T THE BATTLE o f Cedar Creek,”
said the veteran captain o f a
company in one of Virginia’s
bravest regiments, “ my company, which
generally wasn't afraid o f the arch
fiend himself, grew demoralized and
panic-stricken. Despite all my efforts,
they b rok e' and started pell-mell for
the rear.
“ As one fellow, whom I knew was
as fearless as a lion, dashed by me, I
drew my revolver, and cried:
“ ‘ Halt, and return to your place!
I f you don ’t, I will shoot I ’
“ ‘ Shoot and be hanged!’ he replied,
never slackening his pace. ‘ W hat’s one
bullet to a b a sk etfu l!’ ”
A
_ HE DOCTOR was treating the old
T
lady for typhoid fever, and on
eaeh visit he took her temperature by
putting a thermometer under her
tongue.
One day, when she was nearly well,
the doctor did not bother to take her
temperature. He had hardly got one
hundred yards from the house when
her son called him back.
“ Mother is worse,” said the man.
“ Come baek at once.”
The doctor returned. As he came
into the sick room the old lady looked
np at him with angry and reproachful
grade o f proficiency and the subjects
are all presented in their proper order
and in a thorough yet comprehensive
manner. Music is now considered as
important a part o f a child’s education
as the literary schooling and the cor
respondence method, having become
practical as well as economical, has
placed it within the reach o f every
one.
It gives all the opportunity of learn
ing to play well in the quiet o f the
home.
It does away with the embarrassment
and nervousness often caused by the
presence of a personal teacher and en
ables many a music-lover, who has fail
ed to have these advantages in youth,
to learn to play for his own amuse
ment. For, who is there that has not
at some time in his life longed to
possess this accomplishment!
Music has a refining influence on the
family and there is no more pleasant
manner in which to spend a w inter’s
evening, than to gather round the fire
side and listen to the mother or little
son or daughter play your favorite
selections.
Wonderful Besulta Obtained.
Time being one o f the most impor
tant principles in music is taught suc
cessfully by the aid of a time-beater,
which counts the time out loud for the
student while he practices. This device
will count slow or fast as the student
desires. The rate of speed at which
the studies should be played is desig
nated in the lesson and the counting
marked so there is no chance for con
fusion or mistakes.
Many o f the correspondence schools
furnish all materials necessary, free of
charge.
Also the whole family can
learn to play from one set o f lessons.
Music taught by correspondence is no
longer in the experimental stage and
the wonderful results secured attest its
success. Schools teaching music in this
way are now ranked among the fore
most educational institutions o f today,
and people living in rural or isolated
portions o f the country are now able
to become accomplished in any line de
sired at home at a very reasonable cost.
plished Musician
T
HE “ Better B aby” movement is
no “ F ad ,” but a gradual awak
ening, individually, among a few
thinkers o f the waste of time and
energy on a feministic beauty show for
babies, to a scientific, educational prop-
oganda for the betterment o f humanity.
When we are lacking in facts regard
ing life, there ia sure to be ignorance.
So with a timid, imitative mother and
father with no knowledge relating to
their offspring many a child comes into
the world unwelcomed, often miserably
deformed, and diseased.
As the mother is pre eminently the
director o f the child, it rests with her
aa to its development physically.
Nouristment is the most important part
o f a child’s life, lack o f which retards
the ch ild’s growth, and in after years
a deficiency mentally can be traced to
poor nourishment being the cause.
By
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mental and physical development, a
mother can gain a vast amount o f scien
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o f correction.
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brains and instruments.
HE TALK was about a member of
Congress who has taken an active
part in furthering the currency legis
lation.
“ Has he any special knowledge of
the cu rrency!” asked the Western
man.
The Boston man looked at him with
the indignation with which perhaps his
ancestor o f the same name received the
information that the British Parlia
ment had passed the Stamp Act.
“ Has he any special knowledge of
it ! ’ ’ he repealed with a rising inflec
tion that made the questioner wish ha
were back in Kansas City minding his
own business. “ Why, sir, he is a Bos
ton m an!”
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URING the general elections in
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Growers’ Association has orders booked
for 104! carloads of canned goods. A
telegram from W. H. Paulhamus, presi
dent of the association, who is at pres
ent in the Middle West seeking new
markets, stated that he had orderB for
between 80 and 100 carloads o f berries,
what in cannery parlance is known as
the Meinrath district. The district em
braces Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Minne
sota, Texas, Missouri and Oklahoma, in
all o f which states the Puyallup and
Sumner goods are distributed through
the Meinrath commission house. These
80 or 100 carloads for which Paulhamus
has orders, are not included in the 104}
carloads that already are on the books
of the association. Paulhamus’ tele
gram aUo states that if he could re
lying face downward on the operating main away another 30 days he could
table, presented a skyline so much bring orders up to 130 carloads.
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of Remington, applying his full weight
to the manipulation which he was giv
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