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Show Mouth Organs The recent announcement that Professor William Hansen, Han-sen, supervisor of music in the Young university training school, had ordered seventy-one double reeded harmonicas for the boys of the school, should be hailed with delight not only by the boys of the school, but by the parents also. Professor Hansen intends to have a real harmonica band before the end of the school session. Undoubtedly he will continue the idea next year, when the innovation should take a firm hold in the school. A harmonica, it may bo well to remark for the benefit of the uninitiated, is simply a mouth organ. The the mouth organ, as the New York World well says, "is one of the noblest inventions of man." Decadence and deviltry entered the young generation when the strains of this lonely instrument grew weak. It was known and loved of old in every town, village and country side throughout America and Europe. The sun was played to rest, and old folks and little children were lulled to sleep by the medodious music of the local mouth organ band on the grocery steps or the rail fence behind the orchard. .There has been a great gap in the musical life of America, Amer-ica, which is not at all filled now by the phonograph, the radio and the symphony orchestra. It is a hopeful sign that the mouth organ is coming back. May it sweep the country ever more effectively than ukeleles or crosswords. . ,, But, say, don't call it a "harmonica." ' ' .,. |