Show PLAYING THE SECOND FIDDLE Positions Position In Life Very Much a as It Is I In the Orchestras That Are Ar Designed De- De Dec c signed to Amuse When 1 I was a lad 1 uses usco to bear hear the expression more frequently frequency than I do now that certain man was playing second fiddle liddle or that be he would not play second fiddle for any man or something of that sort Playing second fiddle Is a curious expression Last Lut night I 1 attended a beautiful concert of ot our symphony or or- chestra At the conductors conductor's left hand slats elate the first VIolinist Grouped beside and behind him are the rest of the first violins On the other side aide of the conductor sit the second violinists There were just about as all many of them and they were called upon to play what seemed to be just as aa difficult dim dim- cult music There were times when the first violins were not playing atall at atall atall all and the melody was b being carried by the second violins at other times the seconds were playing in unison with the firsts at atilt other times Umes they were carrying their own part without which the tho first violins would not have sounded like much And Is not that like life Ufe People that we call second fiddlers are part port of ot the orchestra that makes lifes life's music The more prominent people are helpless without them there are times Umes when they carry the real me me- melody lody Jody Who the nurse of pf Carlyle was we do not know but if there had bad not I been a Ii nurse there would have bees been no Carlyle Washington's advisers seldom come como to our minds but he would have made dismal failures without with out them Someone may be far more visible in your society than you are but hut he cannot stay there unless you and others like you do your own quiet part You can afford to play second fiddle or anything else elso to keep the music Cleland going Cleland B. B McAfee McAtee |