Show music in all I 1 he common schools in germany dingi singing ng and music are arc taught and I 1 very every child is as much expected to read and write and perform music as to read and write and recite any other lesson they are all respectable performers and many of them the reading of musical notation is learned eyen even in the snow now covered huts of ireland iceland in passing through the continent of europe the traveler finds every festival whether national or religious 9 grac ed with music serenades from the common peb people are heard every night in the street music echoes from the shops the bouts boats and the harvest fields some of the best performances of Mozy ts difficult pieces are said to proceed from the privates of pru asian regiments AS a general thing every house in germany and switzerland has hansome I 1 some musical n instrument 1 I 1 ottye s stopped at a german aman settlement of no great gre at size where I 1 was invited to hear some music at the house of a mt mechanic elianic cli anic here hen a small corn com piny iny performed vocally and instrumentally instrumental ly almost the whole of haydens creation the master of i the house a blacksmith more more than sixty years of age took the first violin his aged wi wife fe in spectacles I 1 gaye us a vocal pari the oldest eldest son a joiner from the neighboring village R sat down at a lei leipsic sih piano on which after tuning it he executed with t I 1 great skill the whole accompaniment several young men and women filled the ch ir dr A boy five years of age was pinta d out to me as beginning to play the violin upon inquiry I 1 found there was not a house bouse in that town with put a pin piano no or some keyed instrument this evenings entertainment entert hns has often occurred to me HS as illustrating the happy influence of music upon do 1 c life and social habits if yon yoi would rould have young 11 a people love home induce the them in to cultivate j music sic it will beguile many a winter night which I 1 I 1 I 1 might flight otherwise be worse than wasted pew pleasures are che cheaper iper or I 1 or more within the he home circle almost all foreigners are profi cientos A few years ago a party of emigrants en to for the night on a small eini eminence nence about aalf a mile from iny my residence about sunset we we were e surprised by the most delightful sounds wafted wafred across the valley by those sojourners it ipp peare appeared eared d to be their evening hymn accompanied with horns the effect was indescribable rev todd I 1 why cannot music be introduced into our schools I 1 in in utah and from them reach our domestic circle will the ale REGENCY please to answer ed |