Show i WINTER A 1 few Glitter far generalities fra froia in 1 l an occasional correspondent elit EDITOR e old men like your corres correspondent lent who 0 o by the way believe they are wise men are in the habit of taking their cold baths with a splash of hot water in them at this time of the y year ca r this is the when the ld landscape aca pe appearson app earsin earsL in the bottoms with neutral tints and the moan moun bains forn form a decidedly white back ground this thiis is the time when blustering 1 1 9 boreas rudely shakes the bald h heads 1 ads of the shivering poplar trees when the blood is nipped despite the fur lined overcoat and the ears nose fingers and toes seem to join in a comm common onti tingle in abor tit is winter shivery shaking du denary zy grey winter the dollof following monotone note was inspired in tho the neighbourhood neighbour hood of ogden canyon on saturday last it is blank verse not much verse per haps but plenty of blank A winter eve the ruddy ruady eun sun crouches behind the enow snow capped bille hills splashing the western sky with golden fire silence reigns round ogden because I 1 the ohp atrie elections ec eions over no one makes a noise I 1 11 of course mr editor you read the magazines I 1 do and am alwaes always astonished at the erudition t the 0 fancy ancy the in invention and fhe phi insi insight which seems to lurk urk in the braina brains of the various writers therein abstract subjects such as the origin ot of og ogden de river the song birds of F farrs r grove gro e or the Ill internal arrange ments of the soul or the reasons for concluding that the inhabitants of jupiter suffer from chilblains baams etc seem as its natural to magazine writers as a babyboy baby boy b oy exhibits when be he tucks his little dimpled hand into his ever ready mouth in this months longman s q magazine a german by the n name ame of weber has bus an article on melody of speech now sir air this learned musician musician tells us that the donkey brays in something like octaves and the neigh of the horab has some resemblance to a descending chromatic scale that a person saying yes I 1 am your friend and will help you would traverse an entire octave from C to C 1 I stayed quietly at home is another sentence where the voice would extend over a minor minor seventh from B flat to A flat after all this to mo me sounds like vanity I 1 admire herr webers music music much but be does not seem to know enough about journalism ao 0 o catch the full lull melody i and varied inflection of their scales cales E either chromatic or diatonic ahe there re 1 is however one phrase I 1 should like to analyse analyze myself and that is how many notes your voice will extend over when baying having read thue thus far you utter the words confound the old fellow whatever is he driving 0 g at t well I 1 have e not much more to say but it strikes me forcibly that in this good city of ogden where so many talented and useful musicians reside ft it is a pity that t instead of ke keeping epi ng to the lefiti leg iti mate they allow their undoubted talent torun waste in trying to t 0 imitate im nature and that too in what appears to me a useless endeavor to prove that art excels nature if you think proper to insert this in in your paper rig right lit you are if on the other hand you put it inta i the wastepaper waste paper basket e equally qually well will it be I 1 am too old a correspondent to want to see my writing in the papers but I 1 do like to point out in a friendly way an any thing that appears to be not tie the i thing you know |