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Show The Old Time Singing: School. In the old colonial days when tha great and the great-great-grandmothers were young the singing school was a well established institution, writes Mary . Estes in a very accurate article telling tell-ing exactly how "the old time concert" may be reproduced at a church entertainment enter-tainment in Ladies' Home Journal. It was usually held in the village school-house, school-house, the schoolmaster often figuring as the singing master. Thither at regular reg-ular intervals through the long winter months tripped the grandmas with their escorts. Little did they imagine as they lifted up their sweet voioes in unison with the strong tenors and bassos that those same airs, even the very gowns they wore, would at some distant day be reproduced for the benefit of an appreciative ap-preciative audience. Yet it may be safely safe-ly asserted that with the exception of the colonial tea the old folks' concert is the most popular of the old time entertainments. en-tertainments. The success of an undertaking of this sort depends largely upon the adaptability adapta-bility for her office of the person having hav-ing the affair in hand. She must of necessity ne-cessity have an accurate conception of the manner in which these entertainments entertain-ments were conducted in our grandmothers' grand-mothers' day. She must also become thoroughly imbued with the spirit of hat olden time. |