Show I i WINIFRED BLACK I Hurrah for the Emotions Copyright 1918 by Newspaper feature Feature Service Inc A great musical critic dismissed a anew anew new musical genius the other day In one sentence This man will never make any Im Impress Impress Im- Im press upon time tho spirit of this age says the tho critic Hes too emotional I rang up the musical genius's budness business bud busi ness manager the minute I head that S sentence C fl tenc a. a I wanted to get some tickets for the next concert Too emotional What mat does the critic want music to be anyway an affair of arithmetic or Just a bit of scientific calculation When I hear music I want It to be emotional that's all music Is for to tomay tomy my may mind to stir the emotions I like music that makes he lie laugh and cry and remember remember and and try S to for for- get I like music that means something In Inthe inthe the life of the heart I dont don't care a cent what It means In the tue life of the tho Intellect Wrong With Em When I want to exorcise exercise my brain Ill I'll get a problem In calculus or read one of the new books about Russia or ortry ortry try to figure out how many pounds of meat I can manage to squeeze out of one dollar and how a growing growing- child can cami bo be expected to live on a few pounds less than that and when Im I'm all through Ill I'll go and hear some music and try to get a little comfort and amid a little peace peace and a little Joy out of It Too emotional Im I'm tired of hearing hearing hear hear- ing things called too emotional as as asIf If the emotions were sort of evil re relations me- me lations that we are all ashamed of or and never ought to acknowledge What's BO so wrong about the emotions a anyway n 3 way Are you ashamed of yours or afraid of them Im I'm not of mine I like emotions They're the one thing In the world that I live for I like to be Justly cross and get natured good again I like to be doubtful doubt doubt- ful UI and find my faith again I like to be tired so tired that I cant can't even think and have the fun of a good rest afterward I like to be thirsty thirsty thirsty-so so thirsty that I can fairly hear the lemonade pourIng pourIng pour pour- Ing out of the pitcher pitcher and and then get the lemons and make a big pitcher full full and and drink it I like to cry when Im I'm sad lust Just for forthe forthe the pleasure and the tho relief of crying and once In a while whisper I like to slam the door Dont Don't you honestly now What would this world be without a few emotions In It and are all emotions emotions emo emo- bad Just because they're emotional emotional emo emo- What sent your boy to the recruiting recruit recruit- ing sergeant to enlist to fight for his country's flag Was It the rating he got at arithmetic In the high school Was It the the- number of facts he had at athis athis his fingers finger's ends or or- did he go because his heart was stirred by an emotion we call patriotism They Make Up Life What sends your girl to this the Red RedCross RedCross Cross to work day In and day out but butan butan an emotion What made you go down Into the tha poor district last week and see ace that there was a good dinner In at least ono one forlorn place but an em emotion tion of kindness kindness kind kind- ness You didn't add up a column of figures fig fig- tires ures or take a course In true history of the discovery of tho election electon before you did It did you How did you ever happen to leave your fathers father's house and follow a man you scarcely knew out Into a great groat big lonesome strange world Didn't your emotions have something to do with that That chubby little rascal who's working working work work- ing so hard this very minute to get his own toe Into his mouth mouth mouth-doesn't doesn't It make you emotional Just to look at him Hurrah for the tha emotions There wouldn't bo be any world at all or any people In It if some of us were not emotional once in a while anyhow |