Show Manners Excel Applause 4 2 1 4 4 Stifle Cough at Concert Concert Heedless Behavior Spoils Musicians Musicians' Work and Hearers' Hearers J Joy JoyIE oy TIE TlE IE Etude Elude for April contains ci by T. T on concert concert concert con con- cert audience manners Somewhere throughout its brief brie length tho the article contains a a. lesson for almost every verY goer concert-goer and few indeed will be those who can feel that nowhere is la reference made to themselves cs Mr McLeod says There Is a a. large class of ot amiable persons persons persons-persons persons who would never b be guilty of eating with their knives 01 or combining vocal exercises with their soup who soup who havo have what seems to be a sort of or knack for tor bad manners when music is going on Too frequently we ve find them thorn rat ratH tUng their programs and making horrid noise that is far from b en I 1 with the music Now f if they they- would only onty consider a a. little they could con i suit Bull the program quietly and get set getas just jus justas as much good out of or It Time Jime Fiend Reproved 4 Then thero is tho time Ume fiend whoa who to show his musical inclinations time remorselessly lessly with a a. heavy foot And all too often alas ala beats beat It wrong I 1 heard one man behind me the tho other night essaying to beat the tho time timo o othe ot the 5 4 in the Sonata and what a mess he made of or it It W waa m evidently not of oC the tho one I Times Met Have in his limited experience and it kept getting away vay from Crom the tho sole solo i o of his shoo shoe In a way that must havI havi hav I puzzled him extremely But tho the worst of or all aggressions on n other listeners' listeners comfort Is Js that awful cough It is is is-hy by a a. sinister coincidence coincidence- simultaneous with tho the soft phra phrases Inthe Inthe in inthe the music And terribly contagious too Tho The encouragement of at a a. single lo cough sets Bets off ott scattering volleys ol ot coughs all over the Ule house None oC ot these sufferers it appears has a handkerchief hand hand- kerchief to cough into or a a. hand hand to to deaden the sound or the will to restrain restrain re strain it H it at l least ast in part One and andall andall andall all hive give vent seat to th the malady with ii a iiI i I light hearted I gh t- t hear thear ted I indifference a d I f to the phrase pianissimo I Hints Hint GI veil to lo Folk No o doubt thero is a a. nervous equation equa tion in the matter Like laughing laughing-at at ata a solemn moment or opening ones one's mouth when a a. wave knocks one under at the seashore or swallowing things thinS's the tho wrong way Let us make due al allowance allowance al- al lowance for this But the But the fact remains remains remains re re- mains that this Is one of ot tho the worst as well a as ai tho the most usual Interruptions at any concert It If you ou are re one ono of ot the nervous on ones here are re a few tew hints as to the remedy Try coughing with the mouth cl closed tight It will not make nearly so much noise and it will give Just a. a as much relief as us coughing fortissimo Only keep tho the lips lips shut and the Jaw set an and the teeth together It is Js perfectly possible and one can get t tinto Into the tIme habit so 80 thoroughly that it H becomes second nature I Good manners at a a. concert are just isLas justas as as eloquent a tribute to the tho music a aIs all all' I is enthusiastic applause applause-a. a more subI subtle sub sub- I tie tle token of ot real of or tho th lovely art and of or the comfort of ot ones r fellow listeners i |