Show MUSIC AND JANNERS SHOULD BE COMRADES Did you u ever think of ot good manner manners and music when attending a concert I mean moan as one of or the he audience asks a writer In the tine Etude His argument follows fol tol- fot- fot lows There is a large class of amiable people peo peo- people pIe people who wino would never be Le guilty of ot eating eating- with their knives or combining combinIng ing vocal exercises with their soup soup soup- who have what seems to be a sort of or knack for ba bad manners when music Is going on Too frequently we find them rattling their programs and making a n. noise that Is far from Crom blending with the tho mu mu- h I 11 I sic i ow ov ii IL LU U only a little the they could consult the tho program quietly and get just as much good out of or it Then there thero is the time fiend lend who ho hoto to show his musical Inclinations beats bents remorselessly with a heavy foot And Andall Andall Andall all too often orten slash beats It wrongly But the worst of or all thoughtless ag- ag gressi ns on other listeners listeners' comfort Is that awful cough h sinister coincidence coincidence- It is Is-by Is by a simultaneous with tho the soft sort phrases Inthe in inthe inthe the music and terribly contagious too The rho encouragement of ot a single rough cough sets off ort scattering voll volleys ys of or coughs allover all allover over tho the house None of or these sufferers suffer suffer- ers erSt it Il appears has a handkerchief to cough Into or a hand to deaden the sound or tho the will to restrain It at nt least In part They one and all nIl give vent ent to the malady malad with a light hearted Indifference to the tho pianissimo that is astounding No doubt there is a nervous equation in the tIne matter like Inee laughing at nt a solemn moment or ones one's mouth when a wave knocks one un under er at the tho SeAshore seashore seashore sea SeA- shore or swallowing things the wrong way Lot Let us make duo allowance for this tInts But the But the fact tact remains that this Is one of the worst as s well wen as the most usual Interruptions at any concert If you arc are one ono of 01 the nervous ones here aro are a few hints as ns to the remedy coughing with the tIne mouth closed Try u tightly It will WUI not mako make nearly so 80 much noise and It will give Just as I much relief as S coughing fortissimo I Only keep the lips shut and the jaw set and the teeth together It Is p perfectly possible and otto ono can cin get Into the habit so BO thoroughly that it becomes second nature 9 Good manners at a concert are aTe Just Justas as 9 eloquent a n tribute to the music as Is la enthusiastic a applause a more subtle token of or real appreciation atlon at once of ot the tho lovely art and of ot the comfort of or orones orone's ones one's fellow listeners |