Show I I Why Tc Scream I I So used are we to aggompaniment that the organ must give it forth in more or less vigorous measure while the marriage mar-riage ceremony is performed The awful i charge laid upon the conscience of the I contracting parties the pledge and response re-sponse ot husband and wife the very prayer pray-er and benediction are lost in the waves of sound If the average American had his way a brass band would be established in the vestibule instead of the piped and keyed instrument but thus far church and precedent pre-cedent are too strong forhim I As a nation we are not musical As a nation and as individuals we love flare and blare sound and sensation We like to feel that we have a big place in the universe uni-verse and to fill itfnIl Satirists might trace a connection remote but actual between be-tween our taste in this respect and the influence in-fluence of our national emblem tiie bird that flaunts and soars and screams Vc need toning down all along the line and in nothing more than in our language and voices The one is florid the others are loud and untrained i In general society too many of our best dressed women suggest inevitably mi ludicrously English novelists descrip tion of peacocks who were attitudinizing and conversing in the high key in which they always proclaim a change of weather and their innate vulgarity to the world i Marion Ilarland in New York Herald |