Show TALES OF THE DAY A Veteran In the Business Washington Star I am very sorry sir said the poet but I am obliged to call your attention to tho fact that a line in one of my recent compositions was entirely en-tirely perverted and the meaning painfully pain-fully distorted by the compositor Young man replied the editor that compositor has pone through more poems than you ever wrote or even read He has put in his life betting up poetry of all kinds spring and fall styles and heavier goods for winter lie may have changed your poembut when you say he harmed it you presume When a man of his experience ex-perience makes up his mind to change apiece a-piece of poetry a person in your position should remember the respect that Is due to superior knowledge and not attempt to criticise An Anecdote of Rubinstein The following anecdote of Rubinstein is told by the Italian tenor Marconi to Theodore Tracy who tells it in turn to the Musical Courier One day during a visit to Rubinstein his little son came tripping eagerly into the music room Approaching his fathers side he nestled beside him and said Tbs Is my fe ta papa and I want a present Very well my son what shall it be A waltz papa a new waltz all for myself and now What an impatient little son it is exclaimed the great muslcfan but of course you shall have your jrlft Here It is listen And for you turning to the distinsulshed tenor I will play my Nero It seems almost incredible says Mar coni but then and there I witnessed and heard tho most remarkable phenomenon phenom-enon The maestro Improvised and played a charming waltz with his left hand giving me at the same time with his right hand the splendid overture |