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Show Musical Gamins. The musical taste of tho New York street boy is omnivorous. It furnishes also a quite substantial prop to a favorite favor-ite theory of mino that it is not so much tho masses as tho classes that need to be j educated np to a decent standard of ; esthetic appreciation. The average gamin in his whistling moments by no j means confines himself to airs of tho Mc-Ginty Mc-Ginty variety. ! His repertoire has a much wider scope, j and includes scraps from tho symphonies sympho-nies and even Wagnerian leitmotivs. Tho , model newsboy drifts quite grace- . fully and naturally from "Littlo Annie I Rooney" to tho G unt her theme, and from '. the "Anvil Chorus" to "Shall WeGath- i or at the River?" 1 Several times I have been startled at tho sound of a Nibelung motive quivering quiver-ing on the night air in the neighborhood of Park Row, to find upon investigation i that it emanated from the puckered lips of a dirty faced street Arab, j It is not probable that these whistlers bavo ever absorbed tho music of the Trilogy from a box at tho Metropolitan Metropoli-tan opera Louse, or even from a remote quarter of the topmost gallery, but in some mysterious manner they have i "caught fn" to the music, and with a ready tact sifted out from the agglomeration agglomera-tion of involved harmonies the tunefulness tuneful-ness that many of tho aristocratic occupants occu-pants of tho seats have been quite powerless to detect. New York Herald. |