Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-08 | Page 6 | Notes About Women

NOTES ABOUT WOMEN. , An English lecturer told eomo Interesting Interest-ing anecdotes about tho pet birds of musicians mu-sicians to the members of the London section sec-tion of tho Incorporated Society of Musicians Musi-cians recently. One of them was of a parrot par-rot belonging to Wagner, which kept up a tcrrlblo din whllo Wagner was being visited vis-ited by a friend. Tho friend asked the mastor how ho stood It and Wagner ro-plled ro-plled that though tho bird did mako a great noise sometimes ho was compensated compen-sated by having a wife who did not play tho piano. j, Here Is a neat passage from "Tho Napoleon Na-poleon of Nottlng Hill," In which Mr. Chesterton discusses femlnlno nature: "However much, physically, 'about town' a woman may be, sho still models herself uii jiatuic, alio uica iu tail) naiui u wim her; she bids grasses to grow on her head and furry beasts to blto her about tho throat. In the heart of a dim city sho models her hat on a llarlng cottage garden of flowers. We, with our noble civic sentiment, sen-timent, model ours on a chimney-pot, the ensign of civilization." A recent historian suggests a reason why the fluto Is not popular with lad'os. "Minerva, In ancient Greece," ho says, "began to play tho fluto, thinking lt such a beautiful instrument Bho needs must learn It. But ono day, looking in a mirror while she was playing, she saw to her horror hor-ror that the act of blowing tho flute com-munlcatod com-munlcatod a very lnclegnnt distortion to her face and in a pet sho threw tho Instrument In-strument away. Perhaps the feelings of the fair sex toward tho flute have been Insensibly influenced by a similar consld- cratlon."