Show eri ol 01 amateur singing A woman should choose her songs as w she bhe chooses her bonnets and gowns with reference to what is becoming this involves not only her style and appearance b but u her temper temperamental hair and complexion pl e xion exion when one hears in a drawing room a woman who weighs nearly pounds singing 1 I would be a and a young ro rosy sy cheeked checked girl bewailing the ashes of a dead an and d gone passion the sense of incongruity is apt to overbalance the value of the song the gray haired woman who wants to be a gypsy maid and trip to the light guitar and the dimpled girl asking in musical phrases to be ba buried amid natures beauties are anomalies I 1 of which the eye and ear car take note the decline of drawing room music has hastened almost in the measure that interest in music has increased paradoxical a as it may seem interest in music has helped to destroy love of music it is not the son song but the way it iz ia sung that claims attention the tha musical amateur challenges comparison and criticism by singing dingi n I 1 the music after the manner of the concert stage stae sta e neither the manner nor the methods method of the concert hall belong to the drawing room the difference in focus is every difference new york evening evenin sun son |