Show r HAVE A DOSE OF MUSIC V V r L- L t INsL V 54 5 V p V d VV V S V V I Iw w L S f i Huston Ray demonstrating in a hospital by his therapy music that melody hath bath more than charms By MARIAN HALE HALEN V N NEA EA Service Writer NEW NEV YORK Dec 27 For acute indigestion one soft cello waltz foi hIgh blood pres pressure ure one piano adagIo fr tram m a Beethoven sonata for melancholia eec otle stirrIng Chopin polonaIse well seasoned with drums for fOI anemia one Mendelssohn Mendelssohn sohn overture led by the brasses and for or vIolent insanity one one Sousa march on the piano followed by a small dose of MacDowell on on tHe tle V vIolin No ThIs ma mar soon soon be bean bean an example of the prescriptions given by American doctors who keep koep abreast of the times For mu- mu therapy sic has not only made Its bo bow v but is forgIng right ahead toward a a. good goad place In medical so- so clety under the sponsorshIp of Huston Ray A CHILD PRODIGY Ray was a child prodigy appearIng appearIng appear appear- Ing In piano concerts at the age of 5 Unlike most prodIgIes he continued continued con con- to be heard heald from spasmodIcally spasmodically cally until now he appears as the tho father Cather of an elaborate and advanced theory of healing by music He means to present It to the National Scientific assocIation and the ScientifIc entitle society at Carnegie hall hail In January Music l says Ray has n a tre- tre therapeutic power powel which science has barely glimpsed Not only does It work through the ears earson earson on the emotions of the patient but It also heals by sound waves acting acting act act- ing on n the entire body Huston Ray has demonstrated his theory by playing th the pIano in numerous nu- nu melous eastern hospitals With Professor Ward Vald GIbson of the Ra- Ra Institute he has perfected various devices for the vIbration treatments he advocates tes Many of these have beep beel installed In iii hospitals and insane asYlums In addition to these machines he uses the varIous ordInary musical ments for dIstinct therapeutic effects Instruments are not mere physical machines They have I spiritual al and differences even gender gen gen- dor der C The piano It seems is the strongest strong strong- est instrument nt The atlon a tion of its keys Upon steel strings produces male vIbrations to patients suffering from de- de V and melancholic psychoses The violin on the other hand Is Isa isa a femInine instrument woich acts like magIc upon the mentally unbalanced unbalanced un- un balanced on wayward children and andon andon on sufferers from gastric ailments Brass instruments lessen fear and Induce a state of for br th the treatment ot of mental ills ms I The saxophone ne Is the mo mo- I rose of all instruments says Ray I It is dIstinctly dangerous to mental mental men men- tal health unless subordInated to other instruments in an orchestra And as for the drums well theIr stirrIng sex Is so well known that the dean of a western university university sity recently banned them from colle college col- col le lege e Huston Ray flay has shown that drums stimulate the entire entire en- en tire system quicken the heartbeat and Increase blood pressure JAZZ A MENACE Jazz on the whole is a menaCe to health Ray believes The saxophones saxophones' saxo- saxo phones phones' walling an and the drums drums' beating and the broken rhythm aU all tend to wear on the nerves and induce induce in- in duce hIgh tension y durIng dut- dut log Ing meals is jazz dangerous to dl- dl In short Jf one is troubled wIth Indigestion he give up the orchestral blues and demand w waltzes slow soft an anZi sane To make work and avoId fatigue march tempo without too much melody Is effective most And important to induce love fall fair ladles ladies should set the phonograph phonograph pho- pho for Schubert's Serenade or Liszt's compositions compositions melodiouS melodiouS' but not too fast for m xi n i is wary wary game and ana must be stalked With a slow and g tread |