Show I I II I T Timely imely 1 HP Topics 1 I ITHE THE PIANO AS HOME DISCIPLINE Superintendent Superintend nt plea for l less ess ss Jazz and arid I more noro home discipline touches a national issue rather widely videly discussed One parent writing to an Eastern newspaper h has s urged a general revival of piano lessons as first aid to sane rhythms and parental disciplined No engine ngin he pe ie claims 1 is so good as the piano for inculcating industry endurance and exactness in th the young and no C other ther form of home homo work wark is so easy for far parents to keep under inder supervision There seems to be a good deal In this suggestion In the he modern madern apartment home parents cannot fall fail to overhear over over- hear ear and granted an average musical ear to criticise every very step in th the daily dally stint They will unfailingly cooperate co cooperate co- co operate in this form farm of discipline Incurring thereby training in endurance hardly less beneficial than that received by the child As for the moral stamina developed developed devel devel- ped by young pianists one hag bas ha only to recall how the theamous famous amous Elsie Dinsmore Dinamore fell off the piano stool in a faint aint cracking her little littIe head upon the floor rather than quit her post without parental permission More time at the baby grand and less In the chummy roadster seems one ane practical cal way of af reviving Spartan virtues in the young joung What Is home homo without a metronome metro metro- nome ome might serve as a slogan for the campaign One scarcely needs to add that the family automatic piano and other lazy paths to music should be barred in the Interests of sound Chicago discipline Chicago News I THE NEW COLLEGE GIRL President President Neilson of Smith c college is In grave danger of f making himself exceedingly unpopular with his own body of students Smith Is one of the largest colleges colleges- for or women h in this country and It is al also o one of the most democratic Its un undergraduates recruited largely from the great middle class will scarcely relish the things Dr NeUron Neilson was pleased to say recently to a i Chicago audience He told his hearers that the college girl of today is a shrewd keen hard bard worldly little 1 thing and not at all the sweet unsophisticated girl ata of at ofa a decade ago This ago Sort of wholesale scolding Is poor policy in a proxy having Jurisdiction over such a school as Smith It will scarcely make for that good fe feeling between teacher and pupil which Is the basis of all aU ll true success In higher C education u It would be better to defend the modern college girl girl even even ven If It was necessary necessary necessary sary to to lie like a 0 gentleman Philadelphia Record Any proposed ship canal that that doesn't contemplate reaching New v York Is not feasible Toledo Toledo Bl Blade de Speaking of dangerous localities le there ther are d dynamite I factories and Hollywood Cal St. St Joseph News Press ress Now that that the employers are perfecting the wireless typewriter the ste stenographers will soon need the fireless I Washington Washington er Post |