Show MUSIC IN COST OF LIVING inhabitants of densely populated plats flats in new york city begin to take alarm opening windows on tile the first warm days of 0 the year bring a warning that this will provably ably be the most musical season new york has ever seen says the evening star of that city the apartment house court has always been cosmopolitan in its musical tastes and prone to prodigality in its volume ot of more or less musical sounds in su summer amer and this time it appears that n not ct only are all the young men home from the army but that the high cost of everything has also made the apartments more densely inhabited and more continuously so than ever before the magnets are lacking that once drew folk away from home in the evening beer Is negligible as a corner comer attraction tile the movies are more expensive and more tiresome soda bears a war tux tax paid by the dispenser and also charged to the consumer rome home has become a rather forced haven for all and music Is being overworked in an attempt to relieve its tedium f this season we have with us opp apparently or not only the phonograph and the player plano piano those resources of the musical and unmusical alike but there Is also an apparent return of the chud child who practices on the piano |