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Show SPELL OF KIM "Have you got a program?" the pretty young woman asked tho stur- dy young man as they took their gal- Si lery seats at the first popular sym- If phony concert. W "Yes," tho sturdy young man said, 1 1 "but that's all tho good It will do j If o. for I know that It Is full of fu It sues and scherzos and andantes and HI all tho rest of thoso musical terms that I don't understand." Eji "Hut you did understand somo of t fir tnQ tilings in last year's program," if Hi she replied. "And I remember how i fit keen you we-o about tho "Country m Wedding.'" Sj "That was because I was looking WR forward to a wedding of my own," jfi ho answered, giving her a moaning SB look, but as weddings wcro a forbid ft ' den subject for tho tlmo being he M hurried on. "Do you know, I think n that it this plumbing business ever W. lets up I'll look Into music a hit. gl Wouldn't you lllto to understand It?" 9 "Does anybody ever understand ffl music?" sho inquired. "And do not 9 you think It is with music as with m flowers? You don't have to know hot- ' any in order to love flowers. The 1 i teacher in the Kterature class that I j 3 It Joined the other night read us some versos from n great poet, and I remember re-member there were somo lines In which tho poet said that the meanest (lower that grow could glvo him thoughts that Ho too deep for tears, and that Is tho way with music; the meanest ttino that I hear played by a hand organ ofen gives me thoughts that seem to come from my soul." "Yes," 'he said, "I can understand a hand organ, but " "Hush," she exclaimed, "tho musicians musi-cians arc coming on tho stage." "Anybody would think you were at, a play," he laughed. "It Is better than n play, for they aro all stars and there aro so many of them." "I must confess," the young man admitted, "that tho musicians all look allko to me and, In fact, 1 never thought of looking nt them. I Just want to listen." "Oh," the pretty young woman remonstrated, re-monstrated, keeping her glowing eyes on tho arriving musicians, "you miss halt the pleasuro. I llko to watch them touch their instruments. Many of them aro so In lovo with their violins or cellos, or whatever the? may play, that they treat them as if they were human." """And do you think," he demanded, "that they can be satisfied with mus Ic as a llto partner?" "You aro absurd," she exclaimed. 13ut listen! They aro going to give us ono of your andantes." "It sounds better than It reads," was his comment. "And what's noxt." '"Ave Maria,' with a violin obliga-to obliga-to by tho first violinist." "Woll," ho said, after tho famous air was played and repeated, "If hand organ tunes can glvo you thoughts that He too deep for tears what did thi3 do for you." "Oh," sho said, "I did not think at all. I Just felt, and I wished that when my time to die came I might go while such music was being played. play-ed. "Pretty smooth work," he answered, answer-ed, "and I don't think he missed a note." "Neither did I," sho roplied. "Don't you think it would he a glorious end simply to slip down between the seats and breathe your last while the musicians played?" "It would make an awful row and fuss," ho obsorved, "but I don't come to concerts to die or to talk about death. And aren't thoy going to play something lively?" "Yes. The next Is 'Wine, Woman, nnd S6ng,' and I suppose that will suit you better than the 'Ave Maria."' "Woll I should say so. But I have heard this thing beforo and never for tho Hfo of mo could understand what it had to do with wlno or women wom-en or song." "That's becauso you don't feel It," sho said. "To mo it always suggests lovely white wine" "Unformented, I suppose," ho laughed, "for I know you don't like any other kind." "And beautiful women In white satin dresses," sho went on, "sing Ing llko birds." "That's not my notion of tho thing at all," ho admitted, "but I guess you aro right, and nobody really does understand un-derstand music." Chicago Daily Nows. |