Show SINGING CALLED LOST ART Confined Chiefly to Professionals It Is Now Drunkards and graphs Says Writer Singing as far tar as most people are concerned is a lost art Thousands attend operas recitals and musical comedies tens of ot thousands wind up phonographs but as for singing themselves themselves themselves them- them selves Informally at nt their work or play they haY have forgotten how In times time past people of all ranks sang together as a matter of course Sailors sang at t their w work woric rk peasants shepherds cowboys cow cow- boys boys all all had bad their favorite and appropriate appropriate ap- ap songs The songs of children chill chil- dren at games the lullabies of mothers moth ers em are in the collected baIl ballads ads and ana folklore of many peoples says tho the Indianapolis In In- News The leThe pastimes and the labors Jabors of or the husbandman and the shepherd says saya Andrew Lang were long ago ngo a kind of natural opera Each task had bad it its own song plowing seeding harvest burial burial all all had bad their appropriate ballads bal i lads or dirges The whole soul of th tho theS peasant class bre breathes thes In their burdens burdens bur bur- dens as the great sea resounds In the tho shell cast up on the shore Nowadays the whirl of machinery makes all the noise The workers In mills might find it unsatisfying to sing at their work but it Is doubtful If they would sing even If their voices could be heard while singing in an office or store would pretty surely be stopped by the boss or the police Thousands Thousands Thousands Thou Thou- sands congregate every night In the silence of moving picture theaters and even In the churches where singing by bythe bythe bythe the congregation used to be customary the attendants now usually listen In la In silence to a paid singer Singing In this age Is largely confined confined con con- fined to the professional performer drunken men and gramophones |