| OCR Text |
Show War's Influence on Music. Have you noticed wlTat u "speeding up" of music has come out of this war? There has been so much music in IL When the famous retreat from Mons was made, one set of soldiers was kept awake nnd moving one night by the music of a little toy fife and child's drum, which the commander of It bought in a kind of desperation In a shop shortly before. The music acted like a charm ou the men, who began to move more quickly and more easily as soon ns they heard it. A battalion f marching without singing Is unusual In. r this war, unless secrecy of movement ' is called for. "There's a Long, Long Trull" is a favorite song, but dear old "Tippernry" Is not sung much now. Little French boys sing It well, though, and sing It a greut deal. "Mother Ma-chree" Ma-chree" Is sung still, because It has so much of the old home feeling In It Whenever a wounded soldier In the hospital says he wants to hear a phonograph, It is taken to mean that he is getting better. And the very sick soldiers, when they hear sweet music played In their wards lu hospitals, hos-pitals, ore soothed and calmed by it. Exchange. |
