Show A QUEST am OF NERVES the Pread of folse nise N ise one of tike alarmist bit ign ax of r C although rc cording to la certain philosophers sound ceases when tt aco moise begins to the world at large tb re asmo is no sharp division Th hood said that the germans fora musical nation were tho tile noisy ho he ever met with and hatter quoted the opinion with approval alleging as a cause that hla his do not think hink they only smoke which is their st 1 listi tute tor for thought the great pee 0 regarded noise as tile assassin of thought but dr johnson made the same saine charge against music aa a nation wo delight in the tile firecrackers of tho the chinese and loathe their national music they in turn cannot endure our scale and our tern tem of hari harmony nony the bostonian Bost onlan who does not jump at discordant church chimes handi harsh and out of tune will fret at the t treet cries of a foreign city although they are often pleasantly pitched and of lara rara historical interest st the at the shrine of brahms drahms will w ill stop her ara iara i when maggie murphy issues from a new and improved hand baud organ although the melody is characteristic the rhythm of the performer ii Is faultless and his bravura Is of dazzling accuracy there aro are people iu in detroit to whom the factory are such an annoyance that by a city ordinance workmen now go to their labor and return homeward in ft a depressing blence bile and yet even the chromatic whistle with ita its predominating predominating color red and its ascending wail was iwas heard beard with joy at noon by women w alio ila thus knew there was a loafing spell for their men after all this distinction be tired noise and sound ia Is jn in a measure a que arlon GT ilmi jitu ty as well nj ansot of ra ix of ideas when elizabeth ruled england manual laborers and mechanical artificers artifice rs L ang sang nt at their work the merry cobbler is extinct tho the tinker raises his voice in melody in mr do kovens ko denb robin hood 11 but in our daily life ho gives vent ent to his feelings in prose our street cries cries in america are few chiefly in tho the mouths of wandering hucksters of fruits and vegetables their calls arc are all too short as though they realized that even in this respect time I 1 is money then too they ehnow that in til the summer when windows aro are open their vocal approach is feared by our nervous nen ous citizens whereat where aa it if wo we were truly civil iced it would be welcomed it is true there should bo be a training school and the work of georges kastner should bo be the text book each vegetable should have its pe cullaz song tho the butcher the milkman williman he the hurler of ice the buyer of old do CIO the mender of windows or umbrellas all al I 1 other purveyors pun byors to human needs should should serve a sonorous apprenticeship theor the on 1 dentals are our masters they clothe t the be announcement of their merchandise in po die phrases they recommend a fruit us its a consolation flowers flow ars are perfumes of para disc dise for the delectation of the faith ful were we nye to adopt their methods street cries might not in future bo be regard td cd as feo be many varieties of noise as ter terrible ribe as a neighboring and busy pile driver the unreasonable dread of noise is one of the moa alarming symptoms of the sickly condition of our civilization this is the ago age of the nerves nerve sand and of nervous nen ous diseases aisea sea and yet in spite of the prevailing fear of shocks to the car human ingenuity adds daily to the number of disturbing caus causes es familiarity with such causes acts it ft aid taid like a at pot potent exit stupefying drug but dut we w e cannot all attend the concerts of a sei sea wn nor can we w e all live liv u in tho the vicinity of a boiler il r factory tho the growth of the flat should therefore bo be encouraged the privacy in such a dwelling dw alling is tumultuous us tile 1 ho kitchen Is close to the parlor Arlor ones voices above and below assume unnatural pr proper pr 0 eions through tho the speaking trumpet of tho elo elector 0 the ho irritating electric bellida bell is at t the mere cy of any flippant passer by this discipline of a year may bring such each cal lausness lous lou ness of nerve that thu the loneliness of aa an isolated farmhouse or tho the waste of oman may in ill turn shatter tho the town dweller beyond repair boston transcript |