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Show The Song That Reaehed Their Hearts. A gentleman who was recently at a small-hour banquet relates: "It is astonishing how many business men are good singers. You will find more men who can sing than you will find women. At the affair of which I speak there were representatives from nearly every foreign country, our own countrymen, coun-trymen, of course, predominating. And most of those present were singers. sing-ers. A young student from Heidelberg Heidel-berg gave us in its native tongue, 'The Watch on the Rhine,' ' for which, of course, he received tbe customary i recognition. An Englishman sang 'Annie Laurie,' an Irishman 'The Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Hall,,' and a Frenchman the 'Marseillaise.' Each ' one of these songs was as well rendered ! as I ever heard it, and I know they were all appreciated. Then some one j gave us 'America.' It didn't quite hit, ' in some way. A young man with one of those ringing tenor voices started the 'Star-Spangled Banner.' Before he reachod the chorus every man was on his feet, and each one was waving his napkin, and each one was singing with all his might They went over l it again and again, and I never heard such singing in my life. That was the song that reaehed their hearts." Philadelphia Press. |
