Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1882 — The Real Mission of the Piano. [ARTICLE]

The Real Mission of the Piano.

A mystery has been solved. A citizen of the world has found out what is Hie purpose of the modern piano located in the modern parlor. To be played on ? What a stale and preposterous suggi stion. What superlative nonsense. The mission of tho piano is two fold; it is to impart dignity and stateliness to the household, but chiefly it is to afford a place for a young lady to ait, idi/ turning over tho leaves of the blackbird book while a young man hangs limply* over to whisper into her oar that j heHs f [rowing gradually winker, but still ives. There is no better place for a matrimonial blow on the hear). There is An ecstatic rapture in hangiug over a piatjo iu good form that no young woman can resist. It thrills, electrifies and oxitb iz-'s. Ten minives of such magnetic disturbance will thn- ulmdbt prejudice or objection, and twenty rafnntes equal to a wedding ring and marriage >ottlein,ent. 1f an ambitiousyou|g : woman cah secure the presence of a |ebelliitni* subject at tho piano, and hold him 4° has rambled through

the “ Maiden’s Prayer,” the supposition is largely is favor of the potency of the music-box and the triumph of the scheme. So that in either case the piano has come to be the potent matchmaker.—Chicago inter Ocean.