Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1886 — She Played Not by Muscle, but For It. [ARTICLE]

She Played Not by Muscle, but For It.

One of the leading teachers of the violin in Boston—and in America—relates that a young woman came to him for instructions, and after a lesson or two, he very frankly and honestly said to her:

“It is of no use for me to teach you. The simple fact is, you have no musical ear.”

“Oh, I know that,” she returned, with the utmost sweetness and candor.

“But why,” he asked, in astonishment easily imagined, “do you come to me if you know you have no ear ?” “Oh, it is because of my health, ” answered the interesting pupil. “My doctors say there is nothing so good for my dyspepsia as the exercise of the arms I get in violin playing. —Boston Budget.

Solicitor of Patents F. 0. McCleary, of Washington, D. C., says the only thing that did him any good, when suffering with a severe cough of several weeks’ # standing, was Bed Star Cough Cure, which is purely vegetable and free from opiates and poison.