Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1891 — Flute or Trombone? [ARTICLE]

Flute or Trombone?

Which would you rather be in the orchestra of human life, a Hute or a trombone? asfcs Amber. To bo sure the latter in heard the farthest, but the quality of tfce flute tone reaches deeper down into tiie soul and awakens there dreams without wtiioh a man’s life is like broad without leaven, or a laid fire without tinder. I don’t like noisy people, do you? People who talk and bluster and swagwer People who remind us of bladders filled to the point of explosion with wind. We like sensitive people, quiet-*voiced, deep-hearted, earnest people, with the quality of the flute rather than oi the fog born in their make-rp. And ydt how much greater demand there is for (duster than there is for force. Sometimes I am inclined to think that life is a farce played with an earthly setting lor the delectation of the angels, as we serve minstrel shows and burlesques. It isn’t the shy and the timid who get the applause; the clown in tinsel and the end man In cork divide easy honors And yet, thank God for flutes: Thank God the orchestra isn’t entirely composed of trombones and bass drums.