Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1910 — THEY HUM; BUT WHY? [ARTICLE]

THEY HUM; BUT WHY?

A Habit You Come Across Under All Soi'.s of Ccyiditions in This Town. Why is the singing silly? One of them maybe sat next to you it the theatre last night. B-.tween the acts she hummed. From the moment that the curtain dropped softly on the scene of the lawyer dictating to his handsome stenographer ; to. the instant when the all cent orchestra gong offered its inexpensive but. deep toned music as a suggestion that the play is the thing and any one who longs for a tinkling tune thrown in is a barbarian the singing silly got in her work. Under the musicless circumstances it might have been a boon, but it wasn't! The man with her tried to choke her off, but she kept on with her throat gymnastics while she talked then began where she was to hum on audibly. She punctuated her performance with a comment on the hair ornament in front of her. Said the bird of paradise looked like an explosion. Then she hummed some more. She couldn't stop. The germ was spreading. That is the way with a singing silly. You stop at a florist's window, a human bumblebee lines up beside you. it's a masculine singing silly. With rapt attention it hums, all its faculties turned in to hear the music. Well, you do not interrupt, You reflect. You think that of all tfca foolishness to which humans are addicted this humming habit is the tipping limit.

You resolve. Never, so help you goodness gracious, will add your voice to the chorus of the singing sillies. ■That night you play cards with a woman who wears a string of pearls. The germ gets you. Tunelessly you hum “The Rosary.” The others glare. They didn't see the connection between a string of imitation pearls and the song. They can't make out any relation between the noise you are making and ‘ The Rosary.” : 1 V Still you hum on, cheerfully trumping your partner’s ace and cheating her out of her chance at the bonbon dish prize. You are a singing silly. ‘Why?’ ‘ ' *; . - V"7‘ Why are singing sillies anyway?— New York Sun.