Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1911 — Our Voices. [ARTICLE]

Our Voices.

I think our conversational soprano, as sometimes overheard in the cars, arising from a group-of young persons who have taken the train at one of our great industrial centers, for instance, young persons of the female sex, we will say, who have bustled in full dressed, engaged in loud, strident speech, and who, after free discussion, have fixed on two or more double seats, which having secured, they proceed to eat apples and hand round daguerreotypes—l say, 1 think the conversational soprano, heard under these circufnstances, would hbt be among the allurements the old enemy would put in requisition were- he getting up a new temptation of St. Anthony. There are sweet voices among us, we dll know, and voices not -musical, it may be, to those who hear them for the first time, yet sweeter to us than any we shall-hear until we listen to some warbling angel in the overture to that eternity of blissful harmonies we hope to enjoy. But why should I tell lies? If my friends lova me, it is because I try to tell th« truth. I never heard but two voice* in my life that frightened me by theii sweetness. —Holmes.