Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1911 — It’s a Gay Life. [ARTICLE]

It’s a Gay Life.

The musician has the gayest lot, from Moscow down to Cuba. Just think, he only has to blow all day upon a tuba or beat the box with fevered hands, and dish up dashing airs, or tease a fiddle all night long. His life is free from cares. He rises late and grabs his food, and crams It In hls mouth, then beats it for the noon express, and leaves unshaved his brush. He hits the job at 12 a. m. and wheases through his horn, all afternoon and through the night, and into early morn. Calliope was some swell dash, but Time has cheapened her; the time is here when she is slashed by men at eighteen per. I’d rather be a home-' less “bo” or fever struck in Cuba than spend my precious time and wind in blowing on a tuba. The hours are tong, the pay is poor, musicians never play; it’s plug along both day and night I’d rather far make hay..