Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1912 — In Praise of Modesty. [ARTICLE]

In Praise of Modesty.

Reginald Pe Koven told at a musi.cale in Chicago a pretty story In ’praise of modesty. “A group of tourists,” he said, "visited Beethoven’s house in Bonn. One of the tourists, a girl of twenty or so, sat down at Beethoven’s piano and played the “Moonlight Sonata* none too welt Beethoven’s own work, In his own room, on his own piano! "When the girl had finished, she rose and said to the old caretaker: ‘“I suppose lots of famous musicians have been here and played on this instrument?* ‘“Well, miss,’ the caretaker answered gravely, ’Paderewski was here Ifist year, and his friends urged him to play, but he shook his head and said: ** *No, I am not worthy.'” ~