Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1913 — ALL LIVED TO AVERAGE AGE [ARTICLE]

ALL LIVED TO AVERAGE AGE

Assertion That Musicians as a Rule Dls Young Is Result of a Too Hasty Generalization. Setting out with the confession that in his youth ho, too, was guilty of Indulging In hasty generalization, Professor Gilfleralerre raises his voice In the Journal of American Philology against the Iniquity of the practice. He dies an Interesting example In the form of a paragraph copied from the

London Standard. In which the writer maintained the thesis that good musicians die young. "Painting and sculpture are conducive to long life. Yet music kills men young.” And he goea on to cite Schubert, Mozart, Bellini, Bizet, Purcell, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Weber, Schumann. “Of course,” says Professor Gildersleeve, “he had the grace to admit that Verdi lived to a good old, but l was not satlfled with that concession, And at random jotted down the names of ten famous composers—Hay den, Rossini, Liszt, Handel,

Meyerbeer, Wagner, Berlioz, Bach, Brahms, Beethoven. The average result was 69.7. If I had added Verdi to he list, the average would have gone soaring above the accepted limit”