Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1913 — PROF. CHEVALIER'S MUSIC CURE [ARTICLE]

PROF. CHEVALIER'S MUSIC CURE

Temperamentally There Are Four Kinds of People, Says Boston Physicologist THINGS SOON SEEN DIFFERENTLY Treatment for "Hot and Dry” Nature Is to Pound Out Something Dreamy—Hypnotism Is an Aid— Tunes That Tess a Thrill. Boston, Mass. —If your boy goes out into the street and insists on walloping another boy in the eye and musing him up generally, take him (your boy) to Prof. Arthur Chevalier, and let the professor give him the music cure. That will make Willie so good that you’ll wonder if he’s sick. Prof. Chevalier believes that music hath charms to make a boy behave. "It is the temperament,” said the professor in explaining his theory for the correction of bad boys and the alleviation of the neighborhood. "There are four kinds of people, boys and men alike,” he continued. “There is the hot and dry kind, the cholerisch (auf Duetsch), and there is the wdrm and flowing, the sanguinlsch. The third sort is the cold and sluggish, the phlegmatisch. Then comes the cold and dry kind, the melancholisch. They may be soothed and taught and made to see things from a different angle.

“This is not a fad; this is serious. Music will help these boys. Music will make them softer. Music, the right kind of music, believe me, will change their natures and they will drop into the proper groove of life and go on and on as nature intended that they should go on. They are off the track. “Lots of people are off the track. It is what you call in English (the professor speaks a fine quality of German), ’mixed up,’ you know; ‘mixed up.’ Then there are kinds of music that would not do at all for some temperaments. Sit here. I will show you. I will convince you. You are a sceptic; I can tell it Sit by me.” The reporter sat Prof. Chevalier attacked the piano. He reeled off something calculated to suit a “hot and dry” temperament It was soothing, all right It was dreamy. It would make little Willie go right out and apologize to Fauntleroy Jones. And Prof. Chevalier can make a piano talk.

“That is it!" exclaimed the professor rapturously, as he concluded his treatment “Don’t you feel calm now?" The reporter felt very calm. “Now will I give to you the treatment for the sanguinlsch temperament,” chortled the professor, while the reporter braced himself for the onslaught t That was a good one. It was calculated to fit right in with a flowing” temperament The sort of tunes calculated to toss a thrill into the “cold and sluggish" variety followed and you had to wake up; For the “melancholisch" the professor tore off a bunch of real good ones —three treatments. Mme, Constance Chevalier assists her husband, sometimes, in administering the cure. She is a brilliant planlste.

“If the musical treatment will not entirely correct the incorrigibility of the boy or. the girl,” continued Prof. Chevalier, “it may become necessary to try hypnotic suggestion. That sometimes aids. “I will now tell you of the forests and the trees and the moonlight on the piano.” He did. He led you out into the night and made you dance with the moonbeams. You soon began to understand why the moon is Luna. “Is it not grand?” asked the professor. It was. The professor also dabbles a bit in “astrology, sympathy, phrenology, palmistry, occultism, hypnotism, magnetism, high class magic and music.”