Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1913 — Necessary Noise. [ARTICLE]

Necessary Noise.

A poet and a musician wrote a comic opera. When it was first per-' formed it was noticed that the music was very loud. “Why did you write such too-strenu-ous music?” asked a friend of the composer. “You wouldn’t ask that,” the composer replied, "if you had read any of those lyrics. I didn’t want the audience to hear them!” —Saturday Evening Post.