Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1914 — INTERESTING ITENS FROM THE CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INTERESTING ITENS FROM THE CITIES

Bootblack Warbles Arias as He Polishes Shoes

NOW YORK.—Art&B from the operas go rippling along to the stroke of the shoe brushes of the eminent Pasquale, artist, whose studio' for shines is In Broadway, near One Hundred and Third street. He Bang blithely the other

day, as he invoked the Heavenly Maid. She had come in to have her shoes blacked. Her name was Cecilia Pasquale knew in the twinkle of an eye that there was music in her sole, the moment that he saw that. Just because she could not help it, she tapped a tango tune upon the footrests. ■ “Ah! and you lova da moosic,” quoth Pasquale. “I turn on the reoord granda.” 30 while he plied the brushes the

musical bootblack hummed softly to himself, while the Brulante simmeied out of the machine, and set his hands and feet to hesitating as he toiled. "You no understands da wolds?” asked he, "and I slngaj for you alone, Wgnorina; for your ears alone.” "Cut it out, Wop, cut It out,” interjected the gentleman whose oil shine was soaking into the upper register. “Forget It.” But art claimed the voice of Pasquale. He brushed up his music. He sang the tenor from the quartet in “Rigoletto.” He was in happiness supreme. "And you aska me, Signorina,” he said, "if I would not rather sing than maka the shoe shine? Ah, it is quite so. I maka the much hap. I sing like the bird.” And sometimes when there is a dull shine required Pasquale puts In a dirge. For tan polishes he has tone poems. For oil shines the music glides In the tempo of the hesitation. When the gilded youth arrive he turns on “Get Out, Get Under” and polishes up leather by the yard. He seDds "The Cottage in Broadway” through the machine and when summer attire appears he causes the record tc evolve “Apple Blossom Time in Normandy.”