Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1915 — Appropriate Music. [ARTICLE]

Appropriate Music.

One afternoon a party named Bowers had business at a state penitentiary in the west, and on returning he spoke of the visit to a number of friends. "The prisoners down there," said Bowers, “were having some kind of Saturday afternoon holiday, with a brass band and speeches to match. And say, maybe the leader of that band wasn’t some wonder in the choice of appropriate music! What do you suppose he was playing?" . “Search me,” responded one of the friends. “Some sad hymn, I presume." ‘.‘He was not!” declared Bowers, emphatically. "He was playing Thia Is the Life.’"