Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1916 — "Rag-Time." [ARTICLE]

"Rag-Time."

•■> Rag time music, "being in no wise serious,” is the reverse of depressing, “The African jingles of the present day create an emotional atmosphere of restlessness and excitement which is typically American, and which is opposed to health only so far as our national restlessness and lack of poise lend-lQ .make, us a people whose- national disease Is nervous exhaustion.” Roughly speaking, lively music, such as rag-time, is likely to rouse depressed persons from their melancholy; sad and pathetic music will soothe the excitable and hypernervous.