Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1919 — Fascinating Ukulele. [ARTICLE]

Fascinating Ukulele.

Many people, even now, may think of the ukulele as a Russian province, or an eastern title, yet it happens to be neither, but a small musical instrument which, according to a writer in the London Dally Chronicle, recently baffled the experience even of the customs man, who refused to recognize It as such and permitted its entry into England free of duty. The little South sea ukulele is not unlike a “fiddle that ybu play with your fingers,” to the eye of the uninitiated, but all who hear it admit its sweetness and the charm of its plaintive voice. No doubt one of these days England will become aware of the fascination of the ukulele, even as America has already done. The customs man will then exact hislegitimate toll, and a strange, music will haunt the London