Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1903 — Music that Strains the Clothing. [ARTICLE]

Music that Strains the Clothing.

The standard of muaical excellence ▼tries according to differences of taste, nationality and occupation. Mia. Umblatter, whoso husband waa the director of a Now York orchestra, hat a standard of her own, which ahe did not hesitate to confess to one of her neighbors. “What operas does yonr husband like to play best?” asked the visitor, a friendly and well-meaning person. “That I know not,” Bald the wife* busily darning an old shirt, “but this I know: Whateffer he likes, I like not the Wagner operas. For the sound they are good enough, but for the clothes—ach! he neffer yet comes home from any of those Wagner operas that he has not torn a place in bis poor old shirts. When the cloth is weak and has been often tended one prefers the Italian operas always.”