Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1908 — Bored Concert Goers. [ARTICLE]

Bored Concert Goers.

The music lover—meaning, of course, the layman—is so curiously constituted that he wants not only to enjoy music himself, but he wants others to enjoy It He wants to force them to enjoy it, and to that end be will pay money out of his own pocket Such elements as the spirit of speculation and local or civic pride may enter into the process of making up this huge annual deficit, but ultimately the subsidies which, direct and indirect make possible a musical life In America will be traced ts this curious characteristic. And thia incidentally accounts for the many bored faces one sees wherever music to the entertainment—William E. Walter in Atlantic.