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Atlanta's Real Love of
Music Ison Trial
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The Size of the Audience at the Philharmonic Concerts Will Be
the Test.
Atlanta, proud of its annual grand opera season, its rnaii
nifiei ut Auditorium organ, its reputation as a <ib of culture,
has an opportunity this winter to prove whether it loves music
for music's sake or fills boxes and chairs ai the opera h.-cause
it is the correct thing to do. The Atlanta Philharmonic orches
tra has become the test.
Before a fairly large audience the I’hilh irnionie orchestra,
sixty excellent Atlanta musicians, gave its first concert of the sea
son at the Grand last Sunday afternoon. Its work, despite inade
quate rehearsals, was a revelation even to the urnst critical music
lovers in thi* audience. Such intricate, dil’fieull numbers as Beetho
ven’s Fifth Symphony ami the Slavic march of the Russian intis
ter. Tschaikowsky. wore played with technique and expression in
keeping with their importance. Mortimer Wilson, the new con
ductor. proved himself fully capable of w.dding into a
instrument the sixtv individuals he had drawn togetlmr for the
concert. It was not the Boston Symphony, it was not Theodore
‘Thomas, but it was an ondiestra superior to an.\ professional or
ganization heard here in recent seasons, ami one of which Atlanta
may well lie proud.
The Atlanta Musical association believes the time has come
when the city can enjoy and appreciate and support the best or
chestral music, just as it has supported the annual season of
grand opera. The Philharmonic will not pint rag-time, for there |
is plenty of rag-time at unv five-cent theater. But it will give
frequent concerts where music of lighter vein, yet excellent music
for all that, will be played. It will make an earnest effort to
bring about an appreciation of the best work of the greatest
composers, ami to become as much an important factor in At
lanta as its business enterprise, its public spirit and its universal
energy. It may be the means of making Atlanta as famous as a
center of culture as it is now famous for its commercial success. ,
The Philharmonic concerts are given on Sunday afternoons.
•Firi . because many of its members are professional musicians i
who must play elsewhere every day and night in the week, and
second, because the musical association believes, with a great |
number of other citizens that Atlanta has reached a period when '
public sentiment demands something on its Sunday afternoons
besides the alternative of strolling in the streets or staying in
doors with a book. It believes' that uplifting, inspiring music
may be no less helpful in its influence because it is heard in a
theater instead of a church; that the man or woman who profits
by a sermon in the morning may profit again In a concert in !
the afternoon.
Atlanta s real love of music is on trial. The size of the
audience at the Philharmonic concerts will be the test.
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Richard the Lion-Hearted
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
SEVEN hundred and twenty +
years ago. King Richard the
First of England, better known
as "Richard the Lion-Hearted.”
while making his way home from
the point where he had been ship
wrecked on the Adriatic, was made
/ prisoner by the Duke Leopold of
Austria, and sold for a good round
sum to King Henry the Sixth of
Germany.
»• It was the richest prize that had
fallen to anybody for a long, long
time. We are not informed how
much Duke Leopold received from
Henry for the regal capture, but we
know that Henry made a mighty
good thing out of it, for in order to
get their king back the English
people had to pay the German mon
arch three hundred thousand
pounds in gold, or, reckoned in our
gs • money, one million live hundred
thousand dollars.
Sentimept and national pride
aside, it was a very foolish deal on
| x * the part of the English Th.
b Heai ted was not worth < .<■ price
that they paid for him. Except as
Ea trouble breeder. Richard was not
worth a penny. The English peo
ple would have done bettei t > haw
left their king remain in Henry's
It keeping
But the g< nerality of people m
those days, even In Englund, were
fetich-W<>rsht|>el>, i»U<I trit about
H" their "kings” amt "lords” pt the
Aleutian jslaudei does today about
Ills totem |M>i<> or th< African ne
gro uliotit his ".Mumbo-Jumbo' uttil
• they felt that it was their duty to
pay the ransom and get their adored
“royalty" back again.
The story of Richard’s reign is
anything but a delectable one.
Frowned in 11S9. the original
"Rough Rider" began running
amuck at once, which practice he
faithfully kept up to the last.
On the very day of his corona
tion he gave the order which re
sulted in a 24-hour massacre of his
Jewish subjects, for no other rea
son than the fact that they we.re
Jews.
With the blood of his unoffend
ing Jewish subjects still undried
on his coronation robes Richard be
gan collecting money and men for
rescue of the Holy City from the
hands of the "infidels."
We know how utterly fruitless
his Crusade turned out to be, and
how. after having perpetrated in
numerable follies and brutalities, he
finally turned ills face homeward
again, to be .shipwrecked on the
const of Italy and. later on, cap
tured m the German forests
Ransomed by his people, and re
turning home, Richard spent the
re«t of hi.- life —a period ot some
five years—fighting his worthless
brother John. who. it seems, had
designs on the throne.
.Millions of English money and
thousands of English lives were
sacrificed ip thi> foolish s niggle—
a struggle that ' i- happily i tided
by the at I v, hlch. mi th, ii|h of
April, HOT. laid Hu haul low bofote
th. ea.-lle of Clililu which he was
al thui litte b* siemi.g
The Atlanta Georgian
In the Grip of the Antarctic Ice
A Study of Captain Scott's Ship, the Terra Nova, Ice-Bound Near the South Pole
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Woman’s Most Fascinating Age
Tt TISS MARY GARIAfIN, who is •:
£ generally corn < ded to '..now
:i thing or two. has an
nounced that 35 is a woman’s most
attractive age, and that site never
met'ns to go beyond it.
Many other women agree in this I
opinion. It is, in fact, no uncom
mon tiling to find a lady so enam
ored of 35 that site stays that age
for 25 years at a stretch. Indeed,
my-favorite stbry concerns a wom
an who, when arrested foi some
offense against the law and
brought to trial, gave her age as 35.
Five years later she was again
haled into court before the same
judge, and. again gave her age as
35.
"But,'' said the judge, "when you
were brought here five years ago
you gave your age then as 35."
"Very likely. Your Honor." re
sponded the lady. "I’m not the
sort of a woman who would say
on ■ thing one day and another
t hing tomorrow."
But when is a woman most at
tractive? it depends upon the wom
an ami the taste of the judge.
Heroines of the Past.
in times past men's fancies
seemed to have run to extreme
youth. Sliakesp, ire made Juliet a
chit of fourteen. Scott's heroine
range along about seventeen and
eighteen. The Melissas and Clar
issas were all in the squab class.
Sir Cliarles Surface and his fellow
gallants toasted “the maiden of |
bashful sixteen."
We like them older now, find re
gard it as the first evidence of
senile dementia for a man to ex
hibit a marked leaning ioward the
kindergarten. To most of us no
other human being is so absolutely
uninteresting as a properly brought
up young girl who is too old to be
told fairy tales and too young to be
told anything else.
Undoubtedly. however, many
women ate at their best in tin
yeai »'bet w< -n sixteen and twenty .
They have then the beauty and the
grace that all young animals pos
sess, whether they an kittens or
puppies, or humans. They hav. a
certain animation, of youth that
wants to jump around and play and
laugh t at we mistake foi inti lU
gejlie Above all, they ale it an
age when we do not ekpvct wisdom
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 11. 1912.
l>\ DOROTHY I) LX.
'■ e knowledge, and so we do not *
detect their lack of brains.
Twenty-two is a charming age.
it is the high noon of youth. The
i bud is just beginning to unfold, yet
! th' dew is still upon it. It is the
iioi'f in which a woman first dis
covers she really has a heart. Up
to that tim< a girl has been merely
co.•.■■■.■rued in having a good time, •
.mil tne chief difference between one
nri.i and another consisted in what
l>" • ■ould do for h- r ph asure—how
Well ho could dance: how many
i t- tick -is ho was good for;
v. -o'i rm- ov. ned an autoi'uobi?- or
not.
They F’ay Every Card.
At twenty-two a woman's beauty
is at its best, her ent'ius>a-ms are
nt lull tide, she knows enough to
li don intelligently, and not enough
to make h-r opinionated. Above
ail, sir- is ready to love 'and be
lovi d. ami she is still plastic
enough to be molded to the hand
of the man who gets her.
Thirty is the age at which the
fool woman is impossible, tin- col
lege woman at her best, and the
worldly woman most fascinating.
Tin- silly woman. who was a
Channing little goose at sixteen, has
developed into a bore and a bundle
of heaviness by the time she is
thirty. The < dirge bred woman,
who is a late bloomer, has just come
-into her own. and is a sensible, in-
I telligent companion for men who
I like women rved Up with a gar
nish of brains. Also they have
not y.-t developed a mission in life,
us they are liable to later on. so
thirty is their most attractive age.
A- for tie worldly woman, at
thirty she is no longer an amateur
at the game of life, but a profes
sional who knows the value of every
card and how to play it. She has
learned how to mak< the most of
her charms, how to dress, and. mote
valuable still, sue has acquired the
art of playing upon the weaknesses
of men as upon a harp with a thou
i"d strums. Any man who es
capes from the woman of thirty who
bus mailed him for her own de
serves a t’uriiegie hero medal and
I entitled to tin world's sprinting
record.
At thirty- live, aot ordhig to Mis-
Garden and others whose experience
entitles then opinion., to respelt, II
'• woman is at her best. Certainly
she is midway between youth and
age. and has some of the charms
and advantages of both, but her
youth is the youth of sophistication.
It is a time when she calls art to
the aid of nature, when the bright
ness of her eyes and the roses on
her cheeks, and the redness of her
• lips, and the gold of her hair owe
sonn ti'-ing to the corner drug store:
when she enthuses over things with
'malice aforethought, and loves with
I her head instead of her heart.
.1 It is an age at which a woman is
most dangerous because she knows
with deadly certainty what she
wants, and is coldly calculating in
her way of getting it. It is an age
at which a woman marries for an
establishment instead of a hus
band. and when she would rather
have a string of pearls than a
heart’s devotion.
Forty-five is the age of the sur
vival of the best fitted among wom
en. All the others have gone into
the discard. It is the age at which
the business woman is at her best,
when she is sanest, most comradely
and most interesting. It is the gold
en age also of the spinster, who has
given up the struggle to be a fas
cinator of men and absorbed herself
in other pursuits. Many women
who have been unattractive in
youth at middle age have an In
dian summer of loveliness of mind
and person that their springtime
never knew.
Come Into Their Own Then.
There are other women who never
Come into their own until they
hold a baby on their breasts. They
may have been homely, awk
ward. hard of face and blunt of
speech, lacking all grace; but moth
erhood turns them into madonnas
that send us to our knees before
them.
And there are other women
whose best hour is almost their
last hour. Ugly in youth, tk<-y are
beautiful in age, for life ami expe
rience Often chisel rough features
into beauty, and love lights a lamp
within the dull soul of many a
woman that Irradiates her whole
being. Just tile goodness and the
klndm ss on many an oid woman’s
face make It beautiful.
\ woman Is at her best anywhere
from th< cradle to the grave ac
cording to the woman bn«elf.
THE HOME PAP J
Garrett P. Servisl
Writes on
Carnegie’s Pension | jl
Proposal &
Reception Accorded Plan to Provide for Ex- I
Presidents Proves That We Are Not En- I
tirely Money-Mad. Simple and Digni- I
fied Remedy Would Be to Increase Salary “ST z s«|
or to Provide a Government Pension. 1 I
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
rTAHE American people needed
just such a shock as the rich
Mr. Carnegie administered
the other day. It has helped to
clear the atmosphere, and to give a
stimulating lillip to the spirit of in
dependence which has made this
country what it is. it has caused
the American people to wake up to
two important facts—first, that
they ought to look out for their
own dignity In earing for their pub
lic servants, and, second, that
money is noi everything, nor even
the greatest of things, in American
eyes.
The idea of having an ex-presi
dent of the United States, or the
widow of an ex-president, made
comfortable for life by the bounty
of an ultra- ich individual is ab
horrent to our entire social and po
litical system. Very wealthy per
sons are liable to catch the Monte
Cristo spirit and to think that “the
world is mine.”
How It Was Meant.
Os course. Mr. Carnegie had no
thought of assuming a patronizing
attitude in making his offer, but if
he had stopped to think long
enough, and if he had re-read some
nf the pages of his own book on
“Triumphant Democracy,” he would
have foreseen the revolting aspect
of his proposal, and then he would
never have made it.
When a man has occupied the
office of president of the United
States, the greatest office in the
world, he is not afterward an ob
ject of charity, even if his pockets
should happen to be empty, which
is not likely ever to be the ‘Case.
But if it be true that our presidents
have to expend, in order to main
tain the dignity of their position,
more money than their salary af
fords them, then it is the PEO
PLE’S duty to see that they do not
suffer in consequence. The simple
and dignified remedy is to increase
the salary, or provide a pension
from the revenues of the govern
ment. If Mr. Carnegie should be
permitted to furnish money out of
his private resources, the whole
world would, justly, point the finger
of scorn at this great common
-1 v. ealth.
Rich Man’s PhilosofTy.
Perhaps we owe a vote of thanks
to Mr. Carnegie for shocking us
into a realization of the situation.
Possibly he intended his offer sim
ply as a rebuke to our negleat—if
we have really been neglectful.
Anyhow, it is more kind to him to
assume that he had that intention
than to take his proposal as an in
dication that he believes that the
American people need a Maecenas,
a rich man to pay their debts and
maintain their dignity.
This is beyond question a money
age. Everything is apt to be meas
ured by its money value. If a man
gets rich first and becomes a phl-
The Song of the Rail
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
Copyright 1912, by American-Journal-Examlner.
OH, an ugly thing is an iron rail,
Black, with its face to the dust.
But it carries a message where winged things fail;
It crosses the mountains, and catches the trail.
While the winds and the sea make sport of a sail;
Oh, a rail is a friend to trust.
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The iron rail, with its face to the sod,
Is only a bar of ore;
Yet it speeds where never a foot has trod;
And the narrow path where it leads grows broad;
And it speaks to the world in the voice of God,
That echoes from shore to shore.
Though the iron rail, on the earth down flung,
Seems kin to the loam and the soil,
Wherever its high shrill note is sung.
Out of the jungle fair homes have sprung.
And the voices of babel find one tongue,
In the common language of toil.
Os priest, and warrior, and conquering king.
Os Knights of the Holy Grail,
Os wonders of Winter, and glories of Spring.
Always and ever the poets sing!
But the great God-force, in a lowly thing,
I sing in my heart of the rail.
losopher after he has establi slled ß
his residence on “easy street,” hisH
philosophy is sure to be tainted by|
his previous narrow experience. Ip
He everything through sole-1
en spectacles. He forgets that Ue l
love of money is the root of al! Bi
evil, if he ever knew it. and adoptjß
• the belief that the possession q M
money will cure all evils. He ought®
to begin by meditating on ti:el
words of Confucius: “The sagejß
dealt with riches so that dieyß
should not have the power to make®
men proud, nor poverty the power®:
to make them feel pinched." 1:?
Most people think that the mil.®
lennium means the reign of peace.®
Nothing of the sort. The mil. ■
lennium means the REIGN OF®
CONTENT, and it can only come ■
when all men shall have b-arned ®
to be satisfied with enough to meet ®
their actual wants. There will te ®
no multi-millionaires and no dwell- I
ers in the slums to be stared at and ®
patronized when that happy time®
arrives. It is not war that keeps fc
back the millennium; it is the spir- ■
it. of greed. The young man who, I
starting out in life, sets the indica- I
tor on the dial of his ambition at I
SIOO,OOO, and when he has got the ■
SIOO,OOO sets it again at $1,000,000, I
and when the $1,000,000 is obtained I
nuts it forward to the $100,000,000 I
mark, AND THROWS HIS Soil I
AWAY TO REACH IT. will not I
be a fit inhabitant of the earth to I
the millennial age. |
Industrious Will Get Money.
The proposal to provide a private I
pension for ex-presidents will be a I
boon if it sets men to thinking of I
tile relative values of things in this I
world. It should make the young I
look within themselves to -e I
whether there is not something no- I
bier in their nature than the I
money-getting instinct.
Everybody needs a certain amount I
of money, and the industrious wil I
always get as much as they need. I
But there are a thousand things " f I
the highest importance to man I
rrttich neither breed money nor I
need it. At the beginning of your I
career you may have to achieve I
pecuniary independence, but when I
you have achieved it. stojf and think |.
of more important things. If yoo I
do not. you will become among men I
’ what Carthage became among na- I
tions —a thing of scorn for hisw- I
rians; a money-bag obstructing the I
path of human progress.
Even if you should remain post I
in money all your life, provided th:’. I
you have developed your better na- I
ture, have remained upright an. I
honorable and self-respecting, hare I
recognized the fact that you have
an immortal soul and a mind tntrst- '
ing for knowledge, and have learned
to look broadly upon the ea 1 ” 11
and up at the stars, you will
able to meet death with a serenit'
at least equal to that of “him "h°
- hath great riches."
