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— 12 A TTTv\TJ c *T'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA. CA„ SUNDAY. AUGUST 24. 1913. EUROPE TROTS, BUT CAN’T KEEP STEF TO MUSIC Tame Trout Craves Petting; Fed by Hand Feel* Insulted If Food Is Not Served in Manner to Which He Is Accustomed. Syncopated Tunes and Dances Beyond Ken of Old World, Says American Composer. VT!TW YORK, Aug 28— Armani Vccsey, composer and director of mu- Mc at the Rltz-Carlton, has returned fresh from a European trip with lots of new music and eome comment.i upon the musical situation abroad which may act a* balm to the souls of American composers and a Joy for those who are not muslclnns, but like to hear the scream of th*» Amer ican Eagle. Mr. Veraey has not lived on this side of the Atlantic ion* enough to have taken out final naturalization papers, but there la nobody on this ride of Weehawken who la more In tensely and enthualaatlcaJly Amerl can Ir a musical way. H** says American music and American motif* have spread over all Europe, but the mualc the native* over there don’t know how to play. Opera in Europe, as Mr. Vecsey has viewed it this summer, 1s poor as compared with what Is given at the Metropolitan Onera House, and there Isn’t anvthlng now betweeo !>ondon end Vienna that has to do with music or the stage which local talent can't beat hands down. "I have been In Paris, London, Ber lin. Munich, and Vienna,” said Mr. Veesev, "and everywhere I have found American music the most popular. Then the turkey trot one finds all over the Continent. Yet nowhere did T hear the music clayed correctly, although they try hard. and when tt came to fitting German or French words to a typical trotting tune, the effect was ludicrous. Recognize the "TruthaHn Tanz?” "Think of what the result was in Berlin, when they turned ‘When the Midnight Choo-Chou Iyeavau for Ala- barn' Into German! In Germany they all the trot ‘Truthahn Tanz,’ and 1n Prance It la the *Pas du Dlndon.’ Who would recognize the original un der such appellations? "Then the French can not dance the trot, nor can the Germane. Home- how they can’t Juat And out tho character of It. Of course their bands and orchestras can not get the time light In the first place. Why, at I lie FolieB Hergere. In Paris, I saw two of the best French dancers giving what was supposed to be a mom per fect renditior of the trot, and I as sure you It was ridiculous. It was a very poor imitation of the real thing ' Yet. I was astonished to find that nil the new French music and most of the new German operettas are - Ither In the American style, as near ly as their composers could approach it, or have American motlfa. The tango seems to be breaking up the trot over there, partly. I suppose, because their dancers can come near er to dancing It than the purely Vmerlcan steps In Paris I saw a ouple trying the Texas Tommy, and ii was a sight to cause a horsa o double up. "Why can't they »>1ay a turkey trot? For the same reason that no body except a Hungarian can play Hungarian music. Almost every mu sical country has something that is peculiarly its own -a style of music i hat when played correctly Is In fectious. American Style Has Call. "Hungary has its caardaa, Austria its waltz, and America Its syncopated time. When each is clayed hroperly, It Is hound to move an assemblage of people, and Just now the Ameri can style has the call everywhere "At the Palais de I>nnse, In Ber lin. I first h^ard a turkey trot played by a German orchestra. It waa very bad. I want to tell you that In Europe this summer there Is no mu sic, no opera, no Philharmonic con cert, and no play that can compare with what has been heard here in Xew York this year.” “In Paris,” went on Mr. Veesev, with a trace of feeling, "when they see an American trunk, they lie in wait to rob the owner, and go crazy over the thought of loot It Is the same In Berlin * # T must tell you that not anywhere are women so generally chic In their costumes nowadays as right here *n New York. "True, I did see many smartly gowned women, but Investigation showed that most of them were \merican*.” ESTES PARK, COIX) ., Aug 23.— Sunbeam, the pet speckled trout in the fish hatchery at Estes Park, haa Just recovered from an indisposition caused by stomach trouble or rheu matism, and Is again able to take its place as the only pet trout in cap tivity. The fish, now a 3-vear-old and about eleven inches long, is as good an example of gentle and loving trouthood as It ih possible to find Fed from the hand from the time It whm hatched. It feels Insulted now un less Its food Is given to It In that way. It Is very fond of being stroked and petted, and will swim around and rub itself against a persons hand whenever a chance is given it Stranger Is Son, Gone for 20 Years Father Turns Wanderer Away, but Mother Calls Him Back, and Reunion Follows. Gl,Ai*OOW. KY, Ang 23 Virgil Huffman had been away from home twenty years, seeking his fortune In Alaska, and the father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. James Huffman, were sitting In a room of their home near here discussing him and wondering If he would ever come back. There was a knock at the door and Mr. Huffman opened It to ace a dusty traveler, who said he waa tired and was seeking lodging for the night. Mr Huffman thought he could do noth ing for him, but Mrs. Huffman "reck oned” they could manage somehow. Then they led him Into the hall, un der t?ie swinging lamp, and as the light fell on h1» face the aged couple recognized him a« their son African Chieftain Is Harvard Student Begins Stupendous Task of Reduc ing His Own Language to Written Form. CAMBRIDGE, MARfl, Aug. 38.—A full-blooded African chieftain has Just passed his entrance examinations it Harvard with flying colors and will enter the university next September as a member of the class of 1917. He is P Gbe Wolo, and his people, 300,- 000 strong, are the Lruo of Liberia, on the west coast of Africa. They have no written language, so that the only way he can communi cate with his family Is through trad ers on the coast, who send the mes sage by word of mouth along the trail. He has begun the stupendous task of reducing his language :o writing. Goes to Cemetery Instead of Ball Park Fan Mistakes Funeral Hack for Om nibus on Its Way to Diamond. MONTGOMERY. MO. Aug 28.—A baseball rooter came here from n distance to attend the St. Charles- Montgomery game, and by mistake he got into a hack at the depot filled with pallbearers going to a funeral. As he had crepe on his hat, the hall bearers thought he had come \s a mourner and lie waa taken to the cemetery Instead of the ball park. Finding himeelf In a funeral pro cession, he woke up and escaped. He got to the ball grounds Just in time to see the honm team win. Star Baths' Latest Complexion Remedy Young Women Campers Take Night ly ‘Plunge’ In Milky Way Beams on Tower. Rector Denounces Paid Choir Singers NEW YORK, Aug 28.—Star baths are the fad at the summer camp of the Young Women’s Christian Asso ciation in Rlauvelt, N. Y. Miss Mar ion Hopkins, the camp leader, is given credit for the innovation. The baths are taken on top of a higv tower In the center of the camr>. It will ac commodate a dozen bathers. There Is a long waiting list of young women campers who are anxious to enjoy tho reported benefits of Immer- i alon In stal l.ght. Chief among these Is said to be the "star-shine complex-1| ion.” Clergyman Declares There Is No Worship in Their Strange and Unutterable Music. Husband in Prison: Wife Willed $20,000 BRIDGEPORT. CONN , Ang 23. Ths Rev E. J. Craft, rector of Christ Epis- - >»pal Church, caused a sensation whiie addressing a meeting of the parishioner* of Calvary parish by telling them what he would do if he were entering upon a > new pastorate. For one thing, he said, he did not be lieve in paid singers for church choirs "The service of the church was designed far th« people as a whole and not alone f<*r the choir.” he said. "These modern • hoirs take the worship away from the people of the congregation and do all ihe worshiping themaeJves. They sing — wild and strange ways and in unut- -•a.ble tongues the praises of God " Richmond Woman Given Share of Estate After Helpmate Is Sen tenced for Embezzlement. Veering of River Threatens Farms RICHMOND. YA„ Aug. 23—Mr*. ! Maud Kent Rowley, whoso husband, i William J. Rowley, formerly connect- 1 ed w tth a hotel here, was recently | sentencevl to serve two years in State prison for embezzling $8,000 from the Jefferson Hotel in this city while au ditor there, inherits $20,000 from the estate of her aunt, Mrs. Junius A. Morris, of Richmond, who died Au gust 3 at Atlantic City. The value of the estate Is placed at $496,000. Every Laborer Available Is Rushed to Head Off Flow of Missouri. Woman Works as Circus Roustabout FREEMONT, NKBR.. Aug 22 Every laborer available is being sent by the Rurlington Railroad to Folsom to fight the Missouri River, which is again eat ing into the valuable farm lands if that section and threatening t.. rut its way to the railroad tracks Man- car loads of stone have been dumped into Breaks Down While Handling Heavy Tent Pole and Her Secret Is Revealed. be river The river suddenly began veer.i.g from s channel a few days ago 1.;. r wo days it had sv.ampe ! 20 of .*rd. Peer Is now felt that t . river ’ cat it« way back 10 the e\i-r - \> in within tiie last year at a cost more man $»o0,wy> HA CROSSE, W1S., Aug 23 Mrs. ! Ada Broughton, unable to support her I two children and invalid hunbund on wages paid a woman, donned a man's ! a'::re and labored beside farm hands in Dakota wlnat fields. She broke dowi i under the strain and came to l.a Crosse | to seek liglfier employment, becoming a circus roustabout. Lifting heavy poles and canvas resulted in lu.*r com- I'Ate breakdown. Then she rolo her sior> to the police and collapsed. She Uiktii uncons. >us to a hospital. Relative are ..t e wa> from her ‘ home at Rice Lake fl HEARSTS SUNDAY A • AJ •• ^ $10.00 American Advertising Contest / Given Away!! Last Sunday only the trade-marks or distinguishing characteristics of the advertisers below were given. $10.00 in cash was offered to the person sending in to The American, in the fewest possible words, a description of the advertisers whose “slogan” appeared below. Thousands of these replies were received and the prize goes to Mrs. O. D. Gorman, Jr. y 79 W. 15th St., her answers appearing below: Wall-Paper Thirty years in the wall-paper business have made us profi cient* Ask our customers* Before you buy, try us* :: :: “Better Be Safe than Sorry” 71 South Pryor Street BURNETT WALL PAPER CO. BURNETT The easy way to buy clothee Your Credit is Good at a Go Where the Crowds Go” AND You Upill be delighted Uoith the cool f comfortable Montgomery Theater. 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