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TTT.AKS-L > M.'NDAY AMKRICAN. ATLANTA. U.V. SUNDAY. AVGUST 24. 1913.
EUROPETRDTS.
-BUT CflH’TKEEP
STEP TO MUSiC
Syncopated Tunes and Dances
Beyond Ken of Old World,
Says American Composer.
Tame Trout Craves
Petting: Fed by Hand
Fee* Insulted if Food Is Not Served
in Manner to Which He Is
Accustomed.
ESTES PARK, COLO., Auk 23.-
i Sunbeam, the speckled trout in
j the fish hatchery at Estes Park, has
I Just recovered from an indisposition
caused by stomach trouble or rheu
matism, and Is again able to take 1th
place as the only pet trout In cap
tivity.
The fish, now a 3-year-old and
about eleven inches long, is as good
an example of gentle and loving
trout hood as it is possible to find
Fed from the hand from the time it
was 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 person’s hand
whenever a chance is given it
Stranger Is Son,
Gone for 20 Years
Father Turn* Wanderer Away, but
Mother Call* Him Back, and
Reunion Follow*.
GLASGOW, KY, Aug 23. Virgil
Huffman had been away from home
twenty years, seeking his fortune in
Alaska, and the father and mother,
Mr and Mr*. 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 ahd
Mr. Huffman opened it to see a dusty
traveler, who said he was 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 the swinging lamp, and as the
light fell on hi* face the aged couple
recognized him as their son
African Chieftain
Is Harvard Student
Begin* Stupendous Task of Reduc
ing HI* Own Language to
Written Form.
NEW YORK, Aug 23.—Arman d
Vetsey, composer and director of mu
sic at the Ritz-Carl ton, has returned
fresh from a European trip with lots
of new music and some comments
upon the musical situation abroad
which may act as balm to the souls
of American composers, and a joy
for those who arc not musicians, but
like to hear the scream of ihe Amer
ican Eagle.
Mr, Vecsey has not lived on this
*ide of the Atlantic long enough to
have taken out iinal naturalization
papers, but there is nobody on this
side of Weehaivken who is more in
tensely and enthusiastically Ameri
can in a musical way. Fie says
American music and American motifs
have spread over all Europe, but the
music the natives over there don't
anow how to play.
Opera in Europe, as Mr. Vecs. y
has viewed it this summer, is poor
as compared with what is given at
the Metropolitan Opera House, and
there ian't anything now between
I/ondon and 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 Vienfia,’’ said Mr.
Vecsey. "and everywhere 1 have found
American music the most popular.
Then the turkey trot one finds ill
over the Continent. Yet nowhere did
1 hear the music played correctly,
Although they try hard, and when it
came to fining German or French
words to a typical trotting tune, the
effect was ludicrous.
Recognize the "Truthahn Tanz?”
“Think of v\ hat the result was m
Berlin, when they turned 'When the
Midnight Choo-Chou Leaves for Ala-
bam’ into German! In Germany they
call the trot ‘Truthahn Tana,’ and in
France it is the 'Pas du Dindon.’
Who would recognize the original un
der such appellations?
“Then the French enn not dance
the trot, nor can the Germans. Some-
now they can’t just find out tho
character of it. Of course their bands
and orchestras can not get the time
light In the first place. Why. at
the Folies Rergere in Paris. I saw two
of the best French dancers giving
what was supposed to be a most per
fect rendition of the trot, and I as
sure you it was ridiculous. It was a
very poor imitation of the real thing.
"Yet, 1 was astonished to find th*t
all the new French music and most
of the new German operettas are
either in the American style, as near-
1$ as their composers could approach
Wl or have American motifs. The
seems to be breaking up the
tg*ot over there, partly. 1 suppose,
irfcause thei; dancers can come near
ly to dancing it than the purely
American step*. Jn l*fris I saw a
SjKipie trying the Texas Tommy, and
W* was* a sight to cause a horse o
tteutblc up.
% "Why can’t they nlay a turkey
tfot? 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
when played correctly is in
fectious.
American Style Has Call.
“Hungary ha? its caardas, Austria
it* waltz, and Americ a it? syncopated
time. When each I? Hayed properly,
U is bound to move an assemblage
of people, and just now the Ameri
can style has the- call everywhere.
. “At the Palais de Danse, tn Ber
lin. I first h ard a turkey trot played
by a German orchestra. It was 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
#ith what has been heard here In
New York this year."
* “In Paris,” went on Mr. Vecsey.
'jjrlth a trace of feeling, “when they
S^e an American trunk, they lie m
t^ait to rob the owner, and go crazy,
<>yer the thought of loot. It Is the
same in Berlin.
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
Americans."
Rector Denounces
Paid Choir Singers
Clergyman Declare Th ere I. No HUSbaild ill Pl’iSOIi:
Worahip in Their Strange and _ _ _ - ~
Unutterable Music. Wif6 Y*Tiled $20,000
■ A.MBfUDGR. MASS., A11*. 2.1 A
full-blooded African chieftain lias .lust
passod his entrance examinations it
Harvard with flying colors and. will
enter the university next September
ns a member of the class or 1917. He
Is F. Gbe Wolo, and his people, 300,-
000 strong, are the l.rus of Liberia, on
Ihe weal const of Africa.
They have no written language so
that the only way he can communi
cate with Ills family Is through trad
ers on the mast, who send the mes
sage by word of mouth along the
trail. He has begun tile stupendous
task of reducing his language u
writing.
Goes to Cemetery
Instead of Ball Park
Fan Mistakes Funeral Hack for Om
nibus on Its Way to
Diamond.
j MONTGOMERY. MO., Aug 23—A
j baseball rooter came here from a
distance to attend the St. Chaiies-
Montgomery game, and by mistake
he. got Into a hark at the depot filled
with pallbearers going to a funeral.
As he had crepe on his hat. the
ballbearers thought he had come
a mourner and he was taken to tie
cemetery instead of the ball park.
Finding himself In a funeral pro
cession. he woke up and escaped He
got to tlie ball grounds just In time
to see the home team win.
‘Star Baths’ Latest
Complexion Remedy
Young Women Camper* Take Night- I
ly ‘Plunge’ in Milky Way Beams
on Tower.
NEW YORK. Aug. 23.—Star bath?
aiv the fad at the summer camp of
the Young Women’s Christian Asso
ciation In Blau veil, N. Y. Miss Mar
ion Hopkins, the camp leader, Is given
credit for the Innovation. The baths
are taken on top of a hlg»> tower in
the center of the camp. It will ac
commodate a dozen bathers.
There is a long waiting list of young
women campers who are tttixious to
enjoy ihe reported benefits of immer
sion in starlight. Chief among these
1* said to be the “star-shine complex
ion."
BRIDGEPORT, CONN , Aug 23 The
Rev. E. J. Craft, rector of Christ Epis
copal Church, caused a sensation while
addressing a meeting of the parishioners
of Calvary parish by telling them what
he would do If he were entering upon a
new pastorate.
For one tiling, he said, he did not be
lieve in paid singers for church choirs
“The service of the church was designed
for the people as a whole and not alone
for the choir,” he said. “These modern
choirs take the worship away from tho
people of the congregation and do all
ihe worshiping themselves. They sing
n wild and strange way? arid in unut
terable tongues the praises of God "
Veering of River
Threatens Farms
Every Laborer Available Is Rushed
to Head Off Flow of
Missouri.
Richmond Woman Given Share of j
Estate After Helpmate is Sen
tenced for Embezzlement.
RICHMOND. VA„ Aug 23 -Mrs
Maud Kent Rowley, whose husband,
i William J. Rowley. formerly connect
ed with a hotel here, was recently
(sentenced 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 esiate is placed at
$496,000.
PREEMONT, NEBR . Aug 23. Every
laborer available is being sent by the
Burlington Railroad to Folsom to fight
the Missouri River, which is again eat-
ix.g into the valuable farm lands of
that section and threatening t-» cut its
way to the railroad tracks. Many oar-
bads of stone have,been dumped into
the river.
The river suddenly began veering from
its channel a few days ago Inside of
tvn days it had swamped 20 am - of
!#nd Kear is now’ felt that the river
within the iasi year at a eo#1
1 more than ;&0v,00o.
Woman Works as
Circus Roustabout
Break* Down While Handling Heavy
Tent Pole and Her Secret
Is Revealed.
l.A CROSSE, WlJrv. Aug 23 Mrs
Ada Broughton, unable to support her
two children and invalid husband i
wages paid a woman, donned a man s
attire and labored beside farm hands in
Dakota wheat fields She broke down
: under the strain and came to Iai Crosse
to seek lighter employment, becoming i
a circus roustabout. Lifting heavy
poles and canvas resulted in her com- I
p!er* breakdown Then she told her I
story to the police and collapsed. She
was taken unconscious to a hospital
Relatives are on the way from her I
'home al Riots 1
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