Chinese Music Played As the Musician Thinks Best

1920

Chinese Music Unwritten

Chinese music is not written. The words of some of the famous songs have been preserved, but the music has been handed down from father to son for generations that go far back before the day of the troubadours. When music is played it is played according to the memory of the musician and his ideas of interpretation. A musician varies the performance as his best judgment dictates, and the strings, reeds or brass may break in at almost any time.


Effect Not Appreciated

Instead of candles, Lucille's mother placed six large marshmallows on top of her birthday cake. When little Doris returned from the party her mother said, "Well, did you all have a jolly good time?" and she replied: "Yes, all but the cake. Oh, mother, that cake looked so bad, just like a cemetery. It had little tombstones on it!"


Hadn't Thought of That

A man, unable to choose a wife from three girls whom he admired, sent duplicate letters of proposal to all, intending to marry the one who assented first. The trouble that be did not foresee was that the two too-late ones would sue for breach of promise.

—Bedford Gazette, Bedford, Pennsylvania, January 9, 1920, page 10.