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.~ing good wishes for the next tweive NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, jyUNE 16, 1918. & '1ARGESTH. S. CLASS | IS GIVEN DIPLOMAS (Continued From Sixth Page). ual delight, is an ever renewed source of energy and health. American Holidays. (Ruth Frances O'Brien). From time immemorial, the peopls { in the countries of the old world have held festivals and celebrated certain days throughout the year. They have all observed their national holidays, in different ways and with different | customs, it is true—but all with the same predominating feeling, that of good will. America, as a child of the foreign count Great Britain, also has her festivals and holidays. She shares with the other countri only two days—Christmas and New Years, the universal festivals. The older countries may have more holi- days and perhaps they may be cele- brated more extravagantly; but sure- | Iy no country is more proud of the occasions which make her holidays possible, than is America, this great and glorious nation of today. | New Year's Day, one of the uni- | versal holidays, is celebrated in much the same manner every yvear. It has ‘always been our custom to see the old year out and the new one in with high demonstrations of merriment. Many happy and gay New Years Eve parties and dances are held, which Jast until after the welcoming in of the new year with songs and cheer:. People closely related visit and dine with each other on' this day to keep alive and cultivate mutual good feeling. "‘This is shown by the use of the salu- tation—"“Happy New Year"’—express- months. This day will probably al- ways be observed in America in much the same way and will always afford as much pleasure and enjoyment as It does at present, February twelfth marks the birth of the great president and emanci- gpator, Abraham Lincoln. This day is ary twenty-second was appointed to be observed as a fast day. Before that time, a long expected vessel ar- rived, laden with provisions, and the fast day was changed into one of thanksgiving. In New England, es- pecially, Thanksgiving is celebrated extensively. It is observed with re. ligious services in the church, and is made the occasion for family re- unions. The custom had gradually extended to the other states, despite the oppo- sitfon at first shown in the South. The Southerners objected to the ob- { servance of such a day on the ground that it was a relic of Puritanic big- otry, but by 1858 proclamations ap- pointing a day of thanksgiving were issued by the governors of twenty- five states and two territories. Presl- dent Lincoln appointed the fourth Thursday of November, 1864, and since that time each president has annually followed his example. Last, but not least of the holidays is Christmas. It is celebrated all cver the civilized world and is a day of great rejoicing. It is observed with religious services in the Christian churches, all thoughts being centered that day, on the sentiments of the angel’s song, ‘‘Peace on earth to men of good will. The Fourth of July and Thanks- giving have been discussed more fully for the reasons that they are the true American holidays. Had it not been for the fourth of July in 1776, when America gained her independ- ence, there would be no American holidays, they would be purely Eng- lish. Thanksgiving likewise is a real American holiday because it originat- ed in America, and is observed today in only the land of its beginning— “the home of the free and the brave.” Music as an exponent of Character. Shown by the lives and works of Mendelssobn and Chopin, (Roger Franklin Holmes.) To the mind of the average person of today, the word “artist” suggests a mental picture of some great rainter; some representative of that group of geniuses who by certain p'easing combinations of color and forms arranged ‘on the canvas, pic- tures for the onloaker some particu- feelings to us through its tones just as truthfully and fully as he could in words. Thus in every musical work that is accounted in a general way, consider the trend of the lives of two famous composers as compared Wwith their musical style. Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn- Bartholdy was born in Hamburg, in 1809, the son of a school teacher of decent means. Generally a genius produces his work in spite of the un- favorable conditions of his life in de- flance of poverty, of ill health, and of unappreciativeness of the musical critics of the time; with Mendelssohn all this was reversed. From his birth into a family of refinement and fairly righ sacial position until he died, his work was fostered and his labor re- enforced by all the ald that wealth, wise and efficient guidance in youth and friendly and appreciative com- ranionship in later years could give him. There is much, certainly, to be said against him as a matter of music, for he wae, by no means a master of emotlon. He was lacking in the crude but powerful vigor of sheer manhood. His blood was not red, his feelings were nat impetuous, his pas- sions were not deep. His nature, if we can judge from the biographers of the time, was sunny, genial, happy; he seems to have been not only su- perior to the darker emotians of dis- content, bitterness and grief, but ab- solutely incapable of them. He was a polished gentleman and an accom- plished scholar, Almost all of the adjectives which can be applied to Mendelssohn him- self can be applied with equal force and accuracy to his works. We have said he was sunny, genial and happy. Let us consider his “Songs Without Words,” his most characteristic works. They represent every period of his life, the first having been writ- ten when he was anly sixteen and the last ones not completed until the year of his death, 1847. These pleces are with but one exception, the ‘“Funeral March,” light, sunny and genial. They are simple, little stories, told well in a clear cut‘artistic manner. Perhaps in the course of inspection, they touch upon a soberer minor nay perhaps convey as true a picture of Mendelssohn ny ather of his Wworks. It is a simple, clear cut un- derstandable story and carves an un- mistakable nate of complacency and self satisfaction. It is truly Mendels- sohn himself, speaking through the n.edium of the keyboard. Let us turn for contrast to perhaps the best exponent of the tragic mood in music, Frederic Francois Chopin. He was born in Poland in the year 1809, the year of Mendelssohn’s birth. Here again is an example of birth | into praopitious surroundings. His | tather was of French extraction and his mother, a native of Poland. Frederic began his musical educa- tion under the best available instruc- tons. He had the old, obtuse, unin- teresting musical forms of composi- tion held up to him as models throughout his instruction, but: under his own guidance he soon broke thraugh these narrow limitations and established a style peculiarly his own. He has something new to s in music. He was a tragedian in his art. No one ever heard Chopin laugh. His smile, rare .and charming, was like that of his American brother poet, Edgar Allen Poe. Both men were foredoomed to unhappiness. Both disdained mediocrity and there- fore drank deep of misery. But his greatest handicap was his health. From his birth he was delicate, phy- sically, morose and cynical, mentally. His nervous irritability was exlreme,l On his better days he would be bouy arnd gay, even extravagant; on his worse, he would appear peevish ana fretful, not from ill humor but rather from sheer exaggeration of sensibil- | ity. There was always something of | the sick child about Chopin, a petu- | lance and moodiness due not to malice, but to the raw and jingled nerves which he could not cantrol. The key to Chopin's curiously contra- dictory life is to be found in the dis- crepancy between his mental and physical powers. In his works he was a curious compound of fantasy, feeling and strength. No one has brought out pathetic duality of Chopin’s nature better than Frederick Neicks at the close of his admirable | “Notwithstanding as the tragic; the works of the time of r Poland, we find his wonderful polon- aises, vigorous and truly Polish in their pa- | triotic fire and dash, NEW WHIT SATURDAY SPECIAL SUMMER HATS $3.50 SPORT HATS In all the new styles; in the best quality Panama, Felt, Velour, Velvet—At very Low Prices. PANAMA SPECIAL 10 different Shapes. Saturday . $ 1 .00 only .... 223 MAIN STREET, CHILDREN’S HATS HALF PRICE COLORED HEMP HATS To Close—All Colors in the best 69c styles ........ | EASTERN MILLINERY CO. NEW BRITA MILLINERY HEADQUARTERS so is that of his life. Among sidence in | tensitive mind. amply ing example subnormal before mentioned, stirring, They are the product of his | in conjunction with high strung over- The one in illustrates this. of Chopin’s surcharged, imagination. It the darker side of Chapin, the side which was always promine sick body D flat It is a strik- Notice. is called | ppyj15i96 Creamery Butter, 31 strain, but it is only momentarily and | Piography. they always come back to the original optimistic point of view, reflecting the lack of robustness and all it entails, he says, Chopin mood Chopin. the Raindrop. Chopin, so writes Madame George Sand who was his hostess at M rca, saw in a feverish 3 1-4 lbs for $1.00. Challenge 10c can. Best Coffee, 32¢ Ib. R Bros., 301 Main street.—advt. The Nocturnes, rich in variety of expose the inner soul of He loved the twilight more moderately happy had been well matched.” This, how- ever, was not the case. His thoughts were too big, his passions too violent for the frail frame that held them. He could not realize his aspirations compass his desires, in short, could not fully assert himself. | Had not Chopin been an artist, thei tale of his life would have been un- told; but in his art he revealed all his\ strength and weakness, all his suc-! cesses and disappointments, all his dreams and realities. Turning to his works, we find that 16y Doty jand sonl dream her and her two children drowned, and it was the drip-drip-drip of the rain upon the faces of the dead that sent the toa imazinmivr\‘ poet shivering to the piano. Think of 1 the influence that mental apparatus | like that must have had on its own Thousands testify rroductions. | y Chopin's funeral march in B flat | minor is the composition which 1“ have selected to illustrate to the best The Original - MALTED Mi sunny, vet scholarly Mendelssohn in their excellent musical figures and wonderful construction. We have called Mendelssohn polished. His works are the very es- sence of finesse and completeness. We have accused Mendelssohn of being incapable of deep emotion. We cannot find one of his works repre- senting anything particularly tragic, ratriotic or even particularly ardent from a sentimental point of view. Mendelssohn was luke warm even in his love making. He was a person of his time; well bred, artistic, a not observed as extensively as some of our other holidays, but it is, how- ever, a national day. In the middle, western and southern states the peo- ple do not forget this emancipator and pay tribute to him in many ways. In this same month, February, on the twenty-second day, occurs the lar phase of life. We are inclined to think thus of artists almost ta the exclusion of a group of geniuses who are, in a literal sense, true artists, the musical com- posers. They, by certain pleasing combinations of sound arranged upon a staff or scale, picture even mare ac- birth of another great man, George curately some phase of life. I say Washington. His birthday is cele-; even more accurately, because, while brated all over the United States|u painter usually begins a master- “when evervone praises and honors the piece prompted by his own emotions, man who. was declared long ago by | these feelings may and usually do his followers to be “first in war, first | undergo a decided change during the in peace, and firs. in the hearts of | length of time necessary to camplete than the dawn—dreamers of his type | do not rise early—and is this beauti- tul group we can find practically all he had to say. . It would seem well, in order to sum up Chopin and his works at. the same time, to consider that charming group | of works, the preludes. They are tiny, questioning tone poems, each cne expressive of some different | mood. They were, for the most part, composed while he lay ill at Majoica | in the West Indies. They are twenty- two in number, all of equal beauty, advantage his tragic tendencies. does not possess a single nate of re- lief. It is pathetic in its theme from to end, and as true mor- uand the date +~ pational " play of the national flag, and other | y. citizens ' provided by the authorities, are often % quent speakers. & delicate the man, is dis- ..the wars of the United States. Sfor the vouth and his firecrackers and | his countrymen.” Memorial or Decoration Day is a holiday observed in the United States | « on the thirtieth of May. It is a day set apart in memory of the soldiers and:sailors who fell in the Civil War; is sald to have bcen chosen because it-was the day of the discharge of the last soldler of the Union Army. Decoration Day is cele- brated by processions and orations in honor of the dead, and especially by decorating with flowers and flags the graves of all who fought in any of ‘Where a country or a government has been baffled in its efforts io at- tain or preserve a hated rule over another people, it must be content to | see its failure made the subject of never-ending triumph and exultation. The anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, has ever since been regarded as a great festival throughout the United States and wherever Amer- | icans are assembled over the world. From Maine to Oregon, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, and in every town and village, this birthday of the Republic has always been ushered in with the ringing of bells, the firing of cannon, the dis- evidences of public rejoicing. A national salute is fired at sunrise, noon and at sunset, from every fort | and battleship. The army, militia and volunteer troops parade, with bands of music, and join with the in patriotic processions. Orators, appointed for the occasion, deliver in different parts of the coun- try, what are termed “Fourth of July Orations.” The virtues of the Pil- grim fathers, the exertions and suf- ferings of the soldiers of the Revo- lution, the growth and power of the Republie, and the great future which expands before her, are the main themes of these orations. The fourth | of July has always been a great day | pistols. Many acecidents have hap- pened, until today, numerous devices are suggested for a ‘safe and cane fourth.” At night, the whole country blazes with bonfires, rockets, Roman ecandles, and fireworks of every de- scription. In great cities, the display ©f fireworks in the public squares, magnificent, Labor Day, one of the lates: American holidays comes generally on #he first Monday in September. Tt is | # day for the working men, who hold ! meetings for the discussion of lahor | questions, presided over by many clo- | After the meeting there are usually large parades, in which many of the prominent labor leaders- of the town or city join with the working people. Thanksgiving, New England’s great holiday, was first Ccelebrated at Plymouth, Massachusetts, two hun- dred and ninety-five vears agn. The Pilgrims were so thamkful for their | new life, away from the terrible per- secutiong in England, that thev set apart a day for thanksgiving, imme- diately after their first harvest in 1621. The next year, at approxi- mately the same time, they agalin, hdd a day for thankegiving and so on, until the day has come down to us for annual observance. The first recorded public Thanks- giving, appointed by authority, in America, was proclaimed at Mossa- chusetts Bav, in 1631. Owing to the great scarcity of provisions. and con- sequent menace of starvation, Febru- | some particularly strong feeling. goes to his instrument and speaks his the picture. On the other hand, a composer must be prompted through- out the period of compositian by He talented workman, and rather shallow. but a likeable, entirely | played by ' his | very vividly Chopin productions. | and each with a slightly different | Feginning message, note af dissatisfaction, tuary music remains without a rival. | Upbuilds and sustains the b its grief, noble in its | No Cooking or Milk requi but each bearing the same the sick child | It is stern in human soul with an extraordinary musical sense. One of his “Songs Without Words" ¥ Almost every whim, mood or event in | its musical his life, has translation. | . his ! music s The whole trend of note, spondency verging almost on despair. and de- | feeling and ence. 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