The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 8, 1901, Page 28

NEW USES FOR MUSIC, ROM a time that precedes the beginning of his- tory the effeci of music upon the human system was known to exceed the mere pleasure derived from the concord of sweet sounds. When Saul was disordered in mind his attendants knew of no.better way of healing the distemper than that of getting David to play before him upen the harp and sing to him; and we be sure that was not the only instance in those re- mote old days when music was resorted to as a curative agent for diseases of one kind or another. All classes and races of men appear to have learned very early in their history of the value of music in rousing the mental and moral energies of men and fitting them for the performance of dangerous duties. It isa very low race of savages indeed that has not a martial music which it uses in times of war to incite the courage of its soldiers. Among civilized races this martial strain has been devel- oped to a high degres of perfection, so that it now con- stitutes one of the chief divisions of the musical art. Priests from the oldest times have made use of music in the ceremonies of religion, and schoolteachers have been hardly less earnest in resorting to it as a means of bright- g the minds of children at their school work. Thus from the most ancient days music has been used medicine, worship, war and education. In our own time it appears a new use is to be found for it. Several tests have been made of its availability for increasing the efficiency of labor, and according to those who have made the tests the results have been uniformly good. Some time ago we directed attention to a report of the use ot music in a cigarette factory, where it is said the experirnent proved that the girls worked faster znd worked better, as well as more cheerfully, while the music was sounding than when there was none. Since then several other ex. periments have been made and the results are said to have been equally satisfactory. Among those by whom the industrial test of music has been made is Elbert Hubbard, publisher of the well- known Roycroft volumes. He is said to have placed a piano in every room of his plant and to have found’that the music not only provided a pleasant diversion for his employes but increased and improved their work. He is reported to have stated in a recent address on the sub- ject: “The time is past when music can be regarded merely as an amusement for idle'women or a source of de- light for children. It hasa higher and wider function. and I have noticed that its effect upon the nervous system is rked.” ] in It is not in factories and publishing houses only that have been made. The Atlanta Constitution reports t one of the largest railroad corporations in the éouth employing negro workmen has made it a rule to select two musicians to every fifty employes, since it has been found: that “when inspired by the song of their leaders and permitted to join in the ‘chant, as they keep time with pick or shovel, the negroes are less inclined to be morose, d can perform a greater amount of work with ; gue than when working in silence.” less It hardly seems right that music, heavenly maid, should be taken from the church, the camp and the court ms she has to mect the common fate. world. If music can doit. e ¢ This is a practi- 1 ielp industry it must get in and ETHATAT SOME IMPRESSIONS OF THE CHRARMING and set to working for an increase of human wealth, but it | JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor. SUNDAY THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1901, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager DECEMBER 8, 1001 Pu»blication Office < Sk s n et oo nsames ot s oo MaTNOR apd TRiED, S F. HE consumption of alcoholic beverages is by no| means abating in the modern world. It must not be assumed that drunkenness increases with - the increased consumption of liquor, for it is the judgment of all observers that the advance in consump~: tion is due more to the generality of the habit than to the! lincrease in individual use. More people use liquor in mod- eration and fewer use it to excess. Drunkenness| is frowned upon by custom and fashion, while the inod- | [erate use of these beverages is more general and niore| generally tolerated. Itis possible, too, that man by habit is becoming more immune to alcohol, and suffers less, therefore, from its use, than formerly, and has less inurdi-1 nate craving for it. | Taking six leading countries as the standard, their | consumption of wine, beer and spirits shows an increase in| the aggregate that progresses steadily. The yearly con- | sumption of these is: United Kingdom, 135,000,0c0 gal-| lons wine, 1,160,000000 of beer, and 39,000,000 spirits; | France, 990,000,000 gallons 1wine, 196,000,000 beer| and 71,000,000 spirits; Germany, 60,000,000 galions wine, 1,230,000,000 beer and 99,000,000 spirits; Russia. 45,000,000 gallons beer, 90,000,000 wine and 125,000,000 | spirits; Austria, 130,000,000 gallons beer, 376,000,000/ wine and 97,000,000 spirits; United States, 20,000,000! gallons wine, 870,000 000 beer and 73.000,000 spirits g We show up pretty well as the fourth in consump- tion of hard red liquor, though we are the second in popu- lation. Germany, Russia and Austria are all ahead of us. | We are the fifth in wine and the third in beer. France| leads in wine and Germany in beer. | Reducing the whole consumption to proof alcohol| |the record is interesting. The United Kingdom cen-! sumes of alcchol 73,000.000 gallons; France, 143.000.000:| Germany, 111,000,000; Austria and the United States, ;'8,000.000 each. i | The consumpticn per capita of pure alcohoi is: France, 3.80 gallons; Belgium, 3.10; Switzerland, 2.60; Germany, 2.20; Italy, 2.10; Spain, 1.86; United States, 1 WHAT’S IN THE CANNIKIN. | become the vehicle of drunkenness. | It will be seen that o:1e gallon of alcohol divided by 365 gives a very low daily consumption, and if equally divid_ed woulg hardly make that diminutive measure per capita which sociable gentlemen call “a snoot full.” Belgium figures in the statistics as the greatest beer drinking country, with 42.2 gallons per capita; Great Britain is second with 29.6, and Germany third with 23.5. One fact of great interest appears .in the American consumption of wine, being 20,000,000 gallons per vear | It is undoubtedly due to the rapidly ihcreasing use of our | good California wines. As this State is the only Amencan; producer of true wine, it is evident that our vintners have the promise of a home market equal to the ab-| sorption of their entire production. If they will] take the same pains to. study the tastes of that market as carefully as exporters study the foreign wmar- kets to which they cater, we may leok forward to a de- mand at home that will make every vineyard profitable. and at the same time serve the purposes of real temper- ance by replacing distilled liquor -with a mild vinous| drink which has its hest and most agreeable use as a part of the diet. 1t is not a matter of speculation nor uncer- tainty that temperance is promoted in proportion as we teach the. appetite for alcoholic drink to be satisfied with a beverage that takes the place of tea and coffee at table. It is observed that an alcoholic beverage so used does not Of course there are men capable of flooding an empty stomach with dry wine. Such men prefer to irri- gate with whisky, which does ten times the harm with not one-tenth the immediate discomfort. While the statistics show a general average increase | in the consumption ¢f liquor, they show also a decrease in | Russia, Scandinavia, Holland and the United States. The | use of whisky in this country declines as the use of wine| advances, and the vineyards of California may yet be| looked to for the supply of the national beverage, and the | glories of Blue Grass ~ill fade and go into limbo along | with Monongahela and Robinson County. | After every university match we are told that football| | fits men for scholarship and civic life, but now after the| |of its introduction into business colleges as a means of teaching the students how to stand off a creditor and rush {a debtor. It looks as if reciprocity would be put. on the shelf with tariff for revenue only. Protection and prosperity are too good a team to be traded off for any other that con be | brought forward. | It is said that despite the large army under his com- | mand, Lord Kitchener has only 45,000 troops available for| pursuit of the Boers, and it seems that those are tired. 1 The appointment of Congressn:an Metcalf to a place| on the Ways and Means Committee is a compliment to| changmg every year, as some constituencies do. | ST L | Hawaii wishes of this Congress appropriations for im- | provements to-the amount of $10,000,000, the Philippines wish about twice as much and Porto Rico will apply for af million or two, so it is evidently the opinion in the islands | that an appropriation follows the flag. ——— s g | | 1 The Charleston Exposition may not count for much| as expositions go in our times, but it is none the less no-| table as an evidence that the city of State rights and| | refused to construe the will and trust. \| THE DEAD HAND. will restrain the de- quick under restraint E suppose that only law sire of men to put the of the dead. g E ' Men die and condition 2 devise to th eir remarriage and make that wor]f f_on:lt of ligion and e wives upon th the estate. Some undertake to control the re P some the politics of their heirs, even to th_c sex:or}l1 ,,le,l era- tion. It is strange that a desire to dommate]s OUA(«I . vive the grave and that the dead l'm.nd should be r:\(isu n restraint of nature, and that the living shall be under or- ders from the dust. : 5 A One would think that the experiences of this brief life would satisfy and that the dead palr.n \\'pulrl m: Io‘nmj‘ itch to hold the reins. To a normal mind it seems um:nA . ural that any one can so value the sweets of power as to cling to its iaost mortem exercise an.d expect to_ cn;ny}t in the cerements. Such expectation is the vanity of vani ties, and the sooner courts curb it when dn:ected to sup‘q purely personal rights as the right of marriage or ;e'x; riage, freedom of conscience and natural selgctxon of a line of civic conduct, the better for the community. A case of that sort has recently been be»fflre the Su- preme Court of New York. One ,\IcCombs?lDohbsFerr._v died leaving an estate worth $10,000,000. To one of his daughters he refused equal share and put $300,000 in trust to yield her an income of $10,000 only, if she marry Louis He.rzog. If she do not marry HerzogL §11§ to share equally with her two sisters and bro:her, So it is $2,500,000 without Herzog and $10,000 a year with him. The court t It said that she has not married Herzog and no one knows that she will ever marry him, therefore the executors cannot execute the trust, for its conditions are lacking. The executors must take the responsibility of dividing to her her sl:mare'ox the estate, or refusing to do so. She is not Herzog’s wife and is clearly entitled to hef full share. If she get it and then marry him the troubles of the executors begin. The late Mr. McComb, in trying to run things from his coffin, h:%t created a pretty puzzle for all concerned, and it looks as )!'V the proscribed daughter has the best of it so far. Our advice to her is to get her share of the estate and marry Herzog, if he is a decent fellow. Then let the executors go into court to recover her $2,500,000. If they get it they must create the trust and pay her $10,000 a vear, and if Louis is the right sort of a husband that will keep the pot boiling. This Congress has much business before it, but it need not attend te it all. If it exciude Chinese, restrict undesirable immigration, begin the isthmian canal, provide for the merchant marine and for a Pacific cable and enact match between Wesi Point and Annapolis we are told it|California, and it is also a proof of the wisdom of re-elect- | needed legislation for the Philippines, it can adjourn with fits them for war and stratagems. By and by we shall hear|ing good men to Congress for term after term insteac of {the consciousness that it has done well and won the ap- proval of the country. Our McKinley memorial fund is increasing at a satis- factory rate, but judging from reports of other move- ments of the kind-in different parts of the country it looks as if the aid of Carnegie would have to be called in before long. The proceedings of the Democratic caucus just before the opening of Congress show that ihere are still a good many silver men in the party, but it was also shown they | secession has quit talking politics and is ready for business |are r.ot strong endugh to to wag the dog any more. SESEDATAA T AT AT A DT ATA DA DA SIS A A IS IS ASAD *k SAS I AAS A A kS kS kS SASASH A & & k<& SHATA T ATSA AT A S AT AR kAT A A A< ENGLISH POETESS, ALICE MEYNELL. SATATATQ \ GENEVIEVE ALIFORNTA is very far from Olympus! To us it is not given, [ except &t rarest intervals, to look upon the faces of our di- vinities. We are all more or less the readers of books, and the writers of books cross it seldom. Our literary loves | the distance. We must be con- b worshiping from afar, accept- | result; Mr. Patmore consented e good things that they send us. | propket on condition that Sar; m as children accept the off he greater our de- h is accorded us, the t that the graclous giver drawing. Coventry Patmore, body knows, was an enthusiast | 2s well as a devoted friend of i nell. | ton Public Library became po The request was made to him as agreed to and the portrait E kS b e +i. |18 and talented family. The essay en- | soclation with Mrs. Meynell the great UL Seaus by o s R % o utl L eied A Remenibrance {n *The Riythm | Itimannéss/of hér chatacters’ Learned {5 | & ntimber. be/tars ago. ight of Santa Claus, “but oh, to see | Of,14f€” IS an exquisite description of her touch him and to hear him spe of us with emphatic literary aff. s are thus child-like toward our see them, to hear them speak—t e real thrill in the prospect! An idle -worship, this sentiment is sometimes | c but why? We may read bi-| ographies at length and be anything but | e; we may righteously peruse chapiers | sl t tell of Wordsworth's or of Tenny- | cirain. personality; it is an indication of re- to spend hours in the National Gallery studying the faces of | who have made literature and his- | Should an interest in the personali- | of those who are making literature | d history be less righteous or less re- fined? Mrs. Alice Meynell, at present visiting in San Francisco, is one of the makers of the literature of our time. No less authority than George Meredith has | ed her among the great English- | punn of Thalberg, women of letters. People who are famil- r with’ her writings and with the praises | 4. cerned I had long been an admi E therein described. a pen except to write a letter. * * * It was his fine: brances but loss among the in forgotten.” Mrs. vised entirely by her father. single exception of a master of made no practical application children, His physiognomy was most pecu- liar and impressive, and Sargent in pre- | Paring his series of prophets for the Bos- the desire to have him for a prophel. | for him a portrait of Mrs. Mey Mrs. Meynell comes of a most interest- Without knowing whom it con- silence seems better worth inter- | | than the speech of many another. Loving literature, he never lifted not inarticulate, he was only silent. * * * He had an exquisite style from which to tion to desire no differences, no remem- Meynell's education was super- she had, in fact, no other instructor. man of the most exquisite culture, he tainments except in the education of his Her. mother, as well, was a | woman of remarkable accomplishments. She was a noted musician in her day, a and ranked well as a landscape painter. Having no taste for soclety they preferred life on the Conti: nent to life in England. Italy particu larly attracted them and the memories of Mrs. Meynell's childhood are associated with a° beautiful old villa near Genoa, terraced to the sea. Here she and her sister, now Lady Butler, spent a number of years, studying systematically, yet mingling freely with the peasant children about them. Evidently it was no part of their father’s educational plan to attain culture at the cost of all human sim- plicity. In fact one feels through an as- as every- ic admirer Mrs. Mey- least cut and dried, able of simple joys learned. seven children, glorious mother. ssessed of with this to pose as i gent make nell. This was made. an artist. ER a remarkable degree, She is to-day the mother yf and I doubt not is a She has written a little book. entitled “To Children” that reveals | her perfect understanding of childhood. There is no exaggeration, no distortion in the picture that she draws—it is child- hood pure and simple. Mrs. Meynell's sister, Lady Butler, has achieved great distinction in England as Her picture “The Roll Call” created quite a furor in the art world she is not in the and is quite as cap- as the most un- To-day several irer of the “A man . He was st distine- numerable | | ‘With the languages A of his at- bestowed upon her by such men as Rus- | kin and Coventry Patmore, or those who save read the beautiful tributes in verse by Francis Thompson, will expect much | of her personality and much will be ful- | filled. A profound intellectuality com- bined with the simplieity of a child, an acute interest in all life, in all \h!ngsl\ great and small, with occasionally the pardonable abstraction of the poet; & saint-like spirituality, and withal a sense of humor that asserts itself in a well governed smile around the corners of her mouth, are characteristics of Mrs. Meynell. Her friend whom she is visiting remarked to me concerning her: *“‘She is a beautiful combination of genius and ” I had long been acquainted with e genius, the saintliness I divined at the meeting and was grateful for its ex- istence. Without the saint I might have been afraid of the genius. As it is, ihis | delightful combination of gqualities ren- ders Mrs. Meynell the sweetest, the most approachable of women. Never posing herself, she requires no pose from those who meet her. Her physiognomy is a tempting one to artists and yet a difficult one; the “heavenly light” that illumines her countenance is not easily caught by pencil or brush. A sketch of her by Will Rothstein, that recently appeared in the Critic, is stmply @ caricature, conveying no suggestion of the qualities that distinguish her. Even the portrait by Sargent hardly does her justice, although containing much of her beautiful spirit. There is an interesting bit of history connected with the Sargent I lery. THE ENGLISH POETESS, A PHOTOGRAPH OF HER CHILDHOOD HOME NEAR GENOA AND PICTURE OF HERSELF AND OF HER SISTER, LADY BUTLER, DRAWN BY HER MOTHER. ot her plctures hang in the Tate gal- She is the wife of General Butler, who was knighted several years ago for I distinguished services in the army. has recently recelved new honors from the British Government. fiw VLA WEAR GLNOH, [TALY. WHERS L5y BEYHELL SPENT HER CHILNRO0D ZoossSal =z land.” atiracted Mrs. Meynell is the wife of Wiltred Meynell, a well-known London journalist, ‘whose greatest strength is manifested in ity. political ' editorlals. For several years the joint ed. cern. He Mr. and Mrs, Meynell . One of their pleasant experiences while thus engaged was the discovery of Francis Thompson, years. This young man, an undeveloped genius, was selling matches and holding cab horses In the streets of London, writ- ing occasionaily in his leisure moments, He was fortunate in submitti®g script to Mrs. Meynell, who quickly rec- ognized its merits. lished and the poet found himself fa- mous. Mrs. Meynell has since been the inspiration of much of his finest work. She s the subject of the entire poem, “Love in Dian's Although Mrs. Meynell is undoubtedly one of very few writers whose works wiil be read by posterity, she has no scorn for journallstic work and expresses no aspiration beyond the honors of mortal- Posterity gives her very little con- “Fifty years ago,” she writes in one of her delightful little essays, “men {tors of a magazine cglied “Merrie Eng- | worked for the honors of immortality; GKEEN HAMILTON they declined to attend things that were destined to be broken and worn out, and they looked forward to surviving themselves by painting bad pictures, so that what to do with their bad pictures in addition to our own has become the problem of the nation and of the householder alike. To-day men have begun to learn that their sons will be grateful to them for few bequests, Art consents at Tast to work upon the tis. sue and the china that are doomed to the natural and the necessary end—de- struction.” On the same principle she consents to adorn that short lived thing, the newspaver, with her rare and beau: titul English. She is at present writing her impressions of America for the P: Mall Gazette. - Mrs. Meynell is a true republican, with i |2 8reat fondness for America. She would like her children to be AmericanaWang has lghtly planned careers for a them under the stars and stripes. has much to say about the beauty of American women—"like the women of the Parthenon,” she deseribes them—a return to the ancient Greek ideal. The parents of Mrs. Meynell Intimate terms with most gof th.“':!e:: of their time, notably Charles Dickens, who was a great admirer of her mother. It has been stated that George Meredith, Wwho is 50 enthusiastic in his praise of Mrs. Meynell, was also a famfly friend, bat this Mrs. Meynell denles. The friend. ship between them is a recent develop- ment and originated in Meredith's admir- ation of Mrs. Meynell's work. At a mem- orable meeting of the Omar Khayyam Club in London. Meredith spoke raptur- ously of something from Mrs. Meynell's pn that had recently attracted his ate tention. Since then he has published a tunity to praise her ? p Mrs. Meynell is at present W co respondence with Major Pond, who wishes her to undertake a lecturing tour of this country under his management. Major Pond has managed the tours of many celebrities and has only one -absoluts faflure to record—the expedition of Mat- thew Arnold, whom nobody could hear, not even the people in the frontrow. In all of Mrs. Meynell's lectures she has a point of view, something to say. 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