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A recipe for a rainy day
Nothing gets a girl who is out for a living, be she office girl clerk, houseworker, dressmaker, than to get up to face a wet world, With the sky a leaden gray, the wind sharp through a light summer suit, and another routine day staring her i'n thtf face.
But there arc compensations in the life of a working girl . < , the prospect of a glowing fire at the end of a rainy day, with a hot bath . . . friends like yourself, waiting to keep you company . . , to be able to let down one's hair, and to be able to come d6wn to brass tacks ' . , to give and take from the depths of our small experience ... to give vent to 6ur emotions in words as black as you' feel ... to hear the kettle singing . � . to open a fresh par of raspberry jam, and as th^e wax seal is broken, to get a whiff of home, of raspberries fresh on the bush,, of fragrant stocks, of mother's voice ... to laugh over the day's idiosyncracics, perhaps weep a little, too . . , to slip into a gay-patterned housecoat, red slippers', and to let Your hair wander where it \vills . . , to shut <5ut the world of invoices, worries, office manners, telephone calls ... to she<f the hard cloak of a business world , .� . and to be just "one's self."
Life has its compensations. Life is glorious, then, regardless . . . /\ quiet tale of courage,
Not all the great stories of <ourage are given a space in the news front. One meets them In queer, unexpected circumstances, in all sorts of strange, unpremeditated places. And, we are such stuff that it is only when we meet up with some courageous spirit that we rcali?e that our lot is perhaps not so bad, that our way of life is really-a fortunate
one.
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1 ,met him m a hospital. He had come to see a friend of his, �and -,o we chanced to meet, and Say "hello/' -Tall, fair-haired, slightly in-~cblia(ed~hC~w;fsr~asf hr "kidded'' "llfe~lau^hteT'b3CK"1nt6T'tKe~~fa"c'c'"of"his." friend, as he gave back quip for quip, laugh for laugh. He laughed at his friend, at himself, at the whole, cock-eycfd world, and bought ice-cream for the whole party.
He had an intent wa'y of gazing at "a person�one couldn't, help but notice how blue-green his eyes were as they became fixed upon you. how his lashes turled long and upward * . .- and how his" smile quirked the corners of his tiiouth. A gay, Beau Brumniel, with never a care ... a happy-go-lucky sort of fellow.
And he talked "a blue Streak1) > .<. of-France, of ,Paris ... of law ... of radio telegraph .,. . he'told a few naughty jokes . . . quoted Shakespeare, several French'poets . . , gave his theories on government . i\ and I thought to myself,, "What a shame!" ,Here was a man of many abilities . . . and here he Was, slightly tipsy, a gay fellow, without a .serious thought in the world. '
Then he began^ his^ extt.^ JHe c6uld not fitid the door,^^He^was.jn.o,rc than tipSy, I thought. For one imperceptible moment, he "teetered, then his hand.went.out ... he had found the door. With a "chins up, buddy,',' he was out of-the door, groping his way.-
� Our gay. Beau Brumrnell was slowly going blind -. no cure for it. Two years ago, lie was in the army /. perhaps nine years ago, he had planned fo become a lawyer, but because of his eyes, no one would � take him in as a student-at-la\v Save one old lawyer, an -old family friend . > . but he couldn't see the, words printed on the legal page . . . he'turned to radio telegraphy . . ,. but again his eyes failed him , . . a~nd'nowl in St. PauI's^Hospital, he�� sells ice-c7rea.m "arfd "giim.Tfiocolate bars and candy .~ -,in his awn especial manner.-��- *-* ~ � -- --> ~~� ^- ~--~-^" ~ ^�-.-^ .-.-���~._�.�
He cannot see two feet away from his face. The objects that he sees, the faces he meets, are misty blurs to him, but one would never guess. His is the story of courage ... of courage and laughter in the face 'of a slow, inevitable, oncoming xlarkness . . . and he is only 29!
. there" was Seven years/
It's high time I strummed another .ditty to my backyard and how it flourishes beneath the sun and rairt (the sprinkler system, if you please), and intermittent weeding.
I always thought that tomatoes grew from only One- stalk, or am I* seeing things when I say that mine have as many as eight stalks, everyone bearing fruit? All from one root? Such enormous leaf-spread, too! I do hope the red tomatoes will live up to their heritage.
Two years ago there; were my'riads of pansies all around the borders. Last year there Wasn't one to be seen. Then this spring, what do I find hither and thither buf "countless tiny bits of green thai I coulcl swear were the long-lost pansies. So lovingly 1 scooped them, out with a teaspoon and set them ,in orderly rows -just this side of the snapdragons and zinnias. I hadn't much hope that they would bloom, but any way I left them la the m'ercy of Mpther Nature. Imagine -.my delight and surprise no"w to see purple pansies. yellow pansies blooming right and left with never a care in the wo'rld.
Without being a fancier, without knowing the rules of perfect garden mg7~rnfnaWg(T~(o geT^aT" ri6T"o f ~ color, fragrance and fruit out of little seeds. What immense satisfaction it gives!
Then in my more serious moments I marvel. Life eternal is in my backyard. Though this house may rot and crumble", the grass will gro\y, and flowers bloom. Left to themselves the- stronger plants probably " will choke out the frail ones, the vines will spread and -cling to anything, but the flowers will bloom, and the seeds for the^next" year will fall to rise.again. Hollyhock_and foxglove, j:oU}mbine .^nd ros^c will growthjther and yon* helter-skelter, fill Man's tender discipline shall put'thcrn back -in net rows around a home.
To love a garden because it is a garden, weeds and all, is very like the lov<Ta mother bears her children, faults and all. - _
For me it's another Jazy day, gloating over m,y flowers and vegetables! yearning for some fruit trees, wanting to <to^ the hedge all over again< weeding spasmodkally-and~ dreaming of a better garden next year.
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The saxophone need neither be ashamed. nor proud of Its beginnings undoubtedly have quirt a bit to do with tlr f! p3S'hlM� noi been fully accepted into'the symphony orchestra but (b\t 'V u part and parcel of the, dance band. , ' l '"sJvcc
We owe the saxophone to the inventive genius of Adu! }< s in 18-12 came to Paris with'hardly any money but uithTfJ- , instrument (so it deemed at least to the people of those dus^i00*18'!
ha If-brass wind, half-woodwind n\' 1 , v*\
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the musicians and critics he met ll)at [nis � phone" was a brass insmmiem fmc<j UJ"J" ; "single-reed" mouthpiece of the clarinet H. quite a few supporters who gave him the necessary money t.o sian K ' *** Jealous rivals and competitors made the going difficult for Xh S^T' he prescvercd to win out, When his instrument was miradu�d. i ^ � French military bands it made a big hit right away, and \oonV '� ^ indispensable instrument. Brought over to America, the s; "3PV ��
take long to jump from the military to the dance band. There are five groups of saxophones in common soptarto, (2) alto, (3) tenor,, (4) baritone. (5) bass
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in passing, that popular music writers and cntics mean the suophon �-* not the human voice'when they^speak of an'"alto" or''tenor ' "^
These different sax'cs work on the same principle/the (method of playing) is the same for all five The technique. 1 �.� i$ 'remarkably easy, simple and regular. Scales, arpeggios and uicU sages present little trouble to a person once he has mastered the mentals of playing.
As may be expected, (he tone of the sax combines the qualities of, brasswind and a woodwind. Jt has the mellowness ot the Trench bora and the bright clear tone of the clarinet (ejspctialty the soprano and rio),
In "forte" (loud) passages ft is a poor second to
QUALITIES OF the trumpet ot trombdne; but, on the other hind
THE SAXOPHONE in-the score calling for "piano" (soft pbyfngj,
it can Wend" but rarely slip on't of sight into fa
orchestral background, which the clarinet or flute'finds easy to do, ad KJ notes Can Jse'readUy defected. Butjthfs disappearing trick is Imdh, rmes-sar'y~irnHe jax^baricfwhere theTaVopfiohcs7" neb lone"is"dcsp~eratel> iut&d to offset the blare and blast of the brasses.
Although the altos and tenors'form the mainstay of the sax stolon, the soprano vand. baritone (and less frequently the^ bass) sjxes ate afo brought Jnto play. As for saxophonists (saxist for short), I find n difficult to name any one outstanding player because there are so jiuny excellent ones. Among the saxists specializing on alto are "Tootsi Mon-dello. Jimmy Dorse'y, Benny Carter and HynVie Sherf/er. Leading tk tenor men are Tex Beneke, Charlie Barnct, Eddie Miller, Coleman. HawW.s, George Auld, Bud Freeman and Torjy Pastor,
Some orchestra leaders have capitalized on the use of the saxophone. Shep Fields, the innovator of the "rippling rhythm", burst a bombih?'.! in the orchestral, world recently when he came out with his ticw tend
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lief ore the summer dawns and briefly after Bird coicts. mingle with my dreams half spent, Thf robin's catl_,jhe brown wren's laughter. And the sieve/ thrush notes, wide and innocent.
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WILLOWS The slikcn lengths Of Willow streamers Quiver and curve and gleam
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s flutes, one alto flute, ten clarinets, three ^
clarinets, four alto saxes, six tenors, one baritone and one bass � a totjto[ thirty-five reeds. For the most part,^ Fields contrasts his high a'nd low-reeds, say four altos land a clarinet against a background of five reror saxes. For special effects he bring in the Various reeds ijn different combinations. Swingsters who are accustomed to the solid formsimi of the brasses will hardly get their fill from Field's reed offerings But it's i novel experience to listea to some of his new Blucbiid recordings such & "Donna" and "I've. Found a Million Dollar Baby." ___J^nd_of_'coAirse^_you all know-how-Glcnn-Mfllcr-madir musical h'w 0.7-by introducing a five-man reed section with four saxfs-*nd a-cbrinet to ^oblaimlha'Hush melody featured in many of "his" earlier recordings^ ~--~ ' Now don't get' the idea that the saxophone is shunned altogether bj classical composers. Some writers, especially the French (Bizet and M�-scnet) were rather fond of creating little tunes for the saxophone. RuhjrJ
Strauss went a step further, and composed i
1 HE SAXOPHONE part for a quartet? of saxes' in one of his works. AND THE CLASSICS Undoubtedly, the sudde_n popularity of the siw-
phone in the French military iunds- and. cm-
posers caused the-"highbrows" of other countries to turn antagonized af 3^ ' from it. At all events, I regrcf that the saxophone was not invented before Beethoven's time because I .feel that that great-musical genius would bT< made at least an attempt of exploring its possibilities >od perrupi nur: have incorporated it into the symphony orchestra^ , 'Next week; the brasswinds.
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