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FUEL BOARD COMPLETES Quebec, nevertheleas the repleve.nent
INVESTIGATION
. of Small t m tbiacite-bt ..ting unite by
' ' . Ventral -160d plants , Mee ling low-grade
feels will contribute towarda the re-
• ductIon in. Import -Glens from the
Lowlgrade Fuels Can be Gtib• Centel. States• hIgh-prit ed euthra-•
ized in Central Plants—A one octal whitill la 80 rapidly heft/ming
Altaottglt the opens:U(0e of.mettiona
for In the SolutionOf Ole "Fuel 'ob
a luxury fuel at Inaleterminote avallte
. Service of the Future.
The't ceutral and district heeting ean
be Prelltably emploYea to a consider-
Dross of Earth,
Able extent le Canada and that the SUP- The Mutt QC most biography le that
plying at hentee a pablic Utility in the it reprettenta the one who ohs for the
(leaser. Beetione of (aloe and towns portraiture as Incapable of wrong nud
may be looked for as a enteral $ex, Innocent of failure. We are given
vice of the future are among the eali- what Henley Called a chocolate oandy
oat potent brought out by the inveatte or barley sugar seraph in place Of the
gation into central nealaug recently real men with blood in hie arteries and
completed bY the, Domittion Fuel huntan'trallties and passione. That is
130ard. A whleapread interest was a mistuke, against which Owen, WIster
found in the subject and much Mfor- lodged hie protest when he wrote "The
/nation, of practical value In the con- Seven Agee: of Washington." Recent.
sideration of any particular applicae ly a telegraphy appeared whieb, in dee-
Con, haa been compiled and is con- cribIng the earlier career of a well-
talned In the Hoard's report. beloved' ItinglIsh author, makes it AP -
pear that he Was 1. prodigal sea and
The present high. cost of tuel and
the frequeat disturbances in domestic an ingrate given to dissolute courses
fuel mutinies have led to considerable and impervious to rebuke. But It
attention helog gam to possible does not fail to show that the later
enonetnies and benefits to be derived man grandly redeemed the old Adam
from centralleed heath:1g. In almost and.left an example or the trieneple at
the spirit Over bodily weakness that
every civilized eountry, dtming
Period of the year, artificial heat Is will inspire mankind more than the
needed in dwellings, and buildings re. Printed book of the writer through all
qttired for modera social and eommer- days to ceme.
eta! life. The supply of elicit heat be- We are, In fact. lucre likely to be
edified by the stories of failure titan
comes a very large, In last a vital, Ise- edified
those of shining and complete sec-
tor to coatend with In northern cll.
mates where temperatures are low ecteestat. eaA pd tlaey areiceernegtley seepenultn tletiesr;Iteyt
Ing' season extends over more
durInif the winter and where .the heat -
the greenhorn who breaks into a bust -
than
half of the entire year. lender Meet) ness and goes by Melee and boneds
conditiOns, efficient and econmulcat to the top. The 'young hero Is seen
attending a directors' Meeting, methods of heating and utilization of
cribing to ids approving elders the
des -
fuels are of particular importance, arel
story of his rapid ascent of the ladder
demand tbe most careful attention
and moving them to such enthusiasm
and etudy, both from the standpoint
that they jump to their feet and press
of the conservation of Mel and other
mean him checks for hundreds of
natural resources, and of the health,
1.11010831115 of dollars. That le tbe way
comfort. and budget of the eountry and
it happens in romance. In real life
tbe
' men must work for what they get.
4i' Used for Heating. They must expect crushing defeat.
Particelariy is this the case In Cana. They must learn to "meet with
da, where nearly forty eer cent. of the triumph and disaster and treat those
entire coal consumed Is used for heat- two 'mestere just the same."
Jag and where over eixty :per cent. of And men ere not as gods nor as an -
the total veal consumed le imported, gels. There Is dross in their make-up,
in spite Of the fact that the Dominion and they must pass through the refin-
possesses immenee resources of coal er's tire of adversity that Shall bring
within her owe borders Economic out the best that is in them They
and geographie ronclitions have neces- must expect to endure hardness as
stetted the importation of tbe large good soldiers Crave peril to the soul
9,,,,,,,00teg, of coal. The most highly it is to find a place where ao storms
Industrialized section of the country come, and there is nothing but the
is in the previnc•es of Ontario and Que.. lazy pleasaunee of a tropic isle as one
be, where there is an abundance of ;drifts and dawdles through the unre-
wah4-power for the generation -of elee- stating hours.
trIcity. These provinces are fairly There are human beings who seem
close to the large anthracite and !so good one can hardly Imagine any
uminous coal -fields of the United need or mode of Improvement; but
Statee, but a eonsirerable distance they know how imperfect they are. We
from Canadian coal areaa. Hence the call them saints. and they are fairly be -
bulk of the „imported coal Is used in wildered, for tiles- know not that their
these provinces.
. faces are 10111801. of the spirit of good -
Various methode of heating have .ness that Is a lamp within. We know
been adoptedand developed In din
nothing of the battle they fought ere
a!
ferent eountriea dependent upon the they won to the peace we see, but they
could tell us that' they .came out ot
°Meade conditions and the require;
greet tribulation and ate the bread of
mews and progress of the lehabltants.
weariness' and tears before joy (*ante
The tendency in recent years, es -
whit the light of the morning.
90(3111117 on the continent. has been to-
wards centralization of heating plants,
the heat being distributed through
pipes by the medium of steam nr hot
water to eerve groupe of buildings. or,
as a public utility. entire sections of
cities. As a general utility Service,
central heating replaces the wasiefiti
methods of burning fuel in a multi -
tilde at Venni heating units. Each pro-
gressive step in other entitle services
lass involved an increased -east to the
utter, but the additional comfort and
convenience therefrom have beau suf-
ficient to warrant a general adoption.
So with the supplying of heat. The
advantages of distrlet heating are ap-
parent and in general may be stated as
being. to the user: cleanliness, cora-
fort, healtb, convenience, safety, and -
laying in (space and furnace Knife
meet; and to the community: eeono-
my in fuel constiraption, possible use
f 10w -grade fuels, and apprecialton in
rental values of property. •
Groups of Buildings.
In many easee central or district
heating can be advantageously Nem
bitted with the generation of elec-;
trtelty from steam stations, the steam
being eupplied fOr heating after il has
passed through the engines or tur-
bines driving the .electric generators.
In addition to actual heating service!
gem can also be supplied from large
central stationfor the requirements
of laundries, b.otels, manufecturles,
and for miecellansone industrial pur.
posts with the game advantages, end
at: a rule at a lower cost that steam
generated by small Independent bolt-
ers. However the intreduction of cen-
tre.) heating in any particular locality
should be preceded by a detailed and
cereful study of local oonditlons and
et the fttotors bearing UnOn the prob-
lem In order that there may be res.
eoneble assurance of 'inane:al 811'
08813.
Central heating 1 att been adopted in
Canada to a coninderable extent for
groups of luatitutional butidhige. As
representative . of the large ventral
• healing Irstallatione may be mention -
.ad the 'Leah/entity of Toreeto (27
bnildignsi; the Parliament Buildiegs,
Ottawa, (7 buildings); NicG111 Uni-
versity, Montreal buildingea ; Al-
berta University, Edmonton (18 build -
Inge) end Queen's University and
Megaton Hospital, Kingston (22 build -
lugs). PlitaMplee of corenrubity nea)-
ing In Canto% ere to be seen prim:testa
Romance of the Bank Book.
An Itinglieh writer recommends a
bank book as good reading and adds;
"The general reader will find therein
a demonstration of the weakess of
human resolves and, the vanity of hu-
man wlehes." That, however, is only
one aide of the story, There are bet-
ter things to be found in most bank
book's. For example, you can ilnd in
them evidences of love anti self-sacri-
fice and heroic thrift—a sum with-
drawn to keep a boy in college, an-
other to help a friend in distress; fre-
quent deposits. perhaps of a few dol-
lars, hard-earned, hard -saved, made in
an effort to lay up something against
old age. To get the real tfignificanee
ot a bank hook you must read it with
sympathetie imaginatfort.
The eldest Animals.
Efforts are to be made to prevent
extermivation of tbe great tortoises on
the Galapagos islands, 'believed to be
the oldest living animels. by finding
a refuge for tbem en some desert Is-
land near tbe United Statee,
Dr. William Beebe, the naturalist,
i told the National Geographical Society
at Washington that the tortoises, some
of which were in existence before
Columbus came to America in 1492,
are rapidly being killed off for oil, and
will disappear ((Mesa an tale or refuge
114 10191(i.
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itollona
• PITI
VERANDA AND WINDOW BOXES
• te !Ile it close et .h.ana for the
elantieg of We tletleute" poreit and
elittiew-hoses. Melte yoer Window.
box of orenivell bOttrilft. at 1ail.
:me lout wide and one Spot !kelt.
The length will depend on the width
1.1 tite•Windew. 11111 1110 bOx tit within
101 :lel 111301111111 1..0 ,t7h6e ttbeiye oyou v,r41111nealeyga
eatri;
add A 111.110 fertilleen IrtUll tinte to time
for tile 'plants will exhaeust the neer;
istrnient 0( 1.118 eon, lioneeneel,
manure, fertinzer tablette ete, are ex•
celient atimetlants for title pupae:
but yen merlin bear In Intuit that liquid
inr111111111.8eglia°111118,14r ueVee6nie 131. "Ilta°t
wt
Study Ole location of peer window -
box; and don't 'Melte the mistake of
planting M13 Weeded place, the ADM
ell which love tan:light—devote suell
Position( to ferna and, palms, ,Reserve
, Year Perch aud window -boxes for, the
; choice varietlea; oboose the fkitters
that are long blooming, and be sere
that their size and coke: Will harmom
tee when grouped.
Of the general plants, a great Mari-
bor are suitable for box culture. The
followles are among the "most ebon-
ite: Ageratum, antirrbinum, begonia,
caladium, candytaft, olees, °rotate,
fuelisea, geranium, heliotrope, lantana-
moneywort, pansy, petunia, phlox, nas-
turtium, mignonette, eelvia, sweet ails -
sum, verbena, and ferns and palms,
Young potted plants should not be
transferred to the wiudowbex Im-
mediately after 1.1107rereceived from
the oriel.; ,give their roots a ehanee 1.0
13y • '
David -Churchill
The winds of January howled roand, ed me; "it will cut off most of Me run- again nearest the house: Two double
the house and slapped together tbe nors Mr you. And if you keep the rows of tall peas, planted with the
limbs of the big maple. Sleet heat a hills fourteen inekee apart you can earliest one more double row as owe
tattoo on the window pane. Mary bad use them for markers top and bottom as the first ones appear, and then One
gone to ben so I drew my chair to the of Ole bed. It makes a good distance: more a little later, and so on in snc-
flre and sat down with my garden i for carrot rows and meet of the little : cession. Tlie Met two rows in this
notebook. stuff. An a multiple of fourteen would t plot are for early beans. The -space in
It was too early In the year for new , be good for anything else—corn, tall this plot, as soon as vacated, is to re -
catalogues with their gay oovers and 'Peas, totnatoes," calve late culiflower, cabbage, possibly
their Inflammatory literature. It was "About resetting strawberries the -sprouts, kohl-rabl and kale, with
celery near the centre path.
too early in all conscience to plan a' thildetyethare; -se"t
a runner between and "Across that path. there are three
garden, but I couldn't wait a day long- "
er. I simply could not keep out of my grub out tile old plant in the fall, You roWS of early turnips, which are to
I sat, you don't mind the wemit." I be followed by late beans; then three
'I don't mind, There is more satire ' rows of bush Limas, ttabe followed by
Before 1 opeued my notebook
r faction in a garden that is beautiful, spinach, Also tbere are three rows of
heard boots on the scrapper
"'Isl." complete, inclosed and laid out with early potatoes, to be followed be
the door and Neighbor drifted In with
paths bordered with bloom and fruit. epinach. The rest of the space was
a gust of wind and sleet. He blew on
Even in the fell when most things left vacant for sprouted sweet corn,
his hands and asked 11. 11 were ,bu.e. , .
mete II ,
bro et that border was bright as i "Where are your cucumbers? And
&ow hire a chair. 1 a sugar tree. We really had more I. tonlatOeS?.. he demanded. •
"Making straw garden," I answered
than we ever bad before or since." ' fatting about among the bushes id statute a shallow window -box for the
out of that square garden 70 by 70 ' "My tomatoes? Ah, there they are,
hiliele:trlywou'graerjdie'snt?in Iti4071:: do You get "Because you had to plan close and tomuto cans, Waiting. for Mos: early deep one and place potted plants with -
that -,-straw garden?" he asked.
cause you piled on the manure and , dellble row thirty feet ‚long. I give more favorable quarters to recuperate
keep your succession going and be-; peas to get out. Sixty Wants. for a in it. They can then be removed to
"Straw voteeestraw garden. Great-
est of indoor sports." fertilizer—kept turning It over ,and them eighteen inches between rows—" if they show signs of weakening.
Nelglthor sat down and stretchedhis over," Neighbor said. Then he pieced "what, you mean sixty plants— •
--e.
devtgon befOre yeti traesplant Mem.
And dott't Set tbele Viet 15331.11 all doe -
get from frOst ke emoted; a seddee. re-
turn or melil wepther 'night injure
them permanently.
1
i
Although pleats are grouped more,
010017 In a window -box Mau tney
would be in it gardembed, they meet
not be overcrowded, or the effect of
the whole will be loft end the proal
ol etich inane Itandieftatted. If they
are Mt:lined lathe, spindlY, cut them
beek to induce stooltiness, The pinch -
Mg off -of the nest butte which•epPear
will strengthen the plant: and the 130'
11.00111. cutting of ettbsequent btoonts
will produce a. gteater profusion or,
flowers, •
A ,very ,oltarming effect. MaY be bed
by planting vino at the batik and
front of the box. Manettie, for
atanoef along the outer edge will egton
droop gracetully over the box very ef-
fectively Climbing vines planted ai
the back may he trained up each side
et Me window; and they may even be
Made to serve as, au awning if a frame
is placed et the top of the window for
them to climb upou. Clfmbing vines
from Dont-boxes should always be
furnished with supports, String sup -
Parte are no doubt the easiest and
most available; but 1.1. 11 far more ef-
fective to build a light trellis 01. 1.31.110.
Pleasing remits may be obtained by
arranging the strips to extend from
tbe back of the beg to the top of the
POecit, like the ribs, of an open fan.
Lobedia, mattettia, nuturandeft, morn-
ing-glory, saxifrage, and wild cucum-
ber are popular vines for box culture.
TO much stress can not be laid up-
on the importance of proper watering
when floWer-boxes.are concerned. For
the much -debated queetIon of when to
water, no other guide than one's own
judgment can be given. The earth in
a box is exposed, so to speak, on all
sides, and evaporatioa is much more
rapid than it would be fn the garden -
bed. In most instances we lInd only a
quart of water given when a gallon Is
required. The soil 21100111 be thorough-
ly saturated once a day, and in ex-
tremely hot weather, twice ettelt day,.
and the surface should at all times he
kept broken up to conserve the mois-
ture. It frequently happens that In
drying out the earth recedes from the
sides of the box, leaving an aperture
into which the water runs without pass-
ing through the earth. 11 the earth is
graded a little bigher at the sides than
in the centre the water will be con-
centrated and forced to soak through
It.
IL yon fMd it difficult to grow planet,
in certain unfavorable locations, sub -
feet to the blaze. up my plan. • 1 eighteeu Inchee?" Neighbor demand- Fish Catch of the World.
"Go on with your plantin'," he aa -id, "Now this diagratte—wIth the 51/8.00 ed. , ' - e
According to the tnost authoritative
"Year ground ain't frozen 18o110'0 a
path all round leaves 62 by 62. Ta ry style," I said. "I once saw -
a war garde,, two estimate the total fish aLcb of the
e
off for bushes and rhubarb and for the "Military
foot a eep."
that a path across the middle?" i by twice. They were supported on a world is valued at over $1,000,000.000
an offieer'e gambit—
The wilder the night and the colder
it is, the better for straw gardening. „
Neighbor took up my notebook,
open on the table. He read aloud:
"Go back to first garden plan. 70 by
70 feet. fenced. A. little more work
es, two reetframe. Two Si -ender poles Were atu1.k
"Sixty-two by sixty-two (111(1031 'by in the ground a f ew feet apart and That represents the price the con
a two -foot path that crosses in the connected at the top with a slender sumer pays, and includes chargee for
bilddle, leaves four beds tlitrty feet crosspiece. Below this crosspiece at cold storage, dealers' profits, and so
square." ' regular intervals were attacbed three 0ILJapan leads the world as a fish-
ent abasing. out
1. eating nation, her cateb totalling for
but considering time sp
neigisbor hens and dogs, no 1058.1 beds to satisfy hill appetites?"
"What's te go in those thh•ty-foot rectangular frames. The tomatoes,
a.ited of a. single leaf. 'starting direct -
Year about 090,000,000. Tbe United
"My hens?" he querried. - I read: "First plot, ten rows of seed iy below the lowest rail—or frame— the
"No," 1 told him. "Pacific Coast
hone."
He studied my diagram. A lot of
work, he agreed.
"But," 1 explatned, "It means a vege-
table garden pretty as a posy bed—
laid out like one, with paths where I
can take my friends when I want to
show off."
"Remember you've got an asparagus
bed this year as well as young trees
to take care of," he suggested after I
had finished.
"I am remembering—I never 'forget,
It makes me warm on cold nights and
'happy on dull days; it makes me gay
and Young, Just to think of those trees
out there, clipped and collared with
tar paper, their buds all set far the
first spring day,"
"Mary, feel line that?"
"Only more so."
"Go to Re" said 'lay neighbor. "Go
rigbt to it.. Anything to make the
girls happy." •
"That garden 70 by 70 was the near.
est available ground to the house.
There was lust a lane between it and
the kitchen. a green lane down to the
lake. Mary's sweet peas had the fence
outside. She says she got out Into the
garden a hundred timee as often be-
cause it was so eetir—that have no
idea how It rate her to run out a min-
ute and pick* dish of berries, choose
her vegetablee, a sprig of parsley. She
Says it helps ber feed us botter.1.
Neighbor nodded. "That ground
near the heese ain't much but clay.
Slave to fatten it up," he suggeteted.
"Better make your gate big enough to
let the -wagon go through with 'manure
11. 7011 are goiug to plant berry bushes
all round next. the fence 88 you shove
here. Yon can have 13,3211.331 gate, too,
11 115111. 01)30 for the womenfolks. Neigh.
her lost his wife, Now there isn't
emelt flavor to his suecess.
"I've got dead chestnut yoe ttould
use for that Beat I set," be said, "and
for e eouple of uprights to hold a (TOSS -
piece for the grapevine."
I was wondering if the path round
the garden, inside the berry bushes,
ought. to be four and a half feet. in-
stead of four feet as 1 had it. Also
about -the hilt System I ueed wale the
strawberry bordera along the sides of
uty pollute -it Was a neleauce heottnee
Of the bother of keeping runners down.
ou've get one ot these 1.1010-1.8115'
22 years. led cultivators Dow," Neighbor remind -
e. year
Accounted for It., 1.18 Doubt.
Grocer- -"Riggs hit rock bottom,
madam, last week."
Letiy---"Iasen that accounts for why
most of Busse yoe gent round were
cracked,"
The average life of goats 1 about
onions, fourteen inches apart They were trained out and round thesecond, 0St0e,t0e0e0e;
°Irniraesneneeltlit'lrel, with rather lefts
with lustr SM
ove.
could be a foot, but 1 will keep them inward again over the third and cross-
0;
to the strawberry markers this year. ed from both sides at the top where than $85,000,000and Spain fourth,
Next come five rows of early carrots, they were cut off. Eacat tomato plant with 070,000,000. Britain comes next,
five ,of early beets, two rows of early set. three to four buttehes—all they with about the same value,
cabbage plants set alternating with can ripen before frost—and when I The value of Bah per hundredweight
head lettuce plants between the rows first saw them the whole frame was a has fallen greatly in recent.years. A
and between the plants in th row. masa -of fruit, green and ripening." year or two ago Britain'a catch waa
"The onions will be. ripened in time My usigbbor stood up and stretched valued at $9L000.000.
During
to plant winter spieach in September; himself.• recent years there has been
the early carrots will give place to ''Do you 53-039'701/r enCtlinbers On
a Mg increase In the amount of eapi-
top.set onions for winter and the early poles," he asked, "or
031 t" (011130
7" tat invested In the industry, the United
States alone having added nearly $26,-
beets to the last planting of lettuce in t "Neither. I need the fence for pole
August. • beans and Italian squash. I grow the 000,000 to the value of ber fishing -
"The whole plot will be under culti- cucumbers on a slat frame, raised, to boats, nets, and 00 on.
4111esost. fro?fie tthhee wehote'lidte'sw htlashithettunpepelyr
vation at the sante time and be leaf let them hang through,"
the shores of , the continents. It is
mulched to last for our tabe as late es }Ie snook his head, opened the door.
I closed him out and the -warmth in,
here that the fien live; and It is well
possible."
"Across the eentre path, the next Half an hour yet before nary would
plot reads: Early radish followed by call me to bed. Time to take every-
that they do so, for fishing on a large
sale1
than it would be In the deep acme.
Notes About Noses.
One of the purposes of the nose is
to ('13180 .0110 temperature and humidity
of inhaled alt' before it enters the lungs.
The colder awl drier the air, the great-
er the need for this Runde'', so that
1n a -race which has lived long in a
• cold, dry environment the nasal Imes-
cauliflower—the same spacing as the thing out of my garden as I would a
cabbage and lettuce in the fest plot; trunk that must be repacked. Time tO
then flverows of late beets; five' rows plow, harrow, drag and plant it all
of late carrots; six rows of early and over again and yet again for two
three of medium peas, planted at the months to come.
same time and followed by'bush beans * -
and, at the fer side, by tomatoes, All , No Baby Carriages.
these harvest together after the frost, Pushing baby carriagee on tate side -
so the. bed can be spadded and en' walk 15 an offense against the law in
Tithed for the next. year. 3-..0ndon, although prosecution eeldom
The lower plot reads, beginning occurs.
ages become Meg, and the nose high
and aartew.
After migration from one type of en-
; vIroillnent to tbe ether tit eartdittel meet
f is not immediate, hut takea metty
geerantions. Thug, the high, narrow
nosee of the dominant castes In Incite.
Indicate that the latter are. cotenant-
., tivele reeet immigrants from the
noeth. • •
Fossil skulls -found in Europe ledi-
Cate yOry higla narrow noses during
the ke Age, gradually becontheg short-
er and broader as the Minato Inn
proved,
Hatters Had Union.
loerneymen hattere Englanel had
(3. 13318(10 enion aa early as 1607,
. What Orange Pecoe Means, •
The label "Orange Pecoe" means the
elze of the cuted lest a'nd not the par-
ticular kind or quality of tea.
THE ROMANCE OF
THE PIANO
In tine settee the piano 10 aimpat the
oldest instrument 111 the World, for by
Origin it la a Urn: and the harp was
known to the Egyptiaite nearly 5,000
yeare ago, But 111 u mere limited
sepse it is quite a permit, being still
fer short 01 its two-InIndredtn
day. At Met 'eight there 'demi net.
,teem niindl On 00111111011 be,tween a,
violin, a zither, and, A Plane: Yet tbey
are all descended from common an-
cestors, and all owe their eltiatenett to
the unknown genius Who, 1(01110 Motu -
Ws of year`tigo, placed a piece ot
»hell or weed at 1110 buck at his harp
to Intensify the tone, or as weshould
aay, to act as a soundboard.
The line of descent le ettuy rb
Mter 'Upright harp with
Sound -bowel we get the same thing
placed liorizantally, of whielt the zith-
er le the sole remaining example; then
the inveetion of keys, or, meehanteal
aids to the plucking of the strings,
and we find ourselves a the Virginals
of the 1611 century, From these to
the Clavichord of the 17111 century Is
but a step, and another smart one
brings us to the Harpsiabord, which
was all Haydn and Mozart had tO play
on, se far as we know.
So far the essential principle of the
harp has been maintained, for what.
ever mechanical jniprovemente Might
have been added, the music was made
by plucking the strange—filet with the
fingers, then by a plectram worked by
a lever frofn keys struck by the lin-
gers. But about the nildnIti of the
eighteenth century a new method ot
mnplaying the strings was proposed;
Instead ot being pluelted, they Were to
be struck by tittle hammers worked
by the levers from the liePs Just as
the plectram Ina been. This inven-
tion is generally credited to an Italian
named Cristoforo, who liven in Milan.
Aa the violin as we know it was per-
fected at Cremona, not many mites
away, we see that to a emelt district
In Northern Italy belongs the honor of
evolving the two print -emit strieged in-
strunieuts.
Shortly after Cristofortee levention,
Erard, a Frenchman, brought out an
improved "action," or nteehanicat
'imam for connecting the key and the
hammer to tbe best advantage; and
his pianos were followed nintoet inn
mediately by Melee 01. 1.118 Englishman,
Broadwood, one of whose iustrtnnents
MIS presented to Beethoven. Though
there have of counts been changes in
detail, most modern pianos are eon-
atructed on the same mechanical flues
as those of Erard and Broadwood more
than tr century ago. It must be re-
membered that the' horizontal or
"grand" piano was earlier In date than
the upriglit.
During the last century moat of the
alterations to the piano.heee beeu in
the direction of obtainiug more and
more volume of sound, as the Metre-
. ment has become an important fea-
• ture of concerts. And the etyle of
music written for it bas changed, as to
nataral, with the change eenstrue
tion.
As long ae the plane wee a harp. an
that oould he played on it was tinkly
harp music; during the middle we,
of music—the 16th and 17111 tenttiett-
- committers wrote everything ee
though for voices, and 1. mem/meetly
the clavichords- playlet vonivaptattal
musie, The lgth century wee the era
. of chamber music, end we itet-or-Erely
• lind Haydn and Mozart. writing Me the
plane as though it were a etriug gear.
tet. Tho advent of the nernern feral
of the instrument gave Beethoven ha,
chance, and he produce:I erects te•
• were much grander and Moro Pante 114
I than any before attempted,.
I It was left to Chopin, howerp:', 13,
predate and exploit the ee eatial Na-
tures of the modern piano to thole th
raost; and from thls point of vIeW his
compositions have never been eUr•
Passed. Nearly all his works are writ-
ten for the piano, end written by at
matt who was not only a great tonal.
elan, but 11, great player. After him
the only name of mote is Lisle, who
carried sonority and brilliance of tech-
nical dexterity to th,- limits of possi-
batty.
In the home, he original peeve; the
' piano will last a long time, owing to
itt rapacity for reprodueing all lands
ot musie. It really' is a remote:able in-
struteetth 'Remember Ulm it has, dur-
ing its lite of toughly a lentury anti
, half, done more to d. 1,eeminate mettle
among the people than anything else
could possibly bave done, anti Is there.
tore sure of Intmortality in the Mettle
of or wilD love the "Diville Art."
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me to breathe.
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