HIS LITTLE
MASCOT
By BELLE MANIATES
Copyright , 190 U, by Belle Maniates
Bradley paused at the door of Miss
Kane’s studio, listened a moment to
the sound of smoothly struck chords
and thei gave an apologetic knock.
The music ceased and the door was
opened by Miss Kane, teacher of vocal
music.
“You know better,” she said for
biddingly.
“Yes,” he said with penitent air, “but
I am not'a visitor. I came on profes
sional business, really,” and walked on
into the room.”
“Do you want your voice tried?” she
asked sarcastically.
“No, I don’t want you to score an
other point against me, but I called to
see you in regard to your pupil, the
little girl Tatti. I understand she is
to make her debut at the charity con
cert tomorrow night. I want to write
her up.”
“Oh!” she exclaimed, interested, but
still skeptical. “And since when did the
city editor himself take to writing ‘ln
a Minor Strain’ column?”
“Miss Fleming is ill,” he replied,
“and we are all helping her out. I
volunteered to take this part of her
work. I thought, Miss Kane,” he said
earnestly, “that it would be to your
advantage and to that of the child to
get satisfactory press notices, and I
will write whatever you wish.”
“Thank you very much, Mr. Brad
ley,” she replied, her little air of re
serve melting for the once. “I shall
be very glad if you will do so.”
“Now, what kind of a voice has
she?”
“High soprano. Her voice is perfect
ly placed. When I discovered her pure
tones—l heard her first in a school—l
had her come to the studio. I sounded
low C on the piano and asked her to
sing the note. She did, with perfect
attack and pitch. Then she kept on
with the successive tones and half
tones until we came to B flat. I be
gan to tremble, for there begins the
middle register, the stumbling block of
nearly all singers, but the right quality
came into her voice—that imperceptible
shading of the chest tones as they
emerge into the smooth waters of the
soprano’s realm. The tones kept com
ing clearly, sweetly and with a silvery
ring until I didn’t dare take her any
farther.”
“I suppose it’s all right,” said Brad
ley, with a perplexed sigh, “but it’s all
Greek to me. If her voice was perfect
by nature why are you giving her les
sons?”
“I have made her voice stronger and
more flexible; have taught her phras
ing and enunciation.”
“I think you had better write a little
sketch of her personality and voice and
I will publish it.”
There came a light rap at the door,
and a slender little wisp of a girl with
big brown eyes and golden hair came
into the studio.
“This, Mr. Bradley, is my little song
bird, Louise Harvey.”
Bradley was very fond of children.
He shook hands with the little song
stress and, turning to Miss Kane, said:
“Is it possible that this microscopic
child can sing so gloriously as I have
heard it intimated?”
The little girl drew herself up with
a suspicion of hauteur.
“I am in my teens!” she protested.
“That does give one an old feeling,”
he said, with a laugh. “I haven’t for
gotten the first day I could say so
proudly, ‘I am in my teens.’ ”
“Have you been out of them long?”
Miss Kane could not forbear asking.
The bright eyes of Louise sparkled
with appreciative mirth.
“Miss Louise, you mustn’t make fun
of me. I have the power to make or
mar public personages. I am going
to put your picture in the paper to
night, and the day after tomorrow I
shall tell how well you can sing.”
“Thank you,” said the little girl sim
ply. “But I must go now. I came to
return this music, Miss Kane.”
“I will go with you,” said Bradley.
“We will stop at the florist’s and or
der some flowers for you to carry at
the concert.”
Louise flushed with pleasure as she
lift the room in company with Brad
ley.
“I like Miss Kane. She is lovely to
me,” she confided when they were out
on the street.
“I wish she would be lovely to me,”
he said ruefully.
“Is she mad at you?” asked Louise
ingenuously.
“Yes, music mad. But unfortunately
I can only appreciate music from a rag
time standpoint, so I can’t creep into
the circle of devotees Miss Kane draws
around herself.”
“Why don’t you jump in?” asked
Louise.
He stopped abruptly and looked re
flectively at her.
“That’s a very good idea, Miss Lou
ise. Thank you.”
When they reached the florist’s and
Louise had selected the roses he was
to send to her on the morrow, Bradley
said:
“Now I will make my first jump
and send Miss Kane some roses too.”
“Send her violets,” replied the little
girl earnestly. “They are her favorite
flower.”
“Thank you again, Miss Louise. You
are certainly my mascot.”
He ordered a huge bunch of violets
to be sent to Miss Kane on the even
ing following and left his card to ac
company them.
When Beryl Kane was dressing for
the concert a box !rom the florist’s
was brought to her. A little thrill of
pleasure went through her as she lifted
the cover and saw the violets; another
when she read the card.
“I thought,” she mused, “that he held
me in disdain as ‘one of that musical
crowd’ who are so uninteresting to
him. He addresses such curt, cynical
remarks to me when we meet. I al
ways begin to get a retort ready as
soon as I see him approach. I wonder
how he came to send me these! I sup
pose because he was giving Lou some.”
She sighed as she finished her toilet.
Her carriage stopped at the home of
her little pupil, and Louise, radiant
with excitement and pleasure, came
out, carrying her roses.
“You got the violets Mr. Bradley sent
you, didn’t you?” asked the young girl
as she took her seat beside Miss Kane.
“I must tell you what he said about
you. He said you were music mad
and you didn’t care for him because he
wasn’t musical and he could never get
into your circle, and I told him to jump
in.”
Beryl listened to this voluble confi
dence with the feeling that she ought
to check or reprove the little tale bear
er, but she didn’t. She felt still an
other little thrill and thought what a
lovely night it was. If only Louise
would do her best!
Louise did. She came out upon the
stage clad in the white robes of a
chorister, her fair childish face brilliant
with excitement and expectancy. Her
eager, searching eyes caught sight of
Bradley in one of the boxes. She flush
ed happily while the dimples came and
went. The prelude to her number end
ed, Bradley, the crowd, every one, van
ished from her thoughts. She forgot
herself in the grand music of the “Ave
Maria,” and she surpassed in its de
livery the highest hopes of her teacher.
Then followed a wild ecstasy of ap
plause from an enthusiastic audience,
and she reappeared, this time attired
in & pretty white frock. She sang
“Home, Sweet Home,” into the hearts
of her hearers. Applause, calls, recalls
and flowers followed.
When the excitement had subsided
and the next number was on Bradley
found his way behind the scenes.
“Miss Louise,” he said, bowing low
to the happy little girl, “when you are
a great prima donna don’t forget that
I gave you your first flowers.”
“May I thank you for my violets?”
said a soft voice behind him.
He turned, and his face glowed with
pleasure when he saw Ari 's< Kane was
carrying his flowers. He noted how
happy she looked, but attributed the
fact to the success her pupil had
scored.
“Even I know that Miss Louise made
a hit. Every one is wild over her sing
ing, and they say she is the perfect ex
ponent of your teaching.”
“Then mj T ambition is satisfied mu
sically,” she replied. “I wanted to be
recognised as a successful teacher.”
“And have you any ambitions other
than music?”
“Why, of course,” she laughed. “Mu
sic is only a part of my life.”
“Every one has an aim,” said Louise
precociously. “Mine is to be a prima
donna, Miss Kane’s to be a teacher.
What is yours, Mr. Bradley?”
“To make a scoop,” replied Beryl.
“That is only a ‘part of my life,’ ” he
quoted. “I have another, a great aim
and hope.”
“What is it?” asked Louise artlessly.
“I am going to tell Miss Kano some
time if she will let me. Then I will tell
you.”
Someone called Louise away just
then.
“May I come and see you soon—to
morrow night—Miss Kane?” he asked
in vibrant voice.
“Yes,” she replied softly, screening
her face with the violets.
“I always thought you were bored
by people who were not musical,” he
said.
“And I always thought,” she retort
ed, “that you were bored by people
who were musical.’
“You were mistaken.”
“So were you.”
Louise ran to them.
“Our carriage is here, Miss Kane.
Are we going home now?”
“Certainly not,” replied Bradley
quickly. “Prima donnas always have a
supper after they sing. I am going to
take you to one now, and Miss Kane
will chaperon us.”
“Oh, oh!” cried Lou ecstatically.
“This is my loveliest night!”
“And mine,” declared Bradley em
phatically.
“And mine,” echoed Beryl softly.
Sins While at Work.
“They say the man w hose soul wakes
not to music is dead indeed,” said the
man on the lookout for odd things,
“and the average working negro in
this great southland of ours seems to
be a pretty fair example of those who
have ‘waked,’ if his fondness for vent
ing his feelings in music is to be taken
as a criterion. Did you ever see a gang
of street laborers at work that some
one or more of them were not calling
out to an original theme a story anent
the things good to a darky’s eyes?
They seem to fit the very measure of
motion, whether it be the swing of a
hammer or pick or the heaving of
some weighty object. I saw a gang
at their labor the other day, and the
ditty they enunciated held me intereA
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if not the dialect, myself. These two
fellows told their trouble and desire
along this line:
“ ‘Say, old man, augh!’ (with a swing
of the pick).
“ ‘Have yer got a good dog?’
“‘Can he catch any coons?’
“ ‘Just take him and try him.’
“Repeating the grunt with every
stroke. To the white man this might
look like wasted energy, but somehow
the negro seems to do more and do it
better with a musical incentive.”—
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