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This last was, after all, the point; he really worked, poor young man, for acceptance, since he worked so constantly for comprehension. And how, when you came to that, COULD you know that a horse wouldn't shy at a brass-band, in a country road, because it didn't shy at a traction-engine? It might have been brought up to traction-engines without having been brought up to brass-bands.
So does almost all our music, which is all Christian in tendency. But modern music is analytical, critical, and it has discovered the power of ugliness. Like our martial music, it is of the upper plane, like our martial songs, our fifes and our brass-bands. These act direct upon the thoracic ganglion. Time was, however, when music acted upon the sensual centers direct.
In spite of the remonstrance of a mean-spirited Mr Nobody who proposes that, by way of distinguishing themselves from the rest of the thousand-and-one clubs who will promenade upon that occasion, with music, flags, banners, brass-bands, big drums, sashes, aprons, and white wands, they, the Charitable Chums, shall walk in procession in plain clothes, and save their money till it is wanted and in spite of five or six sneaking, stingy individuals, so beggarly minded as to second his proposition, and who were summarily coughed down as not fit to be heard, the properties were voted; and the majority, highly gratified at having their own way, gave carte-blanche to their officers to do what they thought right, and for the credit of the society.
"Yes," continued Custer; "I oughter say the ONLY McHulish. He is the direct heir and of royal descent! He's one of them McHulishes whose name in them old history times was enough to whoop up the boys and make 'em paint the town red. A regular campaign boomer the old McHulish was. Stump speeches and brass-bands warn't in it with the boys when HE was around.
Then began my knowledge of log-cabins, coon-skins, and of the name hard cider, the thump of drums, the crash of brass-bands, cockades, and torch-lights.
But this is goin' to be a quiet weddin'. No brass-bands or ice-cream or pop-corn or style. Just me and her and and I reckon a priest, seein' she was brung up that way. I ain't asked her yet." "What? About getting married, or the priest?" "Nothin'. We got kind of a eye-understandin' and her ma and me is good friends. It's like this.
Everybody was at the depot giving forth Roosevelt-Democrat they used to be called Rebel yells. There was two brass-bands, and the mayor, and schoolgirls in white frightening the street-car horses by throwing Cherokee roses in the streets, and well, maybe you've seen a celebration by a town that was inland and out of water.
"I wanted to hire half a dozen brass-bands to meet you," he told his wife the morning of her arrival, and kissed her brazenly. "Marcia, you are prettier than ever! As for Anne " At sight of Anne Champneys his eyes widened. "Why, Anne! Why Anne!" He took off his glasses, polished them, and stared at his ward.
The boys looked up from their pile of correspondence. "I'm afraid we're going to have a regular reception when we get home," said Frank rather apprehensively. "Hurray! Brass-bands speeches red-fire and big-talk," cried Billy. "None of that for us," said Harry, "I guess we'll retire to the country for a while, till it blows over."
Gorgeous were the costumes of the ladies whom the carriages conveyed; elegant the dress of the gay gentlemen who rode beside the vehicles on prancing steeds, gallant escorts of Kentucky's lovely womanhood, prepared, especially, to watch the carriage-horses when the town was reached and guard against disasters due to their encounter with such disturbing and unusual things as crowds, brass-bands and other marvels of a great occasion.
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