By MRS. C. G. HARTLEY-x / (The Famous English Authoress Advance* Startling

Revolutionary Theories on Marriage and Divorce)"Make Marriage Harder, Divorce Easier, and Sanction 'TemporaryUnions' in "Friendship Contracts,' Is the Way Out of the Sex Prob¬lems of the Present-day life" Says Mrs. Hartley.

HERB la a new way out forths modern girl and theyouth who are unable to

stand the strain of celibacy, whoare repelled by free love, and lookon marriage as a bore. The world!¦ full of such people, says Mrs.C. Qasquolne Hartley, the pro¬ponent of the new social remedy,a London author ana educator.They are the victims of "wildJove," of childless marriages, ofIllegitimate parentage, and allether kindred evils."Friendship-contracts" Is the title

¦he gives the (dan in her book."Women's Wild Oats." which is at¬tracting the thoughtful attentionof sociologists and psychologists inthis country. And this la the wayMrs. Hartley deflp^a the proposedpanacea:"An open recognition of unions

outside of marriage would preventthe present easy escape on thepart of so many men and women

from responsible conduct In theseunregulated relationships. It Is

because I believe this that X am

advocating this course, which willnot make Immorality easier, butwill rather Impose definite obliga¬tions where now none exist.

"TEMPORARY UNIONS.""This proposal is not made light¬

ly. I am not advocating auch a

course as being in Itself desirableor undesirable. I am attemptingmerely to estimate the drift andtendency of'the times, consideringthose forces which for long havebeen In action and. as I think,must continue to act with ever

greater urgency In the difficultyears that are before us.

"1 would let thoss who do notdesire marriage be permitted open¬ly to live together in honorabletemporary unions. Surely this isthe wisest arrangement for the<nan and woman worker who donot want children, and who, notwishing for the bondage of con¬

tinuous companionship, desire to

pass their lives in liberty."It is possible that In some cases

such friendship-contracts mightserve as preliminary to marriage,while under our present disas¬trous conditions they might alsobe mads by those who are un¬

suitably mated and yet are un¬

able or do not wish to sever thebond with soma other partner.Such contracts would open up pos¬sibilities of honorable relations tomany who are now driven Intoshameful and'secret unions.

A CURB ON WILD LOVE"The whols question of any such

relationship of marriage In thepast has been left In ths gutters,¦o to speak, made disreputable bythe shames of concealment. Therewill always be, for a very longtime at least, men and women

Who will be attracted by wild love.This ws havs to recognise. Noone, however, need be driven Intothe dark paths of irresponsiblelove."

Girls of today, thousands andthousands of them, are headed to¬ward moral destruction, Mrs. Hart-lay argues. The economic Inde¬pendence thy gained during theWar has unbalanced 'hem, the au¬

thor contends, and somethingmust be dons about It before allsociety Is adversely affected by thecondition.

JUst now In England, she asserts,there is a feminine social rebellionin fores, the outward signs ofwhich ars the apparel and de¬meanor of the young women, theirfree-spoken opinions on morals andmarriage and their Insatiable de¬mands for luxury. This Is theway Mrs. Hartley describes ths¦ltuatlon:"A confusion of values has led

women astray. Being a woman isa handicap.

"I tall you women everywhereamong us are being starved ofsacrifice and service."MARRIAGE A "DRAWBACK."

. /-

"Marriage Is spoken of as 'onemt women's Industrial drawbacks.'and It Is said that It makes her'ess 'ambitious and enterprising.'"Thf_war is over and with It the

pressing need for women's andgilts' work, but ths consequences.f ths war period are far Indeedfrom nearing their end. We are

now facing the certainty of wide¬spread unemployment amongwomen and girls."W# havs heard so much of tns

splendid conduct of women andthe wonderful way they nave donethe work of men, but th^ factastand up stark. Women have hada good time. Now, thsy sre goingto struggls to kq0p It. The girls¦re vastly more rebellious Vhsnany women were five years ago.

"See them parading the streets;they ars the companions of everysoldier. Who 'has altered thefashions about every threemonths? Why, the monition work¬ers and the forty shillings a wr*kgirls! The factory girl has takento sflk storking* and lingerie and

the lady of calico and balbriggan."An orgy of adornment has been

claiming a veritable sacrifice ofcomfort and health, possibly even

of life. Fashions are followed pas¬sionately and with little variety. *

FANTASTIC ADORNMENT."Dark heads an<^ golden heads

have the hair bobbed or dressedin the same fashion, with the same

plastered side curls and adornedwith hats alarmingly alike and

freighted with queer and poiy-hrome ornaments of beads, wool,

tassels, and I know not what, whilebeneath shows one color of yellow¬ish white, the result of excessiveand unskillful use of cheap powder!

"I have seen girls dressed In a

way fit only for the hottest indoorroom. The gauze silk stockingsoffering no protection to the tor¬tured feet, even when the bootswere made of more than paperstoutness; while the fashionablewoolen wrap, even the fur collaror coat, could not counterbalancethe danger to health from blouses,low-necked and fashioned of Btuffscarcely thicker than cobwebs."Wliat Is likely to happen now

when the full years of war changeto the empty years of peace? Nolonger able to spend in the way towhich their high wages have madethem accustomed, girls will seekto get presents from men; theywill want excitement and the dressand the pleasures to satisfy thatneed, also to hold the envy oftheir friends."The weaker girl will prefer to

sell Iter body rather than go backto the hum drum life of drudgeryIn the back-kitchens. It is wellthat we should remember tliat if

- women are to suffer from men'spassions, men will suffer no lessfrom women's greed."FOR QUICK DIVORCES.

It is high time, Mrs. Hartley,holds, for a social re-adjustment to

'

meet the changing conditions. Shepleads that marriage be made more

difficult, that divorce be made

quirk, simple and painless. The

future of marriage is in the handsof women, the author declares,and then describes some of the

types of womanhood, thus:"Have not these modern girls

lost much of the tender, waiting,lndefinlteness of youth? Theirfaces, at sixteen, fifteen, and atfourteen years even, are alreadyold, with hard confidence showingin their bold gaze, but no happi¬ness.

"I tell you that they are dis¬satisfied because the soul ofwoman is crushed, unable to come

up from its dark hiding, andbreathe the sun and light to see

that life is good. Why cannot theold faith come back?"A man falls In love very read¬

ily, and girls have used the man'sundisciplined Impulses for hiaown subjection. I do not wish to

pass any censure on women. Thesensualist within most of us lastronger than we women admit,and the primitive fact forces us

to take risks, sending us headlongInto a thousand dangers."Marriage is not a religion to

us; it Is a sport. We require acharacter with our butler or cook,we engage an expert to test thedrains of our house, but In' mar¬riage we take no auch sensible pre¬cautions. and wo even pride our¬

selves that we do not take them.

"FAIAiING IN LOVE.""We speak of falling In love;

we do fall! The conventions are

sacred, nothing else matters. Westand for purity, which means

with women, ignorance, and withmen, silence and discretion."Marriage has ceased to be a

discipline; it has become an ex-

perlment. Romance necessarilyleads to license, and not license ofthe body alone.

"I plead for an open recognitionof honorable partnership outslda

' of marriage."Divorce is a relief from mis¬

fortune, not a crime, to quotefrom the admirable statute booksof Norway."

Mrs. Hartley paints woman as

the wotwt sinner In love Intriguesand man the protecting, chival¬rous dupe of her deceit. And to

, emphasise this contention, sheasks:"Where Is this wild love going

to end?"Then she nays:"This condition of th* street* Is

such that it is not safe to let anyyoung mat or boy walk about,because of the dressed-up, flightygirls who have earned big wages'in the last four years and noware feeling the want of money tospend on dress and pleasure.Modern girls are out to get allthey can, and by any means.

MORE GIRLS IN PERIL."I was told by one worker in

the police court mission of a clubfor girls of nineteen to twenty-six years, among whom thereprobably was not one purs girl.In ths police courts, while thenumber of women charged haslessened considerably, the numberof girls charged has Increasedthreefold."Woman possesses the sacred

right of protecting man: it is a

duty Imposed upon her by natureand one that she cannot safelyescape. The essential fact inevery relationship of the sexes isthe woman's power qver the man,

and it 1s the misuse of this powerthat leads to wrong."Most men. It Is true, are not

only tolerant of woman's wiles.they like them. But most men,I believe, succumb against theirwill and often against their In¬clination to this tyranny. Men'schivalry, as well as their pride,has woven a cloak of silencearound this question. This silencehas protected women.even theworst!

"All over the world women are

restless. Perhaps In no directionIs this shown more alarminglythan in the attitude of manygirls toward marriage and mother¬hood.MORALITY ON DECLINE."Women are the worst sinners.

At every opportunity the women

of my generation have been In¬sisting on the monstrous exag¬gerations of the claims of sex.

The servitude of sex is one of theessential riddles of life. Theprimitive savage within us all willmake any kind of an excuse tobreak out In its own primitive,savage way.

"We are all to pieces morally.It must, I think, be acknowledgedthat a vast Impatience on the partof women has made conduct lessdecent and leas responsible. Loversare more reckless; even some¬

times more consciously vulgarand vicious. Women of profound,steadfast emotional nature are

rare.

"The old convention that Irreg¬ular love Is excusable In the case

of the man. but always to be pun¬ished in the rase of the woman,

will never again be accepted, at

least not by women. Tha irreg¬ular unions, now so common, are

but the rpore Intimate -ispect of a

general attitude toward lift."These dissatisfied women must

either marry or must continuelawless careers unregulated, eachone acting according to her own

fancy. There is at v present no

third course'."

"COLONY HOUSE" KEEPSCHICAGO ARTISTS HOME

By KARI. I,. SHAI'B.Staff rormpondrnt of I'nlTtrsal Bcnlce.

CHICAGO, Feb. 11..A "colonyhouse" that will keep Chicago ar¬

tists from going to New York is

to be built here at a cost of $500,-000.

The building will have studios,apartments, restaurants and a roofgarden where poets can woo themuse and painters get inspirationfrom the stars.

Benjamin Marshall, an architect,will finance and build the colonythat will take the artists out ofgarrets and lodging houses. liewill have the aid of several ofChicago's "arrived" artists.The build.ng, which will be ten

stories high and of French sugges¬tion, will suronud a court. It willcontain fifty-six studios and apart¬ments, and the first floor will bedevoted to shops and French,American, Russian and Italian res¬

taurants.An auditorium, to he used as a

"Little Treater," la also Includedin the plana. It will seat 050 per¬sona, and will serve as a place (orcoming playwritera and unknownactora to develop their ideas.

"It will be a place to work andplay," said Mr. Marshall today,We will hang the works of Chicagopainters the^e. Our young musl-ciana will have recltala, and therewill be discuasiona on art andpoetry."The building will be operated at

coat. Even the restaurants will be__under the managing board.

'This la not for the layman whowould like to acquire dignity byliving in an artistic atmosphere,"'Mr. Marshal cont.nued. "So one

except sincere, earnest artists willbe permitted to live there."The idea is to keep local artists

from going to New York, whereseveral have migrated in the lastyear simply because they couldn'tfind studios here. ' Hereafter Chi¬cago artists wjll cling together, forthis will give them a common

meeting place and an interest thatwill unify them as ¦ group." .

By George AdeThe Cub Lover, the Supe¬rior Dad, and the LadyWho Told the Truth

?

Watched Her Off to School.OVCE there was a' seventeen-

year-old Lambkin with longLegs and hla Hair parted

In the' Middle who was takendown with a severe case of Dove-Gripen, known In the Books as

the Spooney Infantum.Me cut off on his Eating: and

became white around -the GUIs.Most of the Time he sat aroundlooking at the Rugs and feelingsorry for himself.The Object of this hungering

Affection was a ninety-poundGum-Chewer who lived Nextl>oor. She was a fresh and merrylittle Soubrine half-way betweenShort Drosses and ShorterDresses. She was very Dippy,and talked bark to her Folks andmade Sassy Cracks at the OldIndies who came along, and was

a Champion Glggler.Most people regarded her as the

Neighborhood Pest, and suggestedthat It would be a Grand Idea to

turn back the Calandar abouttwo Tears and go at her with a

Slipper.' She was Just at the Jazzy Age.She had her first Ear Rings and'a little Vanity Case, and she was

experimenting with the Powder-Puff and putting in considerableTime on her Shape.She thought she was /the

Works, and so did little Willie.He wanted to marry her, but hehad only 90 cents In his TinBank and the Dicense cost {-.So all he could do was worship

her with a yearning and hopelessDove and write seven or eightmushy little Notes every day.Although she was shy on Exper¬ience, she has the Feminine In¬

stinct, for she would carry on

with two or three other gram¬mar-school Tadpoles all the time.Just to keep Willie het-up and

^miserable. .

Willie's Mother had seen a goodmany Children and was familiarwith the Symptons of the PuppyDove Period, so she was treatinghim gently and trying to nurse

him through the Attack. Not so

the Old Gentleman. It made him

wrothy to see his Hulk of a Boymake such a Blithering Imbecileof himself. Like nearly all Papas,he believed that Puppy Love

should be cured with a Piece ofScantling.The more he roasted Willie and

poked fun at the gabby little Tid¬bit next door, the more deep-seat¬ed and Inflammatory became theFever that Willie mistook for

True Dove. The poor Kid fell be¬

hind in his Classes and mopedaround the House trying on dif¬ferent Cravats.

Sarsapariila did not seem to

help him, and when any of the

Callers told his Mamma that hewas looking Thin and Pale, hu

put on a wan Smile and felt en¬

couraged, for Willie had it allfixed up that he was to die of a

Broken Heart and have a SwellFuneral at the First PresbyterianChurch, with his Beloved sittingin the Front Row and weepingcopiously. He saw no other Wayof getting back at his CruelParent.

Willie's Papa, in trying to ham¬mer the Divine Sentiment out ofhis Idiotic Offspring, made a

Specialty of the familiar Song-and-Dance beginning, "When Iwas at your Age."So far as WI1114 could gather

from the rough Dine of Conver¬sation handed to him about three

' times per Day, Papa had alwaysbeen cold-blooded and sensible,even In his earliest Touth. Pnps

. t

nev"*r had been so weakvand fool¬ish an to fall in Love. Some¬time* Willie wanted to ask him Ifhe had married Mamma on a Bet,but he was afraid to start any¬thing- .

Aa for Mamma, she sat backwith her Lips closed tightly andlistened while the theoreticalHead of the Family joshed poorWillie and bragged about him¬self, and told what a bright. In¬dustrious, levelheaded Boy hehad been along about 1896.She stood for It a long Time,

and then she decided to takecharge of Willies Case and puthim Wise. Papa's Scheme forbreaking up the Affair with theFlapper next door was to threatento aenO-Willie to p Military SchoolIf he ever spoke to her again.Papa knew a lot about the Insur¬ance Business, but he was a Shinewhen it came to pulling off a

piece of Fine Work In whichtender young Affections were allsnarled up.

It happened that Papa had tofto Last for a Month, and no soon¬

er had he jumped the Town thanMamma took Willie Into herRoom and flashed a Bundle ofLetters on him.There are few Samples of the

Turkish Paste that your Fatherused to send to me back in 1898,"she said. "I hate to Call him, butwant you to know that no matterwhat you do. It ruhs ,n the Family,(.lance ovar this one for instance.He calls me Honey seven times inthree Lines, with a couple of Sweet¬ies thrown in to make it good andstrong. As a Juvenile Gush yourPa was the Human Limit. Ofcourse, that was long before thoRheumatism caught him and hebegan to see the Doctor about hisLiver. You must always respectyour Father, but you needn't tx*lieve anything he says. In regardto your deep and steadfast Love fo-the Beautiful Creature Just overthe Fence, I will say that I haveframed it up with her Mother tohave the two of you Married Justas soon as you are old enough,which will be In about Five Years.In the meantime you are at libertyto put in all of your Time with hei1.I suggest that you go over to herHouse immediately and Conversewith her for several Hours concern¬ing Art. Literature. History, orwhatever Topic 1s uppermost in hermind. When yon get tired of call¬ing on her she can come over and»ee you. It is customary for an

Engaged Couple to be Inseparable."^

When Papa came back from thoEast he found that Willie hadgained eight pounds and was verybusy organizing a Junior Ball Teamto do up the West Side Gang.Every time that little SweetheartCame through the Side Gate to p%ywith him, he gathered up his Maskand the Big Glove and made a

quiet sneak for the Alley.Papa saw that tho Affair wus

busted, and he told his'BusinessPartner that he had reasoned withthe Kid and brought him to lj.sSenses.MORAL: 1n cane of Neighbor¬

hood Complications, send Papaon a Bu.8in.eHti Trip

<copyright,'im, by U.ll Syudlcat., Inc.

French Women BumSuggestive WritingspARIS, France, Feb. II..Teach

.ng little children to h* good" ^CCUP,y'S.S 6 waki»fr hours ofinnnj^ of fiance's most beautifulwomen.

Suggestive literature is bningsuch as Ceclle Sorel.

*

Je^neHenouardt, Cieo de Merode. whowaa once the "morganatic fiance"or a king, and Jeanne de Soured*

By RAOUL GUNSBERG- I(Director ofthe Opera at Monte Carlo, Who Claims to 2Have Found the Secret Music of the Psalms of Israel)

The Icy to the Original Music of Solomon and David is found inthe Hebraic Bible, Musician ftedares-Tbls BIscotcij is KanVrd byScholars and Musicians as one of the Greatest in the World.

PARIS, Feb. 11..Veiled by Im¬penetrable mystery fortwenty-five centuries, thfe

"singing soul" of Israel has beenh*red at last. The original musicto which the great King Solomonsane his immortal songs has beendiscovered, translated and adaptedto modern notes by Raoul Guns-berg, famous conductor of theMonte Carlo Opera.By scholars and by musicians

this discovery is ranked as thegreatest musical event of the cen¬

tury. .1

How it was achieved Is told bythe discoverer himself. ^

HEBRAIC music, with Its mel¬ody.certainly the verysoul of a great people.has

always attracted me, as It hasattracted hundreds of other mu¬

sicians.To puzzle out its baffling code

and to translate its age-old soundsymbols into modern musicarnoteshas been for me a study and a

recreation.After the establishment of the^

Hebrews In Palestine, music, al¬

ready favored by this people forcenturies, made rapid strides.Under the government of Judgesthe prophet Hamuel established at

Ramah a school of musician-pro¬phets, which exercised the pro-foundeat Influence on Hebraic mu¬

sical art.

WIIERE DAVID LEARNED.It was in this school that

David, escaping from the persecu¬tions of King Saul, found sanctu¬

ary. The messengers sent by the

king to capture him were, says

the Bible, vanquished by the

sweet music of the prophets and

ended by becoming enthusiastsand zealots themselves.When David became king he at,

once gave hta high patronageto muafc, giving Urge auma forthe mualcal development of hlapeople. The Hebrews found InDavid their national poet, a truesacred singer, he whom laterpoets chanted with respect andveneration.David formed a corps of 4,000

singers and musicians under thedirection of three master-musician*.Asaph, Hamon and Jadouthon.

Under Solomon the sctywls ofsinging and Instrumental teachingdeveloped still greater grandeur.After tremendous discussionwomen were permitted to sing inpublic at all fetes except religiousones.the commencement offemlnln* emancipation. Hithertothe edict of Cherot had triumphed."The Voice of Women la Seduc¬tion."ANCIENT INSTRUMENTS.

In the temple prejudice reignedas ever and the female choirswere replaced by bands of youngLevltes singing treble.As to musical Instruments, their

origin is lost In the dim mists ofantiquity. The Torah attributes,the invention of the harp and the

reed-pipe to Cain. Six centuriesafter the Flood, Genesis spesks of

/singers accompanied by musicalInstruments.The Torah cites «hree categories

of Instruments in use among theancients; string Instruments, windInstruments and lnstrumets of con¬

cussion: Thus ages before thedawn of authenticated historythere were musicians on earth

playing Instruments which must

have resembled the violins, thetrumpets and the drums of today.

It is commonly supposed thatthe harmony of the ancients was

an accompaniment of the superioror inferior octave. This, In thelight of my researches and accord-

HAPPINESS ANALYZEDBY SIR ALFORD FRIPP,SURGEON TO THE KINGLONDON, Feb. 11..Discussion

by noted British, physicians on

how happiness may be obtainedhas led to some notable articleson the subject. One of the most'

interesting is an analysis of"Happiness" or "Happiness Dis¬sectedby Sir Alfred Fripp, svr-

rjearn-tn-orditiary to King George.Sir Alfred takes the position that

happiness is a "frame of mind"and one can always be happy ifhe will only think he is happy.

IT Is certain that success cannotcome to everybody, nor can

everybody keep his health; but

happiness is within everybody'sgrasp, whether he is successful or

not; even whether he is healthy or

not. Many of the greatest invalidshave been happy and have radiatedhappiness to others.

It is almost entirely the individu¬al's fault if he is not happy, for

happiness is a cast of mind.Happiness is an art. L>ik« all

arts, If requires fostering bypractice till it becomes a habit, and

any man or woman may acquire it.

Let me try to formulate a few

simple rules:.1. First of all a very simple

thing:.Just be yourself happily.Each of you has a personality.an aura.a temperament. Don't

try to copy others.2. Study the art of being kind

and considerate and trying to help.Always "remember your next be^hind," as the captain of a battle¬

ship had posted up to remind the

man at the wheel that the safetyof those following depends uponthe course you steer.

3. Keep yourself simple arjdyoung. Keep your ideals, your

faith, your romance, your pluck.

^THE SIX OF DESr.MR.Look upon yourself not as twen¬

ty, thirty or forty years old. butas twenty, thirty or forty Springsyoung. Don't let your sympathydie out. however heavily it may be

taxed, nor your enthusiasm nor

your optimism. Behind the unrestand selfishness, of which the worldof today exhibits so much andwhich has such paralyzing results,there lurks one of the greatest sins.the sin of despair.

<. Don't cross bridges till you<ome to them.remember that, as

the old woman said. "Of all thetroubles In my life three-quartersnever happened."

C. Cultivate the art of sufferingfools gladly, and answering themaccording to their folly.

6. Choose your friends wiselyand then keep them.

7. Therefore, don't quarrel withpeople. Anger has been well called

- "brief madness." and jealousy isthe same. It is foolish, and thoughcommon, It is a very expensivehixury. And it Is harmful to your-

self, for one enemy does you more

harm than ten friends can repair.CULTIVATE TOLERATION.

8. So cultivate toleration. Ittakes all sorts to make a world,and we can't live entirely among

masterpieces. Likes and dislikeswe must all have, but try to avoidmaking enemies. No man is whollybad.and often to know all Is to

forgive all!9. Maintain your independence.

as Kipling says:"Help me to need no aid of man,That I may help such men as

need."10. Also your sense of humor;

there is room for it In every call¬ing, and there is need for It, andIt is a very great help both to

happiness and success.

>11. Your sense of proportion, too.This may perhaps require some

cultivation, for the early periodsof life are apt to be "dominated bythe considerations of the heartrather than by those of the head.

12. Keep money considerationsin their proper place. Money is anessential consideration In the worldtoday, but it should not be greetedabove its proper level In the min iof a professional man. We havealready seen thefe are some thingswhich are above all money.health,happiness, straight-dealing are a

few.13f. If you have cultivated a sense

of proportion you will be temperatein thought and word, as well as In

deed; you will be moderate and tol¬erant of others who think differ¬ently; you will not be averse tothe use of the good things put Intothis life, but you will recognize theessential difference between usingthem and abusing them. One isthinking particularly of tobaccoand alcohol and of Klpllng'a won¬

derful line, 'Don't drink 'cos an¬

other man's thirsty."11. F.nally, never look back with

regret. Old, unhappy, far-offthings must recur In one's mindsometimes, but don't brood over

them.the habit tends to make youa back number. How break sucha habit? Well by cultivating whatI call"switch thoughts," of a happyand useful nature. Memory hasbeen well said to consist In the artof forgetting.WHICH IS GREATEST?

I have kept to the very end thewe.ghtiest consideration of all.the question of the attitude to beadopted toward the things beyondour power of vision.We all agree that tastes and feel¬

ings differ, and there Is room formuch diversity of opinion. For in¬stance, which do you consider thegreatest . your reason or yourwill or your imagination? Well,your answer will depend partlyupon your personal feelings. Whichwould you rather have created.agreat poem or a great opera; a

great cathedral or a great step lasrlence? Again. It all depends.

In* to logic 1. lnadr-.isaaote. aharmony responds to the Inflic¬tive DMdi of the «ar, and the carof the ancient was organized pre¬cisely as our own. The rrequemuse of the harp, an Instrument on

which harmony forma QpoAtane-ooeiy. la praof that the aactwitswere accustomed to opmRlete mu¬sical accord. \SURVIVAL OP PSALMS, v

In hla World Treatise, Aristotlestates:"Muslo combines acute sounds

with Bomber sounds aftd thesounds which last and thoee whichdlaappear immediately, forming oftha epaamble harmony."The first Christians were Je#a.

They aunt the Paalma of DaVldunder the exhortation* of theiYophet Saul. .

How waa the tradition of theaePaalma, of these songs, of theaemelodlea, remained until the pres¬ent day?

"Orally," Is the response of themajority. "Orally," said Mousaorg-aky and Tchaikowskl. "Orally,"declared to me Rimsky-Korsakoff.showing me a page transcribedaft£r the Song ^f Hazan, from a

passage In the Song of Songs.Rlmsky urged me to go to Kovnoto listen to the choirs who madea specialty of the beautiful cheatsof Hazan.

I went In 1893, I touched withmy hands the Sacred Book and Iasked Hazan himself to sing forme one of the most sacred pas¬sages In the Song of Songs.But no sooner had he com¬

menced than I stopped him, disil¬lusioned. The first measure ofthe Song of Songs was unmistak¬ably that of a phase in the oper¬etta "Boccaclo;" "Love is Mys¬tery." There was no doubt for me

Hazan had heard this opera andreproduced its music for his trans¬lation of the Song of Songs.A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY.Then I studied the Bible and

tbe pages of the Cantiqua. And Iwas Immediately struck by thehieroglyphics placed aoove tbewords, above each separate ayl-lable. These hieroglyphics were

in the form of dots, variouslyplaced for each syllable. Some¬time* they were Identical; more

often they varied in number,position and spacing. What didthey mean? Neither Hazan nor

any student of the Hebraic Bibleof Kovno knew.

I thought little more of it untillast year when in staging Sadko,by Rimsky-Korsakoff 1 diacoveredthat the tntial phrase ofthe Hinduchant commenced exiu-tly as thechant in Boccacio, as the cliant ofHazan in the Song of Songs, as

shown in this illustration:

Bxiact iitSuppi

Ck*.it Jni*w (U

Ovanl iM JU» C*nli4w»> >

7hla was more than coinci¬dence; it waa discovery.

It haunted me.What treasure of melody was

hidden in the ancient Cantiqua?To discover the key to the mys¬

tery I . transcribed the entire He¬braic poem from the Kovno Bible,with the annotations and. hiefoglyphIcs.KE¥ TO ANCIENT SONGS.

In possession of this manus¬cript I set to work. Starting fromthe principle that the Creakswrote their music with the lettersof the alphabet, I presumed, reas¬onably, that the ancient Hebrewhad used hieroglyphics for theaame reason. What confirmedthia belief was the fact that thedots were now large, now smalland, what is mote, divided Inbars.This certitude gained, there re¬

mained the tremendous difficultyof finding and precising what noloin our music corresponded withthe ancient hieroglyphics > of theHebrews.Nothing could withstand my Joy

when I finally found the key andthe full glory of these songs be¬came apparent.The hleriglyphi<-* of the l4«-

bralo Bible are composed of seven

notea and three alterations, as

follows:

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Measures are marked by liars.There is only double and trebletime.Thus reconstructed the section

of the Song of Son** which I havesucceeded In Vanslntlug Into modem piusle Is otie of tlw most allur¬ing tunes ever set to music. It Isa masterpiece. And now that thekey to arlclent Hebraic music isfound other masterpiece* will be¬fore long be revenled