HIGH EXPLOSIVE ART.
[The Morning Post has been conducting a vigorous campaign against singers who dispense with careful and prolonged training, and by their spasmodic and declamatory style suggest the title of "gaspers.">[
Oh, all young folk of tuneful aims
And fancy names like Joan and Jasper,
I hope you'll read (and duly heed)
The Morning Post upon the "gasper."
'Tis not the "fag" that is turned down,
Though that often proves a rasper
Upon the larynx; here the noun
Denotes the human, singing gasper.
Rome was not builded in a day,
Nor even row-boats (teste Clasper);
No more are voices which will stay,
Unlike the organ of the gasper.
Attorneys need, before they start,
Five years of training, but the grasper
Who grudges one to vocal art
Will end, as he began, a gasper.
Wherefore, ye men and maids who chant,
Refrain at all costs from exasper-
ating The Morning Post, which can't
Abide the methods of the gasper.
Another Impending Apology.
"St. —— Hall was filled last night with people, with Scottish song—and with fog. Perhaps nothing but the —— Orpheus Choir could have done that."
—Scottish Paper.
"The Japanese Budget.
Tokio, Tuesday.
The Cabinet has approved of the Budget, which totals 1,562 million yen (about 2s.)."
Jersey Paper.
Mr. Chamberlain, please copy.
