AMUSEMENT.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 736, 13 January 1915, Page 2

AMUSEMENT.

Some people decry amusement as entirely unnecessary, but few doctors can oe found to agree 'with this view. Recreation is necessary, and those workers.-.work hardest who allow themselves a certain amount of "slaek" at the proper time. Of all relaxations, music has occupied from time immemorial the premier posi 7 tion. Much more than amusement, of course, educative refining—but relaxation in a Bupreme sense, nevertheless. One has only to remember what a plac3 music occupies in • the "Par Beyond" of all creeds to realiss the universal association of music and rest Time was when music of. a high order was out of reach of the million and especially out of reach—if we except nature's music—of the dwellers in the back country. All this has been changed through the invention of mechanical means of reproducing music, and it is now possible .to enjoy music of the highest quality, the best singers, the best players—even at the Poles. If you are without music in your home you will do right to ask yourself—Why? A piano can be had on easy terms. You do not play? You are alone in <he world? Then a gramophone is the best of company, a conjuror of marvellous ability. It will bring to you such vocalists as Clara Butt and Ben Davis, such comedians as Harry Lauder. You can hear the very bands which played away the army in' France play again "A Long Way to Tipperary," or you can allow Mischa Elman to charm you with his violin. Why are you without a gramophone? It is not now the expense as they can be buught from twenty-five shillings. Clumsy to carry about? Not at all—a hornless machine and a Lost of records will pack in an ordinary hand-bag. You can't make up your mind what sort to get? Well, Robinson will give you opportunities of hearing all the best machinesEdison Phonographs, the new hornless Edison with diamond reproducer is a marvel—the Pathephone, which is a disc machine with a sapphine instead of a needlp, His Master's Voice, zonophones, and many others. Call on A. E; . Robinson, the music and sports depot, Te Kuiti, agent for' all the best talking machines. If you have a machine and require records, he holds by far the best stock in- the King Country.*