AMUSEMENT.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 738, 20 January 1915, Page 2

AMUSEMENT.

Some people decry amusement as entirely unnecessary, but few doctors can joe 1 found to agree with this view. Recreation ia necessary, and those workers work hardest who allow themselves a certain amount of "slack" at the proper time. Of all relaxations, music has occupied from time immemorial the premier position. Much more than amusement, of course,, educative refining—but relaxation in a supreme sense, nevertheless. One has only to remember what a place music occupies in the "Par Beyond" of all creeds to realisa 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 meanß of reproducing music, and it is now possible to enjoy music of the highest quality, the beßt singers, the best playerß—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 the 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 Daviß, such comedians as Harry Lauder. You can hear the very bands which played away the army in France play again "A Long VYay to Tippßrary," 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 bought from twenty-five shillings. Clumsy to carry abouU Not at all —a hornlesa machine and a iiOßt of records will pack in en 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 mervel—-the Pathephone, which is a disc machine with a sapphine instead of a needln, His Master's Voice, zonophones, and many others. Call on A. E. Robinson, the music and sports depot, Te Kuiti, agejjt for all the best talking machines. have a machine and require records, he holds by far the best'stock King Country.* h^.-