AMUSEMENT.
Some people decry amusement as entirely unnecessary, but few doctors can ue found to agree with this view. Recreation is 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 placs music occupies in the "Far Beyond" of all creeds to realiss the universal association of music and rest. Time wa3 when music of a high order was cut of reach of the million and especially out of reach —if we except nature's music—of the dwellers in ihe back country. All this has been changed through the invention of mechanical meanß of reproducing mudic, and it is now possible to enjoy music of tne 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 the world? Then a gramophone is the best of compariy, 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 Tippsrary," or you can allow Miscba 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 about? Not at ail—a hornless machine and a host 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 machines — Edison 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, 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.*
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 739, 23 January 1915, Page 2
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387AMUSEMENT. King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 739, 23 January 1915, Page 2
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