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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1073, 13 May 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

Tlioro was a young man of Torquay, Who went out one night on the spruay, He said'his head ached, And noxt mora when he wached, Oh! gracious! he scarcely could suay. The Violin por Girls.—A correspondent writes to the Queen : Ido not know whether it made much way in the provinces, of which my acquaintance and experieaco arc small, but in and about London for twontv railos round there is hardly a large family, blessed with an average endowment of girls, in which one of thorn is not learning or destined to learn the violin, I oven attend tho practices of concerts given by many amateur musical societies in and around London, and generally find young ladies among the ranks' of the violin playors. On all sides there is nbun-' dant evidence that the movement is general and strong. The violin dealers and masters tell tho same story, and I cannot doubt that tcu years heuco the violin wiil bo far mow common in tho hands of young ladies than it over was in former days among their fathers and uncles.