SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT
BREATHING having much to do with singing, here is a short essay, written by a promising young American of 14, and quoted by the "Musical Times," January, 1890; "Breath is made ot air. We breathe with our lungs, our lights, our liver and kidneys. If it wasn’t for our breath we would die when we slept. Our breath keeps the life a going through the nose when we are asleep. Boys that stay in a room all day should not breathe. They should wait till they get out of doors. Boys in a room make bad, unwholesome air. They make carbonicide. Carbonicide is poisoner than mad dogs. A heap of soldiers was in a black hole in India, and a carbonicide' got in that there black hole and killed nearly every one afore morning. Girls kill the breath with corsets that squeezes the diagram. Girls can’t holler or run like boys because their diaBram is squeezed too much. If ,I was a Girl I’d ruther be a boy, so I can holler and run and have a great big diagram."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 761, 19 February 1954, Page 25
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184SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 761, 19 February 1954, Page 25
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