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WHAT IS A SAXO-

PHONE 7

-INVENTED OVER EIGHTY

YEARS AGO.

Mr. Justice Eve: What Is a saxophone? Counsel: I am told that it is an instrument that rosembles a córnot, used in what I understand are called. jazz bands.

The above, dialogue in the Chancery Division the other day sheds very small illumination on the history of the saxophone which, despite its name, is not an instrument which a Scotsman might exchange for his bagpipos by the "banging of a saxpence.""" They cost anything indeed, from £25 to £60%

SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1920,

BABIES SAVED FROM BLINDNESS.

DOCTOR'S FIGHT AGAINST DISEASE,

Thousands of children through- out the country отра thoir eyesight largely to the efforts of Dr. Frederick W. Alexander, who is retiring in a few months after 33 yours as Modical Officer of Health in Poplar, and 44 years in the public medical service.

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If there is one thing in my life that I am proud of," Dr. Alexander told

Daily Chronicle representative, it is that I was chiefly instrumental in having ophthalmia neonatorum made a notifiable disease first in London, and then throughout the

Its music, however, in soul-country. atirring quality, might vie with "This disease affects the eyon the war-pipes, and has been dos of newly-born babies, and a large Koribed as howl like a night-proportion of the inmates of blind mare in mortal agony!"

institutions owe their blindness to it. Nowadays it gets, fow victims."

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The saxophone, which really belongs to the family of clarinets and bassoons, was invented so

Speaking of his work during long age us 1840 by Adolpho Sax, and four years later was intro-that in the influenza outbreak of Alexander said epidemica, Dr. duced into the French army 1801 he often went round the bands. It has since been adopted streets with relieving officers in England at the Royal Military climbing into houses through the School of Music, Kneller Hall...

windows because the

people Many modern composers, inside wore so ill that they could Moyerbeer, Massenet and Amdo nothing for themselves. broise Thomas, have scored for it in their operas, and it was first used in orchestra by Kasinor, in' 1847, in Le Dernier Roi do Juda.

milk as well as medicinu, for they "Wo had to take them food and

were too helpless to move," he added.

In those days the disease was Mr. Justice Eve's inquiry was not known as influenza, and 1 put to various people by a re-called it Breakback Fever. It presentative of The Dally Chron- was this that carried off the Duke! icle, with the following results of Clarenco, elder brother of the

prosent King..

A long-haired aesthote.-An inliction compared with which the plugues of Egypt must have botn a blessing.

A jovial diner-out.-The best all-round instrument over invont

ed,

Sir Landon Ronald.It is a most beautiful instrunient when used as it was beforo jazz' was introduced.

Bizet, the composer of "Car- men, "introduced it as 'a sole in strument in "L'Arlesiónne," and au-there were very few saxophone players in England, generally it had to played here with the clarinot.

I cannot tell you whether the saxophones us used in the jazz bands, are the same as those for which the masters scored in the past. To my mind, it was always a soft-toned, beautiful instru. inent.

I am very much inclined to think that tlio public are apt to confuse the suxophone with the horrible bleating noise of the muted trumpat or mited trombone.

Mr. Jack Hylton.fleader of the popular orchestra/--The saxo- phone is an instrument that has beon brought into prominence by dance orchestras, though that does not mean it is a new instru ment by any means. It was in- vented in 1840,

It is a difficult instrument and the man who can play it proper- ly commands a greator salary thun the judge who asked: "What is a saxophone?" and the counsel who gave so foolish a reply.

"The 1918 epidemic was almost as bad, and I had to get soldiers to drive the hearses and bury the dead, while owing to the shortage. of undertakers the coffins had to be made at a shipbuilding yard.

NURSERY FOR DISEASE. - During the smallpox epidemic! at the beginning of the contury we discovered a practice on the part of property owners that was largely responsible for the spread of the disease.

"Some of the rooms we stripped! during disinfection were found to have 10, 12, 15 and even 18 layers of paper on the walls. When one tenant left, the owner, instead of cleaning the place, put now paper on the walls to cover up the filth.

"I pointed out publicly that if such a state of affairs was allowed to continue the houses would soon be as bad as during the Great Plague.

"Officials ridiculed me for my pains. but I was called to give ovidence before a Parliamentary Committee, and powers to remedy this were given us in a new

monsuro...

When Dr. Alexander retires he intends, although 67 years old, to take a busman's holiday and devote himself to chemistry, electricity and artificial sunlight treatment.

"What an extraordinary com- bination!" remarked Mr. Justice Swift, at Liverpool Assizes, when a witness in a civil action said he was a musician and a money- lender. Witness: I have beon a' Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 28.A musician practically from in- fatal mine disaster took place at fancy." His Lordship: "It struck Ampang on Friday, due to the me as peculiar to join the business explosion of a compressed air of moneylending with that of a bottle. The engine was being tried musician, Still, there is no rea- by Mr. Paterson, the engineer of son why they should not go hand the East Asiatic Company, of | in hand." Johore, with a Malay fittor at the wheel valves. The Malay WILN birnt to death. A Chinese was severely injured and another less Hoverely. Mr. Paterson was him- self slightly burned and three others were injured. The roofing of the shed was blown off..

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