PRESTO
December 27, 1924.
CHRISTMAN
"The First Touch Tells 9 t
The Famous
Studio Grand
(only 5 ft. long)
This dainty little instrument is pre-
ferred by many of the foremost piano
houses and by its remarkable beauty
of design and tone quality it remains
the favorite w i t h discriminating
customers.
HAPPY NEW YEAR WISHES
FOR GOOD PIANO MEN
Some of the Best Things Presto Can Think
of for Experts Who Already Possess
Almost Everything.
Alex. McDonald—a real news trade paper.
William B. Armstrong—More time to meet the
trade editors.
Howard B. Morenus—A portable golf course.
William Tonk—An inspiration for a mantel won-
der-picture more beautiful than he has already pro-
duced.
A. S. Bond—Same as Howard B. Morenus.
Will L. Bush—Some way by which to see fifty
of his friends a minute.
Henry G. Johnson—A geni to send him all the
workers he needs and insure him against any more
fires.
H. C. Bay—Some process by which to produce
a million small Grands a month.
C. N. Kimball—An architect who can design for
him a more beautiful house than he already has.
E. H. Story—The possibility of living in Pasadena,
Chicago, New York and Paris all at once.
Will Brinkerhoff—Some transportation by which
he may travel from Oak Park to Chicago and vice
versa in less than a minute.
Geo. P. Bent—More moderate demand for ''Life,
Travel and Love."
Geo. Burt—A patent on his plan for being on the
road selling Newman Bros, pianos and in the factory
making them at one and the same time.
Willard Powell—An Alladdin's lamp to rub and
see the new tuning college win in a twinkling.
A. G. Gulbransen—Half the earth upon which to
still further spread his great factory.
Paul Lindenberg—Some magic influence against
quenchless longing to get back into piano making.
Frank Story—A plan of instantaneous travel be-
tween New York and Chicago.
Kenneth W. Curtis—Same as A. S. Bond.
Geo. M. Slawson—More young men to establish
in a good business and more time to watch apples
grow at Bangor, Mich.
I. N. Rice—Some way to till his farm at Desplaines
while traveling in the Golden West selling W. P.
Haines & Co. pianos.
D. D. Luxton—Same as Kenneth W. Curtis.
Arthur L. Wessell—Bigger Maine woods in which
to hunt bear.
Adam Schneider—Some way to compute the count
of his countless friends.
THE PROPER DAY FOR
GOOD RESOLUTIONS
CHRISTMAN
Reproducing Grand
the most satisfactory both in imme-
diate profits and in building more
business.
•THREE generations of Christmans
have made the Christman Piano
what it is today—one of the world's
truly great pianos.
Many More Dealers Have
Arranged to Start the New-
Year with the Entire Line of
CHRISTMAN
Players and Pianos
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The First Touch Tells"
Ree U. S. Pat Off
Christman Piano Co.
597 East 137th St.
New York
Jan. 15, Not Jan. 1, Suggested as the Pos-
sible Best Date for Turning Over
the New Leaf.
It might be a good idea to adjourn the good
resolution time from Jan. 1 to say Jan. 15. Jan. 1,
on top of a hysterical time in business and society,
has its objections as a swearing off time. It is not a
good time to make a proper estimate of our short-
comings, of our needs for the character building or
character patching resolution.
It is really a time for a pause and a yawn. The
close of the old year is a cue for a good open-faced
yawn of introspection, and the more cavernous the
yawn and the deeper the look in upon ourselves, the
better and more masterful our mental resolves will
be for the year just opening. There is an earnest of
success for the good resolution when one yawningly
mumbles, "Well, the year is over and past, over
and gone, and I see where I can improve my ways."
We've something to build on after we yawn and
exhale and get an old, used-up year and old unsatis-
factory thoughts out of our systems.
Making good resolutions now is different in kind
from what the process used to be. There was a
time when there was the necessity for swearing off.
We all, or at least most of us swore off with annual'
consistency but too often the odor of sanctity
did not clog our nostrils to any great extent. Pos-
sibly because a good resolution, which may be audi-
ble and visible is not smellable. Anyway, one heard
good resolutions being verbally recorded and saw
their effect with gratification and sometimes with
unworthy doubt.
Today these times are often alluded to as the dear,
dead days," although they were sometimes too lively
and the degree of liveliness was in equal ratio to the
warmth of the New Year resolution to "cut it out."
In the crucial days following the making of the anti-
stimulant form of good resolution, breakages oc-
curred and therein the evidence of one's nose was
convincing, cloves to the baffle notwithstanding.
Riding the first lap of the new year on the water
wagon used to be the result of conscience more often
than straight purpose. When one ended an old year
chaotically, reaction was a natural sequence.
The trouble is that many good-resolution makers
do not wait long enough after easing up on, or slip-
ping off the bad habits, whatever they may be.
Good resolutions are made before a proper mental
poise is effected. Dante gave expression to the fact
when he wrote that "hell is paved with good res-
olutions."
This is not an effort to decry good resolution-
making or discourage the annual swear-off from this
or that objectionable habit that grips our poor weak
human nature. There are none of us that wouldn't
be improved mentally, physically and temperament-
ally by a few good resolutions made to stick.
Perhaps the old year has been fruitful and you
have accomplished some even relatively small part
of what you set out to do, then it is good to pause
and contemplate how chance has aided Fate. There
are excellent lessons in a good old yawn-filled
thought of that kind. It is humbling but guiding.
Healthy recreation results from such a look back.
Or maybe the dead and gone year proved unpro-
ductive to purse or personality. Then yawn. The
big wide-stretched mental yawn is an acknowledg-
ment that the results make you tired. It is full of
hope for healthy reaction. It is a sign that your
head is still level and its measurements normal.
A noted alienist said that the insane never yawn.
The unfortunates lack the ability to lucidly look back
or hopefully and purposely forward. Your ability
to yawn is the ability to properly judge of your
efforts in the past. The yawn-filled resolve is a sign
of your sanity. It is the kind that helps us cut away
from the mistakes of the past; allows us to relax
and sanely rest for a moment in the hurly-burly
of life.
The time for good resolutions is not Jan. 1. Per-
haps Jan. 15 is a better date for turning over the
new leaf. Then you can do it calmly, sanely, yawn-
ingly, with head clear and spirit free.
ARTISTS TESTIMONIALS
FOR STORY AND CLARK PIANO
Members of Metropolitan and English Grand Opera
Companies Appreciate Qualities of Grand.
The December issue of the "Story Book," house
organ of the Story & Clark Piano Co., 315 South
Wabash avenue, Chicago, is dedicated to the artists
who have found the character of the Story & Clark
instrument worthy in every sense of the word.
Prominent artists, formerly with the Metropolitan
Opera Co , New York City, and artists now with the
English Grand Opera Co. of that city, which organ-
ization has selected the Story & Clark grand as its
official piano, have expressed their appreciation of the
beautiful structural lines and fine tonal qualities of
the Story & Clark instrument.
Letters of commendation have been received from
such well-known artists as Alexis Kosloff, Andreas
Dippel, Grace Bradley, Joy Sweet, George Gordon,
Lillian Shurr, Mariska Aldrich, Ignatz Waghalter,
Annice Taylor Marshall, Fred Patton, Ruth Ely,
Louis Dornay, Leonard Braun, John H. Kuebler
and a host of others.
RICHMOND HARRIS DESIGNS
WORLD'S BIGGEST PIANO
Head of Reproducing Piano Department of the Bald-
win Piano Co., Chicago, Plans Wonder.
Richmond Harris, head of the reproducing depart-
ment of the Baldwin Piano Co., 323 South Wabash
avenue, Chicago, has designed the world's largest
piano, which is actually twenty-feet long, and is in
true proportion to the standard 9 foot Baldwin con-
cert grand ordinary used by artists of the concert
stage.
The first presentation of this remarkable instru-
ment was given at the Senate Theater, Chicago, to an
audience numbering over 2,300 persons.
The leader of the orchestra which christened the
piano was the famous Art Kahn, recording artist for
Columbia records and Welte-Mignon reproducing
rolls.
Preceding the performance of the orchestra on top
of the instrument, a cartoon of the various instru-
mentalists taking their position on the piano was
thrown on the screen. Several popular songs were
then played by the musicians.
Mr. Harris, who has shown wonderful initiative;
and ability in bringing out the true merits of the;.,
Baldwin line, is soon to start on a coast to coast;
tour featuring the piano.
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