Armchair Gossip
Abstract
ARMCHAIR GOSSIP By E. S. B. T HIS IS THE SEASON Of gardening, and thoughts turn longingly to the days soon to come when even the humblest cottage blossoms forth in flowery garb. An English writer, who deeply feels the charm of gardens, puts into words what most of us know but fail to realize fully : “There's many a man sows poems in the spring who never wrote a line of verse; united in expressions of joy, the writer, the painter, the singer, the flowergrower are all part of one great poem. “The good garden is the fine linen of the poor man's philosophers, and kings have sung the simple flowers that purple and life; poets, praised and he grows.“ A PARTICULARLY LOFTY note was struck by Howard Hanson in his address before the Eastern Conference at Pittsburgh. This message, entitled “Music In Its Highest Fulfillment,” may be read in its entirety in another part of the JOURNAL. “I can see before me a great cathedral of the future,” says Dr. Hanson … “In this cathedral will be a great chorus, a great orchestra, and a great organ … But no one shall know who built the