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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 9, 1924)
I Radio Declared Tonic for Work; House Cleaning Less Tedious When Executed to Ethereal Strains; Good Music Assists Creative Minds No woman likes houseeleaniug, but it becomes far less tedious when the mopping and dusting is done to the accompaniment of a lively jait or chestra. By MRS. CHRISTINE FREDERICK. I wonder how many have made the discovery that radio Is a tonic for work? This is surely a rapidly moving age, and we are accustomed to doing two things at once, so that perhaps the idea of listening in and keeping bus ily at your task will not be such a revolutionary suggestion after all. It was my husband who first brought this idea to my attention, lie is a writer and business man, with an amateur bent for painting in oil as a leisure diversion. I walked into his studio one day and found him busy at work on a canvas, with ^ an earpiece close to his head, from which trailed a long wire to the radio set, so that he might move freely. He assured me that it was an excellent tonic and stimulus to his amateur art work to listen in while painting. Some time later I discovered him at work at his desk writing, and again tlie earpieces were merrily at work, apparently facilitating the movement of his pen. “What in tlie world are you trying to do?” I asked, “.Making radio help mb work," he replied. Music "Peps I'p” Thought. “There's Just one curious thing about listening in while you work. As long as music is coming over the radio, it is like a rlguret, a glass of wine, or a cup of coffee In its stimu lative effect, but let some man start to talk—even the broadcasting an nouncer himself—and you are tripped. Music, you see, is an excellent sub conscious stimulant and affects the dormant, submerged mind, whereas words immediately plug into the brain itself and compel attention. I can't work When somebody's talking; so oh viously the only thing that has any stimulative value while you work is music “i hove stopped to analyze just why radio music was so helpful to work, and it seems to me that it moves your mind along with its tempo and keeps you flowing forward instead of stopping to stagnate or eddy in a circle. You might compare it to water flowing freely and musically over a directly downward course, with a definite forward speed. When one works without this help of music, the mind shows occasional tendencies to stop its definite forward movement and become like a still pool, thus temporarily retarding one's work. "This principle, I happen to know, has been recognized even in indus try. In factories where music was supplied during work hours for eer tatn types of work, there was definite ly more-cheerfulness and more speed among the work ers. For centuries ^ we have been aware that men walked with more sprightly steps to music than without. Ho it does not seem to me strange that I should find radio broadcasting of music a good stimu lant to work. I have never been one of those who feel like using various kinds of ‘dope’ as a stimulant for work, whether it be alcohol, coffee, tea or something worse. There are various tales of great artists who could not work without huge pots of coffee strong enough to float an egg. or who had at their side their great flasks of claret, or something else in the alcohol family- I have always felt that there must lie many less harmiil stimulants to creative work than tills. Apparently what creative artists have bo often groped for by using stimulants was something that would focus their mental concentra tion upon the work in hand. I seem to find tills in radio music while I work. Of course, I'm no great creative artist, hut who knows, some musical or artistic masterpiece may yet Ilf born with (he .stimulative help of radio." I.iglilens Housework. I tried out ids principle in the home, and found that common house hold tasks were Just as amendable to it as any other kind of work, and now I find it delightful to do odd household tasks beside the loud speaker. I have also discovered that P Is a double delight to read while listening to radio. True, I must tune out sometimes the lecturer who < III. s on In the middle of a musical number program, for, of course, only n freak mind can listen to two con versations at once! But I have never enjoyed reading sd much as since doing it to the tune of radio music. Bo far, we hnve mostly regarded radio a.s entertainment for tile lei k wire hour, and possibly its value has r bran limited by this point of view bengiiss we notoriously have so few leisure hours In tile home. AVe seem Professional men ami students find tlmf good music, coining in through • lie loud speaker, is an aid to them in constructive work, tl dors not in terfere with concentration, provided the volume is not too great. always trt have something to do. With, however, a conception of radio music as a companion to reading and work, a still wider range of useful ness may be wrung from the already full use of radio. The other night I had a number of letters to write and sat down quietly at a desk, although I was es pecially eager to listen to a certain musical program to be broadcast. It suddenly occurred to me that t could perfectly well write my letters and listen to the concert at the same time; which I did, with entirely delightful results. My little girl now actually docs some of her studies while listen ing In; a plan about which I Was at first somewhat dubious, fearing that the lessons would miss out In crimp* titlon with radio; hut I find that, like myself, her work and concentration are stimulated rather than retarded. I had. as a housekeeping assistant until recently, a rather lively young girl of 20, who for a year or more used this Idea in her own way. Her two hours of work daily In the living room were always standardized by her. Her first mow was to start the phonograph and keep it going until she finished- Then she hu-tled about with great energy an 1 cheerfulness. She claimed th it tins “peaked” her tip very decidedly for the day, and as ! was usually nut of the house nt this time, it did not annoy me. When radio came, site discovered that radio did not need the constant attention that the phonograph did, and she • i t with equally satisfac tory results. She kit* r suggested to me, rather timidly, that perhaps it would he a go.m| idea to connect the radio into the* 1 utidiy, so as to make wash-day less of n burden. There is an unu.-'ial degree of logic in the me of radio music for a stimu VICTROLA-RADIO Just What You Hare Been Waiting For— A Combination of the Finest in Both Classes rhis instrument is the utmost in ltadio. It combines for you the beauties and tone of the famous Victrola with a high ly efficient Kudin set built liirht into the Victrola. j Radios tor Every Home Our Radio department is complete with a large hawing of Rndio receiving sets, which cover the entire range of prices. We have the set for you no matter how little or how much you intend to invest in radio. We are showing Federal Freed-Fine maim Ware During this week we are giving special dmimnsl rut ion* of all sets. Come in any time and inspect the different models. u"j MICKFLS Head Phono «'on»ol» Cabinet* Batteries 4^ n!ljio* 15th And Harnpy AT lAntir 4361 I lant to work because of the fact that we restless Americans have probably never enjoyed music as much as wc might for tlie simple reason that we so hate to sit quietly and listen for a long time. I was once told by a well known musician that the great ma jority of American people, even though they loved music, were unable to endure the necessity of sitting still at a concert more than once In the month for the simple reason that music spoke only to their Inner selves, which they knew little about, and left their conscious selves without any thing to do, which resulted In rest lessness. It seems to me that a great deal more music can be beneficially ab sorbed by the average person If he listens in to music while at the same time doing various tasks. At bis study tny husband has a wire, possibly 12 or 15 feet long, enabling him to walk about the room with the earpieces on bis head, with out disturbing the train of music. If he has to rise from his desk, to get a book or supplies, he can do so, and his work proceeds evenly without In ton uptiun. A loud speaker, he says, is not quite so useful to him because the reverberating tunes would be so pervading ns to press themselves on his conscious mind and thus interrupt work, whereas from tlie earpiece they easily glide into the mind with no such repercussion upon his conscious effort. I am flwatp that all this i* some what experimental and tentative, but it Is further adventuring with radio, which after all is the most interest ing thing radio lias to offer to radio fans. PSYCHOLOGIST AD-SELL TALKER Frederick Pierce, psychologist, who has conducted a clinical research and Intense study In four countries, will speak to members of the Ad-Sell league at their meeting Monday night at the Burgess Nash tearoom. First ladies’ night of the season will he held November 17, when Fred erick Warde, Shakespearean actor, will speak. Congressman F. .7. Garrett, minor ity leader of the national house of representatives, will speak to the club on November -4. lie Is serving his 10th term In congress as a repre sentative from Tennessee. Twenty-five Kerrney faculty members and form *r students were on the pro gram .ii the Teachers' association meet ing at Grt.vl !eland last week Two mem I'et a of Keariit ' CC. liege facultv spoke at the Mi-Cook locating .Miss Ethel Craig, secretary of tlie association, reports that over 1 J00 applications for reduced rail way faro wrm nu.de. Prof. George E Aller. director of the department <f tublic school music in the Kearney college, is whipping his tog choruses into sha'e for the opera "Pina fore." This is the first operatic produc tion attempted at Kearney by Professor Aller since his arrival from lioana col lege last year. Ills plans, however, em brace a program of increasingly difficult Him ambitious undertakings in the fu t u re. Armistice day will he celebrated at Kearney college with a special convoca tion featuring an address by N P. Mi, Donald of Kearney ami the Rev. Mr. Marsden. rector of St, Dukes. A study « enter in English literature carrying full college credit in the Kear ney college has been established at St. Paul under Instruction of Prof A. L. Phillips, head of the English department. Tills I titles tr.e total number of study centers no to five the others being at '’ulbertson and Trenton. under Miss Florence E Case; at Pleasanton, under Prof Carl Jf Skinner, and at Kearney, under Prof R. YV. Powell. Duo to pressure exerted by the state b *ard of control, the janitors and other laborers of the college are working under a time click basis The system of time keeping whs to have been established the first of ti>e year, hut 'be shipment of the machines was delayed several times, and arrived only last week. Honored by a place on the program of the .’jtn annual meeting of the Ne braska ‘‘inference of Sociaj Workers, with I tea n living and Dr Victor E Devine. | professor of binlogh al chemistry and tin tritlon at t'reighton university, Mias I.II* |‘an H Stuff. It X.. director of health education, r -'urned from Lincoln last week Whit** absent from Kearnev, \11m* Stuff le i u t • • d ui'on nutrition before I »r. Hattie I’luin W Ihatna' ilasa in sociology at th*> atate university. — .— ' The vertebrae of a mastodon has just been exhumed in Ontario. It is said to compare very favorably in inflexibility to the backbone of Calvin Coolldge. 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