=Lily-of-the-valley civilization.=—­All the flowers that grow may adorn his world if he so elects.  He may be content with dandelions and sunflowers if he so wills, or he may reach forth and gather about him for his delight the entire gamut of roses from the Maryland to the American Beauty, the violet and its college-bred descendant the pansy, the heliotrope, the gladiolus, the carnation, the primrose, the chrysanthemum, the sweet pea, the aster, and the orchid.  But, if he can reach the high plane of the lily-of-the-valley, in all its daintiness, delicacy, chastity, and fragrance, he will have achieved distinction.  When society shall have attained to the lily-of-the-valley plane, life will be fine, fragrant, and beautiful.  Intemperance will be no more, and profanity, vulgarity, and coarseness will disappear.  Such things cannot thrive in a lily-of-the-valley world, but shrink away from the presence of beauty and purity.

=Music.=—­Again, the man who is building such a world will elect to have music as one of the elements.  But here, again, we find that he must have a sensory foundation or there will be no music for him.  Moreover, the nature of this sensory foundation will determine the character of the music to be found in his world.  He may be satisfied with “Tipperary” or he may yearn for Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Melba, and Schumann-Heink.  He may not be able to rise above the plane of ragtime, or he may attain to the sublime plane of “The Dead March in Saul.”  He has access to all the music from the discordant hand organ to the oratorio and grand opera.  In his introduction of a concert company, the chairman said:  “Ladies and gentlemen, the artists who are to favor us this evening will render nothing but high-grade selections.  If any of you are inclined to be critical and to say that their music is above your heads, I beg to remind you that it will not be above the place where your heads ought to be.”  In substance he was saying that the nature of the music depended not so much upon the singers as upon the sensory foundation of the auditors.

=Music and life.=—­Having a sensory foundation capable of reacting to the best music, this man opens wide the portals of his world for the reception of the orchestra, the concert, the opera, and the choir, and his spirit revels in the “concord of sweet sounds.”  Through the toil of the day he anticipates the music of the evening, and the next day he goes to his work buoyant and rejuvenated by reason of the musical refreshment.  He has music in anticipation and music in retrospect, and thus his world is regaled with harmony.  His world cannot be a dead level or a desert, for it is diversified by the alluring undulations of music and made fertile by the perennial fountains of inspiring harmony, and his world

            “shall be filled with music
  And the cares that infest the day
  Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,
  And as silently steal away.”