The Signal, Vol. 18, No. 5 (February 1911)
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RAISCII, '11. « lEicbangc JEMtor EDNA VAN SICKLE, '11. "(Terms: 3iftp Cents per £ear: Cen Cents per copp Students, Teachers and Alumni are invited to contribute literary matters and items of interest. Address all communications, "THE SIGNAL," State Schools, Trenton, N. J. Entered at post-office in Trenton as second-class matter. SIGNAL OFFICE OPEN FROM 12 TO 12:15 EDITOR—Monday, W ednesday. BCSINKSS M ANAGEB—Tuesday, T hursday TBEASURKB—Tuesday, Fr iday. CONTENTS. Page Sitka—At Summer Midnight 89 Cradle Songs and Valedictory 89 The Education of the Laborer 92 Arab's Song 94 Editorials 94 Athletics 98 Societies... 90 Class Notes 101 Alumni Notes 107 Exchanges 107 Sitka—At Summer Midnight tell us that it is old-fashioned and un Guarded by silent sister peaks of virgin snow, scientific to rock and sing the baby to Whose wavering image shimmered in the sleep, when he is first put into his crib gray in a darkened room and left there alone Of twilight waters, where the thousand low And darkling shapes of island kingdoms lay, to cry his frightened, lonesome little Sitka, the charmed village, seemed a slow self to sleep. Very likely the mother, Melodious echo of the perfect day not far away, is trying not to listen to That, nightless, in the western sky its way the heart-breaking wails, telling her Of crimson trailed beneath a golden glow. self that this is the only way to bring The mount of fire, long since in shining seal up the child correctly. How different So like the sacred mount of Far Japan, from this day when children are trained Brooded as might an angel host to heal The wounds of sorrowing and needy man, according to book and rule was the sev Sitka, thy guarding hills, and guarded wood enteenth century. Let me sing an old land shore Scotch lullaby of that time called Unknown by summer night, are with me "Lady Ann Bothwell's Lament," and more and more. then you may judge of the way the baby Margaret E. Winslow, Normal, 'OS. of that day was treated: Baloo, my boy, lie still and sleep, Cradle Songs and Valedictory It grieves me sore to hear thee weep: WE are living to-day in a wise and If thou'lt be silent, I'll be glad, educated age when our trained nurses Thy moaning makes my heart full sad. 00 THE SIGNAL CHORUS. up almost entirely of meaningless syl Baloo. my boy, thy mother's joy, lables, "Ayah, Ayah," but he im itated Thy father bred me great annoy, Baloo, baloo, baloo, baloo, baloo. the words of the other Ojibway so ngs and invented a story about a spider: O'er thee I keep my lonely watch, Intent thy latent breath to catch: "Close your bright eyes, Or when thou wakest, to see thee smile, My baby dear, And thus my sorrow to beguile. The spider with his web is here He'll spin it across your eyes, CHORUS. Baby dear. Baloo, my boy, thy mother's joy, Ayah, ayah, ayah, ayah, ayah, Thy father bred me great annoy, The spider with his web is here, Baloo, baloo, baloo, baloo, baloo. Baby dear, ayah, oh." And onr poor, scientifically trained This song differs much in melody baby! W ha t a lot of love and coddling and in rhythm from our American cra he lias missed ! What a Avealth of tender dle songs of to-day. The one we s ing associations with his mother he has most and love best, is "Rock-a•!>}'•' lost! ITe can never enjoy such happy Babv." I venture to say tha t th ere i» memories as if he had been a child of not one of us hut has been lulled * o by gone days, when mother sang such sleep by its sweet familiar strains: sweet lullabies when she rocked him in her loving arms. "Rock-n-bye baby on the tree top, AVhen tire wind blows the cradle will rock. But is it wise to eliminate the cra When the hough breaks the cradle will fa ll- dle song with its accompanying affec And down will come cradle, baby and all. tion from the life of the child ? It be longs to a class of songs that are not The characteristic cradle song w hich only generally sung by all lands to-day, most appeals to us, is its rhythm, i' 5 but which, since the age of primitive rocking, swaying motion. There is motherhood, have had woven about something within us that answers to them the common sentiment of the na the regular accent and finally adjust tions. itself to the motion suggested by th It would seem, then, that they bear music. Perhaps this is due to the fad some useful part in the development of that all our physical processes, ?ltfl the child. We know that the primitive as the step, the breathing, the hear mothers of our own land sang their ba beat, are rhythmic. The music of P r'n bies to sleep for we have some of the itive man consisted of rhythms alon^ very songs. Frederick B. Burton in the beating of one stick on anoth er, an lus book, "American Primitive Music," so we believe that the child is attract gives us the original melodies and by the marked accent of the 1«11>' words of several Ojibway Indian and that by them his sense of rhyt cradle songs, one of which ho has bar so essential in later appreciation el" monized and called "Sleepy Time." I, sic and poetry is better develop the native tongue the song was made Many of the most beautiful era THE SIGNAL 91 songs illustrate this characteristic. I infancy that at the age of eight weeks shall sing one that the German mother his boy showed a marked sensitiveness often sings to her babj: to tone and perhaps to melody, for there was a most lively expression of satis "Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father watches the sheep, faction on his face when his mother Thy mother shakes the dreamland tree, soothed him with soft lullabies. By Down falls a little dream for thee. hearing beautiful songs from earliest Sleep, baby, sleep. infancy, the child's sense of relative pitch will be developed and he will be Sleep, baby, sleep. able "to carry a tune," as we say. Chil The larger stars are the sheep, The little stars are the lambs, I guess, dren love to sing and begin very early And the gentle moon is the shepherdess. to do so. What a pity not to let them Sleep, baby, sleep. hear every day the sweetest melodies of cradle songs.