So the Sergeant calls for his morning formation.“Ok, men, fall in and listen up. Everybody with a mother, take two steps forward. NOT SO FAST, McGrath!”
Paderevski once visited a small town in upstate New York. While strolling along one day he heard a piano, and following the sound came to a house on which was a sign reading:“Miss Smith. Piano lessons 25 cents an hour.”
Pausing to listen he heard the young woman trying to play one of Chopin’s nocturns, and not succeeding very well. Paderevski walked up to the house and knocked. Miss Smith came to the door and recognized him at once. Delighted, she invited him in and he sat down and played the nocturn as he only could. Afterwards, he spent an hour in correcting her mistakes. Miss Smith thanked him, and he departed.
Some months later he returned to the town, and again he took the same walk. He soon came to the home of Miss Smith, and looking at the sign, he read:“Miss Smith (pupil of Paderevski). Piano lessons 1.00 an hour.”