A piano in the bare-walled house, the latest patented mower in the limitless meadows, and a silk dress sweeping the rough floor of the unpainted "meeting-house," were already the promise of those possibilities.

" "Is the piano a grand or an upright.

" A piano was a novelty in Northern Ohio.

The piano was not a piano; it was an Arabian magic beyond physical laws, and it, too, had a soul.

Listening the last time to Miss Hilst's playing at Laura's, I thought to myself that if the piano were a man who had seduced her sister, she could not belabor him more mercilessly.

The little end salon, which I made my boudoir, was hung with blue satin; my piano, screens, and little things were very well placedplenty of palms and flowers, bright fires everywherethe bedrooms, nursery, and lingeries clean and bright.

Picture palaces are crammed nightly, furs and finery have had a wonderful season, any one who has a motor car to sell finds plenty of ready buyers, and second-hand pianos are an article that can almost be "sold on a Sunday."

The piano was the great equalizer of the block.

"I see that the piano is your instrument.

The piano was soundingall the way from treble to bass!

If you both paid installments on a piano the piano would be your husband's, not yours.

But the old piano was the beginning of his fame.