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The sun., 1909-01-24

Sigrid Arnoldson sang Cherubino just
as much az ainst her will as she did many
other things at the Metropolitan. She
was a first prima donna abroad. Here
she had to take rather a secondary place,
and the roles that she thought should
be hers went to others. Her page lives
in the memory OF her colleagues as a par
ticularly graceful and captivating figure,
which ought 10 be a solacc il the news
ever travels so far as her Paris home.
Emma Eames. who made her first APP
pearance as the Countess in the perform
ance that introduced Mile. Arnoldson.
referred the other day at dress rehearsal
TO this really boyish Cherubino.
FRITZ Scheff sang Cherubiro the first
year she came TO this country. just
how much of little German girl she was
at this time the picture shows. Now
adays she belongs to the international
type OF beauty that includes Ma kline Elliott
and Edna May.
The sun., 1909-01-24
FRUIT PACKER FOR A MONTH
4 UONtN LEARNS now 1T
TErLS 70 YORK FOR 4 LIVING.
Toillng ndcr Pressure IN California Fruit
Factories the Labor That Wears
non one, but the MonOtony and
the Strain OF Continual Haste.

NNN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15.-There waf
no,t ng scientific about il. ] didn't want
r. know how many women are mangled
in machinery yearly or whether mode
factories supply hot tea at noun. just
wanted To know personally how II would
, lei 10 gel job.
Positions knew all about You apply
f,c these and are accepted. You ask for
q JOB and yet :aken on. | wanted to know
the feel of it 70 ask. to be refused. 10 he
toErr to be looked over. To do some-
hing not because had any special in
t.nl;ion or trairing but because | lap
prrej 90 be on hand at 7 A. NJ. and some
on els, did not hap; Ell 10 he there. To
work IN day after day with no more
Ultimate ambition than to make as much
a. possible at that particular thing.
Bec,Usc wanted To begin at the very
bottom. tu feel very much alone and un-
Protected, | went to a society that kaeps
secretary to help girls to find work and
GsH"I assistance. She Was very we'll
dressed secretary and she looked me over
Critically, FOR five minutes she just sized
m1 up and then said shirts
! had expected this. Organizations
2.wavS advise sewing But | said | would
rather tp anything else, for | wanted to
see what else she would suggest. Sic
frovned slightly and then followed with
canyassing, housework nurse girl and
waving on table in a country hotel. l
sh""N NY head at all.
Tie frown deepene1. Then suddenly
Il cleared and she said Fruit" with the
az oi having brought forth a very pre-
rpp, germ indeed.
] lliu't have the courage to refuse
irIlf besides IL seemed 10 be a very won
aeri hing. You simply went OF some-
Nh'ro INTO the beautiful country" and
enjoyed Yourself Il couldn't really be
oaIc work. and II you were any good
q a' You made 81 a day Hundreds Of
women yearly followed tho iipening fruit
through california.
! forgot yust how many the secretary
faj N"rsoDai!v driven into fruit. but
"H an down in little red book She
''."' it gathering statistics on one Of
u" a attest Industrial opportunities for
T." Norniug women Of our State!' So l
70 H"~ enter me in the little red book
q. .Ivr ne printed slip. good for a
j.". ~ tho railroad office. AMI signed
I","f> promising to refund the cost.
Ih"n ! packed a grip and went away
=" niles into the beautiful country"
T. town where the Chamber Of Com
nero" gives away recipe books on how
u g"t an entire dinner with raisins and
pf.n"s, found a room in a rambling
Oh house down close TO the fruit houses,
Vh"r" engines switched back and forth
a. f-sht long and the front door was
hs7"r closed. An night heavy steps
sounded on the stairs and then the land
aly's bell would jangle wildly and
!e~ moments later her tired colorless
v'," would explain, There's nothing |
le'' tonight"
me newt morning got up at an ungodly |
Eoir and became a woman who tolls. |
eeAs day | shall write paper on Fore !
The sun., 1909-01-24

number Of her compatriots as predeces-
sors the role. In the days of all English
opera there was Zelda Seguin, and at the
Metropolitan Marie Engle, Suzanne
Adams and Zelie de Lussan. From other
nctlons there have come to the Metro
po!itan SigrdArnoldson a very slim and
ooyish page; FRITZ Schef. plumper in her
FIRST years Of grand opera at the Metro
poiitan than she is now in operetta;
Bella Alton. who is still missed from
various performances at the opera house;
aud last OF ell. Emma Calve. who perhaps
should be called only a near Cherubino.
for the erratic French soprano got no
The sun., 1909-01-24

Monnaie in 1881. Her debut was made
as Marguerite. and when she sang that
part her slim and youthful figure suited
her to the part Of the Mosertean boy.
There was an interval OF fourteen years
before she decided to try the role again.
with Nine. Eames and Nine. Nordica
and MIR. Maurel and Edouard de Reszke
as her associates. The performance was
set down for Monday and the dress res
hearsal was held on Sunday. Nine.
Eames was taken i'll that night and there
was no Countess to Nine. Calves liking
She characteristically refused to appear
with any other singer than Nine. Eames,
The sun., 1909-01-24

She followed tradition In thus clinsing
to the conventional costume. For lie
Nozze di Figaro" in fact. everything used
TO be as conventional as possible at the
Metropolitan, 1t was the Cinderella Of
the operas. Any old scenery or any old
costumes used to be considered good
enough for Mozart's comic opera.
II was not until Andreas Dippel decided
that the work would be revived with the
aid Of the best Vienna scene painters and
costumers that any careful attention was
paid to 1t. The costumes for the present
revival were designed in Jenna. although
their execution was left TO the different
The sun., 1909-01-24

o. Pella Alien. who bore unmistakable
signs Of having hers made in Germany.
Miss Alien wore German hosiery, and she
made no effort to conceal the fact even
when she was impersonating such truly
Partisan grisette AS Muse'J.
None of the Cherubinos ever had such
PHYSICAL loveiiness as the last, nor did ono
ever float 80 lightly on the foam Of the
,arkins champagne that Gustav Mahler
makes OF Mozirt's score. Miss Farrar
makes Cherabmo distinguished. which he
may not have been as page: but she
makes him both in looks and action the
pags in very elegant household.
The sun., 1909-01-24

singers, Who hSd them made ~hertthet
chose. or course the dresses belong 10
the Metropolitan. 80 thst future Sasdrnos,
Oountsssea and Chsrubinos will wear them,
although the singers may be changed.
1t Is interesting that two Of the Chew
binoa of former productions at the Met
ropoltan ars now In New York, Fritd'
scheff IA at the Knickerbocker and
Zelle de Lussah is singing in vaude-
vile. Miss de Lussan, who showed
weakness for very loose breeches, and
long ones at that, with lace around the
bottom. was accounted one Of the best Of
Chergbino. during the years she appeared
at the Metropolitan. 80.
Although they came principally from tha.
United States, these representatives OF the
Beaumarchais page very rarely showed
any racial peculiarities. except In the cast
The sun., 1909-01-24

nearer pub 10 performances at tire opera
house than to ne herself into her clothes
and hurry to Nine. Dupont. the photog-
rapher.
Tho page was rols that Nine Calve
had frequently sung. IL was In fact
the second part she ever sang in public.
when she vent 10 the Thestre do Ia
The sun., 1909-01-24

She was a typically German Chsrubfao,
more dainty and petite than the majority
OF her predecessors and wearing her blue
velvet breeches with considerable grace.
Miss Schefi was plumper then than she is
now, but slim enough TO wear velvet where
more mature Chersbinos would have dared
nothing more than satin.
The sun., 1909-01-24
" HITE COFFEE.
Not q Curiosity, nut Merely = S;i;;Si;;..5s,ii S;i;;Si;..s,ii
Waters shortcut.

Walters shortcut.
Being a waiter In a Yi1dish restaurant
where there weren't many folks who
couldn't understand his native tone,is
the man got along all right untn hs
struck A party Of two who were jas
By pointing 10 things and
taking chances the pair made meal Of
IL until they came TO the coffee
They didn't want small cups. wheh
they pointed out coffee on the bill Of
fare they indicated With their hands large
cups. But here the waiter was equipped
with English and meant 70 show II. - n
oh. yes, white coffee, he reparked
Which was the descriptive phtSss ~
coffee With cream. =. !.
The sun., 1909-01-24
CHRRUDINOS, OLD And new
AMERICAN PREDECESSORS or
GERALDINE FARRAR.

varied Presentations OF the Part OF the
Page In Mozarts Opera-Emma
IaNc only n Near Cherubino at the
Mriropolitan-NIiss farrar's Version.
Tho present revival Of lie Nozze di
Flgaro' has brought into view another
American Chorubino. Among the singers
who have encased themselves in the pink
satin brooches Of Beaumarchals's page
thcre has been preponderance Of Ameri-
cans AZ the Metropolitan
-a.ine Farrar. who dances through
tho orc"a like graceful quicksilver, had a
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-29
MAKES RAPID HEADWAY.
Add This Fact to Your Store of
knowledge.

Kidney disease advances so rapidly
that many person is firmly in its
grasp before aware of its progress
Prompt attention should be given the
slightest symptom of kidney disorder
If there is dull pain in the back
headaches, dizzy spells or tired, worn
out feeling, or if the urine is dark
foul smelling, irregular and attended
with pain, procure good kidney rem
edy at once.
once.
Your townspeople recommend Doan's
Kidney Pills. Read the statement OF
this Mankato citizen.
George f. Schneider, 600 North Sec
ond Street, Mankato, Mimi, says; 81
know without a doubt that Doan's
Kidney Pills live up to representa-
tions. l used them and was cured OF
kidney disorders that had bothered me
for long time. My greatest trouble
was dull ache through the small OF
my back. Doan's Kidney Pills We're
procured from j. C. Thro's Drug store
and their use entirely relieved me.
do not hesitate to advice other suf
ferers of kidney trouble to give this
remedy trial"
For sale by all dealers. Price sc
cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-anf
take no other.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-29

basis, have no tex to pay and no re-
port to make.
Thus a mercantile house in st. Paul,
incorporated, has two disadvantages:
1t must pay tax which its competi-
tor, a partnership concern, does not
have to pay. It's figures, relating to
capital, indebtedness, losses, IN oma.
expenses, taxes, interest ard other
items after being received by the gov
ernment, are open to the e,ut'ny OF
all competitors.
In the movement to so change the
law that these matters may be cor
reced, the St. Paul Consolidated Pub
LEFTY bureau aod wholesalers associa-
tions are recruiting the support OF
trading houses III other cities. by the
time congress meets sufficient Roadway
probably will be made to present
formidable front to senator's and rep
1T Washington.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-29
ENTHUSES OVER. MANKATo.
E. A. Francis Speaks Highly of This
City and the County.


Mr. E. A Francis, the special repre-
sentative of the Oakland Piano COM
pany of Chicago who is conducting the
advertising Introductory sale for Roy
+. Holmes the piano man, is very en-
thusiastic, about Mankato and Blue
Earth county and we think he has
good reason to be for our people GER
tainly have been quick to recognize the
value of the piano proposition he is
presenting to them. He has sold an
instrument every day since he opened
the sale and they have all gone into
the homes of leading citizens there
are few left of the carload, Just four
to be exact, and as Mr.. Francis is
leaving the city on Wednesday to
conduct a sale at another point. it
behooves any one who contemplates
purchasing an instrument to investi-
gate this really unusual opportunity.
Mr.. Holmes, in order to keep step with
the reduced figure on Oakland pianos,
has marked down all the other lines of
pianos he carries including the cele
brated Estey.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-29
HALF OF THE CANAL is BUILT.
Grand Total of Excavations FoOts Up
S7,l7205S Cubic Yards.

Washington, Oct 26.-Half the ex
cavation which the American engineers
estimated would be necessary when
they undertook the completion of the
Panama Canal after the purchase of
the French interest is com. leted, ac-
cording to calculations made by the
is,nmian canal commission.
The grand total OF excavations made
by the Americans to the end CT Sep
tembor was S7,l72,O5S cubic yards,
322, 479 yards short of the halfway
mark
Based on the record of the open
tions of the steam shovels and dredg,
the half was completed early in De-
tober. The French took Sl,54S,OO0
cubic yards of dirt from the ditch be
fore the Americans got control.
The determination of mosquito lar
vac in stagnant bodies of water
through the agency of diminutive fish
in the canal zone is the novel expert
ment which shortly will be undertaken
there by the department of santa
ton of the canal commission.
The proposed experiment is to be
undertaken to destroy mosquitoes breed
ing in the stagnant water in the
marshes between Sosa and Eldiablo
Before work was begun on the aban-
doned Sosa- Corozal dam, salt water
invaded the marshes regularly, but in
constructing the rock and earth fills
the tidal channel was obstructed and
the rains soon created freshwate1
pools in the low hemmed-in places.
This fresh water will be treated
with copper sulphate in order to XII:
the algal growth which furnishes food
and hiding place for the mosquito
larvae. As an additional precaution
the pools will be stocked with dimin-
utiye fish.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-29
DECLARES THEY ARE GAMBLERS.
Chicago's Police Chief Is After the
Women Gamesters There.

Chicago, Oct. 23.-Women who play
cards for painted china prizes are rem
dering themselves liable to arrest
Following a raid on a place on the
west side by the police last Saturday
night where number of playing women
were arrested, it has developed that
there are q number of similar games,
or clubs in various parts of the
city where any one who pays an add
mission price may play for prizes
offered
/ "Those places are gambling halls
CHEW of Police Steward said last night
"and they will be suppressed. If any
one who knows of the existence of
games similar to the one operating on
the west side will let me know where
to find it, / will see that the playing
lis stopped
1t has been bustom for several
years in certain districts in Chicago
to run card games of this character
in public halls. Most of the frequenters
of the halls are women, and the prizes
range from pieces of cut glass of
nominal value to expensive articles in
painted chinaware
In these professional" games the or
binary charge at the door is so
cents.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-29
CAMPAIGN FOR A PRIMARY LAW.
Governor Deneen to Make Vigorous
Fight for the Measure.

East st. Louis. Ill.,, Oct. 25.-Gover-
nor Deneen today took advantage of
the dedication of the federal building
here and the Taft celebration in the
big city across the river to begin a
campaign for direct plurality pri-
mary law. The governor will stump
the state in advocacy of such a law,
in the hope that popular demand will
force the legislature in special session
next December to enact it.
His tour will probably cover the
state, and especially those districts
whose members are considered OPP
posed to the direct primary law or
who are thought to be little weak
kneed will be visited and given con-
sideration
the governor expressed a hope that
all personalities would be avoided, but
made it plain that if necessary he
would speak out in no uncertain
terms. The waterway plans of the
administration will be fully explained,
but primary legislation will hold the
center of the stage.
Governor Deneen has been greatly
encouraged by present developments.
The turn in sentiment in favor of the
direct primary bill has been notice
able nowhere more so than in the
executive offices.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-29
ANOTHER COLLEGE is PROPOSED.
Seven Day Adventists Want Site
for Their School.

President Nyquist of the Mankato
Commercial club has received letter from
r. A. Underwood, chairman of the To-
eating committee for the proposed Dam
ish- Norwegian seminary, of the North,
ern Union Conference of Seventh-Day
in regard to getting a To-
cation for the new institution. The
council of the executive committee of
the general conference has been advised
that some town or city in the southern
part of Minnesota, with good railroad
and other advantages, would be the
best location 1t is desired to have the
school located one and a half or two
miles out. A good farm and cash
bonus is desired, from the city or to
getting the institution.
The patronage of the school will
come from all parts of the country as
there is no college or seminary at
the present time distinctively in this
language, and the Danish Norwegian
department of Union college will be
transferred from Lincoln, Neb., to this
school.
1t is desired to secure the location
OF the school before snow flies this
fall, and to make preparations for the
erection of the buildings early in the
spring, so that the seminary may be
open for students next fall. The To-
eating committee is willing to come
to MankatO to meet those interested i'm
securing the location here.
1t is possible that A. n. Dukes
may be induced to make the same
offer that he did to the Evangelical
Lutheran seminary. If this cannot be
done, probably some other arrange
ments can be made to secure the in
stitution.
Other cities have heard from Mr..
Underwood
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-29
CENSUS JOB GOES BEGGING.
Very Few Persons Take the Civil Ser
vice Examinations.

st. Paul, Oct. 26.-Applicants for
clerkships in the census service at
Washington are decidedly scarce in
the eighth civil service district, COM
prising Minnesota, the Dakotas, Iowa
and Nebraska. j. NJ Shoemaker, Sec
rotary of this district, located at ST.
Paul, said today that the United
States civil service commission prob
ably would order new examination
to give the Eighth district it's proper
share of the 5000 clerkships, more or
less.
Minnesota's population will entitle
her people to about seventy of the
clerkships, but in this state only thir-
ty-seven took the examination, thirty.
one of them at st. Paul. four at Man
kato, one at Duluth, ore at Fergus
Falls and none at Crookston. Similar
reports have been received from other
states in the district.
The clerkships will pay 5000 to 5000
per year and last from one to three
years.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-29
MANKATO~ FREE PRESS

guns report brought despairing
squak from some kind of bird. 1t so
CHANGED, however, that some of the
shot fell upon property owned by a
neighbor. This man wasn't keen about
Mrs. Whitaker having ga houseful of
hunters who banked the air full OF
bangs at unearthly hours in the morn
ing, neither did he relish shower CT
shot which pelted his property, animate
and i animate.
The,eupon he applied for an iniunc-
ton and got. the got it just about
the time big party of huntsmen from
the Twin Cities were Numbering their
towing pieces at the Whitaker home.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-29
PRAISES THE AUTO PATROL.
Duluth Chief of Police Speaks Well
of Machine Made Here.

The following is the letter received
by the Four Traction company in this
city from Chief of Police Troyer at
Duluth, and is explanatory:
Duluth, Mimi, Oct. 23.-Four Trac-
ton Auto Company, Mankato, MINI.
Gentlemen: Complying with your re-
quest of the 22nd, inst, for informa-
ton as to what satisfaction our auto
patrol wagon, furnished by your COM
pany to this department last April,
is giving, | am pleased to state that
barring accidents for which the ma
times given excellent satisfaction and
is doing the work formerly performed
by four horses in a much more salts
factory and expeditions manner than
the four horses were able to perform
it at a cost of maintenance of much
less than the maintenance of the four
horses and the old patrol wagon.
As you already know our city is
extremely hilly and on that account
a difficult place in which to operate a
motor vehicle of any kind, but we
are able to go with our machine to
practically any place where we were
able to go with horses and in much
less time, and the beauty of the thing
seems to be that the machine is never
tired, and just as ready to make an
other run after having made several
long runs as though it had not been
out of the garage, while many times
the horses were practically exhausted
after similar service, especially on ac
count of the hills, and we are now
bringing prisoners with the wagon
from greater distance than we were
formerly doing with the horses, and
are now abandoning the West End
lookup, which is about two miles from
police headquarters, because this ma
chine is able to respond to calls when
prisoners are arrested in that section
of the city and they are Immediately
brought to police headquarters instead
of being locked up temporarily at the
other station. Yours very respectfully,
&c. III. Troyer, chief of police.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-29
ENJOINED AGAINST HUNTING.
Farmer Who Did Not Want Air Sho
Full of Holes.

Dalton, Oct. 23.-Canvasbacks, teals
and any old kind of duck may fly
unmolested over popular pass near
here despite the wrathful grumblings
of hunters, for an injunction has been
granted a farmer who owns adjacent
property which prevents even the click
of a shotgun hammer And incident
ally appended is tale of family
feud.
For the last two weeks duck pass
owned by Mrs. F. A. Whitaker has
been the mecca of sportsmen from st.
Paul and Minneapolis and nearly every
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-29
ATTACK ON THE TAX BILL
Corporations Are Sounding the Alarm
Against the Measure

st. Paul, Oct. 23.-When congress as
sembles in December it will be impor-
tuned most vigorously to alter GER
tain provisions of the new corporation
tax law and in this protest st. Paul
and Minneapolis corporations will be
in the foreground, as is already evil
denced by letter which the CONSOLE
dated Publicity bureau is sending out
exposing some of the injustic. - of the
new act.
The two chief objections arc that
the laws provisions compel every cor
pOration to make returns showing fig
ures relating to its business, which be-
come public record; and that the law
petitors, organized CT part lcyship