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New Britain herald., 1915-10-06
Teaching Modern Mothers How
 .... To Sing to Their Children
Mrs. Goldberg Has Mothers Come to Her in Groups of Five or Six and Gives Them Private
 Lessons

The old-fashioned housewife is still distrustful of the training in cookery which goes by the name of domestic sci,s1ce. She resents the bloodless system which brings the baby up by book hygiene, therefore her indignation when she is told that the modern mother must be taught how to sing to her children!
 Such is the work of Mrs. Caroline K. Goldberg, who has mothers come to her in little groups of five or six and gives them a course of five lcS- sons.
 Much Unsifted Material
 "One reason why mothers and other people cannot sing to children says Mrs. Goldberg, 'fs that they don't know what to sing. There is vast amount of unsifted material, folk songs, Kindergarten songs, home songs, many old and many new, and they find themselves confronted by collections and unable to choose those that are the best And so, the first step seemed to me to be to make a selection for them, and I have lists of the most delightful of the chill dren's songs. And then, of course, the other reason is that people are afraid to open their mouths and sing. Some one in the family perhaps, has int pressed them with the fact that they have no ear or no voice and they have lost the courage even to hum. But almost every one has a secret longing to sing and there is no rea- son why they cannot all learn to sing well enough to please so unexactiRS and appreciative an audience as their children. In a course of five lessons can guide them to the best songs, teach them something of enunciation and help them to feel and to inter pret the atmosphere that each little song possesses. There hrIe been mothers in my classes who know how to play or sing, but who had never turned their talents in the di- rection of children's songs And they are all delighted with their children s pleasure in their singing. One young mother told me that of all the courses she had taken in child training, psy- chology and so on, she had gotten the most out of this one!'
 "Haensel and Gretel."
 ''The idea of starting classes to | really came to me as result of doing 'Haensel and Gretel' in the public schools she said. For after each performance some one would say to me. You know those little German folksongs in the opera re- minded me of the songs heard when l was child. I began to wonder if our children would have any songs at | all when they grew in that tbav would associate pleasantly with their childhood. You may remind me of the songs all kindergartens teach, but in my opinion the child's love of | music begins at a much earlier age. 1 have sung to babes of eight and nine months and seen them crow with delight. Now the children of foreign born music-loving parents, or the babies brought up by colored mammies may be more fortunate, but
New Britain herald., 1915-10-06
PEG O. MY HEART"
 AT PARSONS THEATER

With tonight's presentation of Peg O. My Heart,' will close it's engage ment at the Parsons theater. Dorothy MacKaye plays the title role in a charmlng manner, and she is sup ported by capable company.
 Search Me-" comedy success from the Gaiety theater, New York. will open a half-week's engagement at the Parsons theater. tomorrow nlght With Saturday matinee. The play IS by Augustin MacHugh, who wrote Officer 666" and he is said to nave produced comedy of rare mys- tery in his latest effort. Fred Gra- nam, noted English comedian, heads the cast, which is one of un- usual merit. The story concerns the disappearance of a valuable ruby and the strenuous efforts made to locate it produce three acts of uproarious fun.
 It will be pleasant news to the oc- caslonal as well as to the regular theatergoers that Maude Adams is to be seen at the Parsons theater Tues day and Wednesday of next week. Without striving to be chivalrous and gallant it may be said that the most popular prayer on the Amer1cau stage would be welcome in anything that she elected to present To any one familiar with her popularity, the truth of this is obvious But it is to be added that owing to the play in which she is to be seen there is every likelihood that she is going to be even more welcome than ever. The play in question is J. M. Barrie's dramatiza- ton of his novel ''The Little Minister" It was Charles Frohman who first saw the possibilities of a play in the novel and persuaded it's gifted author to dramatize it. And having the play it was MT. Frohman who placed Miss Adams in it, making of her a star and setting her on road that countless people have been eager to smooth and make pleasant for her. The success of "The Little Minister and of Miss Adams in it is a matter of theatrical history. Its bubbling wit, quaint humor, flashes of fantasy, richly lined Scotch characters and ap- pealing sentimentality endeared it to all who came under it's spell, and Miss Adams fame will always be associated with her portrayal of it's heroine, the elusive Lady Babbie. The comedy will be artistically staged and with a competent company to aid it's charm ing star in giving it life.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-06

: are not most of tho young children we know neglected musically? And yet we have plenty of charming songs in this colntry, those of Neidlinger. s. G. Pratt, Jessie Gaynor nd Eleanor Smith, to name only a fe" ot the composers. The words of some of these songs are better for little children than the words of the Ger man songs, for they convey just one simple idea instead of many ideas in several verses, and the music, too. Is simple enough to be sung by un- trained voices. For We want to choose songs that the children themselves will gradually learn to sing. And for that reason a repertory need not be so very extensive. For, as every one knows, a child would often rather hear his favorite song ten times than hear ten different songs. Do it again. he says, and then Do it again.
 The idea" continued Mrs. Gold berg, appeals to mothers because it is something they can each do, not only for their child but with him. It is like storytelling, because it tells him things and interprets his dis coVerieS about his own world of fact and fancy; the game songs mean play ing with them, and encouraging him to sing means beginning his musical education Knowing all this, however, my mother som etimes takes it almost seriously. A mother in one of my classes sang conscientiously:
 The little dog says bow-wow-
 WOW;
 The little cat goes meow-ow;
 II they should both together sing.
 Wouldn't it be a funny thing? and she said a funny thing oh, so earnestly. A funny thing said I, cor rectlngly a pleasant, joyous, hoppy thing!'
 And that is what singing songs to children should be-
New Britain herald., 1915-10-06
Mountains And Valleys

"Is there any way in which you can renew the first glamor of lover" is the pathetic, revealing. inevitable question a young married woman puts to me.
 don't suppose there is a woman who has been married long enough to come down from the mountain top of the first ecstasy who hasn't put that question to herself. Of course she probably doesn't put it in that particular form. Very likely she doesn't put it into definite form at all, just half feels and half thinks it. I Could Be the Richest Woman in
 the World.
 Folks, if I could give you a recipe for renewing that first glamor could be the richest woman in the world, for every woman, and some men, would be willing to give me their most precious treasures to know it.
 We all want to go back to the mountain top of that first happiness; we all look back at it lovingly and lingeringly and in the golden light of memory we see it fairer than it was. And that's just the trouble. we LOOK Dack when we snouiu De looking forward. We don't realize that although we have come down from that first mountain peak onto the plain there are other peaks ahead
 No Life Can Be All Heights.
 No life, married or otherwise, can be lived always on the heights. We go down into the dark valley of de- pression and Encouragement, we tread the level plain of daily life, and we ascend again onto the peaks of our great moments.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-06
SINNERS" APPEARS AT
 LYCEUM TOMORROW

Not long since a book was pub
 lished, What Every Girl Should Know" and was suppressed by the government. With all due respect to the authorities who objected to this publication I still believe there are certain things girls would benefit from knowing. Still if Mary Horton, in Sinners" the splendid William A. Brady production which comes to the Lyceum, Thursday night, had known what she was doing when she took the wine and donned her friends eve ming gown, we might never have had the play nor enjoyed a performance of such rare interest as this drama by Owen Davis Technically the play is perfect. It dares to depart from conVentionality, and attains
New Britain herald., 1915-10-06
EXCUSE ME" SCORES
 AT POLPS THEATER

Excuse Me" Rupert Hughes farce comedy which is being played at Polls theater this week, is one of the best farces presented on the Am erican stage in a decade. The author described it as a Pullman" carnival, for all the action takes place on limited train bound for San Francis co from Chicago. The first act shows a regulation Pullman sleeper the sec ond the regulation Pullman combina- tion smoker and the third the sleep CT again. By an ingenious stage device the car is made to appear as though
 it was moving and the entire setting is very realistic. Forrest Seabury takes the part of the negro porter
New Britain herald., 1915-10-06
News f0r Theafer G0eys and Women Readers
THRILLING WRECK IN
 MELODRAMATIC FILM

The most thrilling and spectacular auto wreck ever Caught" by a mo- tion picture camera is a feature of the Vitagraph Blue Ribbon special to be shown Thursday and Friday as the Big Four contribution to the Keeney photo-play program. The wreck is a climax in "The Wheels of Justice" a melodramatic screen offer ing that has created almost furore wherever it has been shown. It is intensely interesting from start to finish and the climaxes are startling and gripping in their force. The big scene of the picture shows the villain in a mad auto rush for liberty, his career terminating when the machine leaps from a bridge and drops into river many feet below. The picture is said to be one of the best Para mount features secured since the service was started in this city.
 Tonight's principal attraction will be, Betty In Search Of A Thrill f" In this play Elsie Janis, the cele- brated musical comedy actress, will be seen in the leading role Miss Janis is recognized as one of the leading comediennes on the stage. As a screen artist she has displayed marked ability and it is expected that she will rise to even greater heights of fame as a photo-play favorite than she achieved on the legitimate stage. This picture will also be shown to- morrow
 For Friday and Saturday, the man. agement announces "Bootles Baby a cleVerly written comedy.
 Prominent among the vaudeville talent this week is the Il Trovatore trio, operatic singers. Their act is one of the most popular features of the program and it goes big every day. Willis w. Illisch and Anita find favor in their juggling and posing novelty and Miller and Osborne win the approval of the Keeney patrons for their clever work in The Luna tic And The Girl" the sketch in which they are appearing.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-06

and is said by hose who have seen the performance to be the equal of any actor who played this noted role. He is admirably gifted to present a role of this kind and his characteriza- ton of the Pullman porter is a very laugnable and very likable one. Har- ry Hollingsworth and Billy Long are the eloping couple who try in vain to find a minister on the train and the other members of the company appear in parts which give them ample opportunity to display their talents. Excuse Me" made a big hit in New York. where the critics and others who had seen it spoke very highly Of it. The Poli Players pre- sent it with their usual talent
New Britain herald., 1915-10-06

Look forward not backward in your love life. The best is yet to be, if you will only make yourselves fit for it.
 Don't cheapen love by being a glut- ton. Nothing sickens like satiety. How You Can Be Always Different.
 Again. don't kill love by monotony It is the woman who is not always the same who keeps her husbands love. But how can one be contin- ually different? is the great question. Usually it is answered by the sugges- ton that a woman hide some of her selves from her husband and keep bringing them out like a pack of tricks. don't like that answer. It seems to me rather a cheap way to do, and besides sooner or later. one must come to the end of ones pack. My answer is this-Grow. If you grow, you change ard are continually different. Grow in character and mind and heart. Determine that each year shall see your mind en- larged, your sympathies broadened. your character strengthened and sweetened. If any two people will live by that ideal there will be no monotony in their life. for each will be continually changing.
 Stevenson has a description of the mountain tops and the valleys of a true love that is very dear to me. Is recommend it to the woman who is temporarily in the valley as an en- couragement and an ideal.
 "The faults of married people con- tinually spur each of them, hour by hour to do better and to meet and love upon a higher ground. Al, ever, between the failures, there will come glimpses of kind virtues to en-s courage and console"
New Britain herald., 1915-10-06

swiftnesS of movement and a logic of events unknown to most Broadway successes. There are no tagging moments. It's people are alive, keen, virile. They suffer, re- joice, think. In short it is the richest play in a decade.
 Sinners was the greatest success of the past season in New York city, proving a veritable sensation during it's run of 321 performances at the William A. Brady playhouse.
 Seats now on sale at Crowells,
New Britain herald., 1915-10-06

When "A Pair of Sixes,'' was pro- duced at the Longacre theater, New York, last year, number of news paper writers had the courage to comment on the title and phophesy that it would draw full houses" Sue cess of the play has vindicated the 'jokelet'' but these various quota tions from the great American card game have led a few of the innocent
 minded to believe that the author has
New Britain herald., 1915-10-06

dramatized the fascinating game of poker. The card game is merely an incident in the plot, and upon it's re- suit is based a series of the most laughable complications ever seen on the stage. To express it mildly it is hugely amusing. The play will be seen here at the Lyceum theater, mat inee and evening, October g, Satur day.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-08-19
War and Necessity.

Assuming an air of sage Importance
the fat plumber calculated.
War is a necessity.
Pooh, How do you make that
out?" demanded the thin carpenter.
deprecatingly.
Did you read that Edison is going
to devote his energies to American
protective measures in time of war;"
Yep. What of it?"
That proves my contention.
How"
War makes invention necessary.
doesn't it,"
Il suppose so.
And necessity is the mother of in
vention?"
HUH"
Therefore war and necessity are
synonymous.
The thin carpenter is still thinking
it over.-Youngstown Telegram.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-08-19
CEMENT FLOORS FOR STABLE
Cutters Should Be Laid First With
Slight Fall at One end-Use
Wooden Trowel for Finishing.

When laying cement floors. cutters
should be laid first with slight fall
to one end. These should be to D
inches deep and Is to is inches wide
The distance from gutter to stan
chion should be about feet inches
for ordinary COWS. Large COWS may
need feet 10 inches or feet. while
small heifers require only a 4foot
stall.
The floor should slope to the gut
ter from each side. The passage be-
hind the cows should be at least s
feet wide to allow COWS TO pass with
out crowding The floor should be
finished with a wooden trowel rather
than a steel one. as the latter makes
a smooth. slippery finish that when
wet is very difficult for the COWS to
walk on safely.
II drains are to be laid to carry on
the liquid manure or the water usec
in washing the floors. they must b'
put in before the floor is laid.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-08-19
AMERICANS REJECT
AUSTRIAN PROTEST
STATE DEPARTMENT CLAIMS
RIGHT OF AMERICANS TO SHIP
AMMUNITION TO ALLIES.
Reasons Based on international Law
a Feature Of the Answer Being The
Claim That Germany Sold England
Munitions During Boer War.

Washington.-The state department
on August 10 gave out the text OF
this governments reply to the pro-
test Of Austria Hungary against the
shipment OF arms and ammunition to
the allies. The note rejects all of
Austria's contentious
The reasons given by the United
States for its position are.
THE principles international law
the practice OF nations. the national
safety OF the United States and other
nations without great military and
naval establishments; the prevention
OF increased armies and navies, the
adoption Of peaceful methods for the
adjustment OF international Difficult
ties and finally neutrality itself"
The reply says that ii neutrals were
compelled to prevent sales to bellig
erents all nations would be obliged to
have at all times sufficient munitions
OF war to meet any emergency"
The United States has always de
pended on the right and power 10 pur.
chase arms and ammunition from neu
In consequence of its standing policy
the United States would. says the
note. in the event of attack by for
eiBn power. be at the outset OF the wal
seriously, il not fatally. embarrassed
by the lack OF arms and ammunition
and by the means to produce them il
sufficient quantities to supply the re
quirements OF national defense"
One OF the features OF the reply il
the assertion that during the Boer wa
Germany sold war supplies to Grea
Britain and that Austria Hungary soil
them to the same purchaser. though
} IN smaller quantities
The note recites that as Great Brit
E ain had established patrol of til
coasts OF adjacent neutral colonie
8 during that war the situation OF tn
l Transvaal and the Orange Free stat
J. was almost identical with that /
which Austria Hungary and German
lind themselves at the present time '
The point Is made that II Austri
q and Germany had refused TO sell arm
II and ammunition TO Great Britain Z
& that time. Austria might with create
consistency and greater force urge j
o present contention
II is stated also that Prussian man
facturers sold arms 10 Russia durir
~ the Crimean war and that German
sold arms to the Turkish goyernmel
q. In the recent war between Turkey al
pt Italy
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-08-19
CLEARLY NO MILK FOR HIM
Travellers Hopes Of Nourishment Dis
appeared as Womsn's ExPlana-
tons Came to an End.

A traveller from the North. walking
through the mountains of North Caro-
lima came on a cabin that gave I'M
usual evidence of rural industry. says
Harper's Magazine Although 1t was
only ten o'clock in the morning. the
traveller decided to stop and ask for
refreshment. since he might not come
on anything so promising for many
miles.
A tall, apparently ill-fed woman
came TO the door She looked at the
traveller in amazement, and seemed
to be resentful when he made known
his wants.
We've ct" she said in reproach
full tone. Toms gone to town to fetch
cornmeal"
The traveller suggested a glass Of
milk.
Again the woman shook her head
while her sallow visage heightened
Tom went and forgot to milk thu
COW He won't be back till evenin' -.
That seemed to be the travellers OF
portunity, both to show his good ma
ture and to obtain glass of milk
I'D be glad to milk her for you.
he offered. Il was brought up on
farm"
Again the woman shook her head
I'VE CANT. stranger" And this tim
her resentment was tinged with fulfil
regret Tom rid the COW to town.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-08-19
TEST ALL THE DAIRY COWS
Wise Move for Farmer to Send Un-
profitable Animals to Butcher
Many Are Nero "Boarders."

II COW is not well qualified for
dairy purposes It does not pay to keep
her for dairy purposes. There is econ
omy in testing all the members OF
dairy herds and sending the unpront-
able cows to the butcher.
Farmers in San Joaquin county. Cal.
have organized for this purpose.
Farm Adviser Lyons. who is directing
the efforts OF the organization, says:
1.-THE movement is one that means
great saving to farmers. and 1t Is
bound to spread over the entire state.
II will probably be found that 20 and
25 per cent OF the COWS in the average
herd are not paying for their keep
The dairyman will make money by
selling these COWS for beef"
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-08-19
SELECTING SIRE FOR DAIRY
Breeds Standing at the Front in This
Country Are Holstein, Jersey,
Guernsey and Ayrshire.

In choosing the sire choose one from
any dairy breed which may be pre-
ferred The straight dairy breeds that
stand In the front In this country are
the Holstein, Jersey, Ayrshire and
Guernsey. There are other good dairy
breeds but these are the four Oldest
and best OF all. The choice being made
don't change the breed from which
the sire is chosen. and exercise great
care in choosing the sire.
The individual points OF good dairy
sire cannot be given in detail here,
but two OF these will be mentioned,
because they are in a sense. indispen-
sable. The first is the evidences OF
much stamina and bodily vigor. The
second is an amplitude Of soft skin
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-08-19
A Slick Prime Minister.

A. dinner given by the prime
minister OF a little kingdom in KUN
,ania diplomat complained to his
hos, that the minister OF justice who
had been sitting on his left had stolen
his watch
An. he shouldn't have done that
said the prime minister, in tones OF
ANNOYANCE 4 will get il back for
you"
Sure enough. toward the end OF the
evening the watch was returned 10
it, owner
And what did he say" asked The
diplomat
sh-h.' cautioned the host. glancinf
anxiously about him. He doesn
know that have got 1t back. Pitts
burgh Chronicle.Telegraph-
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-08-19
LAWYERS MEET IN ZION.
Convention Of American Bar Assoe'a-
ton is Held in Salt Lake

salt Lake city Although the an
nral convention of the American Ear
association did not open until Iues'
day morning. Monday was one OF the
busiest days of convention week.
Five organizations either dir'''ly
connected or allied in some way 10
the bar association held meetings at
various times during the day ana
night Delegates were arriving from
nil parts o; the United States ana
lively preparations were being made
for their entertainment Many oil the
leading legal lights of the nation are
attending the convention. including
ex.President Taft and former senator
Joseph W. Bailey.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-08-19
THe TRICKS OF THE TRADE.
Che puts One over on the wise
Young Man at the Bazaar.

This story is told of "a young lady's
resources at bazaar.
Rusiness was in full swing. when
youne man strolled around the vari'
ans booths. without pretention OF
nurchasing. the young man passed "a
large beautifully decorated booth and
the Young lady seller detained nm
Won't you buy cigaretie-hoiuer'
SIR" She asked.
40 thank you. don't smoke
"Or penwiper. worked with my
own hands 90
81 don't write"
.rhen do have this box OF candy
"l don't eat sweets.
The young lady's patience was eX
bausted sir" she said grimly' VII
Won buy this box OF soap
The Young man paid up.-Mother
Magazine.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-08-19
He Didn't Know.

Brown was on his way home from
his first lodge meeting when the troll
ley car jumped the track and bumped
into telegraph pole.
AS he limped away from the scene
of the wreck a policeman accosted
him and asked: Were you hurt IN
the accident, sir?"
Accident" said Brown. looking
dazed Was that an accident
thought 1t was part of the initiation