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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-25

"HAT the women's clubs of the
United States most truly rep
resent the progress and mental
attainments of the nation is the opin-
ion of a Spanish woman, Miss Paulina
de Ciano pronounced Thee-ahn-yo),
who is now on this side of the Atlantic.
an fact, that is why am here"
said Miss Ciano, few days ago. just
before leaving for Cuba to visit her
brother Carlos, a playwright and jour
nalist connected with the "Diario de Ia
Marina" Havana. at is fitting that l
place my mission before the women, as
Columbus placed his fate in the hands
of Queen Isabella. The court could
find no money for the voyager's hare
Drained project, but the Castillian gave
her Jewels and babe Columbus god
speed. So | come to the women Of
America.
What is my plan? Oh, it is not
mine! am a small part Of a great
plan. l am the representative of the
Palosfilo Club of Palos de Moguer,
Spain, whose hope it is to erect at
Palos, the port from which Columbus
sailed, building for each of the ma
lions of the Columbian continent.
cover each building will fly its ma
TONS flag. Each will be a miniature
exposition of arts and industrial work,
bureau of information, representa-
tive of the New World in the Old. It
is hoped that trade will be stimulated
and friendship cemented. Palaces and
historic treasures heretofore unknown
to visitors will be open to them, and
reductions in prices are promised tour
lists. The world which Columbus found
will have a home in the nation that
caused its discovery. Palos will be
neutral ground. Who knows per
haps international difficulties may be
settled there in friendly spirit for all
time to come.
ALREADY the city of Palos has do
mated the land, along the Street of the
West Indies which leads from Palo
to the monastery of La Rabida. 1t -
hoped that each country will build its
own pavilion on the site allotted to It..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-25
"Americas Clubwomen Are Its Truest Citi-
zens." Says the Spanish Woman Who Is
Establishing a Permanent Exposition
i'm Spain for American Nations.
Miss Paulina de Ciano. Delegate
to AmericanWO Proposes
a Memorial TO Columbus to
Cement International Friend
ships.

, To insure a harmonious effect Spanish
architects will make the plans, the de-
sign of each building being submitted
to its nation for approval. Perhaps
Sorolla will decorate the building of
the United States.
an Brazil, Ecuador, Argentine and
all the other countries of the Western
world the idea will be presented
through the Spanish ministers, but J
asked permission to come to the Unite !
States myself to tell the women about
it. We have no such momens clubs as
you have. 1t is true. Spanish women
band themselves together in the name
of charity and religion. The young
girls who have attended the same con-
vent oftd n form groups of their own
for benejolent work. That is all very
beautiful but cannot but admire
your pu' ic spirited women who study
the conditions that lie back of the need
for charity"
On October II, last year, the anniver-
sary of Columbus's discovery Of Amer
lea, the Palosflo Club inaugurated this
project In October, fittingly enough,
Miss Ciano will return from Cuba to
"tell the women about it." 1t is prob
able that she will have some one else
talk for her. 81 talk English so very
badly" she says. On the contrary, she
talks it very well, though her accent is
a little difficult for ears not attuned t,
Spanish articulation.
columbus and His Times" the book
which Miss Ciano will exhibit this fall.
consists largely of facsimiles of docu-
ments connected with Columbus and
his ancestors. These have been kept
among the archives of the city of Sc
Vile, and in the collection of the
Duchesse of Alva, a descendant Of Co
lumbus. The book has prologue writ
ten by the Princess of Bavaria, the
Infanta Paz de Bourbon, aunt of King
Alfonso. It contains autographs of
the King and Queen Of Spain, and OF
Pope Benedict XIV. 1t has been trans
lated into English by the Rev. Father
O'Connor, of Washington, D. c.
columbus was a Spaniard," Miss
Ciano said, "as the documents plainly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-25

But lots Of people don't believe the
philosophers. They say the way to be
happv is 70 buy amusements and lux.
rries without end for ones self. As
Won know, however. that's the road
which leads TO a place called Disap-
pointment.
But with most Of the world going
wrong in its choice Of routes TO this
deleetable land of happiness. one little
group OF children saw the right sign
and took the right road. They called
themselves "The Little Fairies Of the
Grass"
When they are at home they live in
New York. Just at present. however
they are enjoying happiness at Wash
;ngtor. Conn. There are nine of them
Having come from the great city,
they knew that when they left 1t be-
hind there were thousands of children
there who weren't going 70 spend the
summer in Washington, Conn. or any
ether place where happiness could be
found
So they said: "Since we call our
selves fairies. let's be fairies-good
ones. the kind you read of in books.
the kind that make people rich and
happy
Then. having all said it at the same
time. they all shouted together. "Mo-
ton carried" and set to work.
To the queen Of the band was al
lo.ted the task of writing play-fair-
les can do such things; TO the rest the
lob Of acting it and getting their
friends 20 come and see them act it.
Both did we'll what was assigned to
them.
The play was called "The Way To
Be Happy" not because the fairies
wanted 70 make the audience happy
the audience was there for another
purpose-but because the actors aimed
By It to make some OF those cleft be-
hind" children In the city happy by
means of it.
what was the part Of the audience ?"
you say? On, they were to pay admis-
sion 20 see the performance. They did.
too. II you care to see how much, look
in the contributors column below, for
the fairies sent all the proceeds of
their effort to The Tribune Fresh Air
Fund to help it in finding the Way TO
Happiness for some of the little stay
at-home youngsters of the tenements.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-25

show. In his letters to Queen Isabella
and others he wrote in Latin and Span
ish-never in Italian. But in all ages
a prophet has been without honor in
his own country, and so Columbus went
to Genoa and returned from there
thinking, without doubt, to receive
more serious consideration.
Columbus was born in Pontevedra
in Galica. Destiny evidently had him
in mind when his two grandfathers
joined partnership in the fish business
We have the document of the agree
ment between Domingo de Colon and
Benjamin Fonterosa, together with
some very amusing bills in which the
local bishop was repeatedly dunned be
cause he did not pay for his fish. Fon-
teresa was the father of Columbus's
mother, and as he was Jew, those
who claim that the discoverer had Jew
ish blood are right. | have promised
my government that no'portion of thes
DOOhS SHdli ltdHt my Hdnuo lOi ohF
purpose until they have been exhibited
to the American public"
1t is with reluctance that Miss Ciano
speaks of herself, and yet she is well
worth speaking Of. When child OF
fifteen she was decorated with the Mil
itary Red Cross by Queen Cristina, the
mother of Alfonso, for bravery in as
sisting the wounded in the Cuban War,
L.
young lieutenants, were killed. Only
five women in all Spain have this deco
ration. Her mother was the Marquise
de Buena Vista Alegri, and her grand
father, who was of scientific turn OF
mind, made one in the expeditions of
Jorge Juan.
As many persons have said of Ellen
Terry, "Never before have | seen act
ing" they may say on meeting Paulina
de Ciano, Never before have | seen
graceful hands" Severely simple in
dress and manner, her hands betray the
well-born Spanish woman. 1t is 2 grace
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-25
By Henrietta Rodman.


ITS not what we know but what
we love that makes us what we
= are" said Mrs. Henrietta Baker
Low, formerly supervisor of
music in the Baltimore public schools.
1.-THE only scholars are those who
love learning. To the extent that our
educational system tries to force facts
upon children it is failure.
"The only wise teachers are those
who are delving deep into the child
nature, discovering natural interests
and building on them.
Music Comes First.
Natural interests are the points at
which the world rouses the emotions,
and the greatest of these is music.
No. don't mean music as it is being
taught in most schools to-day. That
is technical, conventional, like the
teaching of mathematics.
al have the utmost respect for the
teachers of music who begin to teach
children to read music at seven, but
| believe they're wrong. | believe that
they have failed to establish an emo
tional basis for their teaching. Child
rem who are taught in this way are
more likely to sing because they feel
like singing.
"We're beginning to doubt the adj
visibility of trying to teach children
to read stories until they begin to
want to read them.
Singing is a glorious means Of self
expression if one wants to sing, and
everybody does want to, but we're not
all conscious of our desire. So, first,
| should try to get this sub-conscious
desire into consciousness.
81 would bring music-real music,
the best and lots of it-into the lives
of the children. The auto-playing
organs and pianos and the phono-
graphs make it possible for every group
Of people to hear music before they
have the slightest ability to produce 1t.
Home and School.
AIN some homes children are sur
rounded by an atmosphere of apprecia-
ton of music. But in many homes,
unfortunately, this atmosphere is
either lacking or is stuffy with rag
time.
every much can be done to develop
the love of good music in the home,
but what we cannot have there at
once we can produce Immediately in
the schools.
with one teacher who loves music
as David Copperfield loved Dora do
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-25
SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY
Wbv Should New York Not Follow Baltimore
Lead in the Encouragement or
Community Muscp

Won remember? Il ate Dora, drank
Dora. was saturated with Dora'?-with
one teacher in school who is satu-
rated with it music can be made
great force for individual development,
as it has been hitherto only in the
lives Of the very few. and for social
development as we have scarcely
, dreamed that it might be.
mo, I'm wrong Love Of music. even
with remarkable technical ability, Is
not enough to make a great teacher Oh
music. She must have intense social
feeling as we'll, for the supreme fune-
tioa of music is as social force.
"Of course, you know Dryden's poem
in which music moves Alexander the
Great to love and pride and hate. And
no doubt you remember the Greek
story of the lame schoolmaster whose
songs reused the Spartans to passion
of patriotism.
"This is the power of music which we
have forgotten or ignored-its power
to rouse emotion, to inspire devotion
for an ideal. Only the churches have
kept their faith in il, and they, TOO.
have standardized and conventionalized
their use of IL.
Community Songs.
"Now a few cities are beginning 10
use community music to develop that
feeling of group relationship, Of social
solidarity, which is the civic spirit.
Songs are being introduced at public
meetings and at band concerts. Large
and small communities are having
| sings
Last spring these sings were held
in ten different places in Baltimore
County. They began as soon as the
country roads were passable and as the
evenings grew long.
"The people drove in from the farms
to the district schoolhouse. Sometimes
there were talks and motion pictures
as we'll as singing, sometimes only
songs.
! ave found some remarkable voices
I among the country folk, and one boy
at least will be given a scholarship
in the conservatory of music at Balti-
more.
"On April 26 we held the largest
of these sings in Baltimore. The hall
seated fifteen hundred persons; every
/ inch of standing room was taken and
there were crowds out on the sidewalk.
Harold Randolph, the director of the
Peabody Conservatory, played the or
gan, and Franz Bornschein and his or
chestra accompanied the singing. Solo
lists sang the verses and the audience
of two thousand sang the choruses.
Why Not in New York?
"Why should not New York in some
such way, through its schools and COM
munty centres, use music TO develop
civic spirit?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-25
EAT ALL PEACHES YOU CAN
What You Can't Eat Can, Advice Of
Housewives League.

Eat all the peaches you can, and
what you cannot eat can" is the ad-
vice of the Housewives League, which
is conducting a campaign to save the
peach crop. Despite the large crop
prices are high, because the public Is
not buying.
The league advises housewives to
purchase in large quantities. 1t will
teach all who apply at its headquar-
tiers how to preserve the peach.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-25

unstudied, unconscious, coming from
long line of nobly bred ancestors.
A photograph of Miss Celia Marti..
nez, niece of DR.. Julia Martinez, Of
Havana, in the costume in which she
posed for the artist Vedder, was shown
Miss Ciano "Ah, yes, she knows how
to wear the manton. That comes with
breeding. Calve and the dancers do
not attempt it. The manton, you see,
is not fastened anywhere. 1t is con
stantly being redraped and rewound in
the hands of the wearer, and that re-
quires a great deal of skill. I'm afraid
in this modern styles of dress, I'm for
getting how to wear the manton." But
Paulina de Ciano is not forgetting to
be womanly and public spirited. She
is not forgetting to do her share of the
worlds work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-25
The Green Corn Season Is Waning

per. tablespoonful of sugar, small
cupful of cream and a gill of melted
butter; pour into buttered baking dish,
dust the top with tablespoonful of
fine crumbs mixed with a pinch of pep
per and salt. Bake in a moderate oven
about a half hour till delicate brown.
Green Corn CrOquettes.
Take one quart of the grated green
corn, one cupful of sifted -four, one
cupful of sweet milk, a lump of butter
the size Of an egg, pepper and salt.
Put all in a saucepan and stir hard,
adding a teaspoonful of sugar. Remove
from the fire and let it cool, then add
three-quarters of cupful of dry bread
crumbs and mould into croquettes. Dip
them in egg and roll them in crumbs,
then fry in hot lard. Drain, garnish
with parsley and lemon and serve.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-25
SCHURZ LEGACY TO HARVARD
Generals Daughter Left Residue to
Brother and Sister.

Three institutions receive requests
in the will of Miss Agatha Schurz,
daughter of Carl Schurz, who died
Julv 1s IN Warren County, n. Y.
To the public library of Bolton
Landing, N. Y, Miss Schurz left 100
volumes from her library; to- the
Children's Charitable Union OF SS9
East Fourth Street, $500, and to the
St;IIman Infrmary of Harvard Uni
versity $1,000. Marie Jussen, Of Mil
waukee. and Wilhelmine Schiller, OF
chicago. cousins, receive $4,000 each
and Margaret Brady, servant, sS sou
Other beGuests aggregate $500. The
residue goes in equal shares to Carr
L. Schurz and Marianne Schurz'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-25

-" REEN corn season is always wei
I T coined by its many lovers. Those
people fortunate enough to own
kitchen gardens wherein diminutive
corn fields find space, if they have
followed the oldtime rule OF planting
one row every ten days up to the Fourth
of July, may enjoy this toothsome dam
~ I'D to the time when frost nips the
stalks.
For early use the Country Gentle
man. Squantum and some other good
carly varieties are planted, but the main
crop is usually the old reliable Stowells
Evergreen. which remains tender up to
the last eating.
Boiled corn on the cob is the way 1t
is most generally served, but there are
so many other ways of serving 1t that
not to try them is TO lose many corn
treats. A selection of one of any OF the
following recipes, if not already known,
will Immediately become one OF the
housewifes most valuable aids to the
vegetable menu.
Corn Soup.
Split the grains of one dozen ears Of
rine. full corn, and with the back Of a
silver knife scrape them down. Throw
the cobs into water, with stalk of cell
erv cut small and thinly sliced onion,
boil ten or fifteen minutes, strain and
use a quart of the water, add to 1t
mint of rich milk, a pint of cream, salt.
pepper. half small cup of sugar and the
corn. cooking it fifteen minutes and
thi,kening slightly with tablespoon
each Of butter and -four rubbed to a
cream.
Corn PURGE.
Split the grains Of one dozen ears of
corn and scrape them down, add
tablespoonful of sugar, salt, pepper,
small lump of butter, a cup of milk and
a cup of cream; boil in double boiler
for fifteen minutes, then rub through
PURGE sieve, and if too thick thin slight
" with a little hot cream.
Succotash.
Prepare a dozen ears of corn by
splitting the grains and scraping them,
then add a lump of butter, pepper, salt,
two tablespoonfuls of sugar, a cup OF
cream and a half cup of milk; stew in
double boiler fifteen minutes. Have
ready a quart of freshly boiled Lima
beans. drain them and add to the corn.
Frv two slices of picked pork that has
been diced a crisp brown and add them
with the fat to the succotash. This is
a famous New England recipe.
Corn au Gratin.
Split and scrape a dozen ears and
add a half cupful of dry, fine bread
crumbs, two tablespoonfuls of grated
cheese, two beaten eggs, small cupful
of cream, pepper, salt, tablespoon
ful of sugar; fill buttered ramekins
with the mixture, busting the top of
each with a little grated cheese and
bake.
Corn Fritters.
One-half pint grated corn, half cup
full of rich milk, half cupful of sifted
-four, teaspoonful of baking powder, a
tablespoonful of melted butter, pepper,
salt, teaspoonful of sugar, two beaten
eggs. Mix the ingredients smoothly
anG fry in deep, hot fat. Drain, serve
in a napkin with little sliced lemon.
Corn Pudding.
Split and scrape one dozen ears of
corn, add two beaten eggs, salt, pep
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-25
Total. August "a. 1915. ...

Contributions, preferably by check
or money order, should be sent to The
Tribune Fresh Air Fund. The Tribune.
New York.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-25

The way TO be happyI
Philosophers set M signpost to
mark the route long ago. II read:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-25

To Arrive at Happiness.
Strive 10 Make Others Happy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-25
Bv Jeanette Young Norton.

" REEN corn season is always well
I r coined by its many lovers. Those
people fortunate enough to own
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-25
By Janet Priest.

THAT the women's clubs of the
United States most truly rep
resent the progress and mental
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-03
HERMIT OF SHIN POND
NEARS CENTURY MARK
RRumors of Death Unfounded and He Is Quietly
4 Passing His 98th Year, with His Violin and
Rifle. at Ted Crommetts Camps

1843, and Davis, then a young man Of
26, accompanied the great man In q
several weeks tour Of the forests OF
that region. assisting him in gather
ing material for his book, "The
Woods" Besides being famous hun
ter and fisherman, Davis is something
of a naturalist. and he always has ia
ken pride in the fact that it was he
who made the startling discovery that
the beautiful markings Of birdeye ma
pie are caused by woodpeckers seeking
the sweet sap of the tree, the dents
OF their sharp bills leaving scars tina,
firmly believes this to be correct
theory, and points triumphantly to the
fact that no one has ever advanced a
more reasonable explanation Of the
marks in the rock maple.
Listening to the hermit Of Shin POND
is better than reading anyone's books
of wood lore. His memory goes back
to the days when game. instead Of be-
ing scarce. was rather too plentiful
and when the Tarratines, original pro-
prietors of this part of Maine, had no.
taken to wearing store clothes and liv'
ing in frame houses, but were real In.
dams without an idea in the world out
side of hunting and eating, with a lit
tie fighting mixed in.
when 1 was young" said the her.
nit, who has killed more than $50 bear:
in his time, fat bears were almost az
thick among the old-growth beeches
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-03

along the slopes Of Mount Katahdin a.
red squirrels are today. In the fall,
after the early frosts had loosened the
beechnuts, could 90 out with an old
srnoothboee gun and shoot two or three
most any day. Every fall, father USED
to call IN boys and get up bear hunt
to get plenty Of meat to roast through
tho winter. Sometimes the hunt last
ed q week, sometimes longer. but we
never quit till we had put by the car
casses Of eight or ten fat bears.
I'm the days when 'Tippecanoe' ran
for president there was no railroad
within 100 miles Of where we lived. and
II anyone had told us about Chicago
dressed beef coming through to Maine
in refrigerator cars we would have
locked him UP as crazy. The hindquar-
tiers Of a fat bear that had fed on
roasted before q hardwood fire and
basted in it's own fat until it was all
shiny brown made eating good enough
for the minister or the first selectman.
The kidney fat Of bears, which was
oily and soft like lard. was used for
frying doughnuts and for bread short
ening, while the harder belly fat was
run into candles. I have eaten thou
sands of brown doughnuts that were
fried in bears grease. That same
grease today I could sell to druggists
for 1ive dollars q quart.
AS for the skins Of the bears, we
rubbed them on the fleshy side with
powdered alum and salt. and used
them for rugs, bed coverings and sleigh
robes. Nobody placed any great value
on the pelt Of bear in those days.
1t was the meat we were after, and as
the skin had to come off before we
could get at the meat. we considered 1t
merely as by-product. Sixty or sew
enty years ago one could buy all the
bear pelts he wanted for a dollar
apiece: now they are SIS to s25. and
many Of them poor at that.
See this wipe? (pointing to a long
white mark across his cheeky A
mother bear gave me that when !
caught one Of her cubs, and she caught
me with the goods as they say now.
A mother bear can lick anything in
creation when defending her young"