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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-26

chooses him. He doesn't choose what he shall
paint any more than a writer chooses the news
that shall hapIen or the idea that shall pos
sesS him.
ut Is a matter OF feeling. The test OF my
success with a picture, to me. Is whether |
have been able to make other people feel from
the picture what ! felt from the reality. Even
so abstract a message as a landscape may have
Is still an expression Of feeling. My pictures
are all expressions Of emotional realiSIn-Of
feeling about life today-whether they are
portraits or character studies or street scenes
or prize fights or landscapes or any mortal
thing. You see. ] am a radical In my cOnvic-
ton that anything in life that is worth telling
has Il right To a place In art. / am not AGA
demic." and he laughed.
But when ! try to paint emotion, 10 put
feeling into n picture. I put a story IN my
work-the story OF the emotion. Their" are
painters. you know. who are trying to paint
emotion by certain arrangements and relations
Of color masses. eliminating representation rs
far as posSihle-1 refer tn the mOiernists. They
try To get the same emotional relieves from
paint and canvas placed In harmonic orders
or relations. without regard 10 representa-
tions. that the musical composer tries for in
harmonic proportions OF sound and time. 1t
Is an important idea.
"Many pictures are analogous to music, II
you will uotice It, Iu fact. this analogy Is Mt
least nj element In all fine painting, Music
is perhaps the snbtlc>t way Of conveying feel
ing. II you put a feeling into music, perhaps
il reaches the brain more intimately through
the nerves OF sound perception than q feeling
in painting can reach through the optic nerves.
But OF this l know nothing-I leave II to the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-26
WO BY
KARSAVINA
IN CARNIVAL"

nymphs may soon he d~isUorting themselves IN
similar costumes, hut In the privacy Of their
homes. In spite of the Bakst influence. II IL
seldom that II Hukst costume can he taken over
bodily, c0lorS rs well as lines; hut while no
one but the Duncans would care to appear In
this fnun's gnrb on Fifth avenue. its rum
blings as a bOudOir robe already can be heard.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-26

Already there IL beginning to be felt the
Greek influence. induced by the Bakst settings
for (:recian dramas presented by Serge DE-
Dinghilefrs Ballet Russo. The Bukst ~negligee
IL on the way.
When one Of the nymphs In "LApres Mill
dun Faune" IL seen ut the Century Theatre
next January In this Bakst costume. modern
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-26
BORDER OF

IN the evolution Of the feminine negllgee
from the ugly wrapper and Mother Huh
= bard to the adOrably frivolous bOudOir
creations Of to-day Dame Fashion often has
gone to the stage for inspiration. Puccini's
Madame Butterfly" left a wake Of kimOnos
ranging from the delectable to the atrOciOus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02

property. Although he may have 160 acres of land worth S24,000, it does not earn 6, ', or 10 per cent interest a year, as an office building in some flourishing city would earn According to Farm Life, the farmer pays the highest rate of interest when he bor- rows money and get the lowest rate on his investment when he tries to live simply on his capital.
 More regrettable still, the increase in the price of farm lands is making 1t harder every year for a young man without capital to get a start. It is no longer possible for a stout pioneer to literally hew out a kingdom for himself in the wilderness. Unless young man is fortunate enough to in- herit some paternal acres or the wherewithal to buy land, his ambition to become a tiller of the soil may be hard to realize. The prosperity of the farming class as whole makes the life doubly attractive to. the man who desires independence and a con- genial way of making a living, but prohibitive prices for land may keep him toiling in a city until he dies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02
Farm Lands Higher

While "back to the farm!" con- tinues to be a popular slogan, a re- turn to the soil is being made in ereasingly difficult by the rise in the price of farm lands. It is stated that this kind of property has increased 20 per cent in value, taking the whole United States as a basis, in the past year. This advancement is believed to De due largely to the war in Europe. Farm Life is inclined to think that the figure is not exaggerated, pointing out that most of the money made in this country during the past two cen tuxies came from increase of values. Acres that first sold for $1.5O became o100 an acre, while $1O city lots have become $1O,0O0 lots. As rule, how ever, in the case of the $10 city lots, they changed hands many time before xeaching their highest figure.
 But while the price of farm lands is soaring, the farmer, it appears, does not profit greatly on that account. His Nunoarned increment" is considerably 1oos than that of the owner of city
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02
The Arbitration Boards Award

The best that can be said about the award of the federal arbitration board in the case of the locomotive engineers and firemen who had petitioned for wage increases and whose demands in volved 98 western roads, the new scale has been agreed to. The rail roads are dissatisfied with the award and the locomotive men are still more dissatisfied. The award costs the railroads money, but that seems small to the disappointment of the engineers and firemen in not get ting something like their demands. The increase they insisted on would have totaled $41 100000; but what they get is only little more than million.
 The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has always stood high in the esteem of the public. It re- quires high class man to handle a locomotive. He must be intelligent, sober and brave. These locomotive men are of the heroic mould And whenever they have a grievance they can count on the sympathy of the public.
 In this particular case the arbitra- tion board acted, no doubt, for what they thought was best for all concern ed The railroads have not prospered to large extent-some of them not at all-during the past three years. Next year they will be in better con- dition to grant an increase than now.
 Had the arbitration board failed to agree and had there been strike prosperity would have received such a backset as to have depressed the busi- ness of the whole country. AS it is prosperity will continue its onward march.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02

1 pr. John A Wythe in the New York l Sun.
 NN the subject of the hair turn ing white in a single night I 0 have had so many letters and inquiries that I am tempted to make this final communication. First of all, 1t can be no more possible for such lightning like depigmentation to take place in the human hair without chem jcal assistance than 1t would be pos sible for water to run up hill. The laws of nutrition and of depig- 1 mentaiton are as memorable as the law of gravitation. Natural decolori- zation of the hair is, of necessity, a slow and gradual process, due to ii- unfinished nutrition and the retarded or arrested conveyance along the fIla- hments of pigment or coloring matter to replace the atoms that are constant ly perishing and disappearing. The law of supply and demand Is asserting it. self here as everywhere. As we grow older the supply is not equal to the demand and death begins. The natural death of tissue in this slower process of what might be termed living death is by kind of drying up process called in scientific parlance "granular metamorphosis" or crumbling into very small atoms. which are absorbed This could not take place as rapidly as in a single night or several dozen nights, although I do not doubt that many persons honestly believe to the contrary.
 "a xrrh4 1r~ 1ixa intimate association with our fellcw mortals, and who learn to read not orly in the lines but between the lincs know what a fallacious instrument IS the human brain and what strange pranks 1t plays at times with Its pos sessor. The evidence of the senses is elways entitled to critical analysis te- fore acceptance. The prestidigitator does his sleight of hand feats so nimb- ly before our eyes that our brain ana retina play us false, and we think we see what our reason tells us is absurdly impossible Silver dollars glide through the unbroken crowns Of derby hats as we gaze and surprising ly pop out of the performers trouscr leg where no hole exists.
 WndI WOilu oA tiOubiOuS SpcSt'o~ ton would be spared us if we were 10 start out in life with the working hypothesis that nothing can possibly occur in contradiction of the natural law"
 When am told that the law of eravitation has been or can be sus- pended I feel a certain sympathy tar the honest state of mind which asserts it, but do not respect that mind as a conveyor of scientific fact. had very dear friend, otherwise mentally reli- able, who more than once assured rie his mothers hair grew several inches after her death. As impossible as was this growth, at no time. by word or look. permitted him to believe that doubted the statement. There was no use in trying to do away with con viction that had indelibly crystallized itself in his brain cells. Dynamite, or Christian Science. or Lourdes or some powerful stirring up of the em0ticns might have done it. but reason in arr gument never. There is common be- l lief that the hair upon the freshly shaven face and the nails also grow sfter death. This p.eming growth is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02
VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY
From the New Yoork Sun.
 .F Colonel Roosevelts reluctance to take the republican nomina-

From the New Yoork Sun.
 NF Colonel Roosevelfs reluctance II to take the republican nomina-
 tion for vice president in 1900 there is not the slightest doubt. Every body who had access to his inner mind at that time knows that he was sincere. suspicious, resolute almost beyond con- vincing on the subject of the inexpedi- ency of his acceptance.
 There is quite as little doubt about the reason for the enthusiasm with which Platt and the state leaders, the wicked bosses of the state organization, the grand army of Hydes and Hyroids in New York politics, regarded the proposal to sequester the colonel in the chair be- hind the desk in the senate chamber at Washington. The reason was no secret then and is no mystery now. These adroit politicians wanted to get rid of Theodore Roosevelt so far as their inn mediate sphere of activity was con- cerned. They disliked him and they dreaded him.
 If 1t Is not almost sacreligious to state the truth plainly the emotions which surged in their selfish bosoms at the idea of sending the colonel away from Albany were not born of any fear of him as a reformer smiter of the wicked. Probably it occurred to none of the gentlemen to differentiate him from themselves in the moral aspect. It was not customary in those days for politi- clans to measure righteousness and wickedness by the Jekyll-IIyde formula If 1t had been. any suggestion that the percentage of Jekyll in the colonel was any larger than in Platt, or in Odell, or in Barnes. or in Qugg, in any other of the professionals, would have been received in Hyde circles with much hilarity
 Not as a scourge of the ungodly not as a prophet of uncomfortable reform, not as an inconveniently righteous asso-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02
Sunday Moving Pictures

The moving picture houses of the city will be operated Sunday afternoon for the benefit of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Associated Charities" said Mrs. L. B. Andrews. who has this work in charge.
 The movie theatres will be opened promptly at 1 o'clock and performances will continue until D. m, This. of course, does not interfere with relig- ious gatherings on Sunday, and is per- haps within itself good thing for tho community. The proceeds of this Sun days exhibitions will certainly go to a good cause.
 The Womans Auxiliary branch of the Associated Charities is doing an ex- cellent work and deserves the support or all people who are charitably in- clined. During the past month the Aux- lilary or which Mrs. w D. Smith is president, has secured employment for o6 women who were In need, and has helped 250 families who were found to be without adequate support The man WHO Vlsits movie house this Sunday Will contribute toward the support of the homeless as well as toward his own entertainment"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02
THE MOTHERS SONG,

By Cecilia Reynolds Robertson In the New York Times. Hush, oh. my baby, your fathers
 soldier, He's off to the war and we've noth-
 ing to eat. And the glory is neither for you nor
 for me. With the coclsleburr crushing the
 wheat. Little boy baby. look well on your
 mother; Some day you mak ask why she bore
 you at all; For the trenches are foul With the
 blood and the wallow, And the bayonet Is sharp for your
 fall. Rest, rosy limbs. and blue eyes, and
 gold lashes- Made in the mold of the Savior. they
 say! Drink deep of my bosom, my starved.
 meager bosom, That-keeps you alive for the fray. Sleep, oh, my man child. and smile In
 your sleeping. x But the gun has been fashioned 10
 lay in your hand. < And your life blood flows smooth z
 your fair little body The better to water and plenish
 landi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02
FAMOUS MAN ILLUMINATING

due to the retraction of the elastic rubber-lil<e flores of the skin and the shrinking due to the emptying of the small blood vessels
 A not infrequent source of uncon- scious self-deception is due to the un- equal development of the two halves of the brain. In all right handed per sons the left half of the brain is bet ter nourished, Is heavier, not only in general weight, but in the specific gravity of the gray matter, which is the source of thought and muscular impulse. The result of this is that the two halves of the brain do not always work actively in harmony to produce the full completion of brain efficiency In moments of more or less complete mental inertia, which not infrequently occurs when the blood is busy with the digestive processes soon after eat Ing, certain visual impressions will be received by the more alert half, the left. before the right half gets the registration. While only an infinitos- imal fraction of time may have trans. rired between partial and complete registration. there results confused and double image. The fact has led persons who are geographically in- clined or supersttious to believe that they have witnessed the same scene or occurrence, under exactly. the same con- ditions. some other time. perhaps in some other existence. Had DOtn HalteS of the brain been acting together this could not have occurred.
 These two halves of the brain may be compared to the two horses of team: if well matched and trained they move off together and pull smoothly and satisfactorily. If one is drowsy or laggard the other gets away first ard his fellow follows in a jerlxy and clumsy effort to catch up. What wa know as training the mind" is in- tended to develop these two halves of cur brain to work together in well broken team. That we often fail to use both sides of our brain as we develop is proved beyond doubt by numerous cases of aphasia. which is the loss of the power of framing expressing thoughts in words. Post mortem exam ination has shown that this is caused by a hemorrhage in certain convo- lution on the left side. On the right side the same convolution exists, anc there is no hemorrhage of disease there, and yet that side has not been cultivated. and is therefore useless from nondevelopment.
 JOHN A. WYETH
 New York April 2S, 1915.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02
The Right Emphasis

"I sought the Lord and He heard
 me-" Psalm 34, 1.
 From this text I am not going to
 write specifically about the efficacy of prayer, but about the frequency of prosperous seeking.
 1 We are apt to put our emphasis on the wrong things. Affairs are so for tunate with us generally that when one exception comes we bounce upon that and call it characteristic. When a business fails we forget the many years through which it was successful. When the panic appears we forget the fat seasons which preceded it. When death deprives us we dwell upon the hardness of our lot in that we have lost, rather than upon the sweetness of our lot in that we enjoyed our loves so long and still are rich in the mem- ories of them.
 Nearly every experience carries in one hand happiness, in the other mis- cry. We take our chance. And the logical choice is of the happiness, not only because it yields the lovelier fruit, but because it outweighs the misery-there is more of it. There is more life than death, more sweetness than bitterness, more beauty than ugliness.
 The rule is that desires are satis- fled rather than frustrated. Our ears delight in the concord of sweet sound; and God has hidden away melodies in the chambers of the air, then sent out His servants among men and birds to play on instruments and sing songs. Our eyes are pleased with beauty; and nearly all natural forms are graceful, while the world is car peted, frescoed and ceiled with heav- enly colors. The fallicles of smell and of taste are not disappointed in their search for the winged delights and infinite varieties of fragrance and of flavor. The mind seeks order, and lo an ordered universe. We love asso- citations and friendships and God has not doomed us to live alone, but has strung our hearts on common cords. Young people meet and love and think that life must be poor without each other; and the charming sequence is that they go away to their separate homes and spend the days and nights together until the end.
 God gives us desires not to mock them but to meet them and feed them. We shall be fairer and honester if we acknowledge this to ourselves and to Him. It will aid us also in our search for happiness and beauty to dwell upon the instances in which we are blessed and satisfied, rather than upon those in which we seem to be forgot ten or foiled.
 Moreover, there are yet other and larger duplicates in this attitude. It Is Gods habit and pleasure to gratify my appetites. Very well, then: He will give me rest; He will give me inn He will give me Himself.
 HENRY M EDMONDS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02
Uncle Joe Cannon

A press dispatch from San Fran cisco reports that Uncle Joe Cannon, a member of the congressional party en route to Honolulu, attended ball the night before the visitors em- parked on their voyage, and that de- spite his Fl years of age he was the keenest waltzer in the lot.
 Uncle Joe, The Age-Herald cannot subscribe to your brand of politics. There are many things about your public policies to which we cannot subscribe. We do not believe that an entire Congress made up of such men as you would bode good results for this country. But even though we would not vote for you if you were running in our district, we could not, if we would, help admiring you. In some ways you may have set bad political example for the rising gen eration. But nevertheless your vim, your seeming immunity from physical ills and the "pep" you put into every , thing you do is quality not to be lightly reckoned.
 While many man from 15 to 20 years younger than you goes hobbling about, leaning on his cane and com blaming of backache and other ills, you are cutting high jinks in Frisco ballroom all night and then getting up with clear head and bright eye, ready for buckwheat cakes, sausage and coffee at breakfast time.
 They talk a whole lot in this coun- try about Roosevelt leading the strenuous life, but Uncle Joe, if you haven't gotten T. R. beaten forty ways for Sunday, when it comes to real coltish activity, then our inter- pretation of the word strenuous is wrong.
 If all men were like you, Uncle Joe, Dr. Ossler could never have sum- moned the gall necessary to mega phone his nation wide plaint that men are useless as factors in the worlds work after they reach the age of 40 years.
 You have proven that man is only as old as he thinks he is.
 You may have been dictator in legislative matters and your dictation may not always have been for the best interests of the country and the people whom you were elected, as a member of Congress, to represent, but even so, you have spread enough l sunshine along your route and you have proven the fallacy of chronic complaining so thoroughly as to large ly offset, we believe, any wrongs that 1 may have come from whatever part you may have taken in nurturing | monopoly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02
Drama Leagues Good Work

The educational and humanizing value of the stage was never so widely appreciated as it is today. Clean, cul- tural plays are in vogue now as never before, and the drama as a vital in- ] fluence in our spiritual life is fully recognized by all social service lead CTS and by many divines whose early training opposed them to the theatre as one of the devils workshops.
 In this country less than a third of century ago it was a rare thing to find Protestant minister in a playhouse even when a Booth or a Cushman presented Shakespeare. And not only so but the laity of the large Protestant denominations were urged to keep away from the theatre, because church deliverances and books of discipline classed theatregoing with gambling and other vices. So great was the gulf between the thea tre and the church-or rather most of the church denominations-th those Christian bodies which permitted their members to attend plays were re- ferred to with derision by the straight laced and austere as "worldly socie- ties," with only modicum of religion in them.
 But that day has passed and if any of the churches retain in their "rules and regulations" words condemnatory of theatregoing little or no heed is given to this old-time inhibition.
 In recent years many vile plays have been written and produced; and some of the uncleanest of them have drawn large audiences. But the fact that some plays are bad is no reason why good people should ban the theatre al together.
 AHS Dioho iCokuS, WulCu HdS very active branch in Birmingham, is doing a noble work in its efforts to elevate the stage. Its methods are sane. There is nothing of the radical or "fussy' in anything the league does. It is not attempting to exer- else any censorship over plays whose moral atmosphere is questionable. The league simply gives its earnest SUD- port to plays that are worth while morally and intellectually. It lets the others severely alone.
 In this way it hopes to gain such large patronage for the theatre which presents good plays, whether they be tragedy, comedy or melodrama, that in time managers will not fall back on the old excuse, "the legitimate no longer pays"
 In all the schools the study of the drama is receiving much attention; and recently branches of the Drama league have been established in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02
General Scott,s Promotion

''In reading the announcement recently that Brig. Gen. Hugh l.. Scott chief of starr Of the United States army had been appointed major general to fill vacancy caused by the retirement of an officer of that rank, l was struck with the anomoly Of the head officer of the army having rank below that of officers to whom ne issued orders.' said a man who has long been in touch with military affairs
 General Scott has been serving since last fall as a brigadier. The law should have provided that the chief of staff have the rank automatically of lieutenant gen eral. understand that such a clause will be inserted in the bill for the reor- ganization of the army to be introduced in Congress next winter"