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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-28
LOVE AFFAIRS OF MOZART

Mozart stopped TO see her there. but
she was slow 10 recognize him
neither did she approve OF The black
buttons on his red coat. the French
fashion OF mourning. But he wrote
great aria for her. and soon after
her marriage TO Herr LANCE. he con-
tessed La is father that he still
cared for -.
Marri s Constance Weber.
But on Aug. 4, zap. Mozart mar
rled Constance Weber after "a court
ship OF four months. In asking his
fathers consent, ne Describes Con-
stanze as being the Cinderella OF the
Weber family. having 10 do every
thing for them all and receiving only
criticism in return. she is not
beautiful he said. but possesses fine
dark eyes and good figure. She is
not Intellectual but can make the
most of the things she wears. She
understands housekeeping. has the
best heart i'm the world She loves
me and / love her Tell me if I
could wish for a better wife,"
But as the father did not approve
of the Weber family. he reluctantly
sent them his blessing The wedding
was simple. The supper was given by
Baroness Won Waldstaten. Wolfgang
was % years old and Constance was
the Abbey Hadler called on them
III was asked to breakfast Constance
in her wedding gown built the fire and
made coffee, and with laughter they
began their married life without
money and with a careiessness border
ing on recklessness. But the love OF
Mozart for his wife was the town
talk. Mozart told her everything, all
his faults and little sins, but Constance
was ever tender and faithful She was
not unmusiCal She played and sang
and was very fond of fugues and
when Mozart was especially busy, way
into the night she would sit up with
him, telling his stories. AS she was
not strong, he in turn was very care
full of her health and would often de-
ny himself to make her more com
Portable.
The May following his marriage his
father died and his grief was very
great. In September he took his wife
and son TO Prug. Some nOvelists and
essayists writing at this time accuse
Mozart Of being in love with the prima
donna who sang at the theater there.
She is reported 20 have remarked
This illustriOus man is most insight
cant" yet their amOrOus adventures
were taken for granted for a long
time.
Letter Reflects Deep Love.
III his SttOHQ NlSll 10 Berlin II was
reported he fell in love with Henriette
Buranius. a singer Of great beauty.
In September Of 1850 he went to
Mainz where report has il he got into
another love affair. In the midst of
his troubles he fell in with a wander
ing theater director for whom he
wrote the Magic Flute" The direc-
tor kept Mozart in a pavilion near the
theater surrounded by some merry
actors Of his theater, and for a long
time il was believed that the melting
eyes of Zerl. the actress, had inspired
the Magic Flute" but when he writes
to his wife who was in Baden for her
health, he closes his letter after all
these years of married life:
Good bye, my dear one Through
the air 1899 kisses are flying from me
10 YOU. Put out your hands and
catch them, they are waiting for you.
A thousand sweet kisses,
Thy Mozart forever"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-28
MAY IvERsON,s CAREER.

May VERSIONS Career" the new
story by Elizabeth Jordan, recently
published by the Harpers. is more
than merely the sequel of the stories
recOgnizably the same-as imaginat-
i've and enterprising as ever: and she
has the same unconscious art in
making her hearers feel exactly what
she has felt But this cOnvent-bred
young woman who becomes reporter
on a large city newspaper keeps
growing in mind and character
though she does this so gradually and
naturally that we never lose the fine
glow OF personal interest in her; and
as we read we see how youthfulness
and youthful imaginatiVeness may
become effective forces in the thick
of life without losing their individual
attractiyeness. This is one of the
charms and one of the meanings Of
the story.
Another of its interests Is inherent
in the reality and picturesque variety
of May VERSIONS career itself. Miss
Jordan knows thoroughly the life Of
the New York newspaper woman.
and she knows, too, how to interest
her readers in a story May Inver-
sons first assignment was to pass the
night in a country house said to be
haunted. She was frightened, Of
COuESes L0OuEn the only DellG she en-
countered that resembled a ghost or
a goblin was the little deformed old
lady who owned the property. But
If the little convent schoolgirl had
the imagination To be afraid, she also
had the nerve TO make good. She in
sisted upon writing her own story.
and the star reporter who had been
sent out 10 take her place acknOwl-
edged that she did il wei. She wrote.
in fact, just as Sister Irmingarde had
told her TO dO-"Of things Just as they
are, and very simply" So she does
throughout the book. In her deliber-
ate, innocent. startling truthful way,
she tells us all about her experiences
with every kind of persons from mill
liOnaires to outcasts. AS time goes
on her way Of telling her story be-
comes more and more understanding:
yet always she remains clearly May
IversOn and nobody else-imagina-
tive, rather prone to sudden Pushes
of generous feeling and probably not
quite secure against being afraid in
the dark.
Much knowledge. observation. and
experience have gone into the making
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-28
BY HELENE NEITZEL

songs that flowed IN such pure tones
from his poetic heart. and so IL marks
q distinct period iu Mozart's life.
To make Canabich his friend. he
wrote a sonata 90 "madam0iselle the
daughter When the Allegro was
finished a young musician asked him
how he intended 10 write the Andante.
Il shall fashion il after the character
OF Madamoiselle Rosa, he replied.
He goes on 70 say that "the Andante
is lust like her. For a girl of her
age she possesses much mind and is
Of a serious disposition, one who says
little but that little in an affaDle and
Charming manner
After am interview with the elector
who apparently found his work very
agreeable. Mozart decided TO remain
there and took "A few pupils. lie also
wrote other sOnatas and variations
there for which ne needed copyist
for copying was very ob-0xious 10
him and TO have il done was very eX-
pensive He was overjoyed, there
fore when F-edolin Weber offered 10
copy for him-his work 10 pay for
his daughters music lessons.
Takes Up Home With Webers.
The Weber family had seen better
days but through the fathers pas
sion for the stage they had come TO
sore straits. He had six children 10
support. His income was practically
doubled by the assistance of his
daughter Aloyisa, who was endowed
with "A very fine voice.
Mozart soon felt at home in the
Weber family For the eldest daugh-
ter. Josepha, he wrote the queen OF
Night" in the "MajiC Flute lie
counts the father an honorable son
of the German fatherland who brings
his children up well.
His father had believed he had
gone to Paris, but il seems that he
had hopes of going with the Weber
family 10 italy to write grand opera
and have Aloyisa for the prima donna.
He found himself deeply in love with
AIoyisa and played and sang much
with her i'm public. For her he wrote
a passionate aria.
But this love making was stopped
by kind and sensible letter from his
father, and the boy and his mother
set out for Paris. There was tears
and gifts. Aloyisa gave her lover two
pairs Of mittens that she had knit
with her own hands and FridOlin. the
father, added "A roll Of music paper
and a copy of Molliere. But Aloyisa
never forgave Mozart for his obedi-
ence TO his father.
Mozart and his mother reached
Paris after nine days, but there
seemed 10 be nothing there TO at
tract the boy. and a month later ne
wrote his father that nothing inter
ested him. His room was small and
gloomy so that he could not get the
pianoforte between the cots.
However. he pulled himself to-
gether and called upon Grimm and
mis- musical friends and soon became
associated with the famous French
musicians of the day. In 1878 his
mother died This with a seeming
disappointment over his success in
Paris, Erieved him SO that Grimm adj
vised Mozart, sr.. 10 recall the boy.
But the entire experience proved of
the greatest interest to his future
career Karl Theodore was now
elector OF Bavaria and he took his
court. also 20 Munich, where AlOyisa
Weber sang in the Court theater.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-28

he wanted in his workmen.-Edi-
torial. in WOman's World for March.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-28
Books and Magazines
WHICH WOULD YOU RATHER E3E
"A DRAMATIST OR
NONETIST9

In the February American maya
zine Walter Prichard Eaton, dra-
matte critic Of that publication, writes
an exceedingly interesting article en-
titled stage Success-FOreign VS..
American" in the course of which he
says in part:
Year after year dramatic critics
make themselves unpleasant by pro-
claiming the superiority of foreign
made drama, by exhorting the Amer
lean dramatist to cultivate more
solidity of thought and more sense of
style And year after year the
American dramatist fails to respond.
Why is it? Is it because the best
minds in this country do not go into
the theater2 one of the most dis
tinguished Of living British dramat-
lists, who was in New York this past
autumn, said 10 me one day, If
were 80 with my life to live over
again. / should not become a dra-
matist, but "A novelist. / should not
again undergo the humiliations and
restrictions which our theater i'm
poses If that is true of England
how much more fOrcibly it is true of
the United States, where our play
houses are not conducted by actor
managers. like Tree and Wyndham
and Alexander. but by graduate ush-
erS. water boys and the like, Yet
the born dramatist Will generally
struggle up and through any environ
ourselves are more TO blame than
anyone. We do not demand sohdity
of thought or sense of style. Truth
20 tell the American theatergOer. 10y
and large has not yet developed
taste"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-28
WHY SCHOOL WAS LATE.

DR.. John Allan Wyeth, author of
the just-publlshed book, With Sabre
and Scalpel," has seen many deeds
Of heroism in his dual life as soldier
and surgeon. one incident which has
remained in his memory for many
years is the story Of two youthful
heroes of his school days in Alabama
These playmates Of DR.. Wyeth's
climbed one night up into the school
belfry and creased the bell with tai
low. As the bell failed to ring, all
the scholars were late the next morn
ing. The teacher lined up the male
portion Of the school and. to quote
DR.. Wyeth, took down from over the
blackbO a well-seasOned siN-foOt
hickory wythe and remarked: Boys,
have no means of knowing who
creased the bell. Some one or more
of you are guilty. and unless the cul-
prit owns up I'm bound to get him.
for I'm going to thrash all OF YOU
AT last 1.-TWO heroes stepped ont of
l,nc and said they did il and they
We're very sorry, and they looked it,
Punishment followed, but milder for
their confession.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-28

NJ b. Griffith spent Wednesday and
Thursday in Fort Wayne. where he
met with the members cs the pro
gram committee OF the State assOcia-
tio1 OF music teachers. He went
from there 20 Chicago on business, re-
turning 10 South Bend Saturday even
ina
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-28
HARMONY AND MELODY

choir consists of the following voices:
Mrs. Laura CrOssman Schell. soprano;
Mrs. William II. Swintz. contralto;
Karl w. knorr, tenor; Gerald Hunt,
baritone. and Max Miranda. organist.
The numbers Of the program are:
In Summer ................ Stebbins
Mr. Miranda
BY the Waters of Babylon ......
Coleridge-Taylor
Quartet
Serenade -......-........... Brahms
My star. .... rogers
Mr.. Hunt.
Finale from Faust" ........ GounOd
Mrs. Schell. Mr.. Knorr. Mr.. Hunt
Scherzo from Fifth Sonata Guilmant
Mr. Miranda.
May Gentle Sleep. ..............
Spinning Quartet. from Martha"
Flotow
Quartet.
The Augelus. ............Ch aminade
Mrs. Schell and Mrs. Swintz.
Come All We Lads and Lassies.
from "Floras Holiday ........
H. Lane Wilson
Quartet
Toccata from Sixth Organ sym
Mr. Miranda.
Arthur Shattuck, one of America s
most brilliant pianists, who is much
better known in Europe than in the
United states, is making a success
full tour of his native land at the
present time. He opened as solOist
with the Chicago symphony orches-
ira in Orchestra Hall. Chicago. Jan.
IA and -. Every newspaper spoke
in the highest terms of the sound
musicianship OF the player.
The Chicago engagement was fol-
lowed by recitals at the Conservatory
of Music. Appleton, Wis, Jan. 10,
and i'm Sioux Fails :. D.. Jan 21
Feb. . found Mr.. Shattuck appearing
before the students Of ~. Mary S
school. Farihault. Mimi. and two
DAYS later he gave another recital al
Carleton college. Mortified. Mimi.
on Lincoln's birthday he appeared
in Jacksonville, H., in recital at the
WOmans college. Feb. : Mr.. shat
tuck was the guest OF Dean Holmes
Cowper Of Drake university. Des
Moines. Ia. He gave a recital in the
university auditorium that evening.
ON Washingtons birthday ne viii be
the SOlOist with the Minneapolis
symphony orchestra at the OdeOn, 81
Louis.
When Mr. Shattuck was touring
America two years ago he won signal
success as a recitalist at Ohio Wes-
leyan university. and on February p
he will play return date before the
student body OF this Methodist insti-
tuition. Mr.. Shattuck viii be the
soloist with the Minneapolis sym
ph0ny orchestra in Minneapolis. on
March .. and with the New York
Philharmonic orchestra an Detroit.
March 1 g.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-28
WHAT'S BEHIND THE GREAT
MIRAGE?

The Great Mirage" a novel by
James l.. Ford, is announced for pub
LEGATION this week by the Harpers.
1t is a story of newspaper life, but
there is no creahng OF journalistic
machinery in its pages. Its machin-
cry is a human One-the reacting Of
personalities upon the policy and for
tunes of a great newspaper. Ii is also
a genial shOwing-up of the great
mira e-the city as described by the
Sunday supplements. with its iiashily
displayed stories of riches and pow
erty. good and evil. A girl from a
small town with a talent for writing
gave valuable assistance 10 a reporter
on a local newspaper. When he went
10 New York he secured place for
her on the Daily Megaphone" and
let her think she was his debtor. A
clever article she wrote offended the
office. and her former sutton, now
Sunday editor, saved his head at her
expense, who was dismissed. She
now saw through his egotism, and
when the time came the young girl
hardened herself to her revenge and
then turned TO find real love.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-28

The following paper Is one OF a
series written by members Of the
Music department OF the Progress
club and read i'm department meet
ings, which will be published on
the music page Of the Ncyys-Times.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-28

At the invitation OF the Chamber of
Commerce the teaching musicians OF
the city viii hold "a get together
meeting at the Chamber of Commerce
this afternoon. II will be held at
o'clock Immediately following the at
ternOon concert at the First Presby-
terrain church.
Although the meeting Will be large
ly a social affair, IL may result in some
definite move for advancing the mu-
steal welfare OF the city. Tt is the
first meeting of the kind that has been
held here for many years. Teachers
have been pursuing their several
courses with no concerted action IN
matters OF musical interest III is
taougnt that the cooperation neces-
sita,ed IN making the Presbyterian
church concerts the success which
they have proved. has been no small
means in bringing the musicians of
the city nearer together
L. c. Manning, who has always
been much interested in musical af-
fairs. viii be present at the meeting to
address the guests. The program
may be extended somewhat, but any
other numbers Will be impromptu.
The choir of the First Methodist
Episcopal church is fast becoming one
of the most interesting musical ag
gregations in the city. IL has per
fected an organization entirely sep
arate from the church manages its
own affairs and pays its own expenses.
Under the leadership Of T.. II.
LLOYD OF the Royal Academy Of Mu-
sic. London. Eng. who has been in
this country but a short time, the
choir IS doing unusually heavy work
and is doing IL well, Mr.. Lloyd being
especially strong In musical diction.
There are so voices In the choir
end all are cultured. voice test has
been made a requirement FOR admis-
sion 20 the choir and the number of
members is limited. Even with these
restrictions there is a waiting list of
singers who hope TO place.
The officers of the choir are. PreSi-
dent. Mrs. Norman G. Kelb: vice pres
ident. f. r. Goats; secretary Miss AL
ma Reed: treasurer Homer FasS-
racht These officers constitute an
sficial committee which passes upon
all points OF business The choir re-
hearses twice a week and holds
business and social meeting the frst
Tuesday of each month. Its motto
Is BE a Booster
NJ b. Griffith spent Wednesday and
Thursday in Fort Wayne. where he
met with the members 90 the pro-
gram committee Of the State associa-
tio1 OF music teachers. lie went
from there 90 Chicago on business, re-
turning 20 South Bend Saturday even
HHEUU
Tie quartet ,..... of the St Pauls
Memorial NJ +. church viii present
q program OF special excellence this
afternoon at o'clock al the regular
Pleasant sunday afternoon concert at
the First Presbyterian church. The
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-28

Of the story, MAY VERSIONS Career"
much. too. OF the stOry-teller's art OF
making events interesting in the tell
ing; but most of all a warm and liv-
ing conception of character.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-28
SOCIETY RECKONING

Little Miss Wayup: oh, mamma.
there's the church you took ne TO
once.
Mrs. Wayup: Did - When. dear2
Little Miss Wayup: About three
papas ago.-Puck
The Huttig news., 1915-12-11
New Record by Fisheries Bureau.

The commissioner of fisheries, un- der date of June 10, advises that not only will the output of the fsh-cul- tural operations of the bureau of fish cries during the fiscal year ending June 30 surpass previous records but for the first time in many years there has been sufficient supply of black bass to meet all current demands for both public and private waters. All outstanding applications for black bass will be filled. Some of these have been held over for several years for lack of a sufficient supply of the fish. Among recent deliveries of this fish have been 10000 to a large artificial lake at Austin, Tex, formed by the damming of the Colorado river, and at the station whence the fish came a large supply is now on hand. It is the policy of the bureau to distribute each year an increasingly large proportion of fish which have been retained at the hatcheries until they reach the lingering or yearling stages, which means that the output, being more mature, is better able to care for itself and Is not so subject to the depreda- tionS of natural enemies.
The Huttig news., 1915-12-11
MISS HOLLYHOCKs
By CAROL BAN.

The man with the easel placed it close to the fence so that he could look over the paiings and down that rosy vista of hollyhocks. The cottage beyond the hollyhocks was quite hid den from view by the dropping branches of a chinaberry tree. In the path between the rows of holly hooks stood a girl in pink dimity froek The skirt was frilled to the waist with tiny pink ruffies. A pink sunbonnet hid her face
 My medal picture!" exclaimed the artist, opening his paint box. T don't know what she's looking at, but if she'll only hold that pose for few minutes longer"
 With swift. sure strokes he outlined the girls pliant form in it's quaint gown of the newest fashion-a mod ern adaptation of an old style. She was facing the hollyhocks and look ing intently at something on a round, green hollyhock leaf. One slender white hand and rounded wrist were stretched cautiously out, and one lit tie foot in it's high-heeled slipper ap- peared beneath the short skirt.
 She scarcely seemed to breathe, and back quickly while a great golden but terfy fluttered up and out of sight among the trees.
 Even then she did not face him, but turned toward the cottage and van ished in bend of the path.
 The following winter Wade New tons picture, Miss Hollyhocks," car ried off the coveted prize.
 
 But why won't you sell the pie ture?' insisted Henderson, lighting another cigarette.
 Wade Newton glanced across his studio where Miss Hollyhocks" was placed on an easel.
 "It isn't a girl you know, is it?" went on Henderson, stroking his tiny mustache.
 Never saw her face,s said Newton. "Then, why"
 Because I have a curiosity to dis cover her for myself. Confidentially Ned, Miss Hollyhocks brought me fame and a number of orders. I'm go- ing to marry her some day"
 "Idioti" gihed Henderson drawing on his gloves. But suppose you can go down and find her in the old gar den any time you please"
 q wish I could returned the other with sigh.
 What do you mean?"
 You know I was called abroad as soon as I finished that picture. When l returned I went Immediately to Sleepy Valley where I had chanced upon the garden. but the girl and her
The Huttig news., 1915-12-11
One of the Fastest Cameras

Capt B. H. Behr of the United States coast artillery has invented a camera that marks a great advance in the art of photographing swiftly nov ing objects It differs from the or dinary camera in size and in the mech anism of it's shutter. It is almost four feet high An electric motor that makes several thousand revolutions second works the shutter; and since the speed of the motor can be accu- rately adjusted, the photographer can determine the length of exposure down to one-five-hundredth of sec ond. The new camera has photo- graphed mortar shells at the moment they left the muzzle of the gun, and afterward, and has shown the euri- ous smoke ring" or .gas ring" that accompanies the projectile when it emerges from the gun. It may yet help to determine exactly what hap pens when modern high-power shell blows it's way through solid steel.- Youths Companion.