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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-20
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!: 'fnnpirstion. Is sadly misused
4erd Ia my opinion.
have had little addle-brained
</onu1anfes whose days are bounded
~ ths south by chocolate-in-bed, on
( ~ north by fox trotting, on the
Voot by fittings at the nlodiste's and
\ ~ the east by "just-the-ha ndsomest-
srhap!'' lisp a me: what is your
Iseatest inspiration, Miss Bara?'
I have had scores OF "papa's boys"
aok: ''How can you be inspired, with
po&hing but camera In front OF
sou, instead OF an audience"
D. you suppose ! ever see that
enmera when ] am acting? Do you
imagine I hear it's click? No.
Only In the beginning was con-
eeious Of even my limited stage.
1hat was when my director had
huards placed on the floor to define
~ ten-foot line.
One day, In the midst of scene,
y tripped over one or these boards
I, ma was thrown to the floor. The
ohock Of being dragged out OF my
character was greater than the ply
stcal shock. But that Is the only
Instance can recall wnere the me-
enanics Of motion picture acting en-
t0red into my calculations.
Now, as to real inspiration. / am
uDing the word In defiance of all
artistic ethics because want to
1Ake my meaning clear. A person
5 rI,ould be imbued with inspiration
0nly when he can inspire others.
That ID what live for.
Il has been figured that more than
1,oo0. 100 people a day see me on the
screen! Can you realize what that
nneansf A great theatrical star may
10y n New York year. The aver
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-20

ing what Donna will do for some
thing 10 engross her mind.
"She loves you. Margie. You see
down deep in her heart she feels
that unknowingly, you saved me
from Kitty Malram and gave me
back 10 her.
Looking at II dispassionately.
am not sure that the gift was worth
anything. but she thinks so. bless
her. and she will be disconsolate
when | am gone.
"Margie. won't you make II look
az though YOU needed Donna? Won I
you send for her and say that now
she Is alone you will feel free 10
call upon her for company and
friendship,
Don't let her know I have writ
ten this TO you. AT least not until
she has forgotten me and her sor-
row over my going out OF her life.
II don't want to hurt her any more
than I can help. God knows have
hurt her almost beyond cure many,
many times In the past. She will be
lost without old Bill to look after
and amuse. Make her think you
need her care--need to be amused.
Strange as II may seem to you,
dear Margie. when all the dross has
been taken from life and one sees
only the pure gold one hugs TO ones
heart the precious metal.
Donna 10 pure gold. and as such
I give her TO you. Love her better
than I have done. and ! am sure
she will reward that love in unlim-
tied measure.
Goodbye. Margie. who love this
world. who above all loved people
am going out all alone. I who hate
solitude will have solitude for my
only companion. who have loved
life must bid IL and all you dear
friends farewell. BILL"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-20
COMMISSION
VISITS CHILL

SANTIAGO. Chile. April 20.-Aft
or spending four days as the CUES
of Chile. members Of the Information
al High commission and their wives
headed by Secretary CT the Treas.
ury McAdoo. sailed for Callao. Peru,
aboard the cruiser Tennessee.
Secretary McAdoo told Chilean
newspaper men that he was mos;
optimistic regarding the establish
ment OF closer relations between the
United States and South American
countries and believed relations be-
tween the United States and Chile
to be particularly friendly.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-20

age theater seats 800 persons. Tha;
means a little more than 50o,ooo per
sons year II they play TO full
housewife they don't.
There you have the great contrast.
What greater thrill than the thought
that out in some rough mining town
the face and work OF rheda Bara Is
known? That UP in a prim. little
New England village whose dough
nuts and apple pie are finer than the
chef d'oeuvre OF any Frerch chef.
folk speak OF Theda Bara as their
favorite actress
Down In the sunny south they
know me; and in Canada: in Lon
don. Paris. sydney, Calcutta, Toxic,
Pekin.
And that Is my inspiration II
spurs me on TO do great and still
greater things.
When | act before my silent one
eyed critic-my clicking camera
am playing TO millions OF my people.
/ am trying to rouse the emotions of
the phlesmatic Chinese. the stolid
Dutch. the conservative English. and
the impressionable, highstrung Latin
races am cognizant Of no one ma.
tionality. must make my art inter
national, understandable in any
tongue.
They have told me | succeed in
doing that. have received letters
from the worlds small spots-from
unknown. almost hidden places-and
they say my people understand
That is my inspiration.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-20
Society

The engagement Is announced OF
Miss Selenah Butler. daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick f. Butler,
TO Charles r. Murphy.
%
Mr.. and Mrs. James Couzens and
family, have gone to Carolina for
several weeks.
O.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Stoughton
Newberry gave large reception
Wednesday afternoon. TO meet their
guest. John r. Mott. OF New York.
o.
Gen. O. ". Poe, No. 8, w. r. C.
will give masquerade party. Tues
day evening, May ., In G.. A. R.
hall. The corps members will meet
Tuesday afternoon. April %. In the
G.. a, n. building. to complete ar
rangements for the party.
o.
Mrs. Jefferson Butler will give an
illustI ated talk on Birds and birds
houses" Friday afternoon, in the
Scripps branch library. The awards
OF prizes will be made known for
the best designed and made birds
houses which have been on exhibi
ton in the library for the last
week.
Mrs. E, E. Raisch entertained is
young women at theater party
Tuesday, for Miss Edna Uelsman
whose marriage TO Arthur Knip
schild will take place Saturday
April %. Dinner followed in the
MacD!armid Chocolate house.
o
Requests for donations to the
white elephant" rummase sale
which Is 10 be held in the East
Side settlement. May >. and 4
has sent Lot OF folk rummagin
into stties and closets for article.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-20
American Riddles Send Stream of Dimes
4 10 Aid Homeless French War Orphans

To cry Of the French war or
sD>ans has been heard in the Unit
H. 1tates.
appy, home sheltered children
~ America have been asked to aid
Nv homeless babies war has left
~ ~ wake In France. Grown-up
4~k tor, have been asked to aid.
Il ~ does not take much to help a
N&e oephan. Twenty cents will
~DD = babe In food and clothes.
~ Irench government has ap-
y ej1&ed 10 cents . day each for
~ istherlsss kiddiss. children
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-20

and mothers of America are send
ing a stream of dimes TO France;
men folk and people generally are
adopting war orphans that Is,
providing the needed dime TO keep
one little victim OF war alive until
peace and prosperity returns to Eu-
rope.
The plea OF the war orphans has
been brought TO America by Miss
Gilmore Fell and Miss Florence SEQ
Geld. English nurses. who are max.
ing countrywide tour TO solicit
aid.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-20

- French scientist is working
ll0cn : photograph which is said to
111tate the human voice by passing
6@Gnygosscd air through photograph
AI1y-peoduced holes in rapid
oytng strip.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-20

81 Doae~-And there WAS my poor
0t1sr Percy! Stranded in Paris.
koat : dollar! And not a friend
& eoulA bSFFew Of. without going
ne trenches after them. which
- m thsy enlisted for. % doubt,
~ Ut sway from the poor chap
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-20

CHICAGO-"when think OF
American life. IL makes me hate Co
lumbus," was the excerpt from let
ter of the late Nine. Modjeska, ia
nous Polish actress, whose son is
defendant in a separate maintenance
suit here.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-06

NM 0,tii.fiS>tt FALLING SICKNESS
- ''- .' Years 90 uninterrupted
~ isis "a, ap epsy Medicine inSures
M COMPANY So. ,o5orrLE t,SEE. DIR.
ned hank, n. J.-AdY.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-06

prepared by the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture)
'Low-yielding acres, like boarder
cows, are often fatal to successful
farming" according to ]. C. Mcdowell
of the Office of farm management,
United States department of agricul
ture, in the new year book. Our
farm survey records show that areas
of poorly drained, compact and sour
soils, or soils low in humus, greatly
reduce net profits. Sometimes these
records show that as much as so per
cent of the entire farm acreage does
not produce enough to pay its way.
"One farm in Wisconsin, on which
records were recently taken, has 40
acres OF poorly drained land that in
its present condition is practically
worthless. twenty-five dollars per
acre spent in drainage will make this
40-acre tract the equal of any in that
district, and good land is selling there
at $3.50 per acre. A small portion of
similar land on this farm has already
been tile-drained and is now produc-
ing a fair profit on each acre so i'm
proved.
1.-The successful business man al
ways tries to weed out all improbable
enterprises and to expand those that
pay a profit. Improbable acres can
not always be disposed of as readily
as boarder COWS, but usually they can
be improved until they become profit
bearing. If the income from such land
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-06

liable acres. The problem of how to
prevent waste of. money, time and
energy in the attempt to develop
worthless land is worthy of careful
study. At best such waste can only
partially be prevented. The pity of
II is that so much of this loss falls on
those who can least afford to lose.
Every farmer who owns unprofit-
able land should make a detailed ex-
animation of his farm, acre by acre, to
detect all Improbable areas Next, he
should determine the approximate
cost of making each acre pay its way.
Such study will disclose what and
how much is needed in the way of
manure, commercial fertilizer, drain
age or other preparation, to produce
satisfactory crop yields. This analy-
teal study Of each portion of the farm
will sometimes call attention to many
acres that cannot be cultivated prof
itably. 1t is better to leave such land
in permanent pasture, or even to let
it lie idle, than to work it at loss.
The farm not only furnishes a home,
but it is a place of business. AS such,
each enterprise and acre should re-
ceive individual attention, and, so far
as practicable, the entire farm should
be placed on paying basis"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-06
Scotch Cooperating Stores.

Wholesale and retail cooperative
societies in the East of Scotland have
made marked progress during the last
year in spite of the war. An increase
in the sales of all branches of the CO.
operative store trade has been noted.
The total sales of the Scottish Co
operative Wholesale society for 1915
amounted to S56,S12,450 an increase
of S9,720,620 over those of the previ-
Gus year. and the membership was in
creased by 2.947 persons.
The Dunfermline Cooperative soci-
ETY. reported dividend of 81 cents on
the pound paid in 1915. The largest
part of the membership is composed of
persons of the working class.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-06

Whenever you hear a man of thirty
or Whereabouts declare there is plenty
of time for him to think of marriage
years hence, you should pity instead
of agreeing with him. He is trifling
with today, taking chances on tomor-
row. The youth just entering his
twenties does well to think long and
earnestly on subject as vitality i'm
portant TO his after happiness as mat
rimony.
Five years should be quite sufficient
to graduate from that study, however,
his first impressions regarding girls
and matrimony being truest and wis
est.
AS a man grows older, if unwedded.
his heart is wont to eloy up with old
loves and he loses his appreciation for
the true sentiment.
Having a single matrimonial catch
in the family is a boon to many a sis
ter. Young girls visit her with the
secret hope of meeting her brother.
There is no lack OF entertainment to
which she is invited. This is not say
ing that girls are not popular on their
own account, but to show the reason
why many most unpopular girls are
petted and made much of by those
who would have no objection to be
coming their sisters-in-law. Counting a
sister for her brother is a practice
quite as old as the hills, and it is
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-06
TOO GOOD TO THROW AWAY
"Drippin1s" From Fried Lamb or Nut
ton May Be Made Into an Elk
cellent Gravy Stock"

The housekeeper whose rule it is
always to make savory brown or
creamed gravy of the drippings and
meat-essence remaining in tie frying
pan after veal, chicken or hamburg
steaks have been cooked, will fire.
quently let the contents of the pan be
discarded, if 1t were used for frying
mutton or lamb. This is on account
of the quality of the fat that cooks
out of the meat, which is disagree
able to many persons. But If care
has been taken not 90 permit any
scorching during the frying, let cup
full of boiling water be poured into the
pan after the meat has been removed,
and let this boil up well, stirring with
a spoon, until all traces of the meat
essence have been dissolved away
from the pan. Strain this liquid into
an earthen or agate bowl, dash a
little cold water into it, and set aside
in cool place. In few hours the
fat will have formed a solid cake,
and can be removed, leaving cupful
of excellent gravy Stock" this can
be used for re-serving any left-overs
of the aforesaid mutton or lamb. if
wanted as hash or ragout. adding
notably to the flavor and richness
thereof; Or it can be added to ones
soup stock.
The same method can be used with
the dripping pan in which lamb or
mutton has been roasted.-American
Cookery.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-06
HOUSEHOLD HINTS

A good furniture polish is eight
ounces of sweet OIL four ounces tur-
pentine, two ounces ammonia. Apply
with cloth and polish with wooden
cloth.
After washing a white knitted jer-
sey, put it on coat-hanger to dry,
and hang it on line in the air. 1t
will keep a better shape than if pegged
ON the line.
Ground rice is excellent for clean
ing white cloth. 1t should be applied
with a piece Of clean white flannel,
left for two or three hours, and then
well brushed and shaken.
Rusty irons should be heated,
rubbed on a piece of beeswax tied in
liner, and then with a coarse flannel
cloth. sprinkled with household salt.
This will give a. polish like glass.
Silk stockings should never be
ironed. Wash them in soapsuds made
with good white soap and lukewarm
water and rinse in clear water of the
same temperature. Rough dry.
Do not iron lingerie ribbons while
damp if you want them to be soft.
Wrap while wet smoothly around a
big bottle covered with thick muslin,
and press with cool iron when dry
If the knob has come off the ket-
tie take cork, put screw through
it, push the screw through the lid of
the kettle and screw a burr on the
end. You will have knob that will
not come off nor get hot.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-06
Time by Wireless.

ChronOmeters in the Offices of the
port captains at Cristobal and Balboa,
in the Canal Zone, are corrected every
day at noon, to correspond with the
official chronometer in the United
States naval observatory at Washing
ton. Standard time is sent by wire
from Washington to Key West. The
current, working through a relay, op-
crates a wireless telegraph sending
key, which flashes the time signal in
simultaneously to the Darien station;
thence it is transmitted by telegraph
wire to the offices of the port captains
and to the headquarters of the troops
on the Canal Zone at Ancon. At Da-
rien the aerial transmission is record
ed by a current too slight to permit
of ordinary electric relaying; there
fore the receiving operator at that sta
ton transmits the signals through an
ordinary telegraph key as he hears
them through his receiver from the
antennae-an arrangement that causes
an average error Of about two-tenths
of "a second. Eventually the Darien
station will have a transmitting clock
that will send the signals exactly as
they come from Key West. The knowl-
edge of exact time is of the greatest
importance to the navigating officers
of ships that visit canal ports. In
making observations to determine
longitude at sea, an inaccuracy of
second in time means an error of
quarter of nautical mile in position.
The service received at the Darien
station is a part OF that furnished to
ships at sea through the radio stations
at Key West and other Places
Youths Companion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-06

quite as true the brothers are wont
to steer clear of their sisters girl
friends on general principles.
1t is the man who has too many
matrimonial chances who will not be
baited by a maiden's sweetness, INFO
cence and beauty, an older girls good
sense or youthful widows coguetry
He is amused with artless youth. ad
mires good judgment in woman, but
is not certain which side he is inspect
ing Of the sympathetic. many-sided
widow. Thus he dallies with love. He
pays attention to this young woman
until his fancy begins to wane and the
next one because she is the nearest
one at hand to make love to who is
not apt to pin him down regarding his
matrimonial intentions.
Wise indeed is the man who makes
up his mind firmly that he will have
but one sweetheart and that one he
will make his wife. What an amount
OF wasted hopes and affection he saves
not only himself, but others.
The free lance may seem an ideal
beau in his thirties, but after a de-
cade of added years has passed over
his head, he is by no means the shin
ing mark he imagines himself to be.
Fathers and brothers fight rather shy
OF inviting him to their homes and in
Producing him to their womenfolk
He has someone whom he loves is
their mental comment, taking it as a
matter of course that the man we'll
seasoned in years who is trifiing with
today has had some heart affair yes
terday which has laid too deep hold
on him to be considered heart whole
and fancy free.
1t is most unkind to tack suspicion
upon the broad shoulders of bache-
Tor, but it is to be hoped those who
read may profit by the suggestion that
it is better to wed late than never
Today opportunity knocks at the
door. Tomorrow is another day. The
same chance for happiness may be
hurled away in the whirl of life.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-06
CRITICISM OF MODERN FICTION
Peases Many Because of Its Unreal
ity and Sentimentality, Is Opinion
Expressed by One Writer.

Sentimentality is kind of artificial
coloring matter Just as plateful of
pink (grade E skinned milk, chem
ically fiavored) passes for strawberry.
as magazineful of pink (same for
mula passes for romance Without this
adventurous glamour many of the
sugary connections now served up to
the public would seem as fat as stale
toothpaste.
Some people find this tinge very
convenient To them it makes the
most drab things seem tolerable.
Wed rather not know what this
really is" they say, for if we did.
we mightnt like it as we'll Besides,
there are enough unpleasant. things in
this world, without our needing to add
to them by analysing something we
enjoy"
And So thinking the thoughts they
like to think, they batten on coal tar
and cochineal.
But some of us would like. TO know
what goes into our physical and men
tai stomachs. We wish that the pure
food experts who censor the adver-
tisements in many of the popular mag
azines might be given chance at the
fiction.-Judge.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-06
JAPANESE in the PHILIPPINES.

For some months it has been known
that a powerful Japanese syndicate,
says the Kobe Chronicle, has been
casting longing eyes on several large
sugar estates in the Philippines, and
particularly on the one owned by the
Dominican order of friars in the fruit
full province of Laguna; and for the
last few weeks it has been known to
many that negotiations concerning the
latter were drawing to a close, and
that there was every probability of the
property of the Dominican order of
friars going over to Japanese mer-
chants. Two days ago (says the Ma
Mia correspondent of the North China
Daily News under date of February
12) we learned that the sale had been
comp eted. the transfer taking place
at midnight on February z, when the
personal representative of the Japa-
nese syndicate, Mr.. X. Hada, took
charge of the estate. On the follow
ing morning the heads of the various
departments were notified that their
services were no longer required, and
their places were Immediately taken
by japanese who were all in readiness.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-06
PRINCE WAS HIS CHAUFFEUR
German Soldier Describes Queer Ex-
perience He Had Recently at
the Front.

The following excerpt from the let
ter of field artilleryman from
suburb of Cologne, telling his wife of
his ride with the crown prince on the
western front, is going the rounds of
the German press:
Il started for H. at noon today
There was not a wagon in sight.
was very tired from loading casks and
dragging boxes around, and if / had
not had two letters for H. from COM
rades and thus was obliged to go there,
| should have turned back.
Then an auto hove in sight 1
planted myself in the middle of the
road, spread out my arms, and the
machine stopped. On the right side of
the forward seat sat the chauffeur and
on his left a major. A man covered
with galloons from top to bottom
opened the door, and / took a seat
inside.
The chauffeur said: Well, COM
rade, where do you want to go?'
said: AS far as H. The chauffeur
laughed and said, All right Then he
looked around again and smiled at me
once more. He apparently was glad
that 1 was pleased. The ride was a
fast one. l pulled my cap down over
my ears, and the chauffeur looked
around again and laughed. l thought,
Does he know me? But how does he
dare smile at me so while a major is
seated beside him? He certainly is
nerVy.'
"As l catch glimpse of H. / half
turn around and say: May l ask to
be let OUT? Then l noticed for the
first time that the man who sits back
of me is an imperial chauffeur. Then
he said to the driver: The gentleman
would like to get out and whispered
TO me at the same time that the man
ahead who is guiding the auto and who
has smiled at me so often is a high
superior officer.
Thunder and lightning!' l said to
myself. Jump out quickly and stand
at attention, not before the major, but
before the chauffeur who then said
to me: Well, comrade, dost thou
know who has carried thee?' | said:
No I am the Crown Prince He
laughed again, nodded, put his hand
to his cap, and the auto was gone"