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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07
RELIABLE REMEDY FOR LICE
Any Good, Mild Grease, Either Lare
or Meat Fryings Mixed With
Kerosene, Is Favored.

For chicken lice one of the most
reliable remedies is any good, mild
grease, either lard or meat fryings, or
a mixture of any with a little kero.
sene It won't hurt the chicks or large
fowls as long as you don't get it too
strong. Rub the grease in the feath.
ers for lice on the body, while for
mites put kerosene on the roosts once
q week.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07
DISCOUNTED SNAKE
COLLECTS ITSELF
Head Whistles and Other Parts
Come Back and Link
themselves.

Larned, Kan.-EnOch Chase had a
peculiar experience while taking the
logs out of the old dugout on Me-
Hicks south eighty. He ran across a
joint snake down between the logs and
hit it with his spade. OF course every
joint flew apart and started to wiggle
off.
Enoch. just for a joke, picked up
one of the joints and put it in a bucket
and then slipped behind the logs and
waited to see what would happen. In
about ten minutes he heard n sort of
low whistle and then a rustling. The
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07
He Was Game

King Canute the Great ordered his
throne to be carried down TO the sea.
shore.
Then he sat on the throne, stretched
out his scepter and commanded the
waves TO go back.
But they didn't go back.
They came right on and swamped the
throne, compelling the king TO wade
to shore or be drowned.
"0h, well" said Canute as he dried
his coronation robes before the kitchen
fire, Il didn't really think they would
go back, but I'm willing to try any
thing once"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07
Model Husband.

Are you a married woman?' asked
Mrs. WOodside Of the applicant far
the vacancy in the kitchen.
"Yassum. rs married"
"And does your husband live here,
in town."
"Yassum."
How will you get along if yoH-
break up your home and 0me here To
work for meY'
"Lawd bless you, mum, he won't
care. He don't care if he nebber sees
me for a thousand years."-NewaE&
News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07

stand of alfalfa than lime and barn.
yard manure
Well Prepared Seed Bed Essential.
A well prepared, firm, solid seed bed,
plenty Of good barnyard manure and
summer fallow to kill the weeds, are
most important.
Alfalfa seed may be either drilled, or
sowed, broadcast and narrowed in, or
even disked in, especially if the sur,
face Of the ground is dry.
Sow ten to twelve pounds of seed
per acre. If evenly distributed this
will give fifty to sixty seeds for every
square foot, while n thrifty plant to
the square foot is sufficient.
Cut alfalfa before it is in full bloom
or as DON as the young sprouts or
shoots start to grow at the base of the
plant. Cut late in the afternoon or
evening.
When alfalfa Is left too long the
leaves, which are the most valuable
part of the plant, fall off and the stems
become woody and the yield of the
next crop is greatly reduced.
Alfalfa can be placed in the barn or
in stacks much greener than any other
kind of hay. Twenty pounds Of salt
sprinkled over each load of hay will
help to prevent heating and also add to
the palatability of the hay.
Where alfalfa is used for pasture
care should be taken to avoid pastur-
ing it too closely. Don't turn stock on
1t too early in the spring.
Make a Beginning-Start Now.
I would advise every farmer to try
at least a small piece Of alfalfa and il
he does not succeed at first, try again
and keep on '~ving until he does sue
| rood IT ia worth fr-a uhiIa
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07
DOGS as ldealists.

It was in the course of an imaginary
interview with one of the greatest com
temporary French writer's.
"The dog Riquet," observed Ana
tole France, "has the character accord
ed by all novelists who + liked to
their heroes.
"In his attitude toward life there
are uns%eltishness, humility and ideal,
ism. These qualities are, in fact, to
be found only in dogs"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07
Natural Inference,

Here comes Mrs. Gays husband
just as the last horn blows, as usual"
"Her husband! Why, you told me
that pretty little woman was a
widow"
ooh, no, l didn't. 1 told you she
was the wife of the late Mr.. Gay"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07

Practically every farmer has planted
crops this year which will furnish
more feed If put into the silo than If
handled in any other way. In most
cases they will also make more money,
particularly IL the season should be
wet OF late, or both.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07

SOAP Is STRONGLY ALKALINE
and constant use will burn out the
scalp. Cleanse the scalp by shampoo
ing with La Creole" Hair Dressing,
and darken, in the natural way, those
ugly, grizzly hairs. Price. $1.00.-Adv.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07
Think of Noontime!

The ships officer was talking to
the inquisitive old lady who was max
ing her first sea trip.
"There goes eight bells" he said
Excuse me, it is my watch below"
Mercy on u.s." exclaimed the lady
"Does your watch strike as loud as
all that?"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Groves

The Old Standard Groves Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a Gen
eral Tonic because it contains the we'll
known tonic properties of QUININE and
IRON. 1t acts on the Liver. Drives out
Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds
up the Whole System. so cents.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07

A good farm is a poor place for o
poor farmer, because no man could
be on d good place long and still re.
main poor. He would be a poor farmer,
indeed, if he did.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07
leach Lambs to Eat.

No matter how much milk the ewes
may have at the birth Of their lambs,
the lambs must early be taught to eat
extra food IL you would make big
weights at an early age.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07
Slow Progress.

Studying anything this summer
YES" replied the melancholy youth
For the past two months I've been
studying the facial expression of an
outrageous firt, and she still has ire
guessing"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07
Tlohten the Bolts.

Where burs are apt to work of
the ends of bolts through the rafting
Of machinery, get some nuts that have
holes through them and run a piece OF
wire through, fastened securely to
shaft or other immovabIe part.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07
Not keepinu Up.

Don't you feel kind O. behind the
times when your boy Josh gets to cut
tin up?' asked the neighbor.
away behind the times" replied
Farmer Corntossel. II don't know any
dances that amt at least a year old"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07
Wise Mo,

"Why," asks a Missouri paper, docs
Missouri stand at the head in raising
mules?"
because" says another paper, that
is the only safe place to stand."-
Christian Register.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07
ldeaIiZation.

DO you NEAR to tell me you never
went to a circus in your life?"
"Never."
But your business is designing the
pictures they put on the billboards."
"That's why I never go to a show.
1t might hamper my Imagination"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07
DICK n usefuI Imnlement.

The disk Is one Of the best imple-
ments a farmer can use. Furthermore,
the double disk Zone set throwing the
dirt out and the other in) is more than
twice as good as the single disk. Land
that needs one disking generally needs
two.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07
COVETED nv ALL

but possessed by few-a beautiful
head Of hair. If yours is streaked with
gray, Or is harsh and stiff, you can re.
store it to its former beauty and ius-
ter by using La Creole" Hair Dress.
ing. Price $1.00.-Adv.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07

The wrong way to cultivate corr is
to cultivate shallow when the corn is
small, and deep when 1t is large or the
last time through.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07
The Reason Why.

Irate Parent (beligerently)-You
can't walk in this house, young man,
and hang up your hat.
Suitor (timidly)-I know I can't, sir.
You're sitting on it.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07
ALFALFA BALANCES
THE CORN RATION

in the fall, and in the spring kept cul-
tivated or disked through April, May
and in the first part of June to kill the
weeds; or in case the ground is not
fall-plowed, 1t should be MANFRED,
disked, plowed and again dlsked MS
early In the spring as possible and then
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07
Improved SIinushot.

Two Pennsylvania inventors have
patented a slingshot with a sight to
aid in aiming it.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07

GIVE the good COW a little better
care. Every calf she gives you will
more than repay you for any extra
care.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07

WoMAN's GROWING GLORY
is her hair. II yours is streaked with
ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use La Gre
ole" Hair Dressing and change 1t in
the natural way. Price $1.00.-Adv.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07
Primitive Indians.

The Conebo, ShippO, Cocomao and
Yahua tribes of Amazon Indians are
still wearing clothes of grass.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07
Nothing Too Good.

Nothing is too good for the great
American buying public.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07

Better Farming Lessons Worry.
More pasture, corn land, live stock
better farming and less worry.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-28
And, Suddenly, Her
Voice Was Discovered.

Each Spring, at the close Of the Metro
politan Opera season, Muzio sailed for
England as stage manager for the COvent
Garden opera season in London. His
daughter always went with him, pursuing
her studies there. The year before the
European war started her piano teacher
discovered that she had voice. She went
to a vocal teacher.
The vocal teacher was astonished to
find that her voice was already properly
placed" She produced her tones with
all the sureness and purity that CharRc-
terized the tones OF the prima donnas
that had rung In her young ears night
after night while she watched AMI imi-
tated their acting in the wings and az
the back Of the Metropolitan stage.
few months and, so far as "the little
Muzio" was concerned. this vocal teach
er's occupation was gone.
Which was confession that meant
something, for this teacher was none
other than Casaloni. herself formerly a
celebrated Italian opera soprano.
Interpretation She knew that al
ready-had absorbed It from the best
models. She was letter perfect in the
lyric and dramatic soprano roles OF
Italian opera She could go right on and
sing them.
She did. London heard and welcomed
her the very next year. Father Muzio
thought she should sing in Italy for
while So to Italy she went. Father
Muzlo's apprehensions if any were
promptly dissipated The Italians rose
to her"
Along came Gatti-Casazza on his Sum-
mer vacation and annual hunt for opera
stars. This was last Summer. He beard
"the little Muzio' and promptly signed
contract with her for the Metropolitan
season OF 1s17-191S in principal lyric and
dramatic soprano roles.
Then befel a chapter OF accidents. Bori
was not recovering from the throat
trouble which seized her at the close Of
last season. On "Mr Gatti's" return
from Italy in the Fall Bori told him she
would not be able TO fl the coming sea-
sons engagement The Metropolitan's
director Immediately cabled to Muzio.
Fortunately she could get out OF her
present Italian engagement.
So here is the little Muzio." full year
ahead OF her Fairy Godmother's proc
gramme, queening il as a prima donna on
the same stage where only little while
ago she was a mere operate Cinderella.
~. Great Britain Rights deserved
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-28
Opera-Cradled on
the Metropolitan Stage.

Father Muzio is largely responsible for
this. Because through nearly every sea-
son since the present Metropolitan Opera
House structure was built. MuziO has been
the stage manager there. or assistant
stage manager. his little daughter, as a
matter of course was allowed the freedom
Of the house both front" and back"
Her mothers position in the chorus
served to add to the little girls privileges.
Her own attractive personality did the
rest
Now all the old attaches remember that
she was a born actress. Her own modest
statement given above conveys only a
vague idea of their remembrances Of her
constant, often unconscious, limitations in
the wings of the physical expression Of
world-famous sopranos as they inter
preted the roles for which they were most
celebrated.
From the age OF six years all her wax
ing hours were lived in the home atmos-
phere OF opera. The stage OF the Metro.
pOlitan was her opera cradle.
Her dark little head received friendly
passing pats from all the famous tenors
and baritones and basses Of that period
for not merely the great sopranos took
admiring notice OF her She was espe-
cially captivated by big Edward de
Reszke-though when the Russian giant
commanded the whole stage as Mephisto-
pheles in Faust" she was sometimes a
bit frightened. His jovial "piff, paff.
pouffl' in The Huguenots" made her
laugh. The elegant Scott and the
whimsical PM Corsi. greatest OF buffo
bassos, was her firm friend.
Really, she was born into opera, for her
Copyright. 1915, by the star Com
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-28

THIS modern Cinderela's Prince
Charming is a handsome middle
= aged gentleman with whiskers.
His real name is Gatu-Casazza. His
pa'ace is the Metropolitan Opera House,
= York City. The times having
unanged. he exercises also the functions
OF a Fairy Godmother Hearth-sweeping
smuty -nOsed Cinderellas all over the
word Of secret opera hopes and lOngings
mention his name in their nightly pray
ers With tears and prayers they wait
for tie waving of that magic wand and
the sound of the wheels of the pumpkin
chariot that shall whirl them on TO
Prince Charming's Metropolitan Opera
House Palace and deposit them in the
spotlight right down at the prompter's
box
Wei. II has happened Big MetropoI-
tan audiences, the opera connoisseurs
and the critical gentlemen writing for the
press have seen and heard and are at the
feet OF Cinderella Claudia Muzio. She is
no longer Cinderella. Her hearth-sweep-
Ing days are over. She is a Princess-a
grand opera prima donna which is the
same thing. So far she has proved it as
the heroine OF "Manon" and OF "Tosca"-
which is proof sufficient.
All this happened only week or two
agO-and on the same stage where she
so recently did her hearth-sweeping.
For this new Princess Of the MeuopOE
tan Opera Is the same dark-eyed. olive
eomplexioned little girl who enjoyed the
freedom Of the region back of the Metro
Volitan scenes because Mamma Muzio
sang in the chorus and Papa Muzio
bossed the scene-shifters.
Night after night. season after season,
she Was there. peeping at the thrilling
scenes from the shelter Of the wings OF
scurrying out OF the way or triumphant
prima donnas making their exits and
hurrying 20 their dressing rooms 10 make
up for the next act. She didn't have 10
scurry, for they all knew and liked and
befriended her-Eames. Melba, Nordica,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-28

Sembrich. all of the great ones. But
they were the Princesses Of the opera,
and she only Cinderella.
THE other night, when l was Tosca, I
almost expected to run into that little
girl as ] made my exits. Was l really
Tosca? Maybe IT was all dream, and
l would suddenly wake up to find myself
getting in peoples way back of the
scenes"
The new prima donna was sitting in
the darkened auditorium listening to
Frieda Hempel in a rehearsal of Marta"
She was entirely amiable-not in the
least prima donnaish. didn't in the least
mind discussing her own Cinderella
phase.
No" she went on amiably answering
questions, "in those days had no idea
should ever sing in opera. But got
to know all the Italian repertory almost
by heart-the characters. the drama. the
costuming, the scenes. l knew the music.
too. but never tried to sing any of the
arias because my father thought that
perhaps some day l might develop a
voice and that singing without the
proper training would be injurious.
1T was the acting that fascinated me.
I was always initiating it, When was
by myself l would beat time to the music
that was in my head and act the scenes
Of the principal soprano-the heroine, OF
course 1 had no expectation OF ever
singing such parts but all the same, for
my own pleasure. l used to act them all,
until there was not step nor a gesture
lacking or out OF place.
so / have never had TO take lesson
in acting You might say that l alb
sorbed il all as a privileged little girl
watching the great stars from the wings
knew them all. They took notice. and
were kind 20 me- There was no reason
for them TO think that should ever sing.
but they knew l could act, for occasion
ally they caught me at il as they passed
back OF the scenes.
Sometimes I watched them from the
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-28

father. as youth, had sung in the chorus
grand opera in Europe had graduated into
stage management. Quite likely he began
in this line as an humble scene-shifter.
Muzio himself would be the last to deny
this associates for thirty years under
stand his passion for accuracy in detail OF
stage settings according to the sacred ira
ditions which enter into the revival OF
every old opera.
Muzio carried his books and scene plots
home with him, and it pleased him to see
little Claudia porting over them. Before
she was a dozen years old she knew all
the details by heart as well as he did OF
setting every old Italian opera in the
Metropolitan repertory This knowledge
from sheer enthusiasm-she added TO
her letter perfect" understanding of the
principal parts Muzio would not let her
sing, for the reason mentioned above. But
he realized that she knew the operas
unsteady as well as otherwise That
meant that she was an instructive musl-
clan. So he had her trained at the piano
and the harp. The latter instrument is
much used in grand opera orchestras.
The girl made a speciality of It.
She studied with one Of the harpists
of the Metropolitan Orchestra. When
she had passed through the technical
study period. her daily practice included
the harp scores of all the Italian operas
the vocal parts Of which she already
knew by heart. Thus she became almost
as familiar with the orchestration Of
those operas as was any one OF Herr
Conried's wielders of the baton
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-28

back OF the auditorium. where thought
/ would get a better idea Of their work
from the standpoint OF the audience. But,
strange as you may think it. it was not
the singing so much as the acting that
captivated me from this viewpoint, as
we'll as when l watched from the wings.
When l went home l stood before
mirror and initiated them for hours. l
loved to initiate the great emotional and
tragic scenes Of Eames, Nordica, Melba
and the other greet lyric and dramatic
sopranos. / felt that such scenes we're
more in accord with my acting abilities
than the traditional walk and gestures
and by play of Sembrich and other great
coloratura sopranos in the more artificial
dramas of the lighter works of the old
Italian composers and Mozart.
You see, was unconsciously suiting
my study of acting to my wholly unan-
ticipated future as a dr. matte soprano
It got into my blood early. So when my
voice was developed was ready to go on
tn opera stage. If my voice had not ex-
listed. or been discovered. l am sure
would have become an actress.
"Fossetta, one of the artists at Ham
mersteins, was the first to mention such
a thing as an opera career for me. This
was when my father was stage manager
at the Manhattan Opera House, and the
little Muzio'-myself-had the same priv
ileges there as at the Metropolitan. Fos-
setta noticed me because he saw Mr.. Ham
merstein sometimes giving up TO me his
famous arm chair just of the stage in
the first entrance. Mr.. Hammerstein was
so nice that used to call him 'Nonno'-
grandfather.
$50 one Christmas Fossetta gave me
big Teddy Bear with a message asking
me to keep IL as a remembrance of his
prediction that l would become an opera
prima donna. l kept It, anyway. And
now my Teddy Bear wears handsome
ribbon on his neck"
To the new prima donna this was
Small talk" Who would care to read it
in newspaper? But to all the old at
taches OF the Metropolitan the story is
a fascinating one. From the administra-
ton of Maurice Grau. twenty years ago,
and through that of Conried down to the
first year or so of the reign Of Gatti-
Casazza. the little Muzio" is a clear men
tai picture to the great artists Of those
periods and to members Of the business
staff
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1916-07-29
@Iaiursn fir an4sn.

Die @lafur lift bic feinfte unb fann
ldneere .3eit a~ufbepabrt bleiben. Sen
iereilisen Gef9mad lam man Oann
na9 8elieben beifiisen. 3o4e elm
gfuno ,3uder in elmer Mefiinspfanne
nit einunbeinbdlb pint Waher gum
pierten Grob, nimm oann ben 3efel,
obne bic Maffe au betpesen, bonn Seuer
unb ieBe ibn in faltes @aRer. Nimm
elm aneefeu9tetes runoes papier, bede
bies auf Die MaHe uno siebe auf bas
Papier faltes Wafer. Diefes miro,
psnn Die 3udermai1e erfaltet TT,
f9nen abesgofen. Nimm oas pa
pier meg uno bearbeite nit einem 9ol3z
lOffel Die MaHe ti6tig. Bis iie glatt
unb eIdnaeno lit. pie nit SilberfdOen
our95peen. Stun miro Der &efel
aufs 6euer eefeBt, uno obne bob Die
Waafe eana marin nirb, immerfort ses
riibrt, big es cine fdmalaartige, peibe
MaHe bilpet. Dieter Glafur tann
nun jeoer beliebise @efdmad uno iebe
Garbe seseben tperben, gum 8eiipiel
brdunIi6 nit Gbotolabe, selbIi9 nit
Orange ooer 3itrOne. peib nit Mas
rosfino.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1916-07-29
RinbfIetfd aR gou t.

Man 1T pieIerorts Der Weinung,
Rinbfleifh eigne fid nidt gu Rasouts,
unb bod bereiten mir oft na9 untens
itebenbfm Resspt eth febr idmadbafs
tes @erint, bas pieleidt nod mebr
2iebbaber finbet. Gin beliebig grpz
bes, nidt gu trOdenes Stiid Rinbfleifd
miro In niht 5u fIeine Wiirfel sei4nits
ten. Damn pirb fetter Sped In elmer
aoferoIs beib esma9t. Nun miro
cine Gage RinbfIeifd bineinseIest, nit
Sala, pfeffer unb einem 2orbeerbIatt
eetpiirst, bann elm 2Dffel Mebl bariiber
seftdubt. Johann pieber 5letf4, uno
in Der Reibenfolse fortgefabren pie
oben. DDS Ganae ipiro nun auf ni6t
gu ftartem Seuer sebraten. bds heiBt
biz es Den reften 8ratengeru9 bot.
benn umseriibrt oarf ntht peroen bis
Dor benz Mnridten. SIT Der redte
.3eitpuntt 90, bas beiBt bas Jleifd
sebraten, ipirb elm grobes @los roter
Wein boran seeoHen, eine 3ptebel
bin5ueefigt, unb oas @anse einunos
einbaIb bis afpei Stunoen tOden ses
lnHen. gs mub otter nadsefebn tpers
Den, OBJ eeniieeno Sauce ~borbanben.
fonft pirb nit beibsr gouinon pber
WaHer nadpebOIfen.