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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-18
PICNIC DA1NTIEs.

I never saw a picnic spread That did not have among the eats Some peanut butter on the bread And many plates of pickled beets.
 Youngstown Telegram And as for picnic spreads I know Of many jaunty little trips; Where all they had was just a row Of boxes of potato chips. I never to a picnic went
 And failed to find lot of cheer, If some one with benign intent Had brought along a keg O beer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-18
THE NEEDFUL.

Now, money isn't everything Of course that's true; And yet it helps a lot, by 1ing, When bills fall due.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-18

Let not the world see fear and s"u distrust e.overr the motion of kingly eye
 king John.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-18
MARKING BACK.

MT Jibway makes little speech every time he puts new record on the phono- graph"
 That's due to force of habit
 What do you mean?"
 'In his younger days MT. Jibway was ballyhoo man with carnival company"
 KEEPING THE FLOOR DRY. why are these little pails attached to the back of each seat?'
 'Those," answered the enterprising mo- vie manager. "are receptacles for tears provided for our lachrymose lady patrons. We offer photoplay today with heart throb in every flicker"
 IN DOUBT.
 Did I understand you to say that Colonel Jagsby is a prominent prohi- bitionist?'
 Well, I notice he always sits close to the front of the platform when there is a prohibition rally, but don't know whether that is due to passion for publicity or the workings of an aroused conscience
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-18

Entered at the BlImIngnam, Ala, post office as second class matter under act or Congress March 5. 1S19
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-12-17

that runs definite course of from three
10 nYe days and even longer
II delirinm tremens is an acute infec.
ton, as some claim. how Is II that many
cases are accompanied by no fewer?
And why does the infection, II infection
IT be, occur more often in the case of
heavy drinkers who for some reason or
other, Just before the attack reduce the
amount of their daily rotations?
The tendency of the disease to attack
persons while they are diminishing,
rather than increasing their doses OF
whiskey, Is also explained by the theory.
that sudden fall In the amount OF alco.
hol circulating in the blood of alco.
holics" causes the delirium. hut blood
tests have not, so far, corroborated this.
One writer on the subject maintains.
that Chronic alteration in the intestinal
tract, due to alcohol, is responsible for
the elaboration of poison which 1t nor
mally excreted through the lungs.
Another medical solon holds that the,
liver, rather than the lungs, is the organl
that fails to eliminate the delirium-pro-
dueing poison.
The very latest explanation" OF the
ID. Ts"-that they are caused by "anl
increase in the pressure and amount OF.
the spinal fluid''-already has its adj
yersaries, thus leaving the entire subiecd
In cloud of doubt.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-12-17
Madame Valentine de Saint Point,
Partisan Poetess, Descendant of
Lamartine and Inventor of the
Strangest New Dances

one-step or two-step understands what
that means), and dancing should be ex-
pressed by geometric lines"
There are many other things that
might be said about these dances, but
space forbids Expert Partisan historians
OF the dance have written about them at
length. Clever Partisan artists have made
sketches of her in many attitudes, and
these prove the remarkable impression
she has made on those who saw her
Some of these pictures are reproduced
here.
Madame boldly asserts that her meta
chory" is the art of the future the art
OF arts. in fact. She believes that 1t will
entirely take the place of the operas of
richard wagner as form of entertain
ment for intelligent people.
Wagner's operas had the merit of con-
bin1pg music, drama and scenery with
wonderful effect. But they were sensual
and emotional Metachory possesses the
same artistic merits, but 1t is essentially
intellectual
Art. said Madame, has placed image,
rhythm and form at the service of pas
sion but never at the service of the idea
The sensual manifestations constant
~ repeated in every spectacle and OF
which we had grown tired before the
war. will appear afterwards even more
tlresome. The age was no longer that
OF triumphant passion; it will be less
SO tomorrow when the war will I'M
doubtedly have aged the world more
than fifty years of peace
Leaving out OF consideration an
tiquity and its artistic manifestations
which should not be parodied to-
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-12-17
Why the DTS" Puzzle Science

WI HEN Shakespeare deplored the
w custom among men of putting
IAN enemy in their mouths to
steal away their brains he failed to
catalogue a 1.-THE of the injury this
sheltered enemy is capable of inflicting.
The stealing away" of the brain-in
other words deprivation of clear judy
ment, leaving a muddled condition of
minds. OF course. one of the deplorable
effects of alcohol but II is a rnercifu
condition in comparison with the mental
cataclasm sometimes wrought by that
awful disease. delirium u emens.
Terrible and terrifying as have been
the examples of this form of disease,
and abundant as have been the oppor-
tupities for studying it from a patho-
logical standpoint. medical science still
stands baffled before its eccentricities.
Why should some hard drinkers never
"see snakes" while other and more
moderate indulgers sometimes visualize
them to such degree that loss of life
follows? That is the question
While chronic alcoholic poisoning has
long been known to produce changes In
the bodily organs and disastrously affect
the nervous system, no changes have
yet been found in the brain matter which
explain why man who has been drinking
for years suddenly developes q delirium
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-12-17

the most essential lines woman's un.
draped body is perfect only when mo.
tionless. For that reason the nude dance
Is very inartistic. ! use costumes to SIM
plify line. In dances l never mimic,
never use the obvious gesture. Dancing
hitherto has been nothing but rhymes
In flesh. 1t has been the slave of music.
: make 1t the equal Music is expressed
through numbers (anybody who does the
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-12-17

Torrance. For the same reason all
mimicry and trivial gestures of the hands,
such as we knew in old stage dances.
are sternly cut out.
And then the drapery!
Il dance veiled," Madame explained,
because the face takes away from the
seometric effect. All those parts OF the
body where flesh predominates over
muscle must be concealed. keep only
Corw-i-'+ 1919 ~ .he Ga. C.@---.s~
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-12-17

n TADAME VALENTINE DE SAINT
MI POINT, the distinguished Partisan
49, poetess, and grandniece of the
famous French poet, Lamartine, has come
to New York to improve our minds by
means of a remarkable and entirely novel
system Of dances.
Madame de Saint Point has long been
noted in Paris as a social philosopher of
very daring and original type She Il
not only descendant of Alphonse de-
Lamartine. but granddaughter of the
Marquis des CLANS de Cessiat, a noble
man WHO was prominent under the
French Second Empire. Her arstocratic
birth has never hindered her from ex-
pressing the most radical ideas of social
reform.
In her big studio in the Avenue de
Tourville. Paris, she has impressed her
novel views on fashionable and artistic
society. She has taught the necessity OF
womens discarding unhealthy and con-
ventional forms Of clothing, OF educating
children free from their parents foolish
control, of giving absolute freedom to
woman and of living wild, free life for
= large part of every year.
She is handsome woman OF a rudy
blonde type. with very striking features,
and graceful body made strong by her
habit of living in the ooen air
Madame de Saint Points new dances
are the climax of all her philosophy, her
latest effort to put humanity on a better
basis.
Madame calls her new system of
dances "metachory," a combination of
Greek words meaning beyond tile dance"
She also describes them as 'ideistic
lances"
Madame de Saint Point aims to convey
a certain dramatic idea to her spectators.
The idea is usually expressed in a poem
written by herself, which is read before
the dance. The idea is transcribed into a
geometric plan or figure. which forms the
basis of her dance. She follows the lines
laid out in this figure exactly as she
dances.
For instance, there is her extraordinary
poem called Love" In the geometric
figure of this dance she moves backwards
md forwards between two points or poles.
One is circle, which represents ecstatic
love; the other is point which repre-
sents liberty, the freedom to do as one
pleases with ones own mind and body.
The dancers steps represent the strug-
gle between the enormous attractions of
love and the equally enormous attrac-
tons OF liberty. In the end 1t is liberty
that wins, for In the philosophy of
Madame de Saint Point man must free
himself from the trammels OF old fash
Toned love in order to fulfil his highest
destines.
ST do not believe in sentimental love-"
yaid Madame de Saint Point. 'I believe
In nothing which causes man or woman
TO become slave; to lose that cerebral
control without which he becomes an ami
nal. A person in love is a person who
has lost control OF himself. / have no in
.erest in him. Women love more than
men, or at least they have more time to
give to love than men. If love is con-
trolled it is cerebral; il it admits the
domination OF the mind, then accept it,
hut not otherwise
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-12-17

OF our senses and our nerves, II touched
the deepest and the most secret recesses
of our being.
This man Of genius revived not only
music but the theatre. He did not
merely work as composer, the scenic
art which he created was his own: his
drama was vast legendary vision ex-
pressed In many creations. In the plastic
field Of art, however, he brought moth
ing new, because he did not have the
plastic genius. Therefore, he did not
recreate all art. az he would have
wished.
HE remains. however, like q noun.
tain-top which has never since been
~rivalled On the path which he had
chosen no one could go farther
ut belongs to our epoch, which is less
sensual, more intellectual, more devel-
oped, tired of facile emotions played upon
for ages, to put the idea at last at the
summit of all civilization and to place
in its service Art with its image, rhythm
aud form
art should no longer merely be . Joy
OF the eyes, an agreeable vibration to
the ear, commonplace and uninterest-
Ing pleasure. 1t should touch the very
depths OF our SOUL should possess us, not
through the easy and WORKOUT path of
our senses and our sentiments, but
through thought. An image should no
longer be merely an image, a musical VI
bration, merely a sound which finds its
echo only In our senses. Il should inspire
thought and its echo should be an idea.
THE new art OF our epoch Is meta
chory."
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-12-17
Hou This Very
Original
Partisan
P0etess Conveys
Ideas of L0De ar
Ideas of Loue and War
BY Dancing Geonetrical
Figures With Colored
Atmosphere, Music
and Perfumes

Il believe In the marriage
which is reasonable, and
which is entered into by two
human beings old enough to
know whether or not they
complete each other. What
does a girl of eighteen know
of such things? A woman
should be thirty at least"
Such is the philosophy =
which inspires this one of
the remarkable Saint Point
dances.
Then there Is the dance
and the poem called "Poppies
of Blood, This Is a poem
Of war and expresses the idea
of innumerable young men
dying and fertilizing the
earth with their blood. A
translation OF the poem is
printed on this page, with the
dancing figure that accom-
panies 1t.
This figure consists of the
outline of a great poppy, with
other puppies within it.
Madame describes the out
lines Of the peoples in her
dance The common Euro
pean poppy is blood-red
flower, the reddest of flowers.
1t expresses blood as no
other flower could express 1t.
The dance symbolizes the
idea Of young blood soak
Ing into the soil and fertilizing 1t.
Madames dances are ACCOMPANY
strange interpretative modern
composed to fit them Claude De-
the most famous of the new F
school of composers, has written
for her, and other musicians who
crate with her are Roland M
Maurice Droeghmans, Erik iSatie
Rudyard Chenneviere.
The effects of lighting and colorir
drapery produced in these dances q
to be very weird and almost une,
according to descriptions received
Paris.
BY an ingenious arrangement OF
ing the dancer swims in an opaque c
atmosphere, while her body alo
brightly luminous. The body
strange rhythmieal luminous radi
Into the surrounding atmosphere,
take a certain form according to tn
expressed.
The color of the surrounding
phere fits the subject. Psycholog
shown that every color excites {
kind OF thought Madame uses a
followed by red atmosphere
dances of war. a blue atmospher,
love dances; green atmosphere
ironical subjects and yellow
phere with pantheistic dances or
of nature.
In addition to the colors. Madam
a perfume in harmony with the |,
be expressed, and this reaches the
of the spectators and sinks into
souls.
The idea is expressed entirely |
movements of the body and its Ell
form. Therefore the face is partl
cealed by drapery in order that I
ternal emotions of the dancer ma
break through and interfere with Il
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-12-17
A Sketch of Madame de Saint
Point as a Warrior by
Valentine Gross

day, and combining ourselves 70
the Western world, We see that
after the great expansion Of mystic
art in the Middle Ages. sensuality
and passion have become, little by
little, the sole inspiration Of art
under whatever form 1t may express
itself.
After the magnificent expansion Of
the Middle Ages. when architecture
and sculpture reached their highest
form in the Gothic style and the
mystery plays-popular representa-.
lions Of faith in which all the arts
collaborated-we had the senti-
mental graces Of the eighteenth
century from which frivolous paint
ing. chamber music and the dances
OF the salon formed the highest ex.
preston Of modish sentimentality.
Music had once been sacred; it
then became frivolous and there re-
manned to be explored the domain
OF sensuality. 1t was the Wag-
merriam musical drama which marked
the apogee OF the sensual epoch.
Unto the midst of operas purely
sentimental. Wagner injected the
tremendous rhythm Of passion and
Of unloosed sensuality. Dramatic
music with him was no longer ad.
dressed to our hearts, 1t awakened
no longer our sentimental emotions,
hut fakfn0 noaeocstor ir.nn,s>.,-
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-12-17

Not the dead but the living shall
terminate here,
Their blood still lives to increase
year by year.
This red blood has budded and
lowered in a night;
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-12-17

See those brave
b | e e d i n g
hearts, ! o o k
how high and
upright,
It burns with
gu t .ceasing,
that c o n s e.
crate flame
Of the youth
that lay dying.
u n c o nscious
of fame.
Cut down, not
e xtinguished,
their A r d O
they yield
To illuninc FOR
aye the incar-
nadincd field.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-12-17
Poppies Of Blood By Nine Valentine de St. Point

A RED field of battle: on every
"A hand
The ruin of warrior a piece of
land
For truth? Utopia? Pride? Do
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-12-17

they spoil
Ii We S Of men
strewing this
shell-shattered
soil?
Brutality strick-
en- for a hate
without name,
Their blood like
r { d peoples
"A o o d S t h c
whole plain.
were hot;
for the sun in
t cir hearts
did they keep;
The su n t h a t
makes fertile
their unend-
ing sleep.
The Parker post., 1916-04-29
Harlequin Lemon Jelly.

Strain the juice of three lemons into
half-pint cup and fill the cup with
cold water. Into double boiler put
three cupfuls of cold water and two
thirds of cupful of granulated sugar
Put five tablespoonfuls of cornstarch
into bowl, pour over it the mixed
lemon juice and water; mix well.
When the water in double boiler is
hot, but not boiling, pour into it the
cornstarch mixture and cook rapidly.
stirring all the while, until a little
thicker than tapioca cream. Turn into
three separate dishes, coloring two of
them with vegetable coloring and
leaving the other white. Il use rasp.
berry and blueberry coloring.) Into a
quart mold put a layer each Of the
red, white and blue alternately, and
continue till all is in the mold. Put
away in a cool place and it will soon
be ready to serve plain or with cream
The Parker post., 1916-04-29
You Can Get Rid of
That Itching Rash

There is immediate relief for skins
itching, burning and disfigured by
eczema, ringworm, or similar torment
ing skin-trouble, in warm bath with
Resinol Soap and simple application
of Resinol Ointment. The soothing,
healing Resinol medication sinks right
into the skin, stops itching instantly,
and soon clears away all trace of erup-
ton, even in severe and stubborn
cases where other treatments have
had no effect. After that, the regular
use of Resinol Soap is usually enough
to keep the skin clear and healthy
You need never hesitate to use Resi-
mol. 1t is doctors prescription that
has been used by other physicians for
years in the treatment of all sorts of
skin affections. 1t contains absolutely
nothing that could injure the tenderest
skin. Every druggist sells Resinol
Ointment and Resinol Soap. (Advt.)
The Parker post., 1916-04-29
SELDOM
SOLD HERE NOW
Nasty drug salivates, makes you
sick and you lose a
days work.

Every druggist in town-your drug
.gist and everybody's druggist has no.
ticed a great falling-off in the sale of
calomel. They all give the same rea-
son. Dodson's Liver Tone is taking
it's place.
"Calomel is dangerous and people
know it, while Dodson's Liver Tone
is perfectly safe and gives better re-
Suits said a prominent local druggist.
Dodson's Liver Tone is personally
guaranteed by every druggist who sells
it. A large bottle costs so cents, and
if it fails to give easy relief in every
case of liver sluggishness and con-
stipation, you have only to ask for
your money back.
Dodson's Liver Tone is pleasant
tasting, purely vegetable remedy, harm
less to both children and adults. Take
a spoonful at night and wake up feel
ing fine; no biliousness, sick headache,
acid stomach or constipated bowels.
1t doesn't gripe or cause inconvenience
all the next day like violent calomel.
Take dose of calomel today and to-
morrow you will feel weak, sick and
nauseated. Don't lose days work!
Take Dodson's Liver Tone instead and
feel fine, full of vigor and ambition
(Advt.)
The Parker post., 1916-04-29
Old Horse Well Fed

There is an old mongrel horse of the
pavements living as luxuriously as any
blue-blooded, fast-stepping racer, in the
Biltmore hotel. He occupies one of
the best rooms in the hotel. His daily
duty is to drag the ice-scraping ma
chine over the ice in the Biltmore ice
gardens. The men and women who
come to skate and idle and drink tea
feed him tidbits and scratch his head
or pat his neck, and the horse, clumsy
and unused to these carresses, pats
his carefully wrapped hoofs on the
rugs and swishes time bitten tail.
He drags the ice machine carefully
as If realizing his responsibilities, and
he goes gently through the corridors,
and is quiet in his room, never keep
ing late hours or leaving the light
burning. When the spring comes the
poor old skate will go back to the
workaday world, a dray and prob.
ably a harsh whip and harsher
curses, but just now he's living the
life.-New York Times.
The Parker post., 1916-04-29
PRIZE HISTORIC PENS
COMPETITION FOR THOSE USED
TO SIGN TREATIES.
Most KeenIy Sought, After Will Be
the One Used to Affix Signatures
to Document That Will End
Present War,

Who will get the pen with whfck
the peace treaty will be signed which
shall end the present war?
The collecting of historic pens has
been quite fad for some years past,
especially in Europe. The pens with
which peace treaties are signed bring
the highest prices if they happen to
find their ways into the market, and
there are many collectors who would
be willing to give thousands of dol
lars for the pen which shall declare
an end to the present war of wars.
Usually, however, such pens remain
the property of the states concerned.
When it became known that peace
had been declared between Japan and
Russian pen manufacturers all over
the world sent supplies of their pens
to the commissioners who were en-
gagged in arranging the terms, hoping
that the document would be complet-
ed through the agency of their wares.
To avoid any unfair discrimination be-
tween the pen manufacturers it was
decided to use quill in signing the
treaty.
1t was also quill pen that was
used in signing the treaty Of peace
between the United States and Spain
after the war of 1898. This particular
pen was afterward sold for $125.
The pen used by the commissioners
in signing the memorable Treaty of
Paris fell into the hands of the ex-
Empress Eugene. Aside from it's his.
toric interest it is also Of great value,
for it is mounted in solid gold and in
crusted in diamonds.
Aside from the collectors there are
many who consider it lucky to possess
a pen that has been used in signing
the reprieve of person condemned
to death. Applications for pens that
have performed such service are often
made to the governors of states.
Queen Victoria always retained pos
session Of such pens. One of these
she presented to Nine. Albani, the
singer.
Pens which have been used by ia.
nous authors often fetch high prices
at auction. Dickens used the same
quill pen to write Hard Times" Lit.
tie Dorrit'' and Bleak House. which
was sold some time ago for SIT.
A valuable pen is the one which
Lincoln presented to a friend just be-
fore his death. 1t was made from a
portion of a box which belonged to
George Washington, while the box it.
self had been made from the lid of the
desk belonging to the captain of the
Mayflower.
The Parker post., 1916-04-29
MINING DEVELOPMENTS

OATMAN, Arizona, April 21st, 1916.
Developments in the Tom Reed
Junior, Lucky Boy, Telluride and Car
ter, all occupying adjoining ground to
the south of the Tom Reed and United
Eastern mines. are such as to cause
Oatman operators to anticipate the
creation of a new and large producing
zone in the Oatman district during the
next few months. At about 800 feet
depth the Telluride shaft has cut some
twenty feet of low mill grade ore, and
at 250 feet the Carter has developed
quite tonnage of fine commercial ore
Indications encountered in the shaft
of the Lucky Boy also point toward
the proximity of large ore bodies.
The properties named are all on the
same big vein system, and the show
ing is causing much optimism on the
parts of the various operators. The
Tom Reed Junior Company's property
is in the central part of this zone, and
as commercial ore is being developed
on each side of it's property, the fact
\ that the bottom of it's shaft at 260 feet
depth is entirely in ore ranging be-
tween $4.00 and $500 per ton is a
highly significant feature.
The Parker post., 1916-04-29
Chameleon Gem,

Heliodore is the newest gem, and II
differs from all others in it's remark.
able faculty Of changing color.
Heliodore is brand new discovery.
1t was accidentally unearthed by Ger.
man prospectors searching for other
precious stones in German East Africa.
No one knew what the gem was when
it was first brought to light, but it did
not take long to learn that they had
added new star to the bright firma-
ment of gems. 1t is the first new gem
discovery that has been made in mod
ern times, and many have thought that
there were no more new gems to dis
cover.
Samples of the stones were sent
some time ago to the kaiser, and he
was delighted with them He had
seven heliodore stones set with dia-
monds and pearls and made into a
cross for the empress. The predomi-
mating color of heliodore in daytime is
a brilliant golden yellow. In artificial
light it changes to a beautiful green
In semidarkness it shines like a dia.
mond.