davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-08-25

Springfield, Mass, Aug. 25.-Timely
hitting gave Bridgeport to VIC
tory over Springfield yesterday at
ternoon. The fielding of Lear and
squeeze plays by each team featured.
The score:
r. h. e.
Bridgeport 49,. 000001012-4 1
Springfield ..... O0ooO0100-1 2
Ferguson and Connolly; Gordinier
and Stephens.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04

a myth, projection of his own magma
ton. Miss Mitchell, his biographer. adj
mits that there are virtually no anthem
tic facts about his life. She was unable
to obtain even the date of his birth. AS
a biography, under the circumstances,
her book is not wholly satisfactory. Per-
haps it should have been written by Sir
Oliver Lodge.
Let us consider further the unreality
of Mr.. Moore. He himself tells us that
he left the Catholic Church because ne
objected to the confessional, yet he has
spent most of his life writing confess
sions. He continually implies that re is
bold and wicked creature, yet his auto
biographical writings leave the impress
sion of a Franco-Celtic Sir Galahad. he
has described himself over and over as
a person with lank yellow hair, sloplng
shoulders and female hands. Yet
Miss Mitchell says that the people IN
Dublin. where he insists he lived for
several years while putting Ireland on
the literary map, describe him vaguely
as IAN over-ripe gooseberry," "a boiled
ghost" "a gosling" These are Gu
riouslv unhuman epithets and so IS the
phrase by which Miss Mitchell charac-
terizes Mr.. Moores portrait. painted by
that grim realist Nanet, (which Is Like
nothing so much as the human symbol
of high explosive SHE'LL There is only
one conclusion to be gathered from all
this. No one has ever seen George
Moore.
The women in Mr. Moore's novels are
unquestionably people. But is George
Moore person? One doubts it. Per-
haps he will convince us when he walks
down the gangplank of transatlantic
liner. But perhaps he won't.
Read Esther Waters" and you'll say:
George Moore is great creative
artist" Read Hail and Farewell, y
which might have been called Seeing
George Moore" and you'll say: There
amt no such person"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04

might suspect them of improperly. But
we don't believe in them. We cant.
After reading a volume of Mr.. Moore's
confessions we can't imagine that he
ever had breakfast with lady. We feel
certain that he never saw any lady
alone, except possibly his mother. Miss
Mitchell quotes the saying: Some men
kiss and tell; George Moore tells, but
doesn't kiss"
But even more unreal than these
ladies. the most unreal person III his
pages is George Moore.
1--WE should really be much more IN
terested in Mr.. Moore" says G. K. Ches-
terton. eff he were not quite so interest
ed in himself. We feel as if we we're
being shown through gallery of really
fine pictures, into each Of which, by
some useless and discordant convention,
the artist represented the same figure
in the same attitude. The Grand Canal
with Distant View of Mr.. George
Moore Effect of Mr.. Moore Through a
Scotch Mist Mr.. Moore by Firellght,
Ruins of Mr.. Moore by Moonlight and
so on seems to be an endless series"
think we do not lose interest in Mr..
Moore by reading his confessions so
much as we lose faith in his existence.
He places himself so persistently Just
in front of our eyes that he fades from
view as if ne were familiar piece Of
furniture. His constant repetition OF
the personal pronoun adds to this loss
of personality. AS Mr.. Chesterton
points out, where another man would
say: ut is fine day." Mr.. Moore says
"Seen through my temperament the day
appears fine" The result is somewhat
like Mr.. Wordsworth'S experience with
the cuckoo. We hear Mr.. Moore ard re-
ioice. but in the end we find ourselves
exclaiming with the poet;
ooh, Cuckoo Can | call thee Bird,
Or just wandering Voice?'
There is much to be said for the
theory that Mr.. Moore is not man, but
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
Shall We Eat Our Food Supply?

would it do the more good-as drink or
food?
Corn is one of the greatest foodstuffs
in the world. The Jews went into
Egypt to buy corn to eat, not to drink,
and this economic episode which has
been handed down to us since the days
Of Moses is one of the biggest tenn
perance lessons ever taught. Corn has
been a food staple since man first
learned to cultivate the fields, but the
people of modern times are only begin
ming to learn and appreciate the use of
cornmeal as food. Properly prepared,
not only is it exceedingly nutritious, but
it is also very palatable. In one of the
educational bulletins in the food series
issued by the New York City Depart
ment of Health the use of cornmeal as
food is advised, as being cheaper and
more nutritious than either rice or po-
tatoes, for which it may serve as a sub
stitute. Various ways of preparing it
are suggested, among them mush, as a
breakfast cereal and fried as a substi-
tute for potatoes, and by the addition of
a little milk high nutritive value is at
tanned.
But we drink 100000 bushels Of
our corn every year. Suppose we ate it.
How far would it go? On the same
basis Of furnishing rye flour bread to
100000 people for hundred days
from the rye used in the manufacture
of whiskey in one year, 56,000,000 peo-
pie could be supplied for hundred days
with food products made from corn that
now annually goes into whiskey and
beer and these food products would, to
a great extent, take the place Of wheat
bread and potatoes.
Then there Is the rice. There are
100000 bushels of rice used annual
ly in making beer. We all know the
wholesomeness of rice. We all know
the many tempting dishes that can be
made from it and how it can be SUBJ
stituted for potatoes and other vegeta-
bles.
Some may prefer their rice in beer.
But suppose we used these 100000
bushels of rice for food, instead of for
drink. If used for food 100000 peo-
pie could be partially nourished for 100
days. And that might help out quite a
little when food is scarce.
Then there is the barley-37 100000
bushels of it annually go into the beer
kegs. Barley as a food? There is nc
limit to the broths and the soups and
the supplemental service as a food
product that barley can give in helping
to solve the food problem.
Or suppose you look at barley as serv-
ing only one purpose-that is, as food
for chickens, cattle and hogs. It would
take a pretty good mathematician to
figure out even an estimated result, in
pounds of poultry, beef, bacon ana
pork, to be derived from the feeding OF
thirty-seven millions and odd bushels of
barley to the denizens of the farm, and
to reduce those pounds into units OF
food for the people who are in need of
food quite as much as they are in need
of beer.
There are countless shoulders of
bacon and countless quarters of beef
and countless breasts of chicken that
were never nourished-but might have
been nourished-from the 37,500,000
bushels of barley that last year ran
through faucets instead of over fields.
And we have forgotten the eggs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
Continued from Page Three

grain went into the whiskey and beer.
, For instance, about 116,000,000 gallons
of molasses we're used in the whiskey
and rum and about 60,000,000 pounds Of
hops were used in the beer, and many
other materials were employed in the
manufacture of the beverages, the max
ing of which occupies so much OF the
capital and the energy of the people OF
the United States.
But, instead of gulping down all these
products with an unquenchable thirst,
suppose we turned the 100,0OO,OOO
bushels of grain and the millions OF
gallons of molasses and the millions OF
pounds of hops into palatable and nu-
tritious foodstuffs.
Think of the corn griddle cakes and
the Johnny cakes and the corn mullins
with the golden-drip syrup Think OF
the barley cakes Think of the rye
bread with coffee and the rye bread
sandwiches with cheese between the
slicesl Think of the other things to
eat in these days of hunger!
Let us see what we could do with all
this grain if it were made into food in
stead of drink. Three million bushels
of rye-to be exact, 3,116,612-were
one of the smallest amounts OF grain
used in the manufacture of whiskey last
year. But with this amount of rye
great deal of bread can be made.
OF course, you must understand, in
these days of high prices for small
loaves of bread and the stiffness of the
boss bakers who are turning out the
bread, that practically there is no such
thing as commercial standard loaf of
bread. Neither the size nor the weight
is guaranteed. But for baking purposes
the fourteen-ounce loaf of bread is still
considered. That is, it is supposed to go
into the oven weighing fourteen and to
come out weighing twelve ounces. At
one time it was supposed to be your D.
cent loaf of bread, but that is now a
dream of long ago.
Well, at any rate, 800 fourteen-ounce
loaves of bread can be made from bar
rel of rye -four Now, it takes four and
a half bushels of rye to make barrel
of rye -four. of 1876 pounds. Therefore,
out of the rye used in making whiskey
in 1916 $4,000 barrels of rye flour
could have been produced, and out OF
these barrels of rye -four 208, 100000
fourteen-ounce loaves of rye bread could
have been made-enOugh to keep the
entire population of the City of New
York supplied with bread, allowing one
half loaf to each person day, for 100
days.
But that's only the rye used in whis-
key.
How about the other grains which are
used in far greater quantities in the
manufacture of whiskey and beer?
Now, there is corn. Thirty-two mill
ion bushels of corn were used last year
in the manufacture of whiskey and TO-
100000 bushels of corn were used in
making beer. That is total of A.
100000 bushels of corn that went into
drink for a thirsty people for twelve
months. 1t isn't case of temperance
lecture, or whether it is right to drink
or not. The facts are here: Somebody
is drinking 100000 bushels of corn
a year. This corn is raised in the
United States. 1t could be utilized in
drink products or food products. 1t
could be drunk or eaten. In which form
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
Books. Common and Preferred
Bv HAROLD KELLOCK

KELLOCk
who is being supported by an affection
ate lady of forty-fve. Meanwhile he is
painting the portrait of Ada Carver, a
young lady, engaged to be
married to an importer of blotting
paper. Ada and the artist eventually
drift into brief love affair, which Mr..
Moore finally deals with as follows:(
without. the other being aware
of it, each was seeking Independently
way out of an intrigue which began
to seem to them to have run its course.
Lewis, DEAR" she said one day,
don't make it harder for me. Ny
father and mother are pressing me to
marry him"
Darling, what is to be done?' he
answered, though his heart was up
lifted at the news. "Tell me-" he
asked in a stern tone, what your an
sver is",and she answered: I'VE will
Moore never learned how 10 shall
or will always remain friends, but
once Pm married you won't care TO
kiss me again"
Il shall always care to kiss lips as
soft as yours and as red"
"But not mine," she answered. They
babe each other goodby, and, feeling
somewhat ashamed of his lack of SEN
timent, he walked in the garden.
For such scenes Mr.. Moore has al
WAYS shown an incorrigible appetite.
But as he grew older and the habit OF
realism gripped him he began to be In
terested in the heads of ladies as well
as their shoulders, and the result was
great gain in power. Miss Mitchell de-
clares that Bernard Shaw knows more
about women than Mr.. Moore. But Mr..
Shaw serves them to us in vlvlsected
condition, while Mr.. Moore gives them
comparatively in a state of nature. Inc
result is that Mr.. Moore's women seem
more real. Certainly there IS no char
acter in English fiction more real than
his Esther Waters. In fact, whenever
he is writing about imaginary persons
he portrays them with such rare fldel-
itv that we cannot escape from their
reality. They are so wildly alive that
we become curious about their creator.
But as soon as we turn to Mr.. Moore S
numerous photographed volumes, IN
which he is writing of real scenes and
neople. we enter vague and shado~y
land of disembodied spirits.
The ladies seem particularly remote
from reality. We find Mr.. Moore llving
in a rented house in Dublin. He has
been living there alone for weeks or
even months, and one morning, entirely
without warning to the reader, a lady
bobs up at the breakfast table, presldes
there, pours the coffee as if she be-
lonqed permanently in this domestic
nicture. She converses IN phllosopnlc
fashion with Mr.. Moore, and suddenly
-noufl-she vanishes from the pages.
Who was she? What was she doing
there? We never learn. But about
hundred pages further on another OF
nerhaps the same lady materiallzes
suddenly, possibly travelling with Mr.
Moore on a steamboat, and discusses
nlatonically her impending return TO
her husband, who is shooting in Scot
land And before the boat has made
many knots the lady apparently falls
overheard or drops down the stokehold'
for she disappears and Mr.. Moore never
refers to her again.
70 we believed in these ladies we
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04

II is announced that George Moore
NAV come to America to lecture to us
this year, presum-
MORE OR LESS ably about George
,ROIrT MOORE Moore and about
the ladies, the two
Subjects on which he has been writing
vtbAnthusiasm for nearly forty years
Breutano's is printing his earlier books
with charming new prefaces by MIR.
Moore. and Dodd, Mead & Co. have re-
Gently published his biography written
br Susan L. Mitchell. A George Moore
revival seems to be under way, and the
lth author has attained to sort OF
autunnal popularity.
Mr.. Moore was educated IN Catho-
lie school in Ireland. and his father
raised MS boy to be a soldier. But young
Moore preferred an artists life and
went off to Paris to study. Miss Mitchell
devotes the most comprehensive though
not the longest chapter in her book to
Noore the painter. Here it is in full:
Nobody in Ireland has ever seen
any Of Mr.. Moore's paintings, except
4. TO whom he once shyly showed a
head. remarking that it had some
"oualitv." Il remained silent.
After time Mr.. Moore discovered
that he was not cut out to be painter
0he began to write poems and art crltl-
csms and novels and confessions. Up 10
the present time he has produced elgh-
teen books. which, he admits, are about
ten too many, and he declares that
henceforth his pen shall turn only to
prefaces.
In Mr.. Moore's earlier novels he loved
to portray scenes in ladies boudolrs. lie
approached a boudoir filled with young
ladies' with somewhat the same artistic
antcipations as our own Art Young ap-
woaches a Congressional committee
room filled with very fat Senators. lie
loved to describe ladies in great detail,
specially their shoulders. In "A Drama
in Muslin" telling about a ball at Dun
lin Castle, Mr.. Moore compares the
place TO a vast rosary of shoulders, and
he compares each pair of shoulders to
different variety of rose-"the chlorotic
shoulders, deadly white, Of the almost
yreenish shade that is found in Prin-
cess Clementine; the pert, the dainty
little shoulders, filled with warm PINK
shadows, pretty and compact as
COUNTESS Ceclle dc ChraDruldnJ, anu ''
On for several pages. In such fashion,
at session Of Congress, can we mag
ne Art Young with the aid OF a mar
ket gardening catalogue) comparing
the heads Of stand-pat legislators to dii-
lerent varieties Of cabbages.
Mr. Moore also had great fondness
Tor scenes Of philandering, and was con-
unually enmeshing his characters N all
sorts Of entangling alliances OF the
heart. In his first novel, "A Modern
l'Ter," recently rewritten with the ne"
utle Of "Lews Seymour and Some
women" the hero Is young painter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04

were iuli OF paIiea,ers, many
Of ,',cm fcrealned oa> lor fear,
len The poor @o'1pa lf.oaHs
I,avebeea hart; / .l3e eis,apSa
with <ily,le l'rlsh'. and Ing
her l,u,l,ai.. tia .y,.nrq iQe sol
inso ''soxer' AZ az, SIS li,oula..
fs4..,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04

his GfDer, a taan at his size,
and Of q youth klllrs hi, DC
loved friend, without either
having any tuch i''e,''',''. On
the nigh, of tie latc Scnsfal
illumination on accosal; u
peace, Is E.d@agd l'',uu,.Wtasl
w.a< palTlng along Nio$ sf,cr.,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
N;3WsO
& B M1
EgHASN

supplements, and label the
product, "FOr the Little
Ones" Here are specimen
pages from some bedtime
tales of 1901. And as If the
context did not offer pep
enough, the publishers
CIinched matters by ChOOS=
ing the following title:
"Chapfer of Accidents and
Remarkable Events, Con-
tanning Caution and In
sfruCfiOn for Children"
Happy, happy children!
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-07
Food Souring Causes Indigestion.
Gases, Heartburn -Pape's DiapeDs
Instant Relief Neutralzes acid in stomach sto,,-.
dyspepsia, pain, beching-It's fine,

You don't know what upset your
stomach-which portion of the food
did the damage-do you? Well, don't
bother. II your stomach is in a re-
volt; II sick. gassy and upset. and
what you just ate has fermented and
turned sour; head dizzy and aches;
belch gases and acids and eructate
undigested food; breath foul. tongue,
coated-just take a little Pape's
Diapepsin to neutralize acidity and
in five minutes you wonder what be-
came Of the indigestion and distress.
Millions of men and women today
know that it is needless to have dys.
2epsia. A little Diapepsin occasion
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-07
AN OLD RECIPE |
TO DARkEN HA|
SAGE TEA AND SULPHUR TURN
GRAY, FADED HAIR DARK
AND GLOSSY.

Almost everyone knows that say
Tea and Sulphur, properly coz
pounded, brings back the natulI
color and lustre to the hair wn9
faded, streaked or gray. Years
the only way to get this mixture w
to make it at home, which is mus1
and troublesome.
Nowadays we simply ask at
drug store for "Wyeth's Sage a.
Sulphur Compound" You will &c!
large bottle of this old-time recl1
improved by the addition OF on1
ingredients. at very little cost. Even
body uses this preparation now,
cause no one can possibly tell tn1
you darkened your hair. as it do1
1t SO naturally and evenly: ~
dampen a sponge or soft brush wy
it and draw this through your na.I
taking one small strand at tlnis|
by morning the gray hair disappear
and after another application or .sl
your hair becomes beautifully aaj
thick and glossy and you LOOK ytS,l
younger. Wyeth's Sage and Suipu.]
Compound is a delightful toliel y
quisite. It is not intended for ~
cure, mitigation or prevention OIL "
ease.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-07
Charity has thousand faces and every
one is beautiful. X. Washburn
SWEET HARMONY TANGLED.

The decision of the New York CITY Metro
politan opera directors to omit German opera
from the repertory this season is a wise one It
is better to forego the music of any school than
to allow amusement to stir resentment and dis
sension in the public. The trouble in which
the Boston symphony orchestra finds itself is
deplorable from purely musical viewpoint and
the almost forced resignation of Director
Muck is to be regretted Great as the orchestra
is, however, it is better to sacrifice it Temporal
lily than to let it become bone of contention
But the case Of Fritz Kreiser, star violinist
need cause no regret in the hearts of those who
are unsteady inclined and also have good
strain of American patriotism in their makeup
Kreisler who is really member of the Aus
trian army though furloughed on account of
wounds received in battle, has been playing in
this country, earning large sums. Much of his
income has been forwarded to Austria, thus
giving aid to an ally of our enemy. The result
Of this disclosure of Kreislers doings has put
L , in bad and his engagements in many cities
j. been cancelled.
This is time when motives Of general well
fare to the nation must move the whole people
to sacrifice any personal feelings and preju-
dices--or lack of them. It would be truly
civilized attitude that would hold great art
aloof from war spirit but this is not possible
Germany has been vandal in destroying art
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-07
COMPULSORY WORK.

Baltimore American: Perhaps
never before in the history of the
world was there such an urgent or
such a widespread call for willing
workers. 1t is not a call limited to
one or half dozen industries; every
art and industry is bidding for the
Service of men and women that are
willing to enlist in the great army
that is making the wheels of pro-
gress go round Two pages of the
American bloom every day with
offers of pleasant employment at
good pay rates. Many of these offers
specify that working environments
are wholesome and pleasant; there
mas been thoughtful effort devoted to
the purpose of making them whole
some and pleasant
The Maryland compulsory work
bureau, during the brief period that
1T has been practically operated, has
directed general attention to the fact
that there are in Baltimore a good
many male persons between the ages
of eighteen and fifty who are not
employed and don't want to be en-
pioyed. They are. apparently, not
interested in the work proposition in
any OF the various forms in which
1t has been presented to them. Very
likely most of these sIackers would
like to be elected or appointed to
some official position where the sal
airy looms large, and the work is
mere theory. The administrator of
the compulsory work law is propos- 4
ing to get work out of these strikers
by compulsion. Well, the admins
traitor has his work cut out.
But for those who are willing, there
IS Astounding employment opportunity
and great variety for the choosing.
The call is not exclusively for skilled
workers. 1t is needless to remark
that the skilled and efficient worker.
n whatever industry. gets bettre
pay. The way to obtain skill and |
is to get the employment |
and then to use diligence and studi- |
ous effort to rise TO a higher level Of
Usefulness.