The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-05-03

| MIS-. EdWafu Mcdowell, Wife of the |
famous composer, addressed a musi- |
cal conference on Peterborough an
American Musical Ideal. The colo
Iny had been founded about ten years
ago in New Hampshire and as a Nc
Dowell memorial and is going to be |
! turned into conyalescing home for |
/ soldiers returning from the war. Mrs
Mcdowell said that it was not the pur- |
/ pose to compete with the great hos
! pitfalls, but rather to furnish a place
| tor the convalescents
i Mrs. Mcdowell urged the women |
not to abandon art TOO soon. because |
of war conditions "Onlv after we
have all moved from our larger
houses into smaller ones. only until
we eat one meal less a day. and only
until we go without shoes and stock
( inss, as the French women have done
for almost four years, should we aban-
don art to purchase Liberty bonds.
she said
Miss Edna Thomas. OF CHICAGO sane
with Mrs Mcdowell as accompanies
the following Mcdowell compositions:
"The Swan Bent Low to the Lily. |
"To a Wild Rose, and Thy Beaming
Eyes. By special request from the
audience she played ITO the Sea.
and The Witches Dance. and Brer
Rabbit, one OF the characters of Tin
Gle Remus' stories which had been
one of Mr.. MeDowelrs favorite char
acters.
| Mrs. William D. Steele, OF Sedala.
1 Mo. presided at the musical session
Mrs Francis Elliott Clarke, of Penn
sylvania, made an address on "AIu-
Isle and Education. Madam Kathrene
Evans Won Klenner chairman Of mu-
sic of the New York City Federation
'Womens Clubs. made an address on
"Nisualized Music Preparedness by
Propaganda. The conference closed
with the singing of national songs
Professor E. V. McCollum, of the
John Hopkins University, spoke to
large audience on The Nutrition Side
of the Food Conservation. surprisin1
many with a statement disparaging
] INC tAHt vi Aifatr anu " non Ai' diN lli0l
I ii was chosen so much by the house
| keepers because of its palatablity and
that it was not spoilible in cooking
there were many mo, noes from the
/ audience as exceptions to the last
part of the statement. The hearers
evidently believed that meat was very
easy to sopil in cooking.
Professor McCollom insisted that it
was impossible to make any mixture
of seeds of plants and secure such
diet as safely would make for growth.
He said also that you could not mix
any seed or products, such as pota-
toes and radishes or root crops. that
would properly support growth. Then
he went further and stated that even
diet Of tubers with roots, and mus
cles, being the meat supply will not
promote physiological well being for
any long time.
Proper diets he said should be Of
seed and TUDOR and roots and meats,
| but always to combine these with the
leaves of plants Then he said to
make this diet perfect, add the dairy
| products.
The sales of milk have dropped off
as high as fifty per cent in some OF
the eastern cities and / understand
as high as thirty per cent in a city
4 Ike Memphis, because of the ad-
vanced cost of the product" said the
I professor This should not be the
case The dairy products must of
necessity have advanced in price as
ether advances came and with higher
wages 20 pay, the cost of stock food
4 having advanced, the advances in the
! price Of milk must too have been
made This industry must be saved
to the people, and the producer must
| not be discouraged, else others will
do as some have done and sell their
dairy stock for beef and then it viii
take years to rebuild"
"War Time Extension Work in
! Home Economics" was discussed by
Miss Agnes Ellen Harris, states rela-
tions department of agriculture, and
The Scope of Home Demonstration
! Work, was discussed by Miss Connie
! = Bonslagle, state home demonstra
| ton agent, Little Rock Arkansas
The extent to which this war work
was being carried even into the re-
hottest sections proved most interest
| ing as a feature of these subjects.
} At the art conference held in the
afternoon, Mr. George B. Rose of Lit
tie Rock, Arkansas, presented a most
interesting address on Ideals in
American Art" He said in part: "In
past years our art patrons have been
strangely provincial. Other coun-
Itries have been proud of their local
Tart English has a higher price
II England tnan anywhere else II
you suggested to Frenchman the
doubt whether his artist was the
greatest in the world, he would look at
YOU in pity. Equally content with his
Town is the Italian and the Spaniard
Even the German is convinced that
his ugly duckling is the most beauti-