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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02

to see the blackboard. Sometimes the
effort to see causes s'squinting" Of the
eyelids. a@ So
One OF the most notable symptoms
in young people Is the complaint made
in trying to read that 1.-THE lines all
run together"
Sometimes sick headache or. as doc
tors say, "migraine" Is one OF the
symptoms. Some authorities say nine
tenths Of all sick headaches are caused
from eye strain.
Occasionally chorea or epilepsy are
caused from eye strain. particularly is
this true of astigmatism.
The three commonest forms OF eye
strain and the most important from the
standpoint of the growing child are
hyperopia or farsight. myOpia or near
sight and astigmatism.
Hyperopia or farsight. Is the "con-
d1tion in which rays Of light emanat-
ing from distant objective point are
focused to an image in the eye be-
hind the retina."
Myopia or nearsight, is the "condi-
ton In which the rays OF light picture
the image in front OF the retina." In
the normal eye the image is focused
exactly on the retina.
Wealth Questions Answered.
]. S. asks: What is the most ef-
fective way to overcome the habit Of
breathing through the mouth at
nigaA?"
Have a nose specialist remove the
obstruction from your nose.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02
or INT'El2|ES TO WOMEN
F famous Film Actresses
Tell About Themselves
PseIU HylAnd Ran Away With The Dog.

A few years ago . fortune teller In
London told me Just after was out OF
q convent In Belgium, that ! was des-
tined for a career on the stage.
When.I got home and timidly mem
tionAd my desire to 70 on the stage
my father and mother laughed. They
dismissed it AZ tho usual girlish
fancy" But when insisted they were
severe In their disapproval A. were
my uncles-all in high church circles
There was only one thing for me to do.
and I did It.. One fine morning was
missing. located in q cheap theatri-'
cal boarding house In London. hadn't
friend, yes. one, my faithful dog
.Jackpots"-the dog that 20 many have
admired on the screen. "Jackpots'
shared my misfortunes. "Jac<pots" was
no fair weather friend. Those were
trying days. Several times | was on
the point OF giving up in despair. None
knew my whereabouts but my mother.
and / had exacted a.sprOmise from her
not Ito tell papa"
n. One day l was at the end o. NY
resources, and about to send q pAnt-
tent letter home for Transportation.
when there came a letter Offering me a
small part in a chorus. The pay Was
two mounds week. The letter to
home was never mailed. After short
time in the chorus got small part
in one OF Cyril Maude's productions.
Then became Mr. Maude's leading
lady. BY this time had won over my
parents, and even the deeply religious
uncles admitted that perhaps. after
all the stage is the best career Tor
Peggy"
After a short engagement with Sir
Herbert Tree in London went into
film plays. I'll never forget my intro
duction to the motion picture game. l
had to jump in the River Thames on
one OF the coolest days in February.
A little over year ago came to
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02
Ask for Buckwheat

Up TO this time most Of the buck
wheat grown in this country has been
used for stock feeding purposes. but
since II compares favorably with 9TH
err cereals in food values. II may well
take its proper place as a human food.
The crop has never been large. the esti-
mate for 1917 being only 16.Si3.OOO
bushels. Since it will grow on wide
range Of soils, yielding a fair crop on
soil too poor to produce other cereals.
there Is no reason why 1t should not
be extensively grown. 1t is OF easy
cultivation. a heavy yielder and is adj
ditionally valuable as a honey produc-
ing plant.f This last attribute alone
should cause a larger acreage to be
sown this year, when substitutes for
sugar must be produced in large guam
titles.
l. In order to show that buckwheat
| flour can be adapted successfully In
any recipes calling for wheat flour. the
Good Housekeeping Institute has
evolved the following recipes. which
give very pleasing results:
Buekwhsat Gems.
One cupful buckwheat flour. one
full salt. four teaspoonfuls baking pow
der, one egg. one cupful milk. one
tablespoonful melted shortening. quar-
ter cupful molasses.
Combine and sift the dry ingredi-
ents. Add the unbeaten egg. milk. mo-
lasses. and shortening melted. Beat
vigorously. pour into hot gem pans and
bake in hot oven twenty minutes.
1uckwhsat Spice Cookies.
Half .cupful white syrup or one cup
full sugar. half cupful shortening, three
cupfuls buckwheat meal, two eggs.
/ quarter teaspoonful salt. half teaspoon
full cinnamon, half teaspoonful Glove.
Beat the eggs well, and add syrup
and melted shortening. Combine with
| dry ingredients, mixing well. Pour on
to a Toured board and roll to ONE
eighth inch thick. Shape with a cut
| ter first dipped in flour. and bake In a
moderate oven ten to fifteen minutes.
X ouclsvyheat Nut Broad.
One egg, one cupful milk, one cupful
molasaes, or half cupfui sugar, three
| cupfuls buckwheat flour, three tea
spoonfuls baking powder. one teaspoon
full salt, one cupful walnuts chopped
fine.
Combine the molasses. flour. baking
| powder, and salt. Add the egg we'll
beaten and the milk. Beat and add the
walnats, chopped fine. Pour into a
ibuttered bread tin, and bake In a mod
crate oven from three quarters Of an
hour to an hour.-Good Housekeeping.
i
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02
THE DAILY MIssolLIAN SATURDAY MORNING MARCH 1918

mand. 1T = Nsttmated that during the
hist two yeas1 there has been some
thing Ike SIN. eoO. 900 Of property loss
from explosion alone. The explosion
policy in its full coverage applies not
only to Inherent hazards. but to OUT
side explosions.
The greateet danger at the present
time. In the minds of property owners
In from the bomb thrower and hence
expl0sion insurance has been more
popular because Of the fear Of enem,
sympathiaers. who win continue to de-
stroy property as long as the wal
lasts.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02
Aged Mother and Sol,
Dead in Home From Gas

Scranton. Pa--Side by side on a
bed In their home on Adams avenue,
Mrs. Frances Wilkens. SIS years old,
and her son. Harry. q we'll known
music teacher. were found dead in n
gas filled room. The authorities say
It was . suicide compact.
Mrs. J. A. Miller q Brooklyn. sis-
ter Of Mrs. NVilkens. who had not seen
her sister for five years, came here on
a visit. When she reached the Wilkens
home she was unable to gain admit
lance and called help. Detectives
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02

Fire insurance companies find that
there u more demand Tor explosion
insurance during the last month or 70
than has been the case for some time.
After war was declared by the United
States against Germany there was .
biz rush for explosion Insurance.
There were not very many heavy
lossee. however, and interest rather
died out.
Later on. however. came Il e Halifax
disaster and other scattering losses,
which Immediately caused a new de-
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02
OBITUARY

Robert Henry Rnmsey died at his
home at Midtown yesterday nlorning
at II o'clock, after q long ilinees. The
funeral will be held Monday afternoon
at 2 o'clock at the Lucy undertaking
rooms. Rev. J. n. Maclean. d. D.. will
be the officiating pastor and interment
will be in Missoula cemetery. Mr..
Rumsey was 81 years old and had been
employed by the Western Lumber COM
pany He In survived by q wife and
four young children.
The funeral Of Joseph Damanti Of
Tacoma. who died 1t the Northern Pa
cific hospital ON February -. win Be
held this morning at o'clock. 1t the
Church Of st. Francis Xavier. Inter.
|ment win be In st. Mary's cemetery.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02
Eye Strain
Causes and the Symptoms
They Produce.

When eye strain Is present there is
4 feeling Of distress or fatigue after
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02
Paint Disloyal Worker
Yellow, Head to Foot

Waterloo. lll.--Frank Brnner, who
works in one of the railroad shops at
Waterloo, ILL.,, said:
"Eighty-fi five per cent of the Ameri-
can soldiers are buns"
After severly beating him the shop
hands painted him yellow from head
to foot. The Company discharged him
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02

rea0lng.
The eyelids burn
or smart and Itch
ing Is sometimes
present. The pa
tient feels exhaust
ed and frequently
there Is headache.
In school a child
frequently lea n s
forward In trying
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02

found two gas Jets were open and
heavy table against the door, Mrs.
Wilkens and her son had been in iii
health.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02

c. b. WoOdhead, aged -, of San
Francisco, for As years has eaten only
one meal daily.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-09

The other day, during the passage of
six floors, bag was opened and a
check for $3.50 was removed as we'll
as $35 in cash. The thief was evident
ly nervous novice, for the check was
dropped on the floor of the car. Later
the rest of the money was recovered.
1t is not always money that pays the
penalty. Sometimes valuable jewelry,
q pearl necklace or diamond brooch
on the way to the repairing depart
ment is considered fair game by some
woman who has just paid her income
tax.
The shops, alarmed by the increase
in this sort Of thievery since the be-
ginning Of the war, have more than
doubled their vigilance. With the
aid Of an augmented staff of detec-
tives they hope to get the percentage
Of thefts down to normal. In this thew
can be greatly aided, they say, by the
public-especially the feminine portion
OF the public who command. goods to
be strewn before it in confusion on the
counter and who stroll about with an
ever-present temptation hung loosely
from its wrist.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-09
KARL MUCK

nature is guiltless or incapable of
political sentiments now abhorred
by nearly all the nations of the
earth, the masters who created it
with neither knowledge nor premo-
milton that the people to whom they
belonged would revert to moral saw
agery after their death and the
practitioners who are living under
that savagery and UNFOLDING it. Yet
to make such a distinction ought to
be Instructive in every intelligent
child. To Danish Wagner's dramas
from the stage can as little serve the
cause for which the wealth, life and
honor of our nation are pledged as to
bedaub the statues of Goethe and
Schiller, as was done at Chicago and
Baltimore. Are not such acts fool
ish and futile follies of which we
should be ashamed? We set up a
statue of Heine in New York large
ly as a protest against the attitude
Of the German Emperor, who will
not tolerate memorial of that un-
compromising democrat in Berlin.
Why should we seek to dishonor the
symbols of our former generation
fer the genius of Goethe, who re-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-09
German War Sufferers
Form Socialist Union
Demand That all Money in
Empire Be Employed in
Their Interests

The "Berliner Neueste Nachrichten"
reports that in Berlin there has been
formed 'Union of War Sufferers and
FORMER War Participators," which now
has 300 branches throughout the en-
pre-. The Junker paper suspects that
the union has been founded by Social
lists and brands the aims of the un;on
as anti-German.
The German Union Of War Sufferers
and Former War Participators" has tho
following programmes:
l.. All money in circulation is to he
employed for war sufferers. war widows
and war orphans.
z. The empire shall stop the nav.
mont Of interest on war loans unt,,
the demands Of the war sufferers shall,
have been satisfied.
o. ALI war profits above a certs;r
amount which is to be more Definitely
determined must be confiscated 90
distributed among the war sufferer.
:. Auxuries, vaIuables and oth.,
precious objects Of the property hold.
ing classes must be confiscated nv tn,
state and used for covering the mead,
OF the war sufferers
5. All wealth which ia wor+h 49,,
ono million marks is to be eonS...tsl
hy the stata
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-09

unselfish self-sacrifce of Brtinn-
hide. Are not these principles ex-
emplified in the great conflict raging
to-day? The brutal reign of the
Hun must give way to the dominion
Of righteousness. Shall we quarrel
with that ideal? Or with the basic
conception in "Tannhauser" that
salvation comes to humanity through
the love of pure womanhood? Then
must we condemn the uplifting fable
of Alkestis and empty our vessels Of
contumely on Euripides and Gluck.
Is there aught of political or moral
obliquity in "Parsifal," whose funda-
mental thought is that it is the en-
lightenment which comes to human
ity through pity and compassion
which brings salvation? How do we
feel toward Belgium, which inter-
posed it's dead body between the
Hunnish wave and civilization? Or
Serbia? Or Armenia? ode Meis-
tersinger"? That comedy has no
other than an artistic purpose-to
illustrate the conflict between the
creative and regulative impulses in
art, between radicalism and conser-
vatism, romanticism and classicism
rightly understood. sLohengrin"
Alas, for proud Elsa and her proto-
type, Psyche! The Knight of the
Grail ought not to have stayed up
so late to apostrophize the balmy
zephyrs and odors on his wedding
night. But he came in chivalric
pity to rescue a damsel in distress.
Is there harm in the contemplation
of his dilatoriness?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-09

march to glorify William I, but his
political reputation wrought it's re-
lection at the function for which he
had designed it. He also wrote a
march to celebrate the centenary of
the Declaration of American indie
rendence, though with it he gar
nered as little artistic glory as he
had with his foolish French farce.
Should Wagner's dramas be ban
ished from our stage because Of the
doctrines which they inculcate? The
world has learned to smile at Wag-
ner as philosophical poet. Even
the redoubtable Shaw breaks down
in the elucidation Of the doctrines of
socialism assumed to underlie "The
Ring Of the Nibelung" when he
reaches the last drama of the te-
tralogy; wherefore he proclaims
"Gotterdammerung" mere opera
and poor opera at that. But the
underlying purpose Of "The Ring
is to teach that selfish egoism ex-
pressed in terms of brute force must
give way to new dispensation of
justice and love; the selfish will of
Wotan is broken by the willing and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-09
THEORETIC AND APPLIED PATRIOTISM AND MUSIC
The Attitude of the Public Toward
Germanic Music; Its Dead Com
posers and Living Practitioners
Creative Spirit in Their Music
Crushed

Of Schubert, Schumann, Franz
Brahms and other masters Of Gem
man lyricism-the music Of compos.
ers who wrote before the material
ism created by German imperialism
had crushed the creative spirit ont
of German music. Let it not be for.
gotten that the days Of Germanys
greatness in literature and music
were antecedent to her political
greatness. The soil of Prussianism
has produced nothing in art. The
last truly great composer who lived
down into the days Of the empire IN
the line of succession to Haydn, Mo-
Fart, Beethoven, Schubert and Schu.
mann was Brahms, and he was the
son Of the once free city of Ham
burg, as his predecessors were sens
Of the people of their petty states,
The Great Dead owed nothing to
Germany united under the yoke Of
Prussia-neither the poets who
were destroyed by the monarchs
whom they had compelled to eman-
c;pate themselves nor the composers
who sang in blissful carelessness Of
the political conditions which sur
rounded them. Beethoven only
loomed up in his time as a democrat
willing to remain estranged from
his native Rhineland, chafng under
the bonds which held him in Vienna,
damning the regime which gave him
of it's bounty and admiring the Eng
lish and their constitution. "You
have heads on your shoulders in
England" said he to an English
visitor, and on his death-bed he
called for a reading of the entire
speech of Canning, advocating rec
IGNITION of the independence of the
South American republics. But we
must not listen even to Beethoven's
celebration of conjugal love and
fidelity because 'Fidelio" has Ger
man words.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-09
Russian Could
Not Be Found

The committee into whose hands
Major Higginson surrendered the
task which he performed so long and
so we'll made q strenuous endeavor
to secure the services of Mr.. Rach-
maninoff, but was, we believe, I'M
able to locate him owing to the dis
turbed state of everything in what
once was Russia. Mr.. Rachmani-
noff made a deep impression upon
the musical people Of America who
came in contact with him during his
visit to this country, and there would
have been no reason as yet appar-
ent to question his loyalty to the
cause of America and her allies in
the war against Germany and her
cohorts. This cannot be said about
some of the others with Slavic
names who were mentioned privately
and in the public prints as candi-
dates for the place. A vote of the
people of Seal Harbor, Me-, would
scarcely have offered a position of
patriotic trust to either Mr.. Stokow-
ski chad his conduct toward the Gin
cinnati Orchestra not debarred him
from consideration nor Mr.. Gabril-
owitsch, to whom Detroit has offered
a berth, accompanied by the procla-
mation-all the more vulgar if it is
true-that he is to receive the larg-
est salary ever paid to a musical
conductor in America. Both of
these gentlemen are now advertising
their loyalty to America and Ameri-
can ideals, but they have not invited
inquiry among their associates as to
their private sentiments.
The manager of the PHILADELPHIA
Orchestra, in announcing series of
concerts in New York next season,
tells us that Mr.. Stokowsh was born
in London of Polish father and an
Irish mother, but this is far from
being even presumptive evidence of
an hereditary hatred Of Teuto-Aus-
trian aims In the present war or
sympathy with this country in its
efforts to nullify those aims. When
devoted admirer in New York pre-.
sented him with a house as a gift
he chose Munich as it's site, not New
York or Philadelphia. Mr.. Stokow.
ski is said to have "announced his
intention of becoming citizen Of
this country" Immediately after
coming to America in 1905, and il
is added that ain due time this in
tention was realized" which is a
somewhat vague statement concern.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-09
By II. r. Krehbiel
EFF, AS has been said and then I'M
\ said, Sir Henry Wood has been

EF, AS has been said and then I'M
said, Sir Henry Wood has been
engaged as conductor of the
Boston symphony Orchestra, the
problem set by the internment OF
DR.. Muck has been solved in a man.
rer equally agreeable to the mere
patriot and the mere music lover.
To the music lover who is also filled
with a lively sense of patriotism
such a solution would be more than
agreeable: it would be cause for
sincere rejoicing, which could be
greater only if an equally capable
American had been chosen for the
position. Such man, however,
does not seem to be in sight, and If
the managing committee Of the or
chestra must needs go abroad for
their conductor it will be a comfort
ing and reassuring circumstance If
they make choice from people
whose loyalty to the cause in
which America is enlisted Is alb
solutely free from suspicion. This
would not have been the case with
any other one of the men whose
names and merits were canvassed IN
connection with the post except ST.
gnor Toscanini. This great artist
would. no doubt, have been enthu-
siastically received everywhere, but
especially in New York, where ne
would also have repaired the detec-
ton which will probably result from
the controversy which embittered
the closing days of last season. But
Signor Toscanini's greatest admir-
ers here had grave doubts as to
whether he is constitutionally and
temperamentally fitted for the oner-
Gus task which a fundamentally
wrong system of concert-giving has
forced upon the symphonic organl-
cations of Boston and New York.
Such work as Signor Toscanin1
did in preparing the concerts which
he gave at the Metropolitan Opera
House, when he amazed the knowing
with his performances Of Beethoven's
D minor symphony and Richard
Strauss "Till Eulenspiegel," would
be impossible were he obliged to con-
duct over hundred concerts in SIX
months; and it is his nature not to
be satisfied with anything short OF
the best. His habit, too, of memo
rizing thoroughly every score to
which he gives a public reading
would ruin the mind Of even must
cal Morphy. Let US be glad that so
sincere an artist was not tempted
into the dangerous experiment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-09

and no mistakes are made.
The Kind the
War Has Made
At the Brooklyn Court of Special Sss-
sions last week there appeared the
type of shoplifter brought into ex-
istence by the war. Young and crushed,
she sat awaiting trial. The agonized
look in her eyes was reflected in her
aged fathers face. Anna, the wife Of
a German reservist, now a prisoner of
the British, lives with her parents,
honest and respectable. All her life
she has known nothing but thrift and
economy. When she married life
seemed brighter Then came 1914 and
the war. Her husband went to Ger
many. Since then good times have
been few and far between. Anna has
done her share of the Homework and
spent most of her evenings at home,
reading or talking to the old people.
Then came the call Of spring and
Anna took her old hat to be retrimmed,
Lying on the counter, temptingly with
in reach, lay the very hat of Annals
dreams. But it was marked, "Price
$40" Anna tried it on. An uncon-
trollable impulse made her look about
hastily and walk out, leaving the old
headgear on the counter. But like
many another novice she was seen and
taken to court. A sympathetic proba-
ton officer listened pityingly to her
story and seemed to understand how
difficult it had been to resist the little
ray Of sunshine that had seemed TO
aim itself straight in her direction.
When Anna faced the judge, picture
Of misery and humiliation, the officer
stood ready to help her to get O light
sentence.
Still another temptation menaces the
woman whose income has been reduced
through the exigencies of war-the
temptation of the carelessly carried
handbag. Prosperous looking bags
swinging idly with unguarded clasps
from the arm of wealthy nonchalance
S~AAh0S 4oi1 ~ CAcEL aU UNCONSCIOUS IN
fiuence upon the thoughts of women
who feel the pinch of straitened
circumstances even as they are goaded
by the sight of the enticing wares of
the department store displayed with
the utmost cunning.
Those Who Are
Too Careless
Women who enter crowded elevat.
ors with their bags hanging unguarded
from their wrists frequently find upon
al'ghting at Ladies' suits, dresses,
coats and furs" that everything valu-
able has been taken and that only a
few hairpins, a powder puff and an
eyebrow pencil remain Of the forme.
contents.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-09
Opera and the
Political Beliefs

Why should Wagner's dramas
have been banished from the Metro
politan repertory? Because of the
political beliefs Of the composer?
-Assuredly not, for he was a revolu-
tionary against the monarchical
state while living and after death
left no preachments which can bring
comfort and justification to the
would-be destroyers of the political
ideals for which Americans are
fighting and dying. He wrote a
silly lampoon on the French govern
ment after the Franco-Prussian War
but it's banality avenged it's compo-
sition on his fame. He wrote a