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The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-24
Geese Serve as Watch Dog
of the Home; Are Reliable
as the Family Alarm Clock

No domesticated birds are so faith
full, so interesting so intelligent as
geese. They revel in the society of
those who own them. In remote parts
of Ireland and Scotland the geese
share the family hearth This is one
of their strongest characteristics.
They love to pass the night near the
homestead They do not need a
warm, comfortable building to sleep
in; they are quite contented, happy,
and healthy If allowed to sit down
outside the back door,. They are light
sleepers. A stranger cannot approach
within a hundred yards or so without
their hearing him and screaming at
the tops of their shrilf voices.
They will often wander few miles
during. the day, but they will faith
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-24
How Jack Tars Know When
Ship Is Approaching Land

Sailors have curious way of know
ing when their ship is approac ching
land. They go to Mother Nature for
their knowledge. If you are on the
ship they may ask you to feel the
deck, which is wet with dew. Even
though the stars are shining clearly,
and the sea is absolutely smooth. the
deck seems as though water had been
poured across it. The sailor will then
inform you that dew is never to be
found more than 80 miles from land,
so the dew is a good indication.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-24
Blacks of Australia Least
in Scale of Human Beinus

Lowest in the human scale of all ex-
listing people are the BLACK fellows
of Australia. They are rather monkey
like. with protruding jaws, wear no
clothes whatever, have no habftations
and subsist from day to day on wha;
they can pick up or kill. In former
days white settlers in the island con.
tinent hunted them down like wild
beasts, regarding them as kind OF
ape. Some excuse for this was found
in the fact that they were hopelessly
treacherous, chronic thieves and pro.
feSsed cannibalS
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-24
FEMININE FASHIONS
Connecticut Labor Press Department fo
Women Wage Farmers and the Women
Folk of the Workingman's Family.
BLACK AND WHITE

just like mothers. One is of buff col
Ored velOurs-a nice soft, cuddly, dou-
ble-faced velours is used for it-and the
bonnet that accompanies it Is of bright
red chiffon cloth with lots of tucks. If
you ask any little sub-deb what the
trouble with most party dresses is she
will tell you that they make one feel
entirely too dressed up, and this, of
course, is fatal to a good time. For
who wants to sit around and talk and
sing and never romp or anything?
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-24

anywhere from 8 feet to IL feet high
from the bottom of his powerful feet
to the top of his plumed head He was
the biggest and strongest bird of his
time. with wings useless for flight, but
powerful for fighting purposes. The
enormous legs were armored, while the
striking spur of the birds foot was
anything in length from 1 foot to 2
feet. The beak was a foot long and its
edges cut like shears.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-24
Creed That May Well Be
Applied in Life Each Day

To live content with small. means
To seek elegance rather than luxury
and refinement rather than fashion :
To be worthy. not respectable.
wealthy, not rich: To study hard, think
quietly, talk gently, act frankly. To
listen to stars and birds, to babes and
sages, with open heart: To bear all
cheerfully, do all bravely, await occa-
sions, hurry never: In a word, to let
the spiritual, unbidden and uncon-
scious, grow up through the common.
This is to- be my symphony.-William
Ellery Claiming.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-24
Aeinful Charlie.

Little 4-year-old Charlie was miss
ing one day. His mother going In
search of him finally found him in
the library sprinkiing valuable book
that was on the table. why my boy
what are you doing spelling that nice
book of dad's?' 81 was just wetting II
for him because he said 1t was too
awfully dry" he replied.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-24

MiIk.-Scald four cupfuls of milk and
gradually sifr in three-fourths of a
cupful- of cornmeal, one and one-half
teaspoonfuls of salt, stirring until well
mixed Cover and cook in double
boiler one hour. Serve as a desse"'
with cream, or with milk as a fuu
meal.
5utterniIk Sherbet-Dissolvet three
foHrths Of a cupful Of sugar in three
cupfuls of buttermilk, add three
fourths Of a cupful of grated pineapple
and the juice Of two lemons. Freeze
as usual.
5uttermiIk jelly. - Dissolve two
tablespoonfuls of granulated. gelatin in
cold water, then set over steam until
entirely melted; add the juice of two
oranges, the juice, of lemon, and then
add three cupfuls of buttermilk which
has been mixed with three-fOurths Of
a cupful of sugar. Let stand until
firm. 80 "a Z r.
Grape Juice 6aVarian.-Mix one and
one half tablespoonfuls of gelatin
with two tablespoonfuls of water and
half a cupful of grape juice. Dissolve
one-haIf cupful of sugar in one cupful
of boiling water; bring to the boiling
point and pour onto the gelatin mix
ture. Add three tablespOenfuls of lem
on juice; let cool and slightly thicken.
then fold in three-fourths of cupful
Of sour cream, whipped. IL
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-24
Dots Miller Arrives Home
From Army Duty in France
and Joins the Cardinals

After spending nearly a year and a
half with the marines in France Dots
Miller, one of the really capable ball
players of the major leagues, has ar
rived home. He attended a few BAN
Quets and then liked for st. Louis
to join the Cardinals.
Miller was one of the first ball play
ers to enlist and saw service almost
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-24

fully return in the evening. You will
find them punctual. They will time
themselves to be back just as daylight
is failing, and at the hour at which
you generally get up in the morning
they will see to it that you are called.
They will knock at the door, and at
the windows too if they can reach
them, and every few minutes they
will scream. They are as reliable as
an alarm clock. 49, go
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-24
Fossil Remains of Bird,
Father of American Eagle

Scientists are much excited just now
over the discovery in an ancient tar
lake near Los Angeles, southern Cali
fornia, of the fossil remains of a bird
which they contend is the father of the
American eagle. 1t was certainly
"some chick'un," as Ebenezer would
say, for, according to experts who have
examined the remains. the bird stood
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-24
Talk of RESPONSIVENESS!

He was discussing Australian re-
sourcefulness, and told how an Aus
tralian and his dog were lost I'm the
bush. They were starving. The man
loved his dog too well to think of kill
ing him for food, not wishing to sur
vive his faithful companion.
At last he had brilliant idea which
would serve to keep them both alive.
He kindled fire, cut off the dogs
tail, cooked it, ate the meat, and gave
the bone to the dog. st
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-24
Origin of the Veil.

The custom of wearing wells came
from the East. The newly married
Roman woman wore a red veil. Vestal
virgins wore white wells. Early In
Christianity priests gave wells to wild
ows. There lies the origin of the
widows weeds" In the Catholic
church the white veil is given to
nOvices and the black to nuns.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-24
N1A Nl~z~ee
Acquired Hauteur,

"Women are quick to learn" re-
marked the head waiter ~ a. fashion
able restaurant
"HoW's that, Henri?"
81 can point out half dozen wives
of war raillionaires who IhaNel never
been inside of q place like this until
a year or two ago, but now they are
as lofty and as hard to please as If
they hadubeen dining here all, their
Observation-Disclosures Age-Herald.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-24
Danish All Fear,

The fact is, that to do anything In
this world worth doing. we must not
stand back shivering and thinking of
the cold and danger, but jump in and
scramble through as we'll as we can.
Sidney Smith.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-24

Whatever1has been attained is
attainable.-Sir William Jones.
Attempt nothing beyond your
strengths-Latin Proverb.
Many men continually attempt
to make rauger holes: with "a
gimlet,-FrankIin.
They got the i'll name of au-
ours because they were bores.-
Lowell.
A Nett Anguish meyer brings
dearth-Italian 'PrOyerb.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-24

planned (main dish, salad and des-
sert) does not seem to be sufficiently
nourfshing, precede it with hot soup.
thick vegetable PURGE served with
crackers is a meal in itself. If crou-
tons or bread is served the food value
is even higher.
Our economical dinners which we
are trying to serve to conserve both
food and money, must meet the re-
quirements of the family by being
hearty and satisfying as we'll as good
to look at.
A few spoonfuls of leftover oat
meal may be stirred into the morning
griddle cakes, Or mullins, or it may
be fried and served with a bit of
bacon, making a most tasty breakfast
dish. Save time by cooking enough
oatmeal for several meals. 1t may be
reheated, adding boiling water and
tastes as we'll as if freshly cooked.
Split Pea Soup.-Soak two cupfuls
of dried peas over night, drain and.
cover with two quarts of water, cook
slowly with one small chopped onion.
three stalks of celery, few sprigs
of parsley, one carrot. Cook two
slices of salt pork ten minutes then
add to the pea mixture. Add two
tablespoonful each of flour and but
ter, and when we'll cooked add two
cupfuls of milk combine with the veg
etables and cook five minutes.
coconut Bread Puddine.-Soak a
pint Of bread crumbs in a pint Of
milk, add three tablespoonfuls of coco
nut and another pint of milk. Sweet
en- with four, tablespoonfuls of sugar,
add done-third of -cupful of rafsins,
a pinch Of salt and three beaten eggs.
Flavor with lemon rind and pour into
a baking dish. Set in hot water and
bake slowly until the custard Is set.
Three things to wish for-health.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-24

served IN as aILTaC
tive form as pos
sible. The real
genius of b cook is
shown in the man
ner she serves and
the attention she
gives to the COM
monplace things.
If the meal as
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-24
KeKTTOHU
GBUNEf22zRtR

We have a choice, a glorious oppor-
tunity. We can take the great, bruised
and broken world in our arms as
though it were sick child and mother
it back to health again, or we can
trade upon its weakness and grow fat
upon it's need.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-24

from the time the American fighting
forces got into action. when Miller
Higgins managed the Cardinals he
said once that there were only two
men on his team he would not trade
and both were named Miller, mean.
ing himself and Dots Miller. IL o. II
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-24

The Asiatic town of Malwaatchi, on
me borders of Russia, is peopled by
men only. Women are forbidden en-
trance there.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-24

AL VIII DC 50 superior III
favor that one will ever
care for the denatured
cornmeal In common use.
1t will not keep long be-
cause OF the germ, which
quickly turns rancid, but
with a small mill one may
grind it as one needs the
meal.
Cornmeal Cooked in
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-24
GOOD THINGS FROM MILK.

When cornmeaE cam be proqured
freshly ground. the dishes made from
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-24

If Eve hadn't been forbidden TO eat
that apple the chances are that IL
wouldn't have happened - -
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-24
COMMON FOODS.

It Is the common foods which we
serve oftenest and which should be
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-24

Three things to wish for-health,
friends and loving spirit.
There are three things really worth
while-be good, do good and always
smile
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11

looking about for a leading woman,
and Barrie very kindly recommended
me. I was given a contract. But it
was a contract that, while placing me
under a yearly salary, called only for
my appearance in Shakespearian roles.
When l inquired the reason found 1t
was decided I had no American accent,
but that / did have q Yankee inf,ec-
tion, and that would never do in
modern English plays done at His
MaJesty's Theatre. It would pass un-
noticed when reading blank verse, but
the modern drama was another thing.
I opened as Hermione in "A Winters
Tale and thereafter played some
twelve weeks of Shakespeare a year.
That was all I could do, for while my
compensation went on week by week
I appeared only in the Shakespearian
revivals, and had the rest of the time
to myself.
Mrs. Whytal returned to this coun-
try some three years age, and prior
to her appearance in Forever After"
appeared prominently in another Brady
production, "The Man Who Came
Back
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11
Vaudeville

PALACE - Marguerite Sylvia, prima
donna, heads the bill. Alan Brooks
IN a sketch entitled Dollars and
Sense" and musical comedy pro-
duced and played by soldiers of the
Twenty-Seventh Division called "Put-
ting 1t Over" are two additional
features. The supporting bill in
cludes George Price, Burns and
Fabrito and Frank Joyce and Flo
Lewis.
RIVERSIDE-Irene Bordoni and Iieu
tenant Gitz-Rice lead a bill which
includes Doyle and Dixon, Jimmy
Hussey and company, Ernestine Ny
ers and Paisley Noon, Emmet De-
voy and company, Lou Holtz, Syl-
via CLARK, Mcmahon, Diamond and
Rosevere, the vivians and the Riy-
erside News Pictorial.
COLON1AL-Gladys Clark and Henry
Bergman will share headline place
with Wilbur Mack. Others on
the bill are Dooley and Sales, Ruth
Roye, the Ford Sisters, Dickinson
and DEACON, Maria Lo, Reed and
Tucker, Mcconnell and Austin and
the Colonial News Pictorial.
ALHAMBRA-Blanche Ring leads the
bill in new edition Of her "Topics
and Tunes Of the Times" The sup
porting bin will include William
Gaxton and company, Emma Haig
and Lou Lockstt, tho Lightner Girls
and Newton Alexander, Wright and
Dietrich, AL Raymond, Harvey. Heney
and Grace, Edmond Gingras and Ray
mond Wilbert.
ROYAL - Bernard Granville, is the
star Of this weeks bill, which in
cludes "Petticoats," the LAKELAND
Naval octette, Orth and Cody, Cru
Der and Adelina, Marie Stoddard
Lew Welch. Fred Berrens, Robbie
0ordone and the Royal News Pic
toriai.
LOEW's AMERICAN -- Stan Stanley.
appearing with Joe Kane and MAY
Stanley, Is the headliner the entire
coming week Other features are
Laing and Green, Bennington and
Scott and the Franchini Brothers the
ffrst part of tho week, and Nat Carr.
Camille Personi and Dunham and
O'Mallsy the latter part of the week.
The pictures arc Charles Ray In
Creased Lightning" tho Arst half
and SAuction Of Souls" tho second
half Of the week.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11

bouquet. Forgive my hardness, dear
little 80, and just know every
enjoyed their sweetness, a little
thought of love and thanks went out
to you. God bless you"
Wilson Collision, co-author with Otto
Harbach, of "Up in Mabel's Room" the
popular farce now playing at the Ell
tlnge Theatre, is no stranger to tina
drama, although this is his first met
ropolitan success. He went on the
stage when he was eighteen years old.
as member of repertory company
which toured the small towns of Michi-
gan. In the dressing room Of the the
atre In Big Rapids, Mich, he finished
his first play, which was called "Des-
ert Sands"
He wrote a vaudeville sketch and
played In 1t himself in the small time
houses of the South and West. He
mas been at various times a printer,
an advertising writer, a stenographer
and clerk. At the present time. emu
latlng John Keats, who combined med.
icine with poetry, he is in the whole
sale and retail drug business in Co.
lumbus, Ohio.
Mr.. Collision confesses to having
written forty plays. One of these was
produced by Adele Blood at the Teck
Theatre, Buffalo, in the summer of
1918. Working nightly from until g.
after the days labor. in more CONNER
c1al fields, Collision also turned out
two novels and numerous short stories.
Many of the latter he sold; the former
still wait the light of day.
Now that Mr.. Collision has arrived
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11
The Figure in the Wings
At the BeLasc0 Theatre

to deny the mellow quality of the dra
maturgy of Ozark Rosaleen.' 1t Il
the best revival Of the stage Hiberniar
drama in New York in years, with
Ochlones to satisfy the most demand
ing lrishman and porter and funn,
little clay pipes to every act. This
Is the expected. 1t would be done
faithfully and we'll to the stage tradi-
tion on the Belasco boards or not at
all. But these are but the shadow of the
figure In the wings; he remains there
throughout the play and never once
sets foot beyond In his usual manner.
This time 1t is Eileen Huban who com
mands the setting and not David Be-
lasco.
1t is easy to complain that this is
mere mouth-flling argument. If it has
to be taken more simply let it be said
that the magnetic young woman who
makes Ozark Rosaleen" something
over shade more than an old-fash-
ioned play about the Irish is the first
of the Belasco overnight stars who
resisted the temptation of being a
clever spectre for the plain reward of
being herself.
This is assuredly not the Eileen Hu-
ban who was so startlingly delicate and
elusive, so magica]ly able to conjure
up the Ireland of Yeats and Synge in
Iden Payne's production of "Grasshop-
per-" A little something of that ten
der freshness is gone, along with the
power to say SO much by saying so lit
tie. Doubtless that is the faul. of a
theatre that is too Grass to let genuine
yuoth survive, which must take it's
vitality at the cost of Staying it's un-
sophistication and simplicity. Yet
something honest and fine has lived
through this gantlet of two years,
kind of richness in vigor that finds it
hard to be other than itself
The result in Ozark Rosa,eer'' is a
strange one. Adaptable, as an Irish
girl would be, and facile, Miss Huban
falls short of facility. 1t is SIS if al
most seeing danger therein she curbs
herself short of it rather than give
her charm up to an easy method which
would leave her shorn in the end. For
once Mr.. Belasco is defeated in the
face of a great natural vitality which
Is greater than any cleverness he can
bring up for endowment There .are
not many places in the play where
she is free of the net Of a convention
al plotting to become a real character.
At moments she bears too great as
surance which has its power for an
noyance. But without her the stage is
empty, which is as good test as any
for the proof Of an actors worth.
Perhaps some wisdom has come to
the master of the Belasco Theatre. For
here is an actress who will win no
profit out of the shell which is called
the actors technique. She has voice
and sheer physical drawing power
which transcend these. Left to grow,
she may bring to his fame more than
he ever sent prayers out for.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11
By Ralph Block


Tns1e Is . cunning for which Mr.
nslasco has been too long without
credit. Where realism has been con-
eerned, no question has been ever
made Of Mr.. Belascos genius. He was
an every hand acclaimed rs the mas
&sr Of tbs kind of illusion he chose to
cresanf. this Arnold Bennett Of the
ttare, and however you might disagree
With him in principle you bowed to
him as having succeeded beyond ques-
sion in carrying out to the last re-
mote outpost Of detail the mechanism
Of the reality he wanted to disclose.
But the bright shaft Of honorable
praise Is sometimes too dazzling to the
bsholder; much that is praiseworthy
is lost In the shadow around it. These
realistic old walls of the Belasco stage,
these cross-cuts off the beef of real
ity, and all the subtle tom-tom beating
in front of the Belasco temple of art
have been we'll enough in their way.
But there has been Belasco actor as
we'll as Belasco setting; indeed, the
setting was, afte rail-, secondary to the
human beings whom Mr.. Belasco has
shaped and curried and brushed and
made up for the many parts he wanted
them to play. All of them may have
suffered from the same defects as have
marked his scenic disposals, q too
mastery amplitication of detail and
sighting Of the usages of simplicity,
but they have been cleverly devised
and shrewdly taught to draw a firm
line about human character and hold
it tight. For ingenuity of impersona-
tion, for sheer cleverness which makes
one thing look like another without
having that convincing power that
makes it the other, who could touch
the effect of the lessons Mr.. Belasco
gave two of last seasons rising
daughters, the Ina Claire of "Polly
With a Past" and the Lenore Ulrich
of Tiger Rose? If Mrs. Fiske had
been taught her lessons instead of
drawing them out of her heart and
mind, as woman of talent rather
than imagination, she would resemble
one of Mr.. Belasco's stars. 1t is the
fatal defect of going by lesson
learned instead of experienced that you
have to take it entire and follow it to
the line, never knowing when to cast
loose from it or what to save out of
it. And that is the fatal defect of the
method Mr. Belasco uses with his tai
enfed actcrs-thc master is always in
tho wings. Il is the omniscient David
who appears in the many roles Of the
Belasco Theatre; 8elasco who is the
Rose of the Rancho" "The Darling
OF the Gods Tiger Rose" and "Ti-
ger. Tiger
Truths attract attention usually only
when something has happened to up
set them, and there can be no doubt
something has happened lately to keep
Mr.. Belasco of the stage he has footed
these many years. 1t would be absurd
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11

dominant leader. Comparing this with
the development of sculpture, painting.
etching, poetry and all other arts,
where hundreds OF names suggest
themselves In association, the histori-
cal Importance of his work becomes
apparent.
D. W. Griffith arrived in New York
back in 1909, after first spending two
days in Brooklyn under the impression
he was in the heart OF the metropolis.
Here he wrote two plays, both accepted
and both presented, one of them 'The
Fool and the Girl" and the other s"The
Narrow Mask"
The world next knew of him as the
man who eliminated distant gymnastics
by bringing the players close to the
camera lens. Then he introduced sus-
pense by switching from one action to
another. He made the first so-called
"two-reeler." Then lie made tho first
five-reel picture.
What Mr.. Griffith has achieved since
those days is motion picture history.
Up from the South he came with "The
Birth of Nation" then from Egypt
and Palestine with Intolerance" and
from the fields Of France last year he
brought "Hearts of the World" a pro-
duction made under the auspices of the
British and French governments.
Mr.. Griffith now is in New York with
new production, Broken Blossoms"
1t will be revealed to this city next
Tuesday evening at the George NJ
Cohan Theatre, and Mr.. Griffith is
here to personally direct it's presenta-
tion-the inaugural of a repertory
season of pictures and functions
of the speaking stage. 1t is the first
entertainment of its kind in the history
of the stage, and is but another ad-
vance step in the career of this man of
mystery.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11
Griffith Repertory Season
10 Open Tuesday Night

David Wark Griffith, the cinema pro-
ducer, who arrived in New York last
Friday from his Western headquar-
ters, occupies at present position
unique in the history of all art, for
only the most prejudiced resist the
conviction that motion pictures consti-
tute new art. To his inventive mind
are accredited practically 80 per cent
of all important innovations that have
made motion pictures the popular en-
tertainment. And he still remains the
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11
Wiu Rogers Joins
Ziegfeld Midnicht FroIic

Following the recent addition to the
ziegfeld Midnight Frolic and Nine
O'Clock Revue atop the New Amsterdam
Theatre of Johnnie Dooley, the aero
batic comedian, and Van and Schenck,
in their own topical songs, F. Ziegfeld,
jr., announces a special and limited en-
gagement of Will Rogers in songs and
monologues. The old favorites, Lillian
Lorraine, Fannie Brice, Bee Palmer,
Evan B. Fontain, De Lyle Aida, Green
and Blyler, Hal Nixon, Jessie Reed,
Dolores, Martha Mansfield, etc, con-
tinue, not forgetting the Ziegfeld
beauty chorus The annual "Follies
F'rolic" ball will occur May 18, when
all the artists Of the Follies will par
ticipate, together with those now en-
gagged on the Ziegfeld Roof.