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The New York herald., 1922-05-28

grown up there and now month upon
month lay longing for the word of re-
lease.
Outside they placed straw halfway
round the square to drown the noise of
the carriages that brought many friends
and distinguished people who were anx-
ious or wanted to help me. Some sat by
my bed and told me stories to amuse me.
From my loneliness looked upon them
with despair. How could these things
matter, how could people be amused by
them?
One day my devoted and beautiful
daughter-in-law put her head round the
screen of my bed and whispered as
though she could hardly believe the good
news: "You are going to live!" / had
not seen her for many hours, and 1t
seemed to me that 1 had heard unceas-
ing murmurings in the room beneath me.
To her it seemed such happy news-it
only made me cry. I should have to stand
up again, face that looking glass. think
what hat should put on worry about
Georges affairs and his love for me and
mine for him, go to the theater every
night and act and should have to pick
ur the senseless things of life and go on
with my "career"-why? what for?-and
there would be all the bills for this i'll
nhitJrar, frop nar
man l loved not free.
Whatever the illness may have been,
violent nerve breakdown was the greater
part of 1t.
The old morbidity that had been my
lifelong enemy had gotten hold of me, and
just to slip into my bed and out of the
world seemed splendid escape. closed
my eyes and made no fight of any kind,
little coward that was.
Friends we're full of loving concern and
sympathy. Dear Lady Savile sent me
flowers every day, but the day came when
there were no flowers and no one an
swered me when / mentioned her name.
She was dead.
George came to see me one day. l had
not seen him for long time; he seemed
profoundly moved and unhappy. His
Live, Stella; live and help me" touched
me to the roots of my being and made me
give credence to his words, and the
thought that could help him remained
with me.
One human being through the intelli-
gent grasp of his genius understood the
nerve rack Of my illness Himself living
in dream world, he made dream world
for me, an ante-room between life and
death, and only those who can understand
this can understand the lovely friendship
Bernard Shaw gave to me by my sick bed.
He reveled in the mischievous fun and
in the smiles he brought to my face He
did not care snap of the fingers at the
moment what anybody else might say or
think. He knew we'll enough that my
heart had been given elsewhere, though
we never spoke OF IT, he meant perhaps to
get 1t back for me II he could.
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After ten weeks rest went to Chicago
and met Helen and Beo, and produced
little. one-act play of Beo's, "The Am
bassador's Wife" It was quite success
in its way, and 1t gave them both great
encouragement.
then received cable from England
asking me to play in Lady Patricia"
1 arrived there the day before rehearsal,
leaving Beo and Helen in Chicago.
George, who had returned to England
from Mexico some months before, met me.
He had arranged special train that l
might smuggle "Georgina,". the little
griffon he had given me when "Pinkie"
died. But a detective was on my track
and "Georgina" was put in quarantine.
In September I again went to New
York, glad to be out Of England. played
La vierge Folle," translated from the
French of Henri Battaille by Rudolf
Besier.
At Mr.. Frohman's request the play had
been much altered; the religious argu-
ment being entirely eradicated, thereby
making it simply a story of woman
chasing husband, who was enjoying
life away from her with a foolish
virgin"
At the end Of the play the girl over
hears the wife's appeal to the husband
and shoots herself.
In the French it is fine play, the re-
ligious argument against the willful de-
struction of the virgin soul and the wifes
belief in her duty to be OF spiritual help
to her husband give dignity and some
excuse to the ugliness Of the story.
The Americans disliked the play in
tensely.
l was back in England again within
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Study.
[<YTNHERE poet other kind of funny
fellow, who said he'd like to have the chance to
himself as others him. I'd like to meet that man.
would make fairly good meal off of him. Because here
seeing myself my master And had such
pain lfethat is not since ate too crabapples
My master had sit STOOL all perked up and stiff like
monument, while he painted this thing.
Its good thing he out of the before got look
it. I'll leave it you if looks anything like Master
it's fuist thing But if I'm going look like that in
the future wish I'd kicked the bucket yesterday.
But dogs unappreciated just like I've heard
mistress she's unappreciated sometimes This picture
makes look fierce and the trouble is with be
fierce enough All the boys and girls in the neighbohood
and when get mad at them they just laugh will
leave to if there's anything about to laugh Maybe
I'm not handsome dogs but anyway don't
this thing here.
"As get enough take another look
I'm going to tear it will tell you next Sunday what
master does to when he finds this awful picture of me all
chewed up"
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the pianos work now being done, in 1876.
The soldier who found the old piano
was Richard Prosser of so Washington
place, New York Theobold Guenther,
in whose house Prosser found the piano,
had taught in the family of Bechstein,
the piano manufacturer. In 1874, when
Bechstein secured possession of the piano
from Wagner, he offered it to the teacher
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Mrs. Campbell and Cornwallis West

piled, II have been bumped about in a
taxi" but she had gone out Of the room.
In few moments George Alexander came
liz in dressing gown. I told him / was
all right and I was going to play. He told
me to look in the glass. / looked, and the
top of my head resembled Ally Sloper's!
Sir George sent for a doctor, and he or
dered me home at once and ice bags on
my head all night. The skin was not
Julia and Miss Morris, my secretary and
companion, stood by my bed all night,
begging me not to talk, but l was quite
incapable of stopping.
Little tiny threads of cotton seemed to
be pulling my head up into the air
Next day and for some days my face
was black and blue and my eyes were
imperceptible.
Within a fortnight went with dear
friends, Sir Edward and Lady Strachey,
by boat and motor to AK. DR.. Kendall
said hot baths would soothe my stiff body
and do me good. On the contrary they
made me very ill.
cable came from America offering
me fine tour with one act play of Sir
James Barrie's. / hurried home. That
night my son had come up from the coun-
try to see me. Beo and Helen had been
living in the country; he was busy on his
play, 1.-THE Dust of Egypt" which Gerald
du Maurier produced later at Wyndham's
Theater with much success. Beo looked
into my face and said, Mother, you are
i'll: I'm going to sleep here" I went to
bed-he sent for his wife. How glad /
was to have Helen and Beo with me!
Thirty-three Kensington Square without
the children was an empty nest.
was in bed for over six months in one
position. 1t was nearly nine months be-
fore 1 could walk. People said / was
blind" "paralyzed by the accident" and
the papers said was sinking fast" Nine
doctors came. l used to hear them talk
ing in the room below me, but my mind
possessed one feeling only, that I need
not trouble about anything any more.
even to lift my eyelids or move my hand.
/ had no sense Of time, only glorious
sense of peace. One doctor said the &C.
cident had let free some poisonous germ,
others that it was severe nerve break.
down; there were. whispers of appendi-
citis, then the brain; candles used to be
held In front Of me and my eyelids lifted
up. Sometimes I was seized with an
agonizing pain, but was never quite sure
where it was. Nurses came and went.
My body was the nearest thing to death
that life can hold. My living mind grasped
the utter futility and WEAKNESS of all this
business of life, and dwelt upon the in
effable quiet Of death. Only when my son
or his wife was in the room or a friend
with frightened face was I able to pull
myself together and say something funny.
Thirty-three Kensington Square was a
white paneIled house within, clean and
clear, austere almost. My children had
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A N American soldier has found
~ Richard Wagner's piano. and It
is coming to America. For forty.
eight years it has been standing in the
little drawing room Of an old music
teacher in Berlin. 1t is the same piano
on which Wagner wrote the ring music,
bought for him by the boy King. Ludwig
of Bavaria when he rescued Wagner
from his difficulties and set him by his
royal patronage on the high road to fame.
1t witnessed every detail of that great
romance of love and music between
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r. QUIPPED with nothing but their
X skill and endurance, a few ponies

Shlii anu tuuufduCc, a Lew pOulcp,
gun or two and provisions
enough to last them for the day, the early
mountaineers of the West set out to make
their way through a vast wilderness that
held all the terrors Of the unknown. 1t
is interesting to recall, among other
things pertaining to those self-reliant
men, the foods in use by the Cheyenne
Indians, with whom the plainsmen often
came in contact.
The Cheyennes were proud and brave
people. Meat was their principal food,
although berries of different kinds were
collected in season, as we'll as various
roots. The kettle was on the tripod night
and day.
Most tribes of plains Indians dried their
meat by cutting IL into thin fakes and
spreading IL on racks and poles In the
sun. Pemmican was manufactured in the
following manner:
The choicest cuts of meat were selected
and cut into fakes and dried. Then all
the marrow was collected and the best OF
the tallow, and both dissolved together
over a slow fire. Many tribes used berries
in their pemmican. Mountaineers also
did, unless they had sugar.
The meat was then pulverized to the
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

Gotterdammerung" In 1876. On this
piano he composed the famous Kaiser
March" In 1871. "Das Rheingold," the
Ring" prelude, was produced in 1869;
"Die Walkure" was done in 1870 and
"The Ring in its entirety and COM
plete in the Opera House at Bayreuth,
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four months. "Belladonna" was sent to
me from the st. James's Theater to read.
I did not care for the play or the part,
and refused it.
About this time Helen wrote to me
from America, begging me to let her and
Beo return to Kensington Square. was
only too delighted to send for them for
was very lonely there.
In the meantime the talk of Georges
divorce and bankruptcy was in the air.
The world, knowing our love for one an
other, still gossiped; was living at the
mercy of a malevolent world"
1 remember telling Lord Ribblesdale
how it troubled me; he answered, my
dear, people think and talk according to
their own natures, and how they would
act under similar temptations and cir
cumstances"
Again George Alexander sent me
"Belladonna." This time accepted the
part. On December 9th, 1911, Bella
uoHhd WdS pkouuCcu dJ IHt ~. JdIueS 3
Theater.
The smart world was interested, and
the play made small fortune.
One night during this play was driv-
ing to the st. Jamess; boy on bicycle
coming from the main road from Rutland
Gate ran into my taxi. My taxi swerved
tc get out of the way and smashed into
another taxi.
My head went through the window op-
posite and l saw stars. My hatpin broke
in two. l did not let go of my little dog
and she was not hurt. Some one picked
up the boy and took him to st. Georges
Hospital. hailed another taxi and drove
on to the theater.
My faithful Julia said, what is the mat
ter, Madam, you look so funny?" 1 re-
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Ludwig. He put the finishing touches to
Tristan und Isolde" on it. On it he
sketched "ParsifaP' for the first time in
1865. On it at Triebschen in 1866 and 1867
he started and completed "Die Meister-
singer" In 1869 on it he finished "Sieg
fried" On 1t in 1859 and 1870 he started
1872. He scored "Siegfried" In 1871,
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! Wagner and Cost
ma, the daughter of
List and the wife
Of Won Bulow, Wag-
ner's brilliant con-
ductor. 1t marked
the turning point
in Wagner's life
w h 9 n h e fl r S (
touched the keys
he was the mad
composer; W h Q n
ten years later he
exchanged it for
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would have been dead long ago." Wag-
ner and Cosima loved, love triumphed,
art triumphed. the music drama emerged
in perfect completeness. All this the
piano saw and of it was part
Fifty-eight years ago, on May 20, 1864,
the King of Bavaria gave the piano to
Wagner. 1t was the first of his gifts to
the master" delivered within sixteen
days after Wagner, disheartened, bounded
by creditors, his dreams practically aban-
doned. had been found" and brought to
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

OF his children. The music teacher
grasped the opportunity, and from that
day until now the piano has stood in his
own salon.
BY what arguments the young Ameri-
can managed to persuade the music
teacher to part with his possession has
not been divulged.
He made, of course the most careful re-
search, and holds documents establishing
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

consistency of mincemeat, the squaws gen.
orally doing this on fat rock, using a
pestle. A layer of meat was spread, about
two inches thick, the squaws using a
wooden dipper, buffalo horn or a claw
for this work. On this meat was spread
certain amount of the melted marrow
and tallow, the proportion depending upon
the taste. This same process was re-
peated until the desired amount was
secured. One pound of pemmican was
equal in nourishment to five pounds Of
fresh meat.
Another important article of food, the
equal of which was not to be had except
from the buffalo, was "depuyer" (de
pouilee). 1t was a fat substance that lay
along the backbone next to the hide, run
ming from the shoulder blade to the last
rib. and about as thick as ones finger or
even hand. 1t would weigh from five to
eleven pounds. according to the size or
condition of the animal. 1t would keep
indefinitely, and was used as substitute
for bread, but was superior to any bread
that was ever eaten.
When going on the warpath the Indians
would take some dried meat and some
"depuyer" to live on, and nothing else.
even IL they were to be gone for several
months,
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another instrument Bayreutb r,
had been created and Wagner
was one of the great ones of
the world.
If the old piano, which like many an
other art treasure Of Europe is finding
it's way to America as the painting of
"The Blue Boy" did few months ago,
could talk it would tell many stories. The
history Of the writing of 'The Niebelun-
board. To it and from it, from the days
of the villa on Lake Starnberg to the
time when the heights of Bayreuth were
reached, came and went Cosima, the
eternal woman" inspiring the master"
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first few years of
preparation at Bay
reuth.
On it in 1864 he
composed the Hui
dignungs March"
dedicated to King
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Cosima Wagner and Siegfried Wagner.
Nine. Cosima might be called the hero
inc" of the piano, for hers was the ro-
nance that it witnessed and it was part
of the love between her and the composer.
First on Lake Starnberg, then in
Munich, the piano went with Wagner to
Triebschen, where Cosima first came to
Wagner How long before the romance
had been actually going ON was never
known.
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Storm ragged through musical and politi-
cal Europe during the years of this piano
under Wagner's fingers. The King al
most withdrew his royal patronage. Liszt
bitterly implored his daughter and con-
demned Wagner, Won Bulow, Cosima's
husband, crying out, II cannot kill the
'master!' If he were any one else he
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the pianos authen-
ticity, sworn to by
the present head of
the house of Bech-
stein, certified by
the president of the
High Court of Ber-
lin and the German
Foreign Office and
authenticated by
the Spanish EN-
bassy, the latter
acting for the Min
lister Of the United
States.
The piano II to
arrive in this coun-
try in June. And
not the least inter
asting thing In con-
junction with this
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Is that some time this fall or
winter the plano will be fol-
lowed by the arrival of Nine.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-03-14
"HAUNTED HOUSE" HoAXEs.

The physical research expert, who has gone all
the way from New York to Nova Scotia to solve
the mystery of the "haunted" house, no doubt is
familiar With the similar phenomena Of history,
including the goblin-ridden mansion of Woodstock
which Sir Walter Scott has so graphically de-
scrbed with few characteristic embellishments,
and the Cock Lane ghost which Dr. Samuel John
son was instrumental in "layina.' These classical
instances of haunting eventually exposed as
the work of deliberate mischief makers, although
for while they disturbed the wisest minds of the
time
attended the launching of modern spirituallsm was
later confessed by the Fox sisters, and possibly the
haunters of the Nova Scotia farmhouse will reent
after they think the joke has gone far enough. It
is less than two years since mysterious happenings
in an English farmhouse startled the entire coun-
try and sent the psychic Investigators scurrying
down from London. They were traced to young
girl who confessed her part in the pactca joke
as had the fair author of the London ghost hoax
of more than a century before.
An expert investigating a modern haunted
house should keep these historical facts and plenty
of others that in the records in mind, for his
tory has a way Of repeating itself A genuine
haunted house would be a joy in these prosaic
days and ought to command premium from some
romantically inclined person. but it is to be feared
the Nova Scotia senation will peter OUT as have
all the Others
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-03-14
EDITORIAL OF THE DAY
"REPUDIATE THE BONDS"
CA Letter to the New York Times.

"a Letter to the New York Times)
understand that within the next few years the
treasury of the United States will be called upon
by less noisy minority to redeem few
billion dollars worth of Liberty bonds. 1t is high
time that those of who have real interest in
the welfare of country organize ourselves and
use all available weapons against such payment
by the treasury.
! Such raid" would unquestionably have de-
pressing effect business" Reconstruction"
will be delayed. The bondhoders will present an
orgy of spending such has never been witnessed
before 1t will result in 'the greatest crap game
in history"
The people must be led to see that the past
patriotism of the bondhoders should not be re-
warded by any payment of money. Their honor
should demand that they ought to suppress any
desire of economic advantage although the pur-
chase of the bonds may have caused them small
amount of self-denal.
1t may be further suggested that In this organi-
cation every should be taken to avoid bring
ing to consciousness certain rather numerous
class now happily submerged. / refer to those
who service in the late war. The voice of
this group is formidable However, it will not
command the attention that will be accorded to
| the bondholding group because the mere invest
ment of money requires sacrifices that tower far
above any that made by citizen when he
enters the military service of his country.
Let US be prepared then, against any demands
that these groups may make. We have met those
OF the soldiers in the past. We must make ready
for those of the bondhoders in the future
| Let us have for slogan, "Repudate the bonds"
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-03-14

by anything that may come from these several
gatherings But for untold numbers of people in
this country every day of the 80 40 days sessions
which are now beginning will bring the i'm
portance of which is not to be denied There will
be rejoicing il the reports right kind and de-
spair If another kind of report should come from
the south.
Neither age will keep any from
being vitality interested in what the conferees are
presently to determine Old and young and mid
de-aged will turn with interest to each days report
representatives OF every nationality in this country
will scan eagerly the page which brings the news.
For 1t is in these conferences in the baseball train
ing quarters in the south that it will be decided
whether the stove league predictions were sense or
nonsense.
Will the King Of Swat repeat this year his last
years record? VIII this pitchers arm come back?
Has the other gained the control but for the lack
of which last year he might have been the leading
pitcher Of the league? These are the questions the
alleged answers to which will be worked out within
a short time
And then there the new recruits, the I'M
knowns, the mysterious personages of baseball in
whom always have much hope in the spring,
and who do not always turn out to be the heroes
the stove league forecast made them out to be,
There is such difference between baseball on pa
per and baseball on the diamond,
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-03-14
THE DINNER TONIGHT.

The first popular dinner of the Chamber of Com
merce occurs tonight in the dining room at the Ma
sonic Temple. Every available seat has been re-
served.
There is great deal of sickness in the city, If
you have reserved seat and now find that illness
will prevent your attendance please call the Cham
Der of Commerce and release your reservation.
If you failed to seat and desire to
attend please call the chamber and If some res
ervation has been released which you get.
This dinner will be the greatest occasion in the
history of the city. All who can should attend.
The program will be snappy and short. No at
tempt at money raising will be made 1t is get
together occasion.
To develop a spirit of building and CO.
operation is the purpose. We be great city if
will 1t
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-03-14

trying to get Jackie TO nibble his
ears" thought the bunny. And if
it catches Jackie it will want me
next. on, this is DREADFUL"
Faster and faster ran Uncle
Wiggily. Faster and faster ran
Jackie. The little puppy dog boy
was beginning to get tired for he
had run a long distance. But still
that terrible something" was chas-
ing him.
AT last the bunny came to a place
where enc path branched off from
another like the wide part of the
letter Y. The left road led to the
deep, dark woods, and the right to
Uncle Wiggily's bungalow.
"Follow me, Jackie! Take the
right road!' cried Mr.. Longears.
But, by mistake. the puppy chap
turned to the left. And as he soon
passed Uncle Wiggily the bunny
rad a chance to look behind Jackie
and see what was chasing the little
cog. And what Uncle Wiggily saw
made him call out:
stop running, Jackie! Stop run
ming! You have nothing to fear!
There isn't any animal after you!
Stop your long, fast run!"
But there is something after
me-" hoWled Jackie. II can hear
it right behind me and sometimes
it seems to grab hold of mel"
Its only an old tin can, caught
on a piece of wild grapevine, and
the grapevine is caught on your
tall" said Uncle Wiggily. Don't
run away from it any more, Jackie.
1t can't hurt your
Jackie stopped, and then, of
course, the tin can no longer chased
him. For it, was only tin can
caught on his tail that had fright
ened the puppy on his way home
from the store. The faster he ran
the faster the bad something"
seemed to come after him. AnG
only that Uncle Wiggily saw what
it was, Jackie might have been
running yet, And the bunny him
self had been frightened for a time
But after this I'm always going
to look behind mo before | run
away" barked Jackie. as he took
off the tin can. Next time it may
be only a paper box!"
That's right" laughed the
bunny gentleman. And If the
pussys tail doesn't freeze fast to
the milk bottle when she wraps it
around to keep the cream warm.
~ tell you next about Uncle Wig
gily and the danger sign.