The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-03-03


is paid TO the Father OF our country
when the senate of the United States
confense on February % each year.
After prayer by the chaplain some
senator, previously designed by the
vice president. formally reads the
Farewell Address OF George Wash
ington to the People OF the United
States" Adjournment follows. This
act Is pursuant 10 a standing rule OF
when that decreed that once each
year its members should be remind
ed of the principles enunciated in
that most remarkable state paper.
This address is at everybody's finger
ends and should be made more use
Of by teachers in preparing programs
for that occasion. The principles
here emphasized will make for bet
ter citizenship always.
The production oil George Bernard
Shaw, latest drama Back 10 Methu-
selah," will begin February 81, in
New York. The drama is very long
and takes three evenings to prevent
same. There are three divisions, The
Garden OF Eden. The Present, The
Future. The strain on the actors in
shifting the various roles was so
division OF the play presented each
week on successive nights. The first
division shown every night for a
week The second division the sec
Sad week and third division the third
week. Thus if one attends one night
each week for three weeks they will
have the entire play. The play as
sumes that man does not live long
enough to grow up. That If he could
live three hundred years he would
then put away childish things and
govern himself by the laws of reason
and concludes that if the world is
10 grow better, we must live longer.
G. 3. Shaw calls this drama a gospel
in the religion OF creative evolution.
Was glad to note by the Mankato
Free Press that "The Messiah that
recently been given there. Washing
ton has ats Oratorio society and on
December 20 and 81, last gave its
eighteenth annual rendition OF the
Messiah here and this marked the
! eleventh time il has been given to
the city free OF charge. The leader,
Floyd Wrightson presents the same
as a gift TO the. community although
an appeal is made for a free will of
fering for the purpose of extending
the work and helping to defray ex-
| penses. Washington never has had
an Opera company until quite recent
| ~ when few eminent musicians
! banded themselves together as a
nucleus under the title Washington
close OF this week Saint Saen's grand
opera of Bible history. Sampson and
| Delilah, that song of the soul which
was epoch making in the history OF
| French music. AS the composers
death took place recently this per
| Torrance is in the nature OF tri-
| butte to the memory of the man who
| left the imprint of his influence upon
art through his music.
meeting and hearing Miss Carrie
Jacobs Bond in her story and song
program. Her home once in Chicago,
is now at Hollywood, Cal. She stop
| ped in Washington on her way to Eu
rope where she expects to spend the
coming year. Her song "A Perfect
Day" is the favorite song of Mrs.
play this for her. Five million copies
of this song have been sold. Charles
NJ. Schwab says music helps me to
keep human. | do not want to be-
come a driedup business man, / want
| to keep alive the fountains of senti
ment. If sentiment should go out Of
my life would feel that had ceased
to exist as a human being, that l had
! become machine" and in accord
ance with this thought all the ma
chinery in the great Bethlehem Steel
| Works stops at a certain hour each
day and ten thousands of men and
| women who work there listen to mu-
sic. Mr. Schwab who arranges this
says although it is expensive to stop
all the machinery that the gain Off
sets the loss. Melodies get the
workers mind off their work and they
return refreshly, mentally and physi
cany. They work better and produce
more and are much happier for hav
! ing such nourishment for their souls
This leaves US well.-Stella Porter
| Clague.