Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1925, Page 12

L N2 BRANDEGEE'S ART WORKS TOBE SOLD Auction of Notable Paintings to Be Held at Gallery Next Week. Some notable paintings are included in the Brandesgee collection which is| 10 be sold at auction at Sloan's gal- leries next week. This is the first| Iy in New York, London is and go far toward making s art o art market. 1 t is the auction sales of paintings which go far to fix values, and it was through such sales instituted by T late William 1 paintings comme their own. So notable the paintings in this Brandgee collec- tion that it ood that dealers and coll v York will come to W attend the sale. % Among the most Interestin on exhibition Iy Am an painters. One is it of Alexander Broughton by which at Thomas B, Clark hington to was one | Theus, 1 was painted by nan by birth, with Bishop the project of founding a college in the Bermudas, a project which never found fulfillment. He settled in where he lived until 1751, and presented in =ome of the le ums. There is also an example of what is known as the portrait” of Wash- ington, Peale, for which the oston, 12 M residen ¥y of the ! There is a curious fng of John Paul Jones: a small full- | length portrait of Gen. Lafay tributed t p 2 portrait Daniel Webster by James H and one of Henry Clay last are all small canvases are three | uaint old paint- ette, at- of e interesting etchings, and engravings. Of chief the etchings is one by “Olga B.,” and two by Rembrandt—"0ld Man With Divided Fur Cap” and Bald-headed, With b good condition YOUNG BANDIT WRITES | VICTIM HE WILL RETURN | Chagrined to Read in Newspapers | He Overlooked Several Hundred Dollars. “The John | accounts of the robbery the next day told how he had sed several hundred dollars Eich- his pe clippings | nd a note and return for young Deen the sa orn visited the Baldwin, ind got GERMANY FORMING ARMY, | FRENCH GENERAL SAYS| Berlin Paper Denies Statement by bandit believed to have held up Eich- ederal food store in Long Island, Friday night with $23 Military Commission Member. By the Associated Press. BERLIN N, Gen. French me the Inte ssion Roye, a llied Mil- is sending to assadors’ conference a report teichswehr is mal 3 offices which possess lists of a mecret reg according to an article publi »day in the Berliner Zeitung Am charges that r . being trained volunteers rate of 20,000 s as irregula tung Am a general denlal to the statements attributed to Gen. Roye and declares that all Reichswehr activities are in accordance with the treaty of Versallles: RUSSIA SEEKS JEWS. ‘Wants 100,000 Families to Join in Colonization Plan. MOSCOW, (Jewish Tele- graphic A 'y tle not less than 100,000 families, principally Jewish, on the land, has been mdae by the agricultural de- partment of the Soviet government, aoccording to information obt ed by the correspondent of the Jewish Tel- egraphic Agency from authoritative sources. Measures will be taken to procure the necessary land for this huge colonization project. January 3 - Brandegee is| U ing was dropped. A who broke into the house and found Mrs would probably without prompt assistance. THE 8 ART STUDY OF BRANDEGEE COLLECTION Portrait of Joseph Crawford, by Jobn Sonibert, in collection of the late Senator Brandegee. TELEPHONE OPERATOR SAVES LIFE OF WOMAN Hears Words “I Am Dying” Over Wire and Gets Doctor to House in Time. By the Assoclated Press. NTON HILL, Quick action of a telephone operator t night probably saved the life of N. J, January 3.— Olga Ashe, who was overcome with heart trouble while telephoning to her so Miss rator, heard the words ie Boylen, supervising ‘I am dy- and the click of a receiver as it She notified the police. Ashe unconscious. the A physician woman said she probably have died revived ASSISTS GOVERNORS. Cummins Sends Out Digest of Laws on Presidential Electors. Fede residential atutes relat- tors and their gest of duties was mailed yesterday by Sen- iins of Towa. president pro- Senate, to each State gov- 1 for the formal ¥ 12 of the re- election. The cluded forms of the various »s which must be presented ¢ the eclectors. ThePALAIS POYAL [ G & lith Sts. Warm Underclothing for Men at Special Prices! Sale of Men’s Flannelette Pajamas Group No. 2 Group No. $1.49 Made of good quality flannelette; cut full well made. Sizes A, B,C, D. Men’s Part-Wool “Madewell” Union Suits Seconds of $3.50 and $4 Grade $2.19 Made right, fit right. Long sleeves and ankle length. Closed crotch and dropseat styles. ‘About 300 suits in the sale. Sizes 34 to 46. Men’s Wool MOORE ON WAY HOME, DENIES DEFENSE OF KING Ambassador Coming for Three- Month Vacation, Declares Al- fonso Needs No Backing. By the Associated Press. PARIS, January 3.—Alexander P. Moore, American ambassador to Spaln, is in Paris on his way to the United States for a three-month va- cation. He refuses to comment on the Spanish political situation and re- pudlates interviews attributed to him on the subject, aring: “King Alfonso needs no defense as far as I am concernecd.” Mr. Moore also set at rest a report that he intends to resign, remark- ing humorously: “Few die and none resign. Iam in the best of health.” KILLS TWO AND HIMSELF. Man Shoots Wife and Child Be- fore Suicide. LONG BEACH, murder d Janua suicide at . mear here, was re- vealed today n the b of W V. Hogue, printer, and his wife and 14-month-old child were found in a small dwelling at the bay shore, deputy sheriffs said. Hogue's rela- tives sald he-had been suffering from shell shock. Hogue's pistol wa found by his side Service and Courtesy 1 Finest quality of Amos-- keag flannelette. collar and English styles. rayon lined. Values, $2.25 and ///= and Union Suits Seconds of $4.50 and $6.50 Grades $3. 19 “Madewell” brand—finest quality Union Suits in this well known make. and 40. Sizes 34, 36 Palais Royal—First Floor. : H : . E AY STAR, WASHINGTON, D ¢ TWO TICKETS OUT IN'SHRINE ELEGTION Henry Lansburgh and Arthur E. Cook Contending Po- tentate Candidates. The pot of Shrine politics is be- ginning to boll in Almas Temple, the local organization of the Mystic Shrine. “Almas” has a membership of nearly 6,000, Shrine elections have usually been held the latter part of December, but a ruling by the Imperial Council, at its ses- sion fn Kansas City, Mo., last June, stipulated that the elections be held in January. According to report, the election in Almas Temple will occur, probably at the City Club, either the 17th, 19th, 26th or 29th of this month. Each of these dates has been men- tioned, but, so far as can be learned the definite day for balloting has not been announced by Potentate Harry F. Cary. Must Have Pald Dues. Fixing the date of the election in January makes it necessary that each member voting must have paid his dues for the new year, the showing of the 1925 “dues-pald” card being a requisite. Heretofore a member could cast his ballot by showing his card for either the expiring year or the new vear. T e two tickets In the fleld, the supporters of each already coufi- dently claiming success. One is headed by Henry Lansburgh. a past potentate of Almas Temple, while the other ticket has Arthur E. Cook, the present chief rabban, for its standard bearer. The personnel of the tickets follows: Henry Lansburgh, for {llustrious potentate; E. C. Dutton, for ohlef rabban; Roland S. Robbins, for as- sistant rabban; George Duval, jr, for high priest and prophet; Dr. J. T. Prendergast, for orlental guide; F. E. Ghiselll, the present treasurer, treasurer; F. Lawrence Walker, present recorder, for recorder, Leonard P. Steuart, Henry Lansburgh, F. Lawrence Walker and George Duval, jr., for representatives to’ the Imperial Counctl. Arthur E. Cook, for potentate; Charles D. for chief rabban; James Hoyle, for asglstant rabban; Paul F. Grave. for high priest and prophet, and David M. Pettit, for oriental guide. It is stated in some quarters that Messrs. Ghiselli and Walker will also be named on this ticket for treasurer and recorder, respectively. Arthur E. Cook, Leonard P. Steuart, F. Law- rence Walker and George C. Whiting are on the “Cook ticket” as nominees for representatives the Imperial Couneil, WOMAN KILLED BY SLEIGH TVILLE. Ontario, January 3. ssfe Anderson, sister of Right rles Px Anderson, Protestant pal Bishop of Chicago, was killed today when struck by a sleigh pulled by a team of runaway horses | which dashed upon the sidewalk as she was passing M.ss Anderson was struck in the e by the tongue of the sleigh John S. Huff, wife of a farmer, s injured Heretofore, llustrious Shackelford, to ir: Established 1877 $1.95 Military collar Frog trimmed and $3. Sizes A, B, C,D. B JANUARY 4, 1925—PART 1. ADVERTISEMENT., ADVERTISEMENT. ADVER’ MENT, ADVERTISEMENT. Mother Goose Suggestions Harmful to Children Kitty Cheatham Appeals for Higher Ideals in all Branches of Musical and Story-Book Literature for the Young —Miss Cheatham Intends to Resume Her Recital Activities in Tqaching Children, Including Those of a Larger Growth, Through Song and Story in Accordance with the Higher Spiritual Standards of This Hour. To the Editor of the New York Sun: Bible tells them to “Ask, and ye shall I'was much interested in the interview with receive.” So he told the mother that Mrs, Winifred Sackville Stoner, which ap- the meal should not waste, neither peared in The Sun of December 30, entitled should the cruse of oil fail, and they “Mother Goose Guilty,” and which contains did not, for the story reads, “She and many wholesome and vital statements as to he, and her house, did eat many days. the necessity of being alert to the influence And the meal wasted not, neither did which thought has upon the plastic minds of the cruse of oil fail.” little children. Then there was another prophet, Elisha, who told a woman how to get the money to pay her debts. The man to whom she owed the money was going to take her two sons and make them work to pay this big debt. Of course, the mother felt very sorry that her sons would have to work hard to pay her debt. Elisha asked her if shé had any- thing to eat in the house. She said, “Nothing save a pot of oil,” and then he told her to send out and borrow empty vessels of all her neighbors. You see, the mother was obedient to the prophet's word, and she had her reward, for all the vessels that she had borrowed froma her neighbors were filled with oil, which she sold, and she paid all her debts. It is right for every one to pay his or her own debts, is it not, children? If every one knew Elijah’s and Elisha's and Christ Jesus' God—and there is only one God—there wouldn't be anybody in debt would there? If everybody knew that the God of Elijah and Elisha and Christ Jagus was thewr God and their loving Father, no one would be worried about debts, and there would be no hungry people and no starving children. I think, children, if Elijah and Elisha were here today, they could feed all the hungry little and big children here and in Europe, and I kmow, I really do know that Christ Jesus can, and he is ever-present. I think that all the earthly fathers and mothers and everybody had better find God and, He will feed all His little and big children, d u not? Let me quote further the tender and log- ical appezl to the little ones, teaching them the necessity for unselfish love and grati- tude, told in simple parable. Mrs. Stetson asks: Did you ever awake early some cold winter morning, while it was yet dark, and hear the milkman rattle the bottles, as he left the nice milk for your breakfast—and as you snuggled in your warm, little bed, that your dear earthly father and mother had provided for you, did you send out to the milkman a loving thought, a grate- ful thought, and ask God to keep him happy and warm? Did you ever think how many are working to make our clothes, our coats and shoes and hats and dainty little frocks—how many sew, and sew, and sew? And some- times they must be very tired; but they finish their work and it comes to us to supply our needs. Do we fore:t to be grateful for all they provide for us? Never think that buying these things is all we have to do for them. We must be grateful. Selfish, unkind, ungrateful children are never happy. e twentieth century chil- dren are learning that loving thoughts, grateful, unselfish thonngfixtl make them healthy and happy. All thinkers realize that we are living in a new era, and that the children of today— our future citizens-—must be guarded and protected through every channel of activity which touches them. Particularly must the books they read, the songs they sing, the music they hear, be expressions of “whatso- ever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatso- ever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report.” (Paul: Phillippians iv., 8.) A little child’s consciousness is virgin soil. Children must be taught to think rightly; taught that every thought is a power for good or evil. But perhaps Mrs. Stoner does not know that this idea, including her protest against Mother Goose, is not new, but has been rad- ically advanced, logically analyzed and fear- lessly uprooted in an illuminating children’s book, entitled Greetings and a Message to the Dear Children, by Augusta E. Stetson, C. S. D., published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2 West 45th Street, New York City. In this lovely book the author not only protests against the many ways in daily experience in which children are held in bondage to fear, but she brings forth spiritually, historically, musically, pictorially—in simple Biblical and personal illustrations—a fund of fascinating and thoughtful material, which enables a child to think intelligently, in response to the law of God, or Spirit. Mrs. Stetson, at her own expense, pub~ lished the text of this book originally in a full page advertisement, through the press of America, because of her love for, and great Interest in, children, and because of her earnest desire that mothers and teachers of children might benefit by her years of ex- perience, and learn how to guard a little SHAS e And again the shackles of fear are brok- en, when Mrs. Stetson frees the little ones from the agony, the bondage of fear, which our childhaod prayer, “Now I lay me down to sleep,” implanted in us all. On this sub- ject she writes: During her twenty-two years of close as- sociation with children, in the Sunday School of her Church, First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York City, Mrs. Stetson devoted her tireless efforts to edu- cating the children—numbering at times over three hundred—to understand the pow- er of spiritual thought, and their relation to God. The children, ranging from three to fifteen years of age. were her special care, and parents would turn to Mrs. Stetson in time of physcial and mental discord to prove her teachings. My dear mother was my first Sunday school teacher. Mother was shocked when I questioned the prayer she taught me to say before T went to sleep, which ran thus: “Now T lay me down to sleep; T pray the Lord my soul to keep If T should die before T wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.” The words and music of a beautiful Tul- laby, “Love’s Lullaby,” which adorn the opening and closing pages of the book above mentioned, if learned and sung by our American children—and ultimately by all of His “little ones”—would usher in the “Peace on earth, good will toward men,” for which tired, yearning humanity is hun- gering and thirsting. T quote the two last verses: T did not want to say this prayer, he- cause I did not want to die and leave my dear parents, my horse and piano and organ and home. As a child T rebelled at the prayer “If T should die before I wake.” Today, dear children, you can go to Slumberland with the prayer that dear Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered and founded Christian Sci- ence, and who wrote a wonderful book, which she calls Science ond Health with Key to the Scriptures—I rtepeat, you have the prayer that Mrs. Eddy has given to chil- dren of the twentieth century, and which will never take vou away from vour par- ents, but will teach you that Ged is your life and that you cannot be separated from life and love. You will learr. that God- thoughts are life. This is Mrs. Eddy’s prayer, which thousands of little ones offer to our loving Father-Mother God every night : But to retumn to Mother Goose. Let me quote the following from Mrs. Stetson’s book : A friend of my father, a lawyer, told me he would give me a bright silver dollar if I would learn and re- peat to him some verses of the Moth- er Goose Rhymes. T was four years old and had learned to read. The silver dollar seemed a great reward. Mother gave me the book and T be- gan to commit the verses. By the way, children, perhaps you never saw this book. T hope you never did. If you have seen it, then you know that Mother Goose was indeed a goose to send out such foolish rhymes for lit- tle children to hear from nurses and mothers. T will tell you several; and when you learn that thoughts are forces for good or bad, for love and peace and joy and strength, or for fear and discord and sometimes pain, when you learn this, you will be glad that you are the twentieth century children and know how to think and speak. One rhyme reads thus: “Lullaby, lullaby, mother-love sings Over the cradle of peasant and kingss ‘God is the Father and Mother of all, This is Christ's message to great and to small. “Love clothes the lily in radiant white, Love feeds the lambkins, and guards through the night, Love broodeth over each hamlet and hall, Love never faileth, but careth for all.” In this Message to the Dear Children Mrs. Stetson teaches them American ideals, and to remember and revere the founders of our country, America. “Father-Mother God, Loving me— Guard me when I slecp; Guide my little feet Up to Thee.” There is another prayer, whose author I do not know : “Now I lay me down to sleep; I know that God His child does keep. I know that God, my life, is nigh, I live in Him; T cannot die. God is my health, I can’t be sick; God is my strength, unfailing, quick, God is All; I know no fear, Since Life and Love, our God, is here.” The subject of children’s books has been near my heart for years, and I have made extensive investigation throughout America and Europe, to see what sort of books are found in the libraries and other places available to children. It would appall and arouse mothers, if they could see much that is given to children. A touching and little known picture of George Washington, the father of our coun- try, with little children, illustrates this book, as does one of Abraham Lincoln with chil- dren. These pictures emphasize great his- torical points, in just the way a child can grasp them, and teach the young that as Abraham Lincoln was the liberator from physical slavery, so they can liberate them- selves and others from the mental slavery which wrong thinking puts upon them. Mrs. Stetson refers to the Bible in a way a child can understand, and illustrates her points with picture-stories. She writes: You know, dear little ones, that the Bible is the book that tells us what God says to His people, through men who love Him and who obey His com- mandments, one of which reads: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself. Rock-a-bye, baby, upon the tree top, ‘When the wind blows, the cradle will rock; ‘When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, Down comes the cradle, and baby, and all. Just think, children, of repeating such words to babies. Babies think, and they feel the thought of nurse or mother, or whoever cares for them. If baby went to sleep, thinking it was in the cradle and the cradle was on the tree top, and if it heard the last words of the nurse, “When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall,” no wonder that it awoke in the night and cried out with fear that it was coming down, “cradle and all.” Nursy or mother might have thought baby had a stom- ach ache and given it peppermint tea, but we know that it was fear that awakened the baby, and only love de- stroys fear. T would have this book of Mrs. Stetson’s promi- nently placed in_ every library and_school in America, so that the demand of the children, with their pure, receptive mentalities, could be met, and their latent capacity to think for themselves could be satiefied. “A little child shall lead them.” The “children of a larger growth” will be led to the solution of problems that are bewilder- ing the world, at this unprecedented hour, if they will read, ponder, and practice the true educational processes, that are simply and beautifully unfolded in this lovely book, Greetings and a Message to the Dear Childyen. I am very grateful to Mrs. Winifred Sackville Stoner, for her courageous words on “Mother which have inspired this letter. I have a revised Mother Goose, whose happy secrets T will tell later. My life work has been devoted to the elevation of children, not only in my own country, America, but throughout Europe, even in faraway Russia, where I was a guest in the house- hold of the late Czar, and later, coming to Mos- cow, where I had priceless experiences and glimpses of the childlike, loving spirit of the real Russian people. It was the appreciation and comradeship of my_ young friends (the grand- children of Queen Victoria) in England which was really the first stepping stone in the musical structure of my art, w{:ich afterward developed and unfolded in unexpected ways. These men were called prophets. They prophesied, or foresaw and foretold the result of wrong thoughts, or thoughts which were not God, or good thoughts—Life and Love and Truth thoughts. Ages ago people were told to be good and obey God, if they wanted to be happy themselves and be able to make others well and happy. Elijah was one of the proph- ets who talked with God and taught God-thoughts to the people, so you see, God spoke through him, and, of course, Elijah’s thoughts were all life and love and truth thoughts, and these good, God-thoughts made the people, who obeyed God’s voice through Eli- jah, happier and healthier. Did you ever hear, children, that once Elijah went into a house, and he must have been wery hungry, for he asked for something to eat? There was a mother who lived in that house with her little son, and she told Eli- jah that she had only oil and meal enough to make one cake for her lit- tle boy’s breakfast and that then they must die. Elijah told her to take the meal and the oil and make a cake for him, and she made it and he ate it all. ‘When my Sunday School teacher told me this story, I said I thought Elijah was a very horrid man and very self- ish to eat the cake that the mother was saving for her little boy’s break- fast. Then my teacher told me that the mother knew that Elijah was God'’s prophet and that see trusted him to ask God to save her and her littie son. Of course, Elijah knew that God would give him all that he asked for. Bvery Christian knows this, for the But people did not know in those days that thoughts influenced for good or bad, so they were not respon- sible, as they are today. Think of an- other one of Mother Goose’s many rhymes, with which the children of the nineteenth century were treated : Hi diddle, diddle, The cat played the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon. What a stretch of imagination— asking a child to believe that a heavy mooley cow could jump over the moon! Think of a kitty playing the fiddle and then try to convince the child that a dish could run away with a spoon! These are only samples of the rhymes with which little children were entertained. They surely could not, from these mental impressions, develop intelligence, but instead, as they grew older, they suspected peo- ple of untruths and deceptions, and of saying things that could not be so. Thus the children’s sweet faith was lessened and they were made to doubt Before me, as I write, suddenly come the earnest faces of the 14,000 students of the University of Berlin, representing 17 nationalities, before whom I was invited to sing and speak by the official heads of the University (I being the only Ameri- can artist who had been thus invited). Never have I been so imbued with the desire to bring joy, to elevate the children through my art, my gen, and my deep religious convictions, and I am more earnest, interested, and active than ever, since I know that thought is force, and governs all, and I shall inculcate this in my recitals (which I am about to resume), and at every opportunity which God gives me, to bless and lead His little ones, great and small.