New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 17, 1915, Page 4

THEATER v “.f-k'a mum e Millionaire” “w 10, ‘20, 30, 60e. and the first chapteér of “The Romance Ne lent work in his rendition of the fa- mous Robert Service poem which he recites prior to the showing of the production. spberries, al and Cream gg Plant Potatoés au Gratin Coftee Wwiche-. .+ Frécch Dressing snmo ‘Custard Sauce Vegetable Soup ‘Steak ‘ Potato Croquettes Beet and -Onion Salad Strawberry Sherbet - “Coftee —Bon a Salad ,~drain, and leave n cut into thin slices, e ‘cooked: beet. Mix , #dd a tea- z chopped tfarragon and pepper to taste, two oil and oné table- ‘Mix; thorough- ted horeradish is an to this saldd if the fla- Sherbet—Mash thor- o and one half quarts strawberries, then sweete:: uart sugar.. When sugar Hw Ym'k was elected ”Yho Connecticut Associa- itualists at its fifty-first ng at Lake Compounce Other officers chosen t, Mrs, KKate M. Simp- ! d; secretary, Mrs. Jennic , Hartford; delegate to !mventlon. Mrs. Simp- Mrs. Dillon. 0145[;% to the e abolished »1, un_\va “and peacc blistred ™ EDA BARA IS TYPICAL VAMPIRE “Don’t be offended at what I am going to say, but vour face is the most beautifully wicked I have ever seen.” The speaker was. Roland Montaigne St. Cyr, the celebrated por- TIHEDA BARA IN “THE DEVIL'S DAUGHTER. trait painter. He was ‘addressing Mlle. Theda Bara, the French Vam- pire Woman during a visit to the studios in Jersey City, where the fa- mauos mous Fox productions are made. “ T try to make it wicked in this part,” responded Mlle. Bard, who was play- ing LaGiaconda, the sinister and beau- tiful siren of '‘The Devil's Daughter. ““The Devil's Daughter” was written by Gabrielle D'Annunzio and is based on his LaGiaconda. “The Devil's Daughter” is coming to Fox's tomor- row and Saturday. Edmund Breese in “The Shooting of Dan McGrew" of BElaine,” till be shown for the last. times tonight as well as today’s Pathe Charles Stone is doing excel- CHAPLIN FILMS NEW & KEENEY FEATURE According to an anneuncement made today the management of Keeney’s has made arrangeménts for exelusive rights in New Britain to the new releases of Charley Chaplain pic- tures by the Essanay company. By this deal Keeney's annexes this fam- ous sc comedian to’its list of star attractiofs, both in motion pictures and vaudéville. Heretofore it has been difficult to get first-run Chaplin pic- tures for a city of New Britain's size.\f Realizing the popularity of this fa- Motherhood, Science and Every Nursery (By Doris E. Fleischman in the New . York Tribune.) Motherhood is a science, and every nursery should be a laboratory. This is the sane ideal which moti- vates the teachihgs of that new cult, Mothercraft. And continuing the thought, its leaders declare that a lab- oratory is*not a place for haphazard experiméntation. In this workroem, above all others, all actions should be based upon laws and carefully thought out principles. ‘Woman Should Be Professional. “The greatest. profession in the world has been carried on, from the beginning of time, by an army of amateurs. It is now necessary to make of every woman a professional. “It is laughable to know that a stenographer studies for two or three months at the léast for the simple task of taking dictation then transcribing it to a typewriter sheet. She does that because no man should think of employing her’ if she did not know her work with a certain degree of expertness. But she is quite willing to accept the most respomsible position which the world has to offer her with no other education than a few housewives’ tales and a mother's instirict ‘which has been raised from the unsehmlfle ranks of common sense.” “Her husband is quite willing to‘ma. ploy her for this task:of taking .full charge of a human being, which is un- doubtedly more important than tak- ing charge of some correspondence. But that is because he knows nothing of this important job, and is quite as culpably negligent as his partner. The child has nohting to say in the matter. If things do not suit it, it can die.” Best Impetus From Germany. This is the situation as Miss Sarah Comstock, investigator, sees it. Miss Comstock has travelled throughout this country and other countries studying methods of caring for and wethods of teaching the care of chil- dren to mothers and prospective moth- ers. The best impetus has come from Germany, she finds. England has done notable work in its school for nursery nurses. And America is lamentably behind in every respect. She quotes figures to show the -truly dramatic quality which our oversight takes. “We rank first in national wealth. Our infant mortality rate is estimated as about the twentieth best in a list of thirty-one civilized countries.” - But she hails as one of thé greatest move- ments in the world the movement which gives rise to the Mothercraft scheéols. Three aré a few in the west and a few in the east. The idea travels slowly, but: that is not because the vorite funmaker and the drawing powers of thé pictures in which he plays the leading role, Keeney's re- céntly opeéned negotiations to get the releases for the local playhouse. 1It| was announced today that the deal had been congummated and begin- ning next week, Chaplin will be an added attraction on Mondays and Tuesdays, every other week. All the Essanay releases in which this star appears will be sent to Keeney's at the same time they are shown in the New York theaters. The big'feaure of the program tos night will be a “movie,” Francis X. Bushman appearing in “Graustark,” a picturization of the famous novel of the samé name. The piece is in six parts. The story is oné of the best known romances of modern fiction and there are few people who have not read it. Dramatized for the screen it is said to be even more in- teresting than in the book form. The picture will be shown tonight and to- morrow. This evening the Pathe weekly} will also be on the program and in addition there will be other “movies,”” including two good come- dies. The vaudeville program continues to create a favorable impression. It is an entertaining &how, light and réfined, and it makes a strong appeal to a variety loving audience. their. musical farce, ‘At the Races.” Other numbers are Malcom, juggler and comedian; The Flying Keelers, aerial performers; Edwards and Scott black-face song and dance artists’and Van and Scott, singers and conversa- tionalists. THE AMERICAN BAND. ‘Will Play Concert Program at Lake Compounce Friday Evening. Managers Pierce and Norton, of Lake Compounce, have planned an innovation by arranging for a band concert to be given at Lake Com- pounce on: Friday evening, June 18, at 8 o'clock. The American Band, of New Britain,” has been secured for this occasion and Director Willlam H, Bishop has arranged the follow- St o fowl can be made ten- cken if cooked as fol- fowl over with lemon hiwhitens the flesh, cover ¢d paper, and steam for ruu. according to size, old fawl is sald to be than that of a young L a“lfl with fifgh AitsTdt the sides. ing excellent program: March—‘Fairest of tthe Fair’” Ovérture—"Tra Diavals” . Selection—‘Chin-Chin” (a)—"Humoresque’” { .... Dvorak (b) “When It's Nighttime in Dixie Land” ... Berlin Medléy—Popular Hits ...... Remick Conecert Solo—S8elected (a) “My Beautiful Sousa Auber Carryl { Chateau of Love" <v... Doyle (b) “My Bird of Paradise” Mr, Bohweitzer. $elestion—'"The Little Care”’ Carryl Waltz—"“Avee Mof"” ...... Lanzerrno Finale—“A Wee Bit"” ...... W. H. B. ‘Berlin Fields and Flelds head the bill with'; mothers do not want to learn, Not Militantly Optimistic. “I do not believe that I am mili- tantly optimistic. But I am quite sure that each woman wants to be the best mother she possibly can be. She seizes every bit of information on the subject with avidity. The only trou- ble is that hitherto she has been re- ceiving the wrong sort of information. #Mothers’ meetings can- be the most excellent things in the world. They are sometimes the most perni- cious. “The person ‘who is in charge of the meeting must be a trained leader, It must be a person who knows his subject, not superficially, but in every aspect. .When there is an inexper- ienced leader, ,or no leader at all, save the woman who knows because she nursed Johnny through typhoid and diptheria without a nurse, ¢he meetings merely become breeding holes for misinformation. Instead of science the woman learn superstition. They mistake for laws the exceptions to the laws. “Every community in the coun- try should have some facility for the teaching of motherhood. And where the people live so far apart that there is no community at all, the women must learn that the government at ‘Washington will send out all peéssible useful and necessary Information for the asking.” The care of a child seems to be a wider subjéct than has hitherto been { conceded. To learn it properly, each little girl, when she is in sc¢hool in the grammar school, in the high scheol, and in the colleges should learn something of the subject of Thome- making, says Miss Comstock, and adds: “The most important feature of momemaking is mothering. Merely Preliminary Study. “It is not necessary that other studies should be neglected ' for the teaching of motherhood. But a litle, a very little, time glven each year, every year, will go a long way, But will go a long way merely as a pre- liminary study. And this time is not wasted. Even if a girl is not looking forward to motherhood, and every normal girl looks forward to it, and most of them eventually become mothers. this teaching is not wasted. “If it is difficult to teach these things at school why not have vaca- tion ¢camps during the summer where these girls can have their laboratory work, so to speak. There might even be, in connection, a kindergarten where they might observe, and by learning to play properly with the children, learn something of the men- tal trainifig of the ¢hild.” But the most impértant phase of all ig the Mothercraft' school, de- clares Miss Comstock, who has just ¢omplled a book entitled ‘‘Mother- craft” from' articles which *she has Should Be Laboratory, Says Novelist Grentest Profession in World Carried on By Amateurs, Declares Sarall Comstock — Better Mothers Must Come. and | Army of writtén for “Geod Housekeeping Magazine.,” $he has written novels and literature of divers sorts, Ignorance to Blame. But her .greatest interest lies in maothérhood and its terrible abuses. She is not greatly interested in the birth rate. But she is interested in the death rate. “A child undér onc year of age dies somewhere every ten | seconds. A hundred and eighty of them die while you are at breakfast. | And the reason, purely ‘and simply, is ignorance. - If all mothers knew tae few simple things which they migit learn from a schoel of methercraft, the great proportions of deaths from preventable diseases would cease.” “'Miss Mary Read, who has opened a sciool for mothercraft in New York eity, is a wonderful little woman. In her school the young girl may learn much that is of service to her. The married woman may learn homémak- ing. The prospective mother may learn the many things of value con- eerning the prenatal care of the mother and child. And shé may start | the study which must beé kept up throughteut childhoed of the child— | and’ forevér aftér, probably, for true| efficiency, on its physical and mental care.” Newest Profession in World. Metherhood is the newest profes- sion in the world, apparéntly. 1t is the newést science on . the oldest subject. . But science is not enough. “If science were enough we shéuld best send our children at once, to asy- lums. But one-half of the children in orphan asylums die. And the reason for that is that they lack in one thing which is incalculable. And that is mother love, or just plain mothering. That subtie, phychic thing is translated into health and the physical well-being of the child. Therefore 1 think that any woman who voluntarily shirks the care of her child is not only foolishly wast- ing the greatest joy of life, she |is cheating her child of that which no amount of science unalloyed can ever give him.” The Rconomic Value of Health. (Bridgeport Standard.) According to a statement forward- ed to President Wilson by the First International Conference on Indus- trial Diseases, the annual loss that can be traced to the illness of work- ers_is placed at nearly $750,000,000. That this figure is not a hopelessly exaggerated estimate should be ap- parent to anyone who makes a hasty caleulation of the average annual cost of fllness in cases that he knows about and then does the necessary sum in muiltipication required to get an estimated amount for the entire country. There is, however, some-~ thing in totals of this magnitude that appeals to the imagination in a way that individual cases cannot and it is veéry probably true that one of the best ways to bring home to the in- dividual his own loss through minor ailments is ta confront him with the aggregate loss due to similar causes in the whole United States. | over night. That a very large part of this loss of $750,000,000 a year could pefect- ly well be aveided is claimed by those who have studied the question and may be regarded as the fact. To a large extent this avoidable loss is due to unsanitary working conditions and requirds action on the port of employers and of the state. To a great degree also the loss is due to causes within the control of the in- dividual affected. If the wastage due to avoidable ill- ness is to be eliminated among work- ers it is probable that some system of periodical physical examinations will eventually have to be quite gen- erally adopted. As it is now, a surs prisingly large proportion of the ill- ness of mature life have been years in developing and could perfectly well have been either avoided or at least ameliorated if they had been detected in time. It is for the interest both of employers and employes that the ex- ample set by Health Commissioner Goldwater of New York and by at least one large banking institution #hould be widely followed. » Dangerous Convoying, (Springfield Republican.) The convoying of an American pas- senger liner by Britisn destroyers through the war zone has an aspect which is not reassuring to the captain of the ship. A submarine captain could torpedo the liner and then ex- piain that he aimed at vne of the de- etroyers. This is the objection Cap- tain Passow of the American liner St. Paul has t6 being convoyed, but ap- parently he was powerless to reject the offer of this sort of protection by the British admiralty in running down around the southern coast of Ireland trom Liverpool to New York. In the Gulflight case, the American tanker was torpedoed while being convoyed by destroyers, but the werman gov- ernment did not take the position that the presence of the convoy gave the. German submarine captain the right to attack the American mer- chantman. | I By DOROTHY CLARKE Wasn't that a jam yesterday? * * * I never saw so many people at a Ben- efit Tea in my life. * * ¥ What time did you leave? * * * I tried to get near yau, but it was simply impos. sible. * * * No, I stayed in town * * * Noboedy of import- anee, except Mrs. Comuthers—she was looking horribly smart * * * wore a street costume * * * it's so much nicer at those huge affairs, don’t you think? * * * it was of dark blue pusey willow taffeta * * * a double flounced skirt with a coat blouse * * * all scalloped and piped in emer- ald green * * * it's settléed, my dear! * * * we are going to have things buttoned up the back * * * her gown was * * * and the Dhuttons were square * * * Oh, I did a little shop- ping, but I'm mighty glad to get back to Piping Rack * * * The city is posi- tivey deserted * * % I didn't meet two people * * * dia you hear about the Rocks? * * * you know Mrs. Rocks started * * * SLASHES WIFE) AND SELF, Calvin . Demarest, Former Billlard Champion, Attacks Spouse, 17.—Calvin Demar- former national amateur billlard champion, attacked his wife with a pocket knife yesterday and then slashed his own throat. His mother, who attempted to restrain him, was cut in the hands. Husband and wife were taken to a hospital. There Mrs. Demarest's wound was said to be serious, the two inch blade of the knife having entered her throat in several places. Demarest’ was not seriously hurt and was removed to :ihe infirmary of the House of Correc- on. The elder Mrs, Demarest said Cal- vin had been on the verge of a ner- vous hreakdown for some time and had contemplated retirement to a ‘agrm for rest and quiet.* She told the police that her son’s condition made itself apparent in hallucmations con- cerning his wife, one of them being that she was robbing him. Chicago, June est, : Hoase_llofll_Votes To wash chamois . skin, put it through warm goap suds, rinse in several warm waters, draw it through the hand to squeeze the water out and hang up to dry. Pull while dry- ing, if you would have it smooth. A charming serving tray is made of the printed blue and white towel- ing from Japan, covered with glass and framed in soft gray. Richer trays are made with precious Chinese enibroideries used in the same way. When making an omelet, first heat the pan very hot, put in some butter and then the omelet mixture, when it is brown on the under side turn it over and set it in the oven to finish. By this method the omelet will not fall. It is a good idea to have "an easy method of moving the bucket when scrubbing the floor. Take a two-inch board, large enough to set.a pail on; insert casters in each corner and the pall can be pushed from place to place with ease. When you ‘wash lace curtains, don't rub them. Put into cold water over night. Then put the clean cold water with borax; bring to a boil and boil 15 or 20 minutes. Rinse through and stiffin in a final water, which has 5 cents’ worth of gum arabic in it. el Vews for T heatre Goers and Women “OVER THE WIRE” | B e Readers IDE After All “Well, anyhow, it can't kill you,” o s That remark, which one frequentiy Mears uttéred as a comfort for the harrassments of the minor ills of existence, is a nillustration of ene of the greatest paradoxes in the world. e In this hemisphere we are In the main a Christian peopie. e pfo- fess 10 believe in an after-life, most of us in a happy one. We have friends on this side of the border and some on the other siae. The hy without the vacant chalr is almost unknown. Many of us huve more wi ing en the other side than are still with us. . And yet the average person thinks of deith as the worst calaml 1 anyone. When he spcaks of anyone Who dies young ys: “Poor So-and-so!” His ultimate measure of courage is the tacing of death. After an accideént hé puts the dead in twenty-four pol type, and ‘those who have meérely got to go on living minus their sight ¢ their limbs in twelve point. Something We Don't Really Believe. Most of us can't belleve we are ever going to- die, that s the part of us that senses things. We know it as an abstract fact. now and then does something bring it home to us a concrete Mv. uand when it does how we shrink from the unwelcome thought. My mother’s father was a Methodist minister. He was a very govd man; he lived up to his lights and he ecould scaréely have had any doubts that he was going to that Heaven in which he sincerely belleved. And yet r.e'was in no hurry to get thers. He used to quote as his sentuments what the old lady said about death: “Life is all a fleeting show—but I'd lke to stay and see the show a littie longe And when at the age of seventy he lay. ill he did not want to die, and said s0 frankly and emfluflulb ~ Isn't It Suange We're Not More Curious? 1 often wonder that we do not have a greater curfosity Of course we do wonder and puzzle aand guess, but is it not people do not more often take up theguage flung down by this 1] inystery and cross the boraer simply to find out? Did' you ever stop to think that the fool whe died yesterday = must know more about life and death and tlie issues thereof than the wikest liv- ing savant in all the world, thtough hé have studied and réad and thought about these matters through a long, loug life? . Won't It Be Almost a Joke? Suppose we find that this existence is for all of us the fulfillment of our best desires, a thoroughly happy life in the biggest, Nnest sense of nappiness we can conceive, or even bigger and finer than we can possibly gonceive, Suppore we find there is no great sufféring in the passing. Sup- pese we find that we shall keep that which 1 think we most want and most fear tosing—our sense of our own identity—won’t it be rather a joke on us after all ? 1 wish more of us could look at death as Charles Frohman did. Doubtless you remember that as he stood on the deck of the “Lusitania’| taking off m.x ifebelt to give to & worian (he could not swim a stroke) he uttered oné of the finest bits of philosophy ever spoken on the sub. ject: “I am not afraid to die,” he said. “After all death is the most beau- tiful advénture in life.” 5 “LITTLE MILLIONAIRE" |Fashion Hints by May m VERY FUNNY FARCE When George M. Cohan wrote “The Little Millionaire,” he created a play that centered about the matrimonial tanglés of a wealthy family and so cleverly has he ‘woven the thread of the story that he has made an up- roariously funny farce, which is thié week pleasing capacity audiences at Poll’s theater, where the popular Poli Players are giving it an excellent presentation. The matrimonial tangles of the Spooners are of course a bit overdrawn to make an amusing story but neverthiess it is as entertaining a farce as Mr. Cohan has ever writ- ten, according to those who have seen | Of especial interest is the presenta- tion, next week, of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” the original version being used by the Players. Mrs. Harriett Beeeher Stowe, as all Hartford knows, wrote the book, which first appeared as a serial story in “The National Era” A few months after it ap- peared in book form and in on month it had reached the sale of 240,000 copies. Since then it is almost impos- sible to give any accurate figures on the sale of the book but it runs up into millions of oples. The book has been translated into Spanish, Italian, French, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, Ger- man, Flemish, and many other lan- guages. Like the book, the produc- tion has been seen everywhere that the book is Known and it stands today without a rival. It is the oldest com- edy dramatic production on the American stage today. The Players use the original production which, the management takes opportunity to mention, is different from the ver- sion used by road companies which 8876 Gown with Circular Flounce; tour the country. " 34 to 42 bust. One of the latest developments of full skirt is the circular flounce at hvumm Here: . thlculmnnu‘ ives @ flared effect at t -mh -cl 1“. at the lower simple, serviceable smart one and would be lound | for the fashionabie foulards the like and glso for cotton cf lineps and fabrics of a similar sort. the figure, the edges are plain, vith bands of material by but in one of ruller views, they are cut in big scallo and that finish is a favorite one and an exceedingly attractive effect. scallops can be bound or edged or finished in any way that may L \ WOMAN SHOOTS HERSELF, Bridgeport, June 17.—Anna Chat- los, aged 25, wife of Willlam F, Chat- ios, shot herself, probaoly with fatal result yesterday, while suffering from mental depression. Mrs. Chatlos had heen i1l since the Dbirth of a child several weeks ago. She had been under the care of a nurse at her home in Mill Hill avenue. Yesterday she ! eluded her nurse and soing to her husband’s bed room found a pistol . which she turned upon herself. Two . bullets entered the breast and one the & abdomen. The woman was taken to the Bridgeport hospitai. GOING OUT OF BUSINESS BIG SACRIFICE SALE OF MILLINERY. Hats Velvets, Wings, Flow Cost. Also Showcase for sale. MISS M. A. NATIONAL BANK BUILDING. red. The eleev. be gathered cuffs after the lx:h-o:” or they ¢ cut shorter and all to flare a litt! after the manner of the bell sleeve t: fashionable this summer. There is lining to which the sleeves are and the little over-bedn or ecoa sleeveless. The u 1“’ ki is i}g two pieces an: ium size wfll 'd 81 ydl. of material 27 in, wide kfl- w:‘; filn. wide 'i(h l'{dm 27, 2 over edge is ¢ . The patum 76 is cut in sizes from 34 | 0 42 in. bust measure. It will be mail 1 any address by the Fashion wment of this paper, on neubtdu! iy ers, Ribbons, Etc., Below SULLIVAN