New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 28, 1917, Page 4

Rt , News For T héatelgoers and Women Readers MOTHER MAKES STATEMENT FOR HER SON; BOTH ARE WELL KNOWN HERE IN NEW BRITAIN AN INTERESTING ONE Mrs. Arthur G. Hill, of Tomlinson Avenue, Plainville, Conn., Tells Mr. Martin Why She Is So “LITTLE GREY LADY” AT THE RUSSWIN “The Little Grey Lady,” one of Channing Pollock’s popular plays has. glven the public an agreeable sur- prise in the cleverness of the plot and also on the manner in which the impersonations are carried” out by the Walter Naylor Players. The set- ting of the play centers mostly about the treasury in Washington, D. C., and employes of the tréasury. The play not only shows a pretty ro- mance but shows the true love and heroism of a woman. There is real comedy mingled in here and . there and at certain intervals there are many thrilling incidents. ‘Miss Perry, as “The Lady in Grey,” plays her part exceptionally well and shows how heroi¢ a woman can be. Mr. Wallace as Perry Carlyle is very adapt as are Messrs. Murphy, Quin and Beecroft. Misses Antel and Dow are also seen to good advantage and Miss Dow as a character lady is adding more to Ler reputation at every performance, GEORGE WALSH SALTS MINE ON HIS DAD Bones of every kind figure in the newest’ William Fox production in which ° ‘George Walsh is starring, “High Finance.” & . In the first place there are the bones of extinct geological monsters, for which a lady with ‘archaeological intentions is seeking. In the next AT 'FOX’S TONIGHT AND THURSDAY, Place there are piles of ‘“bones,” in the slang gense—the kind which make the world go ‘round. Mr. Walsh plays the part of Pres- ton Platt, a rich young fellow whose allowance is cut oft by his millionaire father, Herschel Mayall. He hires out a8 a valet in an effort tounake good. He is employed by Ethelbert, son of Mrs. Vanderpool (Rosita Marstini), the lady with archaelogical intentions. cla West (Doris Pawn), niece of T.Morgan Jenks (Charles Clary), at the same time hires out as secre- tary to Mrs. Vanderpool. Patricla is also endeavoring to show her unclc the mettle she is made of. ‘When Mrs, Vanderpool goes west to seek bones in a deserted mine, she takes Hthelbert and the two newly employed servants with her, Arrived in the West, Preston sees a chance to “put one, over” on his ‘wealthy father (Herschel Mayall). He “salts” the deserted mine and has Pringle (Willard Louis), his valet, disguise himself as a mining expert and call on both T. Morgan Jenks and Jonathan Platt. Both men see a new KEldorado. They hasten west on the same train, each hoping to outdo the other and get possession of the mine. After old Platt has paid _Pringle | $100,000 for the stock Preston appears on the scene and explains that the claim has been salted. Not to let Mr, Jenks escape, Preston robs him of his niece and they all go to find a ‘minister. ARLINGTON- IS FUNNY, AND SO IS DOBSON Jacobs and Jermon, the producers of meany fine attractions, seldom wif ever' equalled the *“Golden Crooks” for real amusement. “Golden Crooks,” featuring Billy Arlington, the famous tramp comedian, is playing this week at the Grand theater. Manager D. D. Scullen is pleased at the generous patronage. The prime elements that g0 to make up the program are com- edy of an appetizing quality, good music and terpsichorean evolutions that are charming. The latter' are contributed by a galaxy -of accom- plished ballet dancers who introduce several of the latest Parisian conceifs. Frank Do%son plays opposite Arling- ton and others in the cast of princi- pals are Eleanor Cockran, Dolly Mee- don and the Pall Mall trio. Flowers For Easter There should be no doubt about the quality of flowers or plants you send your friends for Easter. Not only is quality guaranteed but prompt delivery as well. An orddr placed with us for flowers or plants will be delivered when you want it. VIETS’ GREENHOUSES . Tel. 1978. 48 CLINTON ST. . Happy and “A mother loves hér child and when the child is benefitted thé mother is always willing and ready to testify. That is why Mrs. Hill is so very en- thusiastic and happy vver Herbal Lax- a-Tone, the remedy that has really made most of the Unitéa States sit up and take notice. - Do not put off buy- ing that Lax-a-Tone any longer. The reader has, 4s we know, been in the mood to buy a bottle for a long time but keeps putting it-off and off, and maybe sofne day: it Wiil be too late. Do it and do it now,!” says Mr. Martin: Mrs, Hill says: “My son has had terrible indiges- Enthusiastic. tion, with gas and bloat, and has been a ‘sufferer for years. ‘He would-bloat up. with gas after eating the smallest morsel of food. He has tried many remedies, but none seemed to do him any good, but after putting it off for a long time I bought a bhottle of Lax- @-Tone and I am sorry that I put it off S0 long, as my son would have been well a great deal sooner than he was. He is today well and I can and will" recommend Lax-a-Tone to anyone.” ‘The Lax-a-Tone man is at the Econ- omy New [England Drug Store, 365 Main street, where he is introducing this remedy to the New Britain public. REVELATIONS OF A WIFE| ,By ADELE GARRISON Why Katie Decided to Leave in & Tempest of Justifiable Rage, “There are six of them,” said mother-in-law réflectively, daughter Elizabeth, her husband, ai four children, three boys and a girl. “Wherever are we going to put them?” I exclaimed incautiously, and the next moment regretted my speech, for my mother-in-law gave me a withering glance, “There will be plenty of room,” she said icily. “The girl is the youngest, and we can get a crib for her and put it in your room, which, of course, you will naturally give to your sister-in-law and her husband while they are here. Then an extra cot in Dicky’s room will fix that room very nicely for the three boys.” “Where do you think Dicky and I will sleep?” I asked, and I am afraid my tone was frigid as her own, for her utter disregard of my position as mistress of the house was fast getting on my nerves, much as I tried to conceal it from Dicky. Mother Graham'’s Demands, This projected birthday visit o Dicky’s sister and her family, which had been arranged by my mother-in- law without even the pretense of con- sulting me until after her invitation had been sent, caused me much mis- giving. The incursion of six strangers, four of whom are children, into a household of sufficlently upsetting of itself. But when the mother of the family is a critical sister-in-law—for I had no reason to. believe that Dicky's sister Elizabeth would be less cap- tious than his mother—the praspec- tive hostess may well be pardaned tor having qualms of anxiety con- ‘crning the outcome of the experi- ment. My mother-in-law’s answer was not particularly soothing to my fears. “There is a perfectly good bed- room next to Katie's,” she said coolly, “with that walnut bedstead of mine Jn it. It is a most comfortable bed. Dicky has slept in it many a time in his boy hood.” “If it be so comfortable, why could not the three boys sleep in it?” I asked rebelliously, and regretted the words the moment they left my lips, for mother Graham was regard- ing' me with horrified amazement. “If that is your notion of hospi- tality to put your guests in a room next the servant’s at the end of the hall, while you yourself sleep in the best bedroom, I have nothing more to say,” she rejoined, and then went on talking in sublime uncomscious~ ness of the silence vow she had just taken, “However, I am afraid for this once you will have to modify your very Peculiar ideas,” she went on, “for Elizabeth’s boys are subject to croup, and must be near their mather. They must not sleep in so cold a room as that back one, either. They are not used to it.” “Oh, of course!” I agreed imstantly, for a sick child or one who is sub- Ject to illness appeals to me very strongly. I was really a trifle ashamed of my own reluctance to entertain Dicky's sister and ' her family, but, to do myself justice, I believe I would have felt very differ- “my : Uniformly Coéd Oranges California FruitGrewersExchange _y l ently about it if mother Graham had not adcpted such a high-handed at- titude toward the matter. My mother-in-law paid no attention to my sudden capitulation concerning the rooms, evidently considering my attitude, favorable or unfavorable, as not worth considering in her plans. “We must have all these windows and window curtains washed,” she said, “and the house given a thorough cleaning, Katie is getting rather careless since her marriage.” She passed her fingér over the edge of the window frame and withdrew it triumphantly, showing me the mark of duyst upon fit. I was so used to these captious strictures of my mother-in-law con- cerning Katie's work that I did not give her the indignant answer her words well deserved. Dear, loyal Katie, whose god was cleanliness and who was generally to be seen In a whirl of brooms and scrubbing pans! I had a sudden foreboding that this projected visit, with the general cleaning and upsetting that my mother-in-law appeared to deem nec- essary, would mean trouble with the faithful maid. “You remember Katie cleaned the house thoroughly just before she was married in October, and has gone aver it weekly since,” I replied, in an endeavor to modify the tempestuous time I saw coming. “That may be your idea of getting ready for guests of a birthday cele- bration,” my mother-in-law returned caustically, “but it isn’t mine. Where is Katie? In the kitchen?" Katle Decides Quickly, “I suppose so,” I returned, and I fear my tone was a trifle sulky. My mother-in-law glanced at me sharply, “I think I will interview Katie myself,” she said loftily, and swept out of the room. As I followed her down the stairs —for I feared the result of my con- ference with my autocratic mother- in-law and my fiery-tempered mald without my presence to subdue Katle —TI had hard work to keep back the angry words that rose to my lips. ‘The thought of an old mental safety valve I had used when a tempestuous child came to me, and I repeated over and over to myself the most vixenish sentences I could thing of pretending that they were addressed to my mother-in-law. By the time I reached the kitchen, the greater part of my resentment had vanished in amuse- ment at my own childishness. As I opened the Kkitchen door, Katie's: voice came to me high- pitched, excited, “Vot's dot you say? Seex DPeo~ ple’s coming for a visit, and you vant whole house cleaned, wash windows wash curtains, everyting, an’ dot visit not one week away already vet! Vot you think I am, vun truck horse {from brewery? Vell, I guess not. I no can do. Dot’s all.”” “Katie!” My mother- was outraged, stern. to me in that manner again. Do you Tealize how impertinent you are? You will do exactly as I wish about this, or you will leave.” With a panther-like movement Katie swept her arm across the kitchen table where she was beating up a cake, tending cake bowl with its mixture afld the other things on the table -to the floor. Then she untied her apron, rolled it up in a ball and threw it after the bowl. ] leave dis minnit,” she gulped hysterically, and swept past ‘my ! mother-in-law to the kitchen door. aw's volce lever speak NEW SERIAL STARTS TONIGHT—KEENEY'S ' With Molly King and Leon Barry playing the leads, the first install- ment of the new serial, “The Mystery of The Double Cross,” will be shown this evening and tomorrow. The epi- sodes in this great story are , shown every Wednesday and Thurs- ‘| day. The otheér feature tonight will be Own. Moore in ‘A Coney Island Prin< cess.” The feature of the photoplay offer- ings for the last three days of the week will be “The Road to Love,” a | Paramount picturization in which Lenore Ulrich is starred. In addition there will vaudeville acts daily. be three el i GERMANY ALIRMED BY GENSLS ON FOOD Harvest of 1016 Little Better Than That of 1916 — Yield of Bread Grains in 1916 Only Slightly More Than in 1915. Copenhagen, via London, March 28. The result of the recent stock-taking of the grain, potatoes and other food- stuffs on hand in Germany was 8o un- favorable as to cause general appre- hension, according to the Berlin Vor- waerts, which quotes remarks. made before the Reichstag committee on food by the socialistic deputy Bbert. The Vorwaerts is the only Berlin pa- per which carries an account of the proceedings before the committee. According to this report, Deputy Ebert said that an inventory showed that the 1916 vield of bread grains was only 500,000 tons or fifteen pounds per capita, above the 1915 harvest, a harvest which had been regarded as almost calamitous. Earlier reports on the 1916 harvest had de- scribed it as good and a rationing scheme was based on any estimated excess of 1,000,000 tons. The reduc- tion in the visible supply by one hailf explains the cut in the bread ration; which was announced by the author- itles as soon as the results of the cen- sus were in hand. Deputy Ebert added that a similar deficiency apparently existed in other food products and declared that part of the missing foodstuffs undoubtedly had vanished down the throats of cat- tle and hogs, Wwhich were fed on f{l- legal fodder by the farmer. He de- manded that evervthing imported from Rumania be reserved for human consumption, Batocki Admits Shortage, Londod, March 28.—Adolph Von Batocki, president of the German food regulation board, in a Reichstag com- mittee admitted that the compensa- tions for the reduction of the bread ration were not sufficient but declared no other solution was possible, ac- cording to a Central News despatch from Amsterdam. Despite all the experience the food administration authorities had gained and the knowledge of conditions they had acquired, the supplies, continued Herr Von Baticki, had been too highly estimated but the seriousness of the situation did not justify either sharp criticism or utopian propesals. ® The pupplies of pigs were not sum- clent to permit the slaughter of the number which strict necessity required the food dictator is quoted as declar- ing, and therefore the reserves of cat- tle would have to be drawn upon con- siderably. Increased production was impossible, owing to the lack of labor, leaving out of consideration the enor- mous difficulties of transportation. In any caee, the speaker added, it was impossible to live without potatoes and bread, and the agriculturalists must be made fully aware of their obliga- tions. — TO SETTLE MIDK DISPUTE. ‘Gov. Holcomb Expected to Appoint Member of Conference Board. Hartford, March 28.—Governor Hol- comb is expected to appoint today a member of the conference board which will endeavor to settle disagreements between the Connecticut milk dealrs and ‘the ‘Connecticut Milk ' Producers’ assoclation. The appointee will be the seventh member, each assoclation having named three. A There Was a conference of = direc- tors of both'bodies * four hours ‘in length yesterday but as no decisfon on the price of milk was reached it ‘was agreed to leave the matter to ar- bitration by a committee, which will meet tomorrow. 4 5 » ! LARGE COMPLETE STOCK SIMPLY SAY “CHARGE IT" { NO “EXTRAS" oF ANY KIND |, Prepare for Easter! DON'T' WAIT until the last minute, boys. You know, there'; always a rush at that time. time to pick out the Clothing ‘Weekly Payments, you know. Buy NOW, when there’s plenty of . you'll be ' SATISFIED * with. [ MEN’S and YOUNG MEN’S SUITS NOBBY NEW TOPCOATS, HATS, SHOES, FURNIS}HNGS £ HARTFORD. OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS. l & SIDE TALKS The Rich Man’s Burden ' I read a splendid thing not long| ago that thrilled me through and through. It was this. A group of wealthy people had planned to build them- selves a beautiful clubhouse. They d gotten together a million dollars, I believe it was, for this purpose. And then they decided, instead of building that beautiful clubhouse, to give the money to the war sufferers. That meant something, That cost them something. And I think it wilt count them something, don’t you? Why It Is Hard For Rich People to Be Unselfish. It is so hard for rich people to be truly unselfish, because. it is o easy for them to be generous without be- ing unselfish at all. | They can give sums that will ac- complish tremendous amounts of good, that will make the papers call them philanthropists, that will bring them infinite gratitude, without real- ly siving up anything. - ! Who, when he has been called upon o give and felt the wrench of giving maney that he really needed else- where, has not wished he were rich 0 that he coyld give without feeling it. It's a Natural Wish But An Unwise Onme. 1t is a natural wish of selfish, ease- loving humanity. But it is a wish ;hm fulfillment means #oul-paraly- s Isn’'t that one of the big reasons why it is harder for a camel to go through the eye of a needle tham,— you know the rest,—because it is so easy for the tioh man to give with- out really giving. Understand me, I do not mecan to say that all rich men are that way. These men and women were not. Sor- was Danfel Ford the Massa- chussetts philanthropist, who after giving away the larger part of his fortune and living in the utmost simplicity except for one luxury, lis beloved steam-yacht, in which he came to his work every day, finally Begin tonight. Rub gently sham. dandruff, itching and dryness with Cu- Poo with Catioura. ‘Soap. and bt water poo uf i K o0 500 Bk Read directions amundm Soaj rfolP sl -d, ‘oei‘l‘et uses, every-da; novplnd :hm".'. n % little of Cntim‘n Ointment. You can have i b won the battle with himself and u% that too, R The Eye of the Needle Will Be ~ In His Case, Nor was that wonderful man when his factory burned down, ing several of his employes, gave his wholgfortune to their people went to Work as a clerk at sixty. (Some contrast between him and one" of the men concerned in the Trianghé: fire, who was:summoned not long ago, for locking the ‘dooms again!) | But ‘these are cases. of exceptional’ men, who have met the. .great iK™ stacles :that-.being rich op; ¥ sympaf 3 strength of character, and have oversy. come them. ; il tOne @oes not doubt that in ‘theli. having teader the ncedle a broad and easy gate: Men A5 for PTombmW Cereal Sugtr and Cream- Corned Beef Hash Butter Cakes Cofiee Lanch ¥ Frult Toast Coftee Kalecannon Dinner Celery Squp s Braised Lamb's Tongue Brussels Sprouts Candied Sweet Potatoes Cotlage Puading Lemon Sauce Coftee Butter Cakes:—BEeat two eggs wit! out separating unti] light, add to two cupfuls milk and twe cupti flour and beat until smooth, | two tablespoonfuls melted’ Hutter beat again. Stir in one-half spoontul salt and one teaspoonfy baking powder; mix and bake oun’ hot griddle.: . g Braised Lamb's Tongue:—The. lamb’s tongue should first be i mered in salted boiling water: for il hour, then drained, skinned, trl and placed in a braising pan. Po over them a pint each brown'' tomato sauce; add a quarter-of a leaf, a teaspoonful onion julce, ¢clove and sufficient salt and pep; to season. Cover closely and for two hours in a moderate’ oven: i HOSPITAL SHIP W‘! No Warning Given : Asturias’ i Thirty-one Are Killed,. London, March 28.—The hospital ship Asturias was tor| without warning, it is officially i nounced. Thirty-one persons killed and twelve are missing. statement says: b 4 “The British hospital ship. while steaming with = all . navigat : lights and with all proper distin- : guishing Red Cross signs visibly, §)- luminated, was torpedoed . without: warning on the night of March 20. The following: ' casualties oceufred: Military, dead, eleven; missing, thrée, with one female staff nurse; injured, seventeen. Crew, dead twenty, ‘with nine missing, including one. stew- ardess; crew, injured, twentystwe.: “The torpedoing of this' hospitat ship is included in the list of achisve- ments claimed by U-boats as pried. in a German wireless press S, Yesterday.t' + % e 3 cases the camel will find the eye-of: