The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 23, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 6 October 1910 — Page 6

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Operatic Star Had To Succeed

fi Annie ! Louise Cary Had Borrowed *6,000 to Pay for Her Musical Education and Couldn’t Afford to Fail. Annie Louise Cary, who retired to private life in 1882, following her marriage to the late Charles M. Raymond, (was one of the first American girls th give Maine fame as a mother of operatic song birds of the first order. This she did. In the late sixties, and frpm then on until the day of her marriage hers was one of the famous contralto voices of the civilized world, more [than realizing the prediction James[ G. Blaine made when he heard her sipg on the day of her graduation from a girls’ school near Portland, Me. —that, with her voice properly cultivated, she would have a greater career, as a singer than as a teacher, ■which | was the vocation her friends had planned for her. Encouraged, if not" inspired, by this praise from one who was growing daily in public power in Maine, Miss Cary decided to cultivate her voice. She studied in Portland, then in Boston, and finally there came the inevitable [day when she hade good-by and Bailed; away to contine the study of music abroad. Fori two years she applied herself In Milan, under the direction of the celebrated instructor, Giovanni Cor s' Bt the end of that period, receivin her first opportunity to test her voic before the critical public—she w; cast for the contralto part in the con pany which was to sing for the firs time Verdi's “The Masked Ball”— using the English translation of the Italian title—in the opera house ir Copenhagen in the presence of th< Foyalj family of Denmark. When Miss Cary’s friends heard o' It some of them alarmed, went to her “Ajnnie,” they said, “don’t you thinl you are. a little too ambitious? Don’t you (think you are risking your entire career by essaying to appear for the first I time in grand opera in the highly critical capital of Denmark, with the king; and the other members of the royal family looking on?” “Why do I risk anything?” Miss Cary asked in turn. “Wouldn’t you, if you were in 'my place, be glad of the oppprtunity to sing in the royal opera house of Denmark, and with the king and bls family in the royal box to hear you?” “But, Annie,” was the reply, “see how much you risk! The part you are plaining to sing is an ambitious ohe, and you are also planning to make your debut before royalty. Suppose you fail in such a part and before royalty in so public a manner —what then? It would be much better for

Britain’s Flag Was Saluted

How President Arthur and James G. Blaine Performed an Act of Courtesy at the Yorktown Centennial Celebration. When the late William Henry Hunt, secretary of the navy under Garfield and Arthur, was on the eve of sailing, in 1882, for St. Petersburg, to take up his new duties as our minister to Russla, I had a chat with him, during the course of which he spoke of the many pleasant experiences he had had as a cabinet officer. “But the one incident that I shall always remember witfi the greatest pleasure,” said the judge, “centers around the salute that was fired for the British flag at the Yorktown centennial celebration last year. You piay recall that at the height of that celebration of the anniversary of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, the flag against which the colonists had fought [was given the national salute. Well, here Is the inside story of that unusual and, I may say, historic Incident. “Robert C. Winthrop, formerly speaker of the lower house of congress, delivered the oration on the Yorktown field. A very distinguished group sat upon the platform. President Arthur and all the members of his cabinet were there. Sir Edward Thornton, at that time minister from Great Britain to this country, was also present, and he entered with large sympathy and appreciation Into the spirit of the day, notwithstanding the fact that It was the celebration of the final defeat of Britain’s plans to hold on to the colonies. At one point In his oration, Mr. Winthrop painted so vivid a picture of the. American attack, led by Alexander Hamilton, upon Lord Cornwallis’s earthworks, the remnants of which were, visible from ■where we sat, that Sir Edward hlm(self actually led the demonstration of applause that followed. “Close by Sir Edward sat William B. Clyde, the creator of an important coastwise steamship company bearing his name. Noticing the British minister’s enthusiasm, he took from his Bicket a little pad of paper and scribed upon a sheet these words: •Wouldn’t It be well, at the conclusion of these exercises, to salute the Brlt-

K you to make a simpler beginning—for you to make your debut, say, in one of the little towns of Germany, and so feel your way until you know exactly what you can do with yourself and your voice in public. Don’t risk your future by being too ambitious at the start.” Miss Cary turned to her friends, all sincerely anxious that she should make no false step at the threshold of her career. “You don’t know what you are saying,” she said firmly. “I have got to sing in this opera in the royal opera house In Copenhagen and before the king and all his family. I must make a success of the part, and I will tell you why. I owe $6,000. That money I have borrowed to pay for my musical education. I am getting anxious to pay it back. So I have taken this part you do not want me to taks, and I tell you now I am going to succeed in it, for then I shall be able to earn the money with wnich to pay off this debt that is beginning to bother me. I simply have got to succeed. Don’t talk to me about failure.” And so, with the knowledge of the debt hanging over her, simple Annie Cary of Maine made her debut in the royal opera house in Copenhagen and sang so gloriously with that wonderful

Grant Ingenious on Farm & —

a ie Hit Upon a Simple Method of Sowing the Grain and Harrowing It In at the Same Time. When Ulysses S. Grant flashed cross the country’s consciousness as he captor of Forts Donelson and lenry, there began to be circulated tones of his life on the Dent farm, ear St. Louis, following his marriage vith Miss Julia Dent. Today’s aneciote goes back to that period in the great general’s life; and it was told by a Lieutenant Sappington to one of the present-day long-time residents of St Louis, Henry C. Spore, Esq., who passed it on to me. “I lived not far from Captain Grant when he was cultivating a portion of the Dent farm,” said Lieutenant Sappington, who, like Mr. Dent’s son-in-law, had served in the regular army. “Often I saw the captain at work in the fields, both early and late, and in this way I came to learn that he I was a perfect master of horses. I re- ' member that upon one occasion I saw him trudging behind a pair of horses as he plowed a field which, I have been told, his father-in-law had given him for clearing it.

ish flag? It would be a compliment to Sir Edward Thornton. Then he passed the slip along to James G. Blaine, secretary of state. “Glancing at the message, Mr. Blaine began fumbling in his pockets. At last he produced a letter and tore off he back of the envelope. Finding no pencil, he turned to me, and I gave him a stub so short that he had difficulty in holding it in his fingers. Yet, within a few seconds, he had written as follows on that soiled scrap: ‘In view of the warm friendship maintained for many years between the mother country and the United States, and also in view of the tender sympathy shown by Queen Victoria for the American people and the family of President Garfield at the time of his mortal Illness, and in the hope and confidence that the cordial relations now existing may be forever maintained between the mother country and our own, it is hereby ordered that at the conclusion of these exercises the British flag be unfurled upon the masts of the American navy here present, that it also be raised upon the flagstaff of the color line of the parade, and that a salute of twenty-one guns be fired.’ “This order Blaine passed on to President Arthur. He read it, smiled approvingly, borrowed my stub of a pencil from Blaine, signed it, and passed it back to Blaine for his signature as secretary of state. Then the order was passed to me, and in quick succession to Robert T. Lincoln, and we two, as secretary of the navy and secretary of war, Respectively, gave the necessary orders for its fulfillment. “With this salute of the flag of our old-time enemy the anniversary celebration of Cornwallis’s surrender actually ended, and the public has never known how this salute came about — an act of courtesy which, we afterwards learned, was most cordially appreciated by Queen Victoria, and which was all due to Blaine’s quickness to take a hint “I have often wondered what became of the order for the salute. For some time I was under the impression that Mr. Lincoln had kept it, but later he told me that he had not. It was probably the most curious presidential order ever Issued, and, had it been preserved, would now be looked upon as a historical curiosity.” (Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards.)

J contralto voice of hers that royalty applauded vigorously and enthusiastically. She had triumphed—and through the success that night In capital and the other successes thal followed —yes, with the first earnings of her voice—Annie Louts Cary paid off her debt of $6,000. (Copyright, 1910, by the Associated literary Press.) An Irish Grand Prix. There was once an Irish Grand Prix The horse that lowered the French col ors was the property of an eccentric Irishman named Conolly, and was • big, bony roan, not much to look at in the way of horseflesh, so It was s great surprise to everybody but his owner when he came in first. His pre vlous record at the English Derby the pereceding year had not been brilliant enough for anybody to lay any large bets on him, with the sole exception of Conolly himself, whose faith in his entry was so great that he mortgaged his lands and put every cent on the horse. Up. to the very end of the race everybody looked on Conolly as s ruined man, but when the roam shot first under the wire he not only car rled the British colors to victory, but won a great fortune for his master This happened in the itme of Napoleon 111., and Conolly was so proud of hla triumph that he Insisted on walking ahead of the emperor and empresa cheering and waving his hat

“Some days after I had thus beheld Captain Grant earning his bread literally by the sweat of his brow, I happened to be passing his way again, when, while still some niece off, I saw something that made me stop and look in a sort of wonder. “Plainly enough, Grant was harrowing the field with the same horses he had plowed It with a few days beforeHe also was riding one of the horses, but why was he swinging an arm in such energetic fashion? At first I thought he might be doing it to guide the horses, but they kept on in a straight line through the field, and I knew that my guess was wrong. ‘Perhaps he is using the lash on them,’ I said to myself, but a moment later 1 made out that he had no whip in his hand. "By and by, as I stood watching the unusual sight, the captain turned his team at a corner of the field, and then, for the first time, I saw what he was up to. Upon the back of the horse which he was not riding he had fastened a large sack containing seed — wheat, I think it was, at this late date, though it may have been oats. Anyway, with one eye upon the harrow, to see that it was working properly, and with the other upon his horses, the captain, with a sort of methodical rhythm, was thrusting a hand into the sack of grain, withdrawing it filled with seed, and scattering the contents over the field with that energetic swing of his arm that had attracted my attention. He had hit upon a simple plan of doing two days’ work in one! “For a while after making this discovery I stood watching him. As he neared me I heard him talking to his horses as though they were intelligent beings, and they seemed to obey him almost Instinctively. And so, with a perfect understanding, as it were, established between him and them, the captain both harrowed and sowed at the same time, and, I presume, in the course of the day had the field completely harrowed and sown. Later in the year, I saw it as a flourishing field of grain; and afterwards, when I heard of Grant’s strategy at Vicksburg, which revealed to the country the man’s ingenuity and strategy at their best, there came to my mind a vivid picture of a soldier-farmer, astride of a horse, harrowing a field, and at the same time, through the exercise of a little ingenuity, sowing that field with grain carried in a sack upon the back of the other horse hitched to the harrow.” (Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards.) Coal Mining of the World. According to a parliamentary return the output of coal in Germany and in France in 1909 was greater than in any previous year. In the United Kingdom, Belgium and the United States the production in 1909, though greater than in 1908, fell short of the year 1907. The whole output in 1909 of the five countries named was 860,000,000 tons, or an Increase of 23,000,000 tons on the output of 1908, but less by 36,000,00 tons than that of 1907. The total known coal output of the world in 1908 was 950,000,000 tons, of which the United Kingdom produced more than one-fourth. In 1908 the number of persons employed in coal mining in Great Britain was 966,300. Great Inducement. “In the east,” related the Boston school-marm, “when the boys in the clans are bad we make them sit with the girl as punishment.” “That wouldn’t work in the west," laughed the Chicago school-marm. “The girls are so pretty out here if we tried that punishment the boys would be bad all the time."

f ll wlr [THE WOMANS CORN;;

The Care of Gold Fish BY ELLEN WISE There is nothing prettier in a room than a bowl of gold fish. The bright colored, lively little creatures darting in and out of the green vegetation in the bowl makes a picture that one never tires of studying. But gold fish are delicate things and it i§ depressing, when one has left them full of life and energy the previous night, to discover them dead in the morning. I find that many novices have trouble in the same direction and in some instances have given up the attempt to keep fish in the bowl. So I decided to get expert Information on the subject for the benefit of the readers of this [column. "In the first place,” said the expert, “don’t make the mistake that one woman did who came complaining to me today. I questioned her concerning the food she had given the fish and found that she had fed them nothing but bread. That is a sure way to kill the fish, for the bread contains yeast and this sours the water and it would be necessary to change it every half hour or so to keep the fish alive. “If you will watch a fish that is fed with bread you will see him eat it for a little time, but as the bread gets sour from the action of the water he will take it in his mouth and cough it out very quickly. Common sense ought to teach one that when the fish Bpits out the bread it is not the right food for him. Oatmeal makes good fish food, but the prepared food make especially for the purpose is the best thing to feed them with. “Don’t overfeed the fish. They don’t require a lot of food. Give them enough to have a good bite or two all around, but don’t keep the fish food Boating all the time on the surface of the water. It fouls the water and the fish will overfeed themselves and probably die. “When you see the fish seeking the top it is a sure sign that the water is getting stale and should be changed. The fish will naturally stay near the bottom and as long as the water has sufficient oxygen for their needs they will swim around in any part of the bowl. But when the oxygen is getting low and the water used up you will see the fish crowd to the top and begin to gasp. When they do this, thrusting their heads half out of the water and gulping in the air you will know that they need fresh water, and if you do not give it to them quickly you will find your fish floating at the top, dead. “Don’t keep the fish bowl in a dark corner. The fish reqdire sunlight, and if they are given plenty of light and air, the water will not need to be changed so frequently. Remember that the fish are accustomed in their native habitht to sunlight and air all around them. From this, they are taken and confined in a small bowl, and this bowl is kept in a dlose room, into which the sun seldom or never penetrates, and the consequence is the oxygen in the water is used up rapidly and the fish die for want of air.” —Chicago Inter Ocean. To the Needleworker. It is said that hemstitching is going to be used extensively as a finish for I waists and gowns. This will be welcome news to the woman who likes the clever effect made by a row of even, open stitches. The hemstitched edge will be used chiefly on chiffon garments. Save every scrap of trimming, for even a tiny piece may be exactly the finish for some garment when you are in sore need. Save all pieces of linen and silk, for most of them may be used in some way, either as fancy work or trimming. Have a scrap box ready for them. New Colors. Apropos of new colors, some of our inost fashionable women are combining purple and prune silk coats with Afternoon dresses of gray, dahlia and green; one combination which a Parisian house has just devised consists of a purple coat actually seen, really is lovely, though to read the description it is very likely to seem garish. Similar silk coats in rich irown or deep green, which fit loose-. y about the form, are now regarded is the elegant thing for the smart natrons to wear at wedding and formal afternoon receptions,—Harper’s Bazar. '

HOW TO CLEAN WHITE SHOES Comparatively Simple Matter to Restore Footwear to Original Perfect Whiteness. Many a girl discards her white shoes when they are “good and dirty," without knowing that a little effort will restore them to their pristine purity. The first requirement for complete restoration is not to get the white shoes too soiled, for they never look so well as when they are taken in hand before the discoloration becomes too deep. After wearing canvas shoes they should be given a good brushing with a stiff brush, the sole edges and heels freed from mud and washed off with plain water. But do not let the water get on the canvas, for this will only serve to fasten the soil the tighter. For whitening the canvas there are many bottled liquids in the market, Chinese white being a favorite and the most efficacious one. A homemade whitener which is just as good if put together according to the formula is made of half an ounce of gum arable dissolved in 40 ounces of water; to this add an ounce of white vinegar and 20 ounces of powdered chalk. Shake the bottle well before using, and put the white on with a brush, going over the shoes with a second coat after the first one has dried in, if they seem to need it Where it is desired to match a shoe to the dress tint, old white canvas ties or satin slippers may easily be changed to any color wanted by adding a little dye to the gum arable water and vinegar instead of the chalk. With any of the bottled liquids they may also be made tan or black. AND NOW COMES THE JIBBAH If You Don't Know What It Is, Read the Following Description of Garment. My friends admire my jibbah. It is much prettier and more graceful than an ordinary kimono, and it takes only half a day to make one. The material should be at least 44 inches wide. There Is absolutely no waste in cutting, except the circle or square at a b c d e the neck. The length of the sleeve must be determined according to the figure. When that is done the distance from underarm to bottom, b, d, is bisected at c, and the triangular portion, a, b, c, which is cut out, is turned right around to form the gore, d, c. e. If the gown is made of figured material, a yoke of plain goods would be pretty. If the jibbah is of plain cloth the yoke may be beautifully embroidered, making a pretty and becoming house gown.—Good Housekeeping Magazine. Turnback Cuffs Popular. With the white shirt waist and white duck linen skirt pure white neckwear is the rule or pure white combined with some delicate tint Some of the hand-embroidered Dutch collars have inserts of pale blue, pink or lavender linen on which are worked flowers, sprays or dots in white with very dainty effect Turnback cuffs are so smart this season that some women, taking advantage of Special sales of the turnover Irish collars, buy up two or three in matching patterns and, cutting away the stiff linen back, make cuffs off the strip of Irish crochet, which can be obtained more reasonably this way than by the yard, as these collars are made up in great quantities and the real Irish patterns imitated very closely. New Ornamentation. If something new be your alm in matter of the ornamentation of a blouse, drawn work is suggested by some of the most successful makers as an effective relief from the perennial insertion or embroidery. Ths coarse meshes so much in use this season offer stability and an unusual coolness to which characteristics Is added the easy “drawing” quality. When marquisette or voile is drawn and worked with coarse linen' thread in some of the simpler drawn-work patterns the decorative value Is wonderfully increased. Squares, lines and nointed plastrons are attainable, and when the whole blouse is built over a contrasting color to bring it into harmony with the skirt the result is de cidedly successful.

Advertising I Talks I i ’’ i Il ’ I » KEEP OVERSOLD BEST POLICY Advice of Hugh Chalmers, Well-Known Expert, to Business Men of Minneapolis. Hugh Chalmers, the well-known advertising expert, recently discussed “Salesmanship as a Fine Art” before the advertising and business men of 1 Minneapolis. He said among other things: “All goods are sold in three ways: First, by the word of mouth; second, by pictures and illustrations, and third, by printed matter. That practically sums up the ways there are of selling goods. But advertising is more than selling. There are two. objects in advertising. One is to sell your goods, and the second is to establish a good name and . insure a continuance of trade. Now some people say that when you are entirely sold out you want to quit advertising. There was never a greater fallacy told to business men. One of our stockholders said to me not long ago, ‘Are you reasonably sure of selling your year’s output?’ I said, ‘Yes, sir.’ ‘Then why don’t you quit advertising?’ he asked. ‘How much can you save between now and the first of July?’ I said: Between S6O,Uw and $75,000. ‘men why don’t you save it?’ he said. My answer was that if I were dead sure we had all sold this year of 1910 and up to 1912, I would not spend a dollar less. “I am speaking not only from the standpoint of the theoretical advertiser, but’also of the man who buys the space and pays the bill. My being in business is not confined only to 1912, and I am a firm believer in keeping oversold. You have got to deal With human nature, and human nature always has wanted and always will want those things which are hardest to get. Now, then, I said to this gentleman, ‘Look at'that fountain; see that water gushing forth. The fountain has its source of supply in the river a mile and a half distant. You can get the superintendent to shut it off, but you will not notice any difference right away; you will see it go down a little at a time until there is no more water supplied. You shut off the source of supply when you stop advertising. You must send the best possible appeal to a million minds in order to sell a few thousand easily, and you must keep on appealing. You must keep on if you wish to keep up your business.’ “There is no mystery about this advertising and selling of goods. Some would uave you think so, and some do not take it up because they think it is too hard. It is nothing but plain, common sense, plus printer’s ink, and some of the best copy I have ever seen was written by men who were never known as advertising men, but they sold the goods and made their copy accordingly. I once heard it said that a man with a lictle idea always used big words to express himself, because he wants to surround his idea with as bi b words as he can; whereas the man with the big idea uses little AngloSaxon words to express himself, because the idea is so big it needs no surrounding. When you come to write copy bear that in mind. Write it so plainly that the man without an education can understand what you are talking about, and then it will be a cinch that the college graduate can, or ought to, undertand it “I believe advertising copy should be so written that its first two lines (shall be the attractive feature of it, because if a man starts to read your copy and does not finish reading it, don’t blame him—blame yourself, because he gave you the chance.” ]► Advertising is the lifeblood of J ’ business, and you can always ' , get the best results by dealing .[ ’ with a concern which has its ‘ i ► veins full of the vital fluid than < [ ’ with one that depends upon life ‘ t ► for the sluggish circulation <[ ’ i given by oral advertising and ‘ i ► other out-of-date methods. - [ Japanese Advertising. The Japanese have an original way pf advertising and they apply to the art all the poetry that their imagination is capable of. They have recourse to the most varied and Improvised methods, and their combinations are sometimes as picturesque as they are original, judging from a Paris contemporary, which cites some examples. A Japanese merchant informs his customers that his goods are sent off with the rapidity of a shot A stationer calls his knowledge : pf natural history to his aid thus: <‘Our wonderful paper is as durable as the hide of an elephant" A Toklo grocer borrows from psychology and In mordant language announces that “Our vinegar of extra quality is sharper than the bitterness of the most diabolical of mother-in-laws.” No doubt this last example, although the joke is obsolete with us, impresses the people of the of the chrysantheInuma

| AD-ISMS. What would you think of $ a salesman who reported « for duty one day, lay off s? for two, worked a half day, 5 went off for a week and -so :>> on without any regularity? ? Surely you would not ex- » pect good service from ;<! such a man. And yet some :< << merchants hold advertising, x which is simply a “sales- | is man,” up to great results | when it is allowed to | // “work” very irregulary. $ // The fact that adver- | // tising costs moneyjs proof :< « of its value. Things with- !< « out cost are usually worth | is only their price. | RAISING MONEY FOR CHARITY Man Who Makes Specialty of Getting Funds Declares Newspaper Is Best Medium. The newspaper is the best advertising medium in existence, declares G. W. Johnson, an advertising expert of Buffalo, N. Y., who makes a specialty of raising large sums of money for charitable purposes in short spaces of time. Mr. Johnson relies entirely upon advertising to accomplish his ends. In ten days he raised $300,000 to build a Y. M. C. A. for Buffalo. In a published interview he says among other things: ’ “The newspaper is the best thing there is in advertising, because it reaches the home. It stands in exactly the same relationship to the munity as does the physician to his patients or the clergyman to his congregation. In a local advertising campaign the home must be reached. All articles in a home are advertised, of course, and the women of this country do more than 90 per cent, of the general buying for the home. The newspaper reaches the women, thereby placing before them the good ties or new ideals of the article advert tised. "Every newspaper naturally has some standing in the community through which its circulation carried it. Take for example, a newspaper of the very highest type, proportion so the standing of the paper. In other words, a newspaper gives to its adver tising its own standing.” FAVORS CHURCH ADVERTISING Rev. James W. Kramer of Spokane - Says Liberal Use of Printer’s Ink Pays. ‘T have drawn people to hear my sermons by advertising. I have at tracted them with moving pictures, hot suppers, pink teas and flowers and flags. If I have had any degree of success in Spokane it is because of the liberal use of printer’s ink,” said Rev. Dr. James W. Kramer, pastor of First Baptist church of Spokane, Wash. There is something worse than sensationalism. It is the inability of the church to produce life. The church that does not advertise is behind the times and is nursing empty pews, and he who rails against the minister for advertising is suffering for a congregation. I am not, an advocate of ragtime methods or vulgar preaching, but I do plead for the church which is a humming plant of machinery, with live coals in the fire box, smoke curling from the stack and’ every belt, wheel and pulley going. I believe, too, that the people need Instruction and that a minister of the Gospel, is first, last and all the time a teacher. There must be life. “The Message the Thing." “The telegram,” says Advertising and Selling, “is a common, little crude, yellow and black affair, but °with what avidity we reach for it! That is because we have learned to associate it with information of' importance. All the costly deckle-edge stock and exquisite printing and em» bossing in many colors that money can buy could not add anything to the face value of the telegram. The message is the thing. If your advertising., gets the reputation of having the real meat in it, people will reach for it and hang on to it” It is up to the business man to givq his daily message in the morning, newspaper telegraphic ImportandeJ Ths successful advertisers are those* whose contributions to the news ol ’ the day are just as much sought aftei by readers as the stories of current happenings that are flashed over the wires. ;| The man who says that ad- I st vertlsing is no good has been ;| t trying to sell goods that are no I | good. [I Advertising Waste. A circus man recently ordered a large advertising poster of his show to be printed, and objected because there was so much clear sky in it. “I ain’t a-goln’ to advertise the sky," he said to the lithographer. “I paid you to advertise my show. Draw t few camels and stick them up in the heavenly blue. I ain’t a-goin* to have all that good space run to wasta-”