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BRANDEGEE'S ART
WORKS TO BE SOLD
Auction of Notable Paintings
to Be Held at Gallery
Next Week.
Some notable paintings are included
In the Brandegee collection which is
1o be sold at auction at Sloan's gal
leries next week. This is the first
time for many years that an auction
sale of valuable works of art has
been held in this city. Such sales are
held regularly in New York, London
and Paris and go far toward making
these, cities art centers, creating an
art market. In fact, it is the auction
sales of painting's which go far to fix
\alues. and it was through such sales
instituted by Thomas B. Clark and the
late William T. Evans that American
paintings commercially came into
their own. So notable are some of
the paintings in this Brandgee collec
tion that it is understood that dealers
and collectors from New York will
come to Washington to attend the
Bale. \
Among the most interesting of the
works now on exhibition are two by
very early American painters. One is
a portrait of Alexander Broughton by
Jeremiah Theus, which was at one
time included in the Thomas R. Clark
collection. The subject was a South
Carolina planter, a prominent figure
in revolutionary days. Theus, the
painter, was a Swiss l>v birth, who
came to this country in 17X9 and
painted in various cities along the
Atlanta seaboard until his death, in
7 774. Another of these portraits is of
Joseph Crawford, a prominent citizen
of Rhode Island, and was painted by
John Smibert, a Scotchman by birth,
who associated himself with Bishop
Berkeley in the project of founding a
universal college in the Bermudas, a
project which never found fulfillment.
He settled in Boston, where he lived
until 1751. and is now represented in
some of the leading museums. There
is also an example of what is known
as the ’'port-hole portrait” of Wash
ington, by Rembrandt Peale, for
which the. late Senator Brandegee is
said to have paid $3,000.
Sully Canvas I. is tod.
Likewise from the Clark collection
has come a portrait of Mrs. Joseph
Hopkinson. liec Emily Mifflin, by
Thomas SulL'. Mrs. Hopkinson’s bus
band was on-' of the early presidents
of the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Pine Arts.
There is a curious, quaint old paint
ing of John Paul Jones: a small full
length portrait of Gen. Lafayette, at
tributed to Scheffer: a portrait of
Daniel Webster by James H. Wright,
and one of Henry Clay by Healy.
These last are all small canvases.
Among the recent works are three
paintings by George Bellows, a little
picture of Harry Chase, who is rep
resented, it will be remembered, in
the Corcoran Gallery’s permanent col
lection, and there is e < harming little
pastel marine “Morning—Southwest
"W ind, ' by IV W. Tryon. very similar
to some found in the Freer Gallery
collection. Max Weyl, who for many
years made his home in this city, is
represented by two or three typical
paintings, and there are some clever
water colors by John F. Carlson and
Mary Nicho'ena. Mae Cord; besides
which there are interesting etchings,
lithographs and engravings. Os chief
note among the etchings is one by
Anders Zorn, “Olga 8.,” and two by
Rembrandt; —'Old Man With Divided
Fur Cap" and "Old Man, Bald-headed.
With Long Beard"—both good im
pressions and in perfect condition.
Hung as they are of necessity in
this gallery, which is not designed
for the showing of pictures, these
works show to the least possible ad
vantage. but those who know cannot
fail to recognize their value, and
there is no doubt that if the sale
could have been advertised longer in
advance it would hate attracted the
attention of collectors and connois
seurs from ail parts of the country.
L. M.
YOUNG BANDIT WRITES
VICTIM HE WILL RETURN
Chagrined to Read in Newspapers
He Overlooked Several
Hundred Dollars.
Sre' ial nispatrh to The Star.
NEW YORK, January 3.—The
young robber who held up John
Eichhorn, manager of a Federal food J
store in Freeport, Long Island, on I
Christmas eve, is a careful reader of
the newspapers.
On Christmas eve he took sls from
♦ho cash drawer, locked Eichorti in
the store and drove away in an auto
mobile. Newspaper accounts of the
robbery the next day told how he had
missed several hundred dollars Eich
orn had in his pockets.
The robber was apparently deeply
chagrined. Today Eichorn received i
an envelope through the mail con- I
taining several newspaper clippings J
relating to the hold-up and a note
which read: ‘The robber is a mur
derer unless all the money is handed
over. I'm coining back for the money
I missed Christmas eve."
Chief of Police Hartman, to whom
Eichorn showed the note, said tonight
he hoped the. robber would keep his
promise and return for the rest of
the money.
A young bandit believed to have
been the same one that held up Eich
orn visited the Federal food store in
Baldwin, Long Island, Friday night
and got away with $25.
GERMANY FORMING ARMY,
FRENCH GENERAL SAYS
Berlin Paper Denies Statement by
Military Commission
Member.
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, January 3.—Gen. Roye, a
French member of the Interallied Mil
itary Control Commission, is sending to
the ambassadors’ conference a report
alleging that the Reichswehr is main
taining recruiting offices which
possess comprehensive lists of a
secret regular army, according to an
article published today in the Berliner
Zeitung Am Mittag. The general also
charges that short-time volunteers are
being trained at the rate of 20,000
every three months as irregulars.
The Berliner Zeitung Am Mittag,
however, gives a general denial to
the statements attributed to Gen.
Roye and declares that all Reichswehr
activities are in accordance with the
treaty of Versailles:
RUSSIA SEEKS JEWS.
"Wants 100,000 Families to Join in
Colonization Flan.
MOSCOW, January 3 (Jewish Tele
graphic Agency).—A decision to set
tle not less than 100,000 families,
principally Jewish, on the land, has
been mdae by the agricultural de
partment of the Soviet government,
according to information obtained 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.
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Portrait of Joseph Crawford, by John Sonliiert, In collection of the late
Senntor Brandegee.
TELEPHONE OPERATOR
SAVES LIFE OF WOMAN
Hears Words “I Am Dying” Over
Wire and Gets Doctor to
House in Time.
By the Ansoelated Press.
UNTON HILL, N. J., January 3.
Quick action of a telephone operator
last night probably saved the life of
Mrs. Olga Ashe, who was overcome
with heart trouble while telephoning
to her son.
Miss Jennie Boylen, supervising
operator, heard the words "I am dy
ing," and the click of a receiver as it
was dropped. She notified the police,
who broke into the house and found
Mrs. Ashe unconscious. A physician
who revived the woman said she
would probably probably have died
without prompt assistance.
ASSISTS GOVERNORS.
Cummins Sends Out Digest of Laws
on Presidential Electors.
A digest of Federal statutes relat
ing to presidential electors and their
duties was mailed yesterday by Sen
ator Cummins of lowa, president pro
tein. of the Senate, to each State gov
ernor in preparation for the formal
certification on January 12 of the re
sult. of the November election. The
digest included forms of the various
certificates which must be presented
or filed by the electors.
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: Men at Special Prices! ■
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I $1.49 S L9S I
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well made. Sizes A, B, C, D. tr * j I ty/l ra y° n lined. \ alues, $2.25 ■
' c and $3. Sizes A, B, C, D. m
■ Men’s Part-Wool “Madewell” Union Suits ■
l Seconds of $3.50 and $4 Grade $2.19 !
About 300 suits in the sale. Made right, fit right. Long "
■ sleeves and ankle length. Closed crotch and dropseat styles. B
" Sizes 34 to 46. JJ
■ Men’s Wool Union Suits &YT\ •
Seconds of $4.50 and $6.50 Grades Ik\ *
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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, IX 0., JANUARY 4, 1925-PART 1.
MOORE ON WAY HOME,
DENIES DEFENSE OF KING
Ambassador Coming for Thrae-
Month Vacation, Declares Al
fonso Needs No Backing.
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, January' 3.—Alexander P.
Moore, American ambassador to
Spain, 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
pudiates interviews attributed to him
on the subject, declaring: "King
Alfonso needs no defense as far as
I am concerned.”
Mr. Moore also set at rest a report
that he intends to resign, remark
ing humorously: "Few die and none
resign. I am in the best of health.”
KILLS TWO AND HIMSELF.
Man Shoots Wife and Child Be
fore Suicide.
LONG BEACH, Calif., January 3.
A double murder and suicide at
Alamitos Bay, near here, was re
vealed today when the bodies of TV.
V. Hogue, printer, and his wife and
1 l-month-old child were found in a
small dwelling at the bay shore,
deputy sheriff's said. Hogue’s rela
tives said he bad been suffering from
shell shock. Hogue's pistol was
found by his side.
TWO TICKETS OUT |
IN SHRINE ELECTION
Henry Lansburgh and Arthur
E. Cook Contending Po
tentate Candidates.
The pot of Shrine politics is be
ginning to boil In Almas Temple, the
local organization of the Mystio
Shrine. ‘‘Almas'’ has a membership
of nearly 6,000. Heretofore, Shrine
elections have usually been held the
latter part of December, but a ruling
by the Imperial Council, at Its ses
sion in 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 can be learned
the definite day for balloting has
not been, announced by Potentate
Harry F. Cary,
Must Hare Paid 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 year.
There are two tickets in the field,
the supporters of each, already confi
dently claiming success. One is
headed by Henry lainsburgb. a past
potentate of Almas Temple, while
the other ticket has Arthur E. Cook,
the present chief rahban, for ttß
standard bearer. The personnel of
the tickets follows:
Henry Lansburgh, for Illustrious
potentate; E. C. Dutton, for chief
rabban; Roland S. Robbins, for as
sistant rahban; George Duval. Jr., for
high priest and prophet: Dr. J. T.
Prendergast, for oriental guide; F. E.
Ghlselli, the present treasurer, for
treasurer; F. Lawrence Walker, the
present reoorder, for recorder, and
Leonard P. Steuart, Henry Lansburgh.
F. Lawrence Walker and George
Duval, Jr., for representatives to" the
Imperial Council.
Arthur E. Cook, for illustrious
potentate; Charles D. Shackelford,
for chief rabban; James Hoyle, for
assistant 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. Uw
renee Walker and George C. Whiting
are on the "Cook ticket” as nominees
for representatives to the Imperial
Council.
WOMAN KILLED BY SLEIGH
BELLEVILLE. Ontario. January 3.
—Miss Jessie Anderson, sister of Right
Rev. Charles R Anderson, Protestant
Episcopal 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 - .
lS..ss Anderson was struck in the
face by the tongue of the sleigh.
Mrs. John S. Huff, wife of a farmer,
was injured.
ADVERTISEMENT. ADVERTISEMENT. ADVERTISEMENT. 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 Teaching 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:
I was much interested in the interview with
Mrs. Winifred Sackville Stoner, which ap
peared in The Sun of December 30, entitled
“Mother Goose Guilty,” and which contains
many wholesome and vital statements as to
the necessity of being alert to the influence
which thought jias upon the plastic minds of
little children.
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
child’s mentality.
During her twenty-two years of dose 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.
But to return 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. I was four years
old and had learned to read. The
silver dollar seemed a great reward.
Mother gave me the lx>ok and I be
gan to commit the verses. By the
way, children, perhaps you never saw
this book. I 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. I 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:
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 i f 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.
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, hut instead, as
they grew older, they suspected peo
ple of untruths and deceptions, and of
saying tilings that could not be so.
Thus the children’s sweet faith was
lessened and they were made to doubt
and distrust. .
Let me quote further the tender and log
ical appeal 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 load
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 for;# 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. The twentieth century chil
dren are learning that loving thoughts,
grateful, unselfish thoughts 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.
The words and music of a beautiful lul
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:
"Lullaby, lullaby, mother-love sings
Over the cradle of peasant and kings?
‘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.
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 away
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.
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 very 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 little
son. Os course, Elijah knew that God
would give him all that he asked for.
Bvery Christian knows this, for the
Bible tells them to “Ask, and ye shall
receive.” So he told the mother that
the meal should not waste, neither
should the cruse of oil fail, and they
did not, for the story reads, “She end
he, and her house, did eat many days.
And the meal wasted not, neither did
the cruse of oil fail.”
Then thpre was another prophet, Ellsba.
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.
Os course, the mother felt very sorry that
her sons would have to work hard to pay
her debt. Elisha asked her if she had any
thing to eat in the house. She said, "Nothing
save a pot of oil,” and then ho 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 froro 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 J<4us
was their 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 kstow,
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, do you not?
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 childhood prayer. “Now I lay me down
to sleep.” implanted in us all. On this sub
ject she writes:
My dear motlier was my first Sunday
school teacher. . . . Mother was shocked
when I questioned the prayer she taught
me to say before I went to sleep, which
ran thus:
"Now I lay me down to sleep;
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
If I should die before I wake,
I pray the Ixwd my soul to take."
T did not want to say this prayer, be
cause I did not want to die and leave my
dear parents, my horse and piano and organ
and home.
As a child I rebelled at the prayer "If
I should die before I wake.” Today, dear
children, you can go to Slumberiand 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 and Health with
Key to the Scriptures—l repeat, you have
the prayer that Mrs. Eddy lias given to chil
dren of the twentieth century, and which
will never take you away from your par
ents, but will teach you that God 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:
"Father-Mother God,
Loving me—
Guard me when I sleep;
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; I 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 hooks 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.
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.” T]rc "children of a larger growth” will he
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 Children .
I am very grateful to Mrs. Winifred Sackville
Stoner, for Iter courageous words on “Mother
Goose,” which have inspired this letter. I have
a revised Mother Goose, whose liappy secrets I
will tell later. My life work lias 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, which afterward developed
and unfolded in unexpected ways.
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.
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