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Copyright, 1911, by American-Examiner. Oreat Britain nights reserved
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TSie TerpsicHoren Traoslatioo of tlie
Tragedy and Brevity of "Tfiie Gay Life"
That Made "Paris
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offering promises to
endless scries of sensational
been Imported by theatre man
two or three years, after win
European audiences, the latest
be truly unique a dance that
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'UK young Queen of Bpaln has set an ex-
iimplo to the world at mother not only
by having throe babies, but by nursing
them herself.
If King: Alfnso succeeds in escaping the ware
or revolution that threatens blni, It will be largely
on account of tlm muternal and domestic virtue
of his wife, which furlituh coutlnunl pleasure and
edification to the whole population of Spain.'
Quoon Victoria has et at deDanco the hide
bound traditions and etiquette that hamper th
acts of queen, and especially tUo acts of the
Qiitx-us of Spain.
The Queou of Spain finds that It Is not a hard
task to mirw her own chililren, but the greatest
pleasure in life. She takes the greatest pride In
the fuct that she cares for them herself, and she
tuts jutft been photographed In the gardens of her
palace, I41 Granja. pushing the tubles In their
perambulators, handling them oa her knee and
performing other maternal acts.
Tho Queeu has three children. The oldest,
Alfonso, Prince of the Asturias, was born la 1907,
the second Don Jaime, la 1808, and tho third,
Princess Ilea trice, tu 1909. Another child was
born dead laxt yetir. All the three childreu are
practically babies at the same time, and give the
Queu a Kit'at deal to do.
The Queeu Is particularly careful to bathe her
babies with her own hands. As everybody know,
thU is a most Important feature in the modern
science cf baby culture, but Its Importance, was
not mucn understood in Fpain. Twice every day,
or more oftei If the hot weather requires, tho
Queen bathes each of her own babies. She has
HtuilliI how to do this from the most up-to-date
EiiRllsh and American authorities on baby treat
ment. She handles them in an expert manner,
so that their llttto backs and necks are never
(trained, as happens so often when careless nurse
maids hold bsWes. The Queen washes them all
over thoroughly and dries them and powdem
them with equal care, so that they may not .In
early life lay In the seeds of skin diseaso and
rheumatism.
Tho Queen, of course, has plenty of nursemaids,
but they only help her. They fill the bathtub,
band her the soap and towels, and so fwth. She
does the really Importaut work.
It uned to be rigorous court etiquette In Spain
that the Queen should leave the care of her chil
dren entirely to others. Probably this Is why the
Spanish royal children shown in old palntinss
, look lifeless nod hoiieless. It was a historical cus
tom to engage as nurse a peasant woman from
Catalonia, a dark, husky person la a Tery pic
turesque national costume, who was entirely Ig
norant of hygiene, cleanliness and the caro of a
delicate modern baby. The Queen resolutely re
fused to turn her baWes over to womeu of this
character, pud compromised with tho ancient cus
tom by giving a full set of new ctothes to ono of
the. oeasant candidates for the position.
onves urnne n "moral lesson."
An erring woman's dance, portraying her career
from the dawn of girlish, Innocent beauty,
through the old, familiar stages to Inevita
ble despair and death.
This Is the dance by Louts La Gal,
which Is said to have "made Paris Good."
In a play most elaborately staged
"Everywoman" New York and other
largo cities in this country have recently
seen convincingly portrayed the career of
a woman of this sort, except that this
heroine is Anally redeemed by love.
It Is said that the dance by Louise La
Gal, at the Theatre Marlgny, sent gay
Parisian audiences away with tears in
their eyes, because of the terrible vivid
ness with which it depicted the tempta
tions which may assail any woman, and
because it showed that for the woman to
yield meant no end but that of a despair
ing death.
The effect was, perhaps, all the keener
because the dance was programmed "The
Gay Life."
Women wept In the gay little theatre as
the curtain fell upon the last posture of
the dance. They had looked upon life of
woman, the eoul life lived out in twenty
five minutes on the stage. They watched
her from the birth of womanhood in her
until death, and they sobbed In sympathy
DISILLUSIONMENT '
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at that death. The liveliest parties that came fashion
ably late were sobered by the sight. 1
The dance has five phases, each marked by sharp,
startling ehnnges in the character of tho music. At
first the audience sees on empty stage, its side and
back draped with heavy folds of dark blue velvet. The
musfc is gay, light, rippling, with a little note of eager
Inquiry In it. Presently the curtains part, and there
peeps forth a young girl with bright. Inquiring face.
Small, white hands part the- curtains and she steps
forth, a slender figure, swathed in light, transparent
drapery, through which pinw flesh glistens. She be
gins a dance, the dance of youth and joy and Inno
cence. The music rises into the spirit of ecstatic youth.
Suddenly the figure stops in Its graceful circling of
tho stage. Tho girl stoops and selze.1 something that
lies upon the floor. She stares uncomprehendlngly at It
She smiles and fondles it with her fingers nnd caresses
It with her eyes. The music strikes a sinister note. A
passage follows through which the sinister note runs
as a motif. ,
She Is the victim of the lure of gold. Clinging to tho
gold meshed purse, the little figure Is swallowed up la
the folds of the velvet curtalus.
Then the muBlc changes to crescendo. The cur
tains are drawn back revealing a room In which
sits a man, who holding a bottle of wine in one
hand, a necklace of diamonds In tha other, casts satyr
like glances of expectancy toward the dim shadows of
the stage.
Out of these shadows comes a figure, lightly garbed.
She dances In laughing, and casting coins about her in
a shower of gold. Seizing a silken mantle she wraps
her body In it and dances In mad, faunlike abandon. The
music and her attitude betoken that she has committed
herself to evil. A moment's withdrawal In the folds of
the velvet curtain and she emerges clad In a leopard
skin, symbol of abandon to the appetites.
Suddenly, as the wild dance continues, she bends her
head to listen to sounds unheard by the audience. Into
her eyes comes a look of terror. She Is listening to tho
despairing cries and tuuntlng Jeers from hades. She
crouches in fear. She turns to flee, nnd faces a grim,
gray figure. Death has stolen upon her out of the
shadows.
The girl shrinks terrified from these awful visitors,
and glances from right to left n Wfly ot escape, in
vain. Each avenue Is barred by a long, narrow, dark
box, a coffin, open, awaiting her.
In frenzy she crouches, screams, circles wildly about
In vain. At last she stops, steadies herself, rises erect,
clenches her hands, looks slowly, steadily, Into the face
of death.
Then the music that has grown slow and hesitant and
fearful music that light-hearted Parlsiennes . said,
caused goose flesh on their delicate bodies
changes to a wild challenge. The girl whirls round and
round, flinging ber arms In defiance. She snatches up
the gay silks that He across the Sofa, wraps herself In
them, dances up to the gray figure and laughs In his
face. Mocking death she yields to the gaunt, gray arms
extended to her. The little figure, wrapped in Its
scarlet and purple silks, fades Into the great, gray, en
veloping one. Darkness falls upon the stage. The
music crashes Into Its last chords witli the obligato of
n woman's sobbing cry, a cry echoed by the tense
women in the audience.
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ALONG the rocky shores of every continent
and inland are numberless algae more 1
than 15,000 species lu all that perform
tha same office iu tho waters that ordinary forms
of vegetation perform on land that ot making
animal life possible. They form the solo sub
sistence of myriads of fishes and other marine
animals. Species of these that do not live en
tirely, or at all, upon the plant life ot the seas
must prey upon smaller or weaker creatures that
lo.
The world's greatest marine forest extends
from the farthest of tho Aleutian Islands, along
tlie Pacific eluuv of North and South America.
In almost uubruken o.itlnulty, to Terra del
Fuego. It contains mora food material than Is
yielded by all the world s wheat naldi. ' ,
Every ton of this harvest ot the seas repre
sent more or lis potential food tor. the world's
clamorous and hungry million.
In the neighborhood of Scltuate, Cobasset,
Plymouth lisrbor and White Horse Beacjj, la
Massachusetts, uud Rye Harbor. New Hampshire,
thero is a locally important seaweed harvesting
Industry that has flourished ever since 1S35.
This is the gathering, curing and preparation of
' Irish moss.
From this same utilization of a product
of the sea that has been in every other sec
tion of America neglected, the thrifty New Eng
landers realize anywhere from l.uoO to $33,000
annually. The Industry Is Interesting a showing
that even in America seaweeds have been used
as food and prized as a delicacy for nearly
eighty years. . The wonder Is that the hint thus
given of the possible usefulness ot seaweeds has
not resulted In the . Indefinite development of
. similar industries.
Along the California roast, particularly In the
neighborhood of f'onterey. considerable quanti
ties of seaweed known as the red laver are gath
ered by the Chinese aud Japanese. This ma
terial is cured, baled like hay and shipped to
Japan for manufacture Into various food products.
In Japan teawetds are utilized for food to a
much larger extent than in any oiber country,
although their usa Is general throughout tha
Orient, and to aomt extent la Europe.
How the Fifteen Thousand Varieties of This
Abundant Marine Vegetable Might Solve
the Eating Problem.
cultivation of seaweed Is regarded as the most
profitable farming Industry of the empire, the
crop" averaging $1C0 per acre In value annually,
and the cost ot producing it being trifling. The
area of submerged lands suitable for seaweed
farming la limited, and is leased by the Govern
ment to the highest bidders. Consequently com
petition for leases Is very keeu. Nowhere else
la the world is any effort made to artificially
propagate seaweeds or encourage their growth.
In a bulletin of the United States !)ureauf
Fisheries a description Is given of the methods
of cultivating the red laver and preparing It for
market or for table use. In October and Novem
ber bundles of bamboo or brush are prepared on
hore and taken to the grounds In boats at low
tide. Deep holes are made In the muddy floor
of the bay by thrusting down through the water
an elongated conical wooden frame, with two
long, upright wooden handles. Into each of the
holt thus made is placed one of the brush
bundles, forming long rows that project above
the water. The object of these bundles of brush
Is to afford a lodging place for the spores that
float abundantly In the water. They become at
tached to the twigs and develop Into plants that
grow rapidly, so that in three or four months
they have attained full size and are ready to be
harvested. They are then washed, dried,
chopped flne and prepared In various forms,
some of which are Bald by travellers to be pal
atable as well as hlfthly nutritious. The Japanese
harvest of this single species of iwPwi 1.
valued at 3u0,000 annually. ,eaweed 18
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In Japan, sea
weed I Planted
Like Any Other
Staple Vegeta '
ble. The Wo
men Drive
Down Stakes
Into the Sea
and at Harvest
Time Draw Up
Their Clinging
Burdens.
Of much greater Importance, commercially. Is
the manufacture of kanten, or seaweed Isinglass,
which Japan exports to all civilized countries.
According to the bulletin of the Bureau of Fish
eries already referred to, in 1903 there were in
Japan 500 establishments for the manufacture ot
this product, turning out about 3,000,000 lbs. an
nually, valued at about $750,000. It is prepared
from seaweeds of the genus gelldlum. These
grow on the rocks, and are taken by diving, the
harvest extending from May until October. The
harvesters cure the seaweeds In the sun, and
then sell them to the kanten manufacturers at
from 6 to 9 cents per pound. The manufactured
kanten la pearly white, shiny and semi-transparent.
It is used In making jellies, soups and
sauces.
In the United States it is employed chiefly Jn
food preparations where gelatine is required,
such as jellies, pastries and deserts. In clean
liness, wholesomeness and every other particular
it Is superior to animal Isinglass. It Is also used
for the sizing of textile, the stiffening of the
warp of silks, the clarifying ot wines, beer and
coffee, the making of molds for workers In plas
ter of paris and In the manufacture ot paper.
Large shipments are made to Holland, destined
for the schnapps factories. In all civilized coun
tries the Japanese kanten, under the name agar
agar, is used exclusively as the culture medium
In bacteriological work by scientific investigators.
The same species ot seaweed used In Japan for
the manufacture of kanten exists In Inexhausti
ble abundance on our 1'aciflc roast and at numer
ous places along the Atlantic coast, while related
species, ot equal value, are abundant almost
everywhere In temperate waters. In this country
the product commands t-igh prices, so that tha
manufacture of seaweed isinglass ought to prova
a highly remunerative industry.
Most abundant of all seaweeds are the kelps,
distributed along every coast In the world. From
these the Japanese prepare many food products,
known under the generic name kombu.
It Is evident that the utilization of only a small
fraction ot the wasted and ungathered harvest
of the seas would more than compensate for the
shortage in thl year's wheat, corn and potato
crops.
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