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BOSTON SUNDAY POST, MARCH 11. 1917 STATUES BY ROBIN REACH HUB CHINESE BEAT H. C. THEIR ABMIRERS Charles Fang Tells of Cheap and Delicious Dishes That Once Tickled Palate of Admiral Woman Describes Cookery genius is seen first-hand in this first photo of the work of the great sculptor now on exhibition at the Art Museum. Many are mystified by the which is the title the statue.

Two statues by Auguste Rodin, the world-famous French sculptor, are in Boston and the news of their arrival is given for the first And with the news of this rare opportunity to see the work of the great reaching the art world of Boston the Boston Museum of Fine Arts will be the Mecca for thousands. As mystifying as they are beautiful are the statues, both of which are entitled Both have been anonymously loaned to the museum by a wealthy New York art collector. Caryatids Are Greek Away back Into the sixth century has tha great sculptor gone for his subjects, which are female Hgures, sup- portlng pillars. Ever a passionate admirer of Greek art and a marvellous reproducer of the wonderwork in sculpture for which the ancient Greeks were so famous, Rodin has produced two gems of Ionic style that might easily be placed in some old Greek temple without a jarring note. Rodin has entitled each of the statues and this title has been the source of some argument by those who maintain it should have been the lAtinized form of the Greek word.

they declare, is the sculptural term given to the female figures used for piers or supports as found in the Erecfheum and of the treasury of Cnidus at Delphi. Quite recently French excavators at Delphi have successfully restored the treasury of the people of Cnidus and found that the entablature was supported in front, not by pillars, but by two maidens of Corae, and a frieze running all around the building above. If the Chinese can beat the high cost of living, why we? Charles Fang, formerly of the personal steff of the late Admiral Dewey on board the Olympia flagship and now an actor with the Metro movies, has removed the only obstacle. Mr. Fang, who was educated in the United States as well as in his own country, tells the Sunday Post that he believes that the substitution of Chinese for American dishes will help much in solving the problem.

More than that, the Chinese actor, in a most interesting article, replete with such sidelights as the revelation that a Chinese dinner begins with nuts and ends with soup, and that if a grocer raises his prices angry consumers might decapitate him, gives the recipes for the very dishes that have made his apartment the mecca of theatrical epicureans. Corroborating her assertion is the scientific testimony of Dr. Yamei Kim, Chinese woman physician, lecturer and dietitian, who also suggests that Americans copy the cooking methods and diet of China. food, although composed chiefly of she says, so well blended with sauces and condiments that it retains throughout a rich, meaty Another by Rodin, loaned anonymously to the Art Museum and seen in the photograph for the first time in the Sunday Post. The greatest sculptor has seemingly gone back to the sixth century for inspiration.

female figures now at the Museum were Inspired, no doubt, by the results of the excavations of his countrymen. One represents a woman seated on the ground with knees drawn up to chin and supporting the base of a pillar on her shoulder. The other portrays a woman half reclining and sitting and likewl.se supporting the base of a pillar. His Genius Undiminished Auguste Rodin is 76, but the genius of his chisel and brush is still in the ascendant. am too, busy to get old," he tells his callers, and probably no great artist works harder than he.

A native of Paris, he began his career as a in the Barye and Carrler- Belleuse ateliers, and boasts of having always lived as a laborer, the mere pleasure of work having, he says, made him endure everything. An Impressionistic In method, his work is nevertheless so realistic that he was accused of having cast his second great production, on a human model. Nearly every fresh production has been hotly discussed and abused, and more than once the com- mission has been withdrawn, but in the end each has taken its place as a great artistic achievement. The busts of Victor Hugo, Le Baiser and Le Penseur are among some of the most characteristic productions, and illustrate his wonderful power of analysis and expression, together with the idealism which underlies all his work. SIR OLIVER LODGE EXPLAINS IN MESSAGES OF SON BELIEF KILLED IN WAR It it possible to communicate with the dead? The world's greatest living is surer than ever that it is.

Sir Oliver again insists he talked with his son Raymond, who was slain in battle. such communication is declared Sir Herbert Stephen. Sir Oliver, the great English in effect. time oome when you csn call up A. B.

and send Sir Herbert adds. has. I have done replies Sir Oliver. was the trick of some his critic. is astonishing no one discovered comes the answer.

telepathy is a contends Stephen. number of believers in certain cases seems replies Lodge. Ipie developments in this controversy arc printed today in the Sun- different mediums, both to Sir Oliver and to members of his family, from Raymond and from others of the spirit world who knew Sir Oliver and his son. Many of those messages are of strict evidential character and appear to have been given by Raymond for the explicit purpose first of convincing his sceptical family and then of enabling his father to write this very book for the establishment of his identity to the world. In fact Sir Oliver firmly believes that Raymond is actively engaged In an effort to bring the spirit world closer Into touch with the human plane and to make intercourse between the two easier and more valuable.

In summing up his claims that he had talked with his slain son, which Is of the most intense interest because of millions of similar tragedies, Sir Oliver said: am as convinced of continued existence on the other side of death as 1 am of existence here. It may be said you cannot be as sure as you are of sensory experience. I say I can. Convinced of Communication established as a paying concern and the other was employed In the distinguished scientist proceeds to answer the leading argument of his opponent, by saylnj; Cites Scientific Marvels central argument is, that although people have always longed for Intercourse with dead relatives. yet nothing has come of It of any practical Importance, and therefore nothing is likely to come of it.

But take the caae of aviation, to which also he makes appeal in support of his thesis. People have wanted to fly ever since the time of Leonardo, Indeed as far back as Daedalus, but they did not suceed. Humanity had long possessed all the needful materials, but not learnt how to put them together into an plane. Accordingly, it was thought by many that we never should and when it was reported from America that the Brothers Wright had actually flown, many sensible people refused to believe. Is better to be too sceptical than too credulous; and not everything that comes from America is always true.

But the sceptics were In this case wrong. New things can occasionally be done, and old things can, with care and assiduity, be discovered and demonstrated in the teeth of all wholesome scepticism Like argon, for instance, which had been a constituent of the atmosphere through all the ages (a hundred-weight of it in any large room) only no one knew till the epoch of Rayleigh. it was also with radium and Its emanation, till the era of Madame Curie. There are many things, all about us, of we are Ignorant; and the contention that because they have not yet been discovered they never will be, if used as a rebutter of evidence when actually brought forward, is, if I may say so, a feeble one. an argument was probably used, as one of many, against the reality of satellites, after their simulacra had been seen in telescope.

It was doubtless claimed that a optic must be fraudulent when used for any but terrestrial objects, and that If such a exhibited Impossible things, the fact only proved Its deceptive By Charles Fang Among the Chinese cooking is one of the arts and cleanliness is the watchword. In my home In Canton the people enjoy eating plain, wholesome dishes. The cost of these dishes is nothing compared to the cost of foods In Boston. Every time I think of food prices In Boston visions of the great Chinese dragon come before me. For this high cost of living business is like a dragon.

It eats up your money unless you know how to fight the dragon. The way to fight It is to eat foods that are inexpensive and also nourishing. Rice is fine. It is cheap. Eat plenty of rice.

Cooks His Own Food I cook my own food; I always Imagine It has a better flavor. In my apartment I have some delightful parties entertaining my American theatrical friends. We have a mixed bill of fare dishe.s sandwiched In with Chinese delicacies. Many of them have asked me for recipes of the dishes I cook, and they are surprised when they find they are so simple. Frequently they come In the kitchen and watch me make them.

You have no idea how many first- class American tables have always one Chinese dish served. I have been invited to houses time and again to sample their Chinese cooking and found the Imitation was perfect. Some Sample Recipes Now, take a dish that the Chinese call Yang Gou Tsnan Wan Tzu. Chop fine cold mutton, enough to make a half dozen meat cakes; season well and form Into cakes. Roll each cake In a cabbage leaf; lay them In a casserole that has been smeared with fresh lard, cover with a good meat broth and cook until the cabbage Is done.

This Is inexpensive. Boo Loo Gai (pineapple chicken). Wash and singe a fresh chicken; cut off the flesh In well shaped pieces, throwing the bones Into the soup pot. B'ry the pieces of chiken to a delicate brown in sweet lard. When done, add one tablespoonful of (which is the Chinese Worcestershire sauce), one can of grated pineapple and when all is heated thicken with the water chestnut flour and serve with rice.

Somewhat expensive, but very appetizing. These dishes are very simple and when eaten in the first class American homes are pronounced splendid. Who has not tasted the delights of chop suey? Dr. Yamei Kim, who was the first of her sex to achieve a sheepskin in China, argues that Chinese cookery will solve our big problem. And for those who have not experienced the pleasure of celestial dishes Dr.

Kim proposed preparing a Chinese cook book, adapted for use in this country. mouth sort of waters for the delectable something that Charles Fang, the Chinese actor, is preparing to serve from the in his home. Mr. Fang lets you into the secrets of Chinese cookery in his interesting article on how to beat the high cost of living by substituting it for American cookery. Raymond Lodge.

anybody but Sir Oliver written now book on communication dead, entitled the might have paid little attention tB It But It ia being given very wlde- thought because Sir Oliver is Ipal of the University of Blrmlng- he has received the honorary de- of doctor of soiance from six unl- including Oxford and Cam- bfMga, and he has been president of tha British Association, president of the Physical Society of London, and prert- dent of the Society for Psychical Research. Tbsrefore, hie new evidence and to and many of his followers, cSBOluslve evidenoe, of the survival of pfnoniUlty after death, ia of the great- eit Importance In this history of pBJSdileal research. Son Killed at Front Baymond was Sir Oliver youngest and a lieutenant in the Brltteh army. He served at the front from the early spring of 1915 until the middle of September of that year when he was killed by a shell fragment. Before his death Sir Oliver recel ed a warning from a medium in the I'nited StatSS which he did not at the time thoroughly comprehend.

After his death, many and very I am convinced that among the different grades of beings are those who care for and help and guide humanity, not disdaining to enter even into what must seem petty details, if by so doing they can assist souls striving on ti.slr upward In answering Sir Herbert criticism of book to the effect that it is not possible to get in touch with the dead by any communication whatever. Sir Oliver now allow myself one comment on a detailed point, namely, the requirement with which Sir Herbert preludes the excellent summary of my contentions, with which he concludes his paper. He there says that are as far as ever from the time when one person will say to another. up A. give her my love, and say that, and that we are not going to Brlghtdn A.

B. being a member of the family wno had died 18 months he further says that if such occurrences became common they would prove him to be wrong. Well, if as a critic he would be so far affable as to refer to pages 271-275 of my book, he will that an incident something like what he desires Is recorded as having actually happened; and I can also Inform him quantum valeat that rneshages of a kind still more similar to his example are already not Infrequent in some families. Sending Mesiage Virtually, on the special referred to, my son Alec said to his sister; into touch with Raymond, tell him that so and so have gone to London, ask him to give them our love and to try to gel the word said to them through the medium with whom they are at this moment Haymond being a member of the family who had been killed eight prevlouHly. In this case the reception, us well as the transmission, of the message was demor.Htrated by the rcMult, ('ailing attention to the fact that wireless telegraphy and Instance, would have had to be, perhaps How John Hays Hammond Battled With Mexican Indians John Hays Hammond, has added more than any other man to the supply of gold and silver.

In other words, the mining engineer, who has a beautiful summer estate at Gloucester, has taken more wealth out of the earth than any other person living. And in doing this he has had some thrilling adventures. In his series of articles on Who Are Making in Weekly. B. (j.

Forbes tells this exciting story of Mr. experiences among savages: first professional trip into alien soil proved perilous. He was commissioned In 1882 to penetrate Into Mexico some 250 miles from Guaymas. On landing on the Mexican west coast from a sailing boat which had been chartered to carry mining machinery. Hammond found that the Apache Indians were on the war path, and that the long Journey to the interior by stage would liave to be done under cover of darkness.

The flrts night out the drunken driver upset the coach, one man sitting opposite Hammond was killed and another so hurt that he died next morning. Conditions sufficiently to warrant Mrs. joining her husband. The second day after she arrived at Guaymas, with a young baby, a revolution broke out. Hammond commandeered a small house, barricaded It and prepared to defend the fort, which was besieged by brigands, but he had learned in California to use a gun with the best of them, and the besiegers, discerning this, departed after a few days.

During the long journey to the Interior the parly came upon a villHge which the Indians had cleaned out completely. How near the Indians might he or how soon they might appear on the scene no one could guess. If the Indians found the little American Dewey Liked This Dish When I was attached to the personal staff of the late Admiral Dewey on board the Olympia, he one time asked me to make him a real Chinese dish, one that would suit his boiled dinner tastes. I did, and he told me it pleased him very much. He asked ine what I called it, and I told him the Chinese name for it was Yat Ko Main.

Here It dish: To one quart of boiling beef stock add two sliced onions, a small bunch of diced celery and a quarter of a pound of finely minced ham. Boll a quarter of a pound of noodles in clear water for 10 minutes; drain and soak In cold water. When the soup Is done, add a tablespoonful of and the noodles. Boll up once and serve. Expensive Chinese Soups Of course in China we have our special dishes that never become local in as neat soup, shark's fins, dried duck, sugared fish, salted shrimp, mustard vegetable greens, sweet-sour onions and bean curd.

There Is little demand for them over here. The two 08 expensive Chinese soups are lotus-seed broth and nest soup. To serve the latter soup at or Sherry's would cost over a dollar a plate. The nests are made by a sea hird in southern China from a moss and a gelatinous substance that the bird expectorates, much as the bee makes the comb for honey. Then the bird fastens the nest to almost inaccessible cliffs, where the dllHculty of getting it adds to the cost.

The nests come here dsied and need 48 hours of soaking before they can be cooked. They cost $1.50 a piece and a half of one is generally added to a plate of clear soup for special occasions. fool with them unless you are rich. Use Noodles and Rice Noodles and rice are two staple articles of Chinese diet, but both should be cooked in a manner to preserve their best qualities. Noodles are always fried in peanut oil.

One quart of oil will fry a quarter of a pound at once; it only a minute or two to fry theni crisp, and then they are set aside to drain until the rest of the dish is ready. In cooking rice two ways are employed. One is to drop the rice, after careful washing, little by little into boiling water, boll 15 minutes, then set hack to dry out until needed. The other is to add a cupful of well-washed rice to one and a quarter cupfuls of cold water, boil 20 minutes, then set back to dry off. If I have added to the store of culinary knowledge of my readers I am gratified.

I have had the pleasure of an indorsement of my cooking from such distinguished critics as Francis X. Bushman, Beverly Bayne, Director William Christy Cabanne, Mabel Taliaferro, Orrin Johnson and others. In one scene in Great in order to add realism. Director Cabanne asked me to cook a real Chinese dish and have It served at one of the banquet scenes. This I did and all day I was swamped with requests for the recipe.

Another thing I forgot to mention, and that is that in China they begin the dinner in reverse to the American habit. They begin with dessert first and finish with the soup. So it Is not a question of from to with them, but from to One thing more: The high cost of living bother the Chinese. They have there, and if a grocer charges too much he is liable to have a wooden wheel tied around his neck, or to lose said neck, and his head with it. OWN FARRAR BORN UNDER STAR full have bsen coming through.

disbelieved In until the one was it meant its ann.hllatlon. Fifty miles of dangerous territory had to be covered. Arified to the teeth, Hammond rode a mile or two ahead, signaling to the team. Mrs. Hammond had a pistol with which to commit suicide before submitting to capture.

However, the destination. Alamos, in Sonora, was reached safely. Mrs. Hanmiond stayed until the poor food began to undermine the health of the child. Mr.

Hammond remained until he had the mine on a profitable basis and everything working smoothly. Before he was ready to depart, revolutionists seized the mine at Ala mos, the only one on the western coast, and began to rob and cheat the company wholesale, refusing to pay the full amount for the bullion deposited. Hammond conceived the plan of accumulating the silver and then slipping away with it, to deliver It to the American consul at Guaymas. He had trained ten Yaqul Indians to shout, and by their loyal assistance had been able to resist attacks by ten times as many Mexicans at critical i.oading picked mules with pounds of silver each, and taking the trusted Yaqul Indians into his confidence, Hammond bolted one night in a terrible thunder storm, when no Mexicans were about. A relay of mules was in readiness 70 miles away, and by travelling all that night and next day Hammond got a good start.

When about 100 miles from Alamos, Hammond found that the Yaqul Indians of the neighborhood were on the war path against the Mexicans and that the Apache Indians were up in arniK ugHinst the Americarirt, There were Apaches to the right, Indians to the left and Mexicans in I he rear, all on the rampage, thirsting fur the blood and the plunder of the Nortli American Intruder, the onl.t white man of the company. The ten faithful Yaqtiis stood by him, snd landed him safely at Guaymas. Chow Mysteries Now take Chow Main, which is a popular and Inexpensive (Thinese dish. Here it is: Into one quart of peanut oil put a quarter of a pound of noodles; fry crisp and drain. Fry one pound of pork diced and a half pound of diced veal, a half pound of finely sliced mushrooms, three stocks of shredded celery, a tablespoonful of 12 water chestnuts finely sliced, one minced onion.

Cook all 15 minutes and serve on a bed of noodles. Chicken chow main is made the eame way, using a little bit of pork with the chicken, instead of the veal. Lobster chow main is made by sauteing finely cut boiled lobster in a little chiken fat, then adding the other ingredients and serving on noodles in the same way. I suppose the best known of Chinese dishes is chop suey. At least It is served in every Chinese restaurant in this country.

Originally it was not a (Dilnese dish at all, but was invented in San Francisco. However, it has found its way into China and long ago been adopted. The best way to make chop suey la as follows; Chicken Chop Suey Fry the chiken as for pineapple chicken, only cooking It in chicken fat. Add one pound of fresh mushrooms cut small, a half bunch of finely chopped celery, 12 water pared and sliced, two thinly sliced onions, a half can of bamboo sprouts. Cook five minutes more, then add a tablespoonful of pepper to taste.

Cook five minutes more, then serve with rice. Duck chop suey is made in the same way. These forms of chop suey are rather expensive, but beef may be substituted for chiken, and then they are cheap. Omelets are veiy popular with the Chinese, and they fill them with vegetables and fish mixtures, and line minced preserved fruits flavored with ginger. One that la called Poo Young Dan, is a four-egg omelet filled before turning with a half cup of minced ham and a half cup of onions that have been delicately fried in sweet lard.

Delicious Almond Cakes Then If you wish to make Chinese almond cakes, which are made round and are popular at festival tinie, you mix two cups of rice flour with one and a half cups of powdered sugar; add a half cup of almond oil, a quarter cup of blanched almonds chopped, and moisten with two beaten eggs. Roll and cut the cakes round, decorate the tops lit each with a half almond and bake for an hour. And remember before 1 forget to tell you that all of tlie ingredients called for in these dishes can be bought at Chinese grocery or market. 1 have sent these recipes to many of my friends, all of whom have written me their thanks. That Geraldine Farrar is subject to the influence of star signs similar to those of the Kaiser is one of the interesting conclusions reached by Catharine Howard Thompson, well known Boston woman astrologer, in casting the horoscope of the opera star, who was born in Melrose on Tuesday, Feb.

28 1882 By CHtharfnc Howard Thompson of Ylnntlngton Chambers. It would be most interesting to students of the occult, to know the hour of birth, because the map i.s very Interesting, and is strong in the kingdom of water, that principality to which this present civilization with its hideous commercialism is so rapidly returning. Geraldine is born with four out of nine planets in the kingdom ot water, something like that of the Kaiser; and, we believe, that is the reason Gerry has temporarily declined to recognize the Spangled It may Interest those who are watching our work to know, that we a point of asking every one whose horoscopes are strong in water signs, if they feel sympathetic with the Kaiser; and the answer invariably is something like the old saying about of a and those of the same principality The writer finds she can write up water horoscopes better than she can write fire ones, as she too, is powerful in the kingdom of water. Geraldine Farrar possesses a love of nature as deep as the ocean, and she is loyal to her friends, and will defend them whether right or wrong. She takes strong likes and dIsUkes; but she is sensible, amiable and kind, and will make many friends.

She has a good deal of magnetism In her nature; but is somewhat deficient In self-esteem. Sometimes she says or does what would be considered absurd or bizarre things, but she always has a good and sufficient reason back of It. Is fond of the beautiful In nature and art, and cannot bear the thought of dependence upon others, not even on a husband; and she enjoys the feeling that she has earned what she possesses. Her best friends will be born In July and November before the 21st, both aater months. Under New Age Sign We have selected 4 p.

m. as the of her birth because that places Aquarius on her House of Marriage: and Is the New Age sign which is against marriage and everything conventional; and the planet Herschel rules old maids and old bachelors. That hour, also, places Mercury retrograding in the House of Marriage; so. is just possible, that her husband will, after a time return to the Jupiter in conjunction with the splrituelle Neptune, in Taurus, an earth sign, and Katurn Is there also. This shows quite a curious mixture and offers much food for reflection; it is something like tracing the fattern on a "crazy But these tliree planets are in splendid aspect to Herschel, who is also retrograding In Virgo, another earth sign, and they should bring her many worldly possessions and land; and if 4 p.

m. IS correct, she Is able to Geraldine Farrar and her husband, Lou Tellegen. draw whatever or whoever she wants to her, just by thinking about it; which is precisely the same stage of unfold- ment that Billy Sunday and the writer fit Geraldine has the lovely Venus exalted In the sign of the in conjunction with the Sun, and her love- nature is something most tender, en- transing and electrical, an aura so necessary nowadays to keep the intellectual man normal; and, in considering this part of her artistic attractiveness, we would compare her to an exquisite musical instrument, of which Icve is the bow and man the artist. Woman Is the mediator between God and man. Woman Is the power that leads man upwards, the wing and the Her blessed Influence has wielded the fate and destinies of the world.

Her unshrinking courage has fortified man in all ages to encounter difficulties, and endure hardships with fortitude and sound courage. Woman gives loftiness to a pride, energy to his labor, efficacy to his prayer, and a personality that is never found with those who live gross or Holllary lives. In the Revolutionary war, it was voice and Inttueiice, that inrllled the minds of men with a grandeur and sublimity of thought and purpose and the fair immortals are rapidly leading woman out to her true sphere of usefulness; and when woman takes bestow, mankind will then rejoice with a joy unspeakable and full of gladness. Man will then become receptive to the soul-lnsplring Influence that alone can flow through womarf to bless humanity. In every department of life, the influence of woman is a necessity, and man might as well undertake to control the wind and the tide as to prevent woman from having her rights.

love for woman can never become perfect until he believes In equality. Selfishness, in a sense, abolished slavery; a ml, today, men are slowly beginning to realize, that It Is no longer to their advantage to hold woman in bondage. Onimet Rebukes Golfers Who Use Bad Francis Oulmet, the Brookline golf star, adminsters this rebuke 4n the Magazine to players who use abjectlonable language when they make a "When 'Jerry' Travers, fCilton. Vardon, in fact all the great golf players, make mistakes, you see then breaking a club or emitting violet languugu. Instead of fussing chiding oneself for gettin learn to say with a smile on your face, serves me I have learned to accept poor shots with the best of grace, the place that Gojd designed and It helps me.