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The Seaforth News, 1926-03-25, Page 7-t THE STORY BEHIND THE. •SONCt By J. 3, Geller "The Picture Turned Toward. the Wall:" "s p •• One of the first songs of 'a genera- tion ago was inspired by an. fncicdeut In a stage production.: This, was "The Picture Turned Toward the Wall;" Older playgoer's will recall the scene hi Joseph Arthur's famous old" melte drama "Blue 'Jeans," wherein the hero- ine disobeys the stern father by aban- doning' his household to marry the. Man Of • her =choice. ?he 1tnforgiving; Parent dents hi" :spleen by revereing a picture of the erring daughter which hung on the wall. While this' episode With not the turning point of.the melo- drama, It'illestrated the prevailing sentiment depicted en. the . stageof that era when danghteia transgressing the social code of their fathers were easteitlrift-often inetesneWetorm„e Or; It they •had deserted the bid faun imam, it was sirirul to :mention their names 11a the - presence of the .tuereleuting sires• _ Among those who took in that buzz, saw drama, "Blue Jeans," when it en- JoYed a prosperous engagement at the- Fourteenth he-Fourteenth Streat Theatre In New York City, Was an'Eng11sh song writer, Charles Graham. Due to the fast that he had net 'yet .been able properly to 'gauge the' Atne-ic?an taste for songs- he badmet witli slight success. While he itne-w It, to be an age of ripe, lee- Mous- sentiment, his songs up until that date had, missed fire. But when, he saw the irate father turn his off- spring's picture toward the wall Graham grasped this idea as a peg on which to hang one of the most popu- lar eongs of the day. When he re turned home, after witnessing the per- formanc h „ e, a wrote the lyric The Picture Turned Toward the Wall," in Which' sentiment and • emote -en ran wild. From the simple episode in the play Graham constructed in over -tones of .sadnesg, and sorrow the tale of a lass who— ..left them all one evening and their sad hearts knew the truth When her father turned theplain* to the wall, • The next day Graham strolled over to the mer est music publishing offices of III. Witmark & Sons, where he sat down at a :piano and ground out a Melody to accompany the words. The manuscript completed, heeexhibited it to young,; Julius P. Witnxark, a mem- ber of the firm and billed nationally as "The Boy Tenor." Witmark took a --fancy to the ballad and,notonlyezt- duced his partnrs to publish it but in - "eluded it as a number to bo sung in a new musical melange, 'The Clty Directory,' shortly . -to open- at the Bijou Theatre. When he finally Intro- dubed the song 1t registered a triumph, and be repeated his success from coast to coast. With the invaluable assist sues of the youthful singer, Graham's ballad soon became one of the best sellers in years, and, though the auth- or' and composer essayed to duplicate his good fortune with a sequel, "Heir x's•thcr Ilas Turned the Dear Picture Again," it never approaelted the popu- larity of its predecessor. A Valet to the Needy. In a cage that e•tantls in one corner of the lobby bf a Salvation Army hotel en old man sits, croselogged, tailor- eashiora, for eight hours every day in the week except Sunday. He le slight, and, although .featly and well dressed, no one would suspect from his looks or his •mannertbat.he is a Prosperous retired business man, and a reputed millionaire. • The work that he does is mending and patching the old, -dirty and dilapi- dated clothing of the "down -and- out - ors" who frequent the hotel; he gets nothing for it, -that is, no money,— but does it because, as he says, he "owes it to God." - Forty years ago the man began to Work as a tailor's. bushelman. Then ho opened a shop of his own and be- , gen to manufacture ready-made cloth- ing for1thedrode. He added uniforms-, police: and military, to his output, and became one of the Ieading manufae w-` tourers; of upstate New York and a bu'elness rival of the largest utriform houses in the country. A,.eew years ago he retired • from business and moved to New York, so that his in- valid wife might have better care.• One day lent winter he saw at the Salvation Army-hotelthe ragged, des- titute end.hopetess mens who go there fur warmth and shelter, and in them perceived the opportunity for a service that he could render. He has been hotel valet ever since. "Conte, ,old-timer, get a move on with those pants. •This chair seat ain't upholstered, a tramp wild Ball front behind the curtain; but the old man merelysi lies and`says nothing: To be patient and kind 1s, a part of hie Coit -appointed task, FI)s reason? it is a very simple one. "After forty years of service to my- aelf," he says, ''God made it clear to rale a year ago that I owed'Bin a foie Years 'of se1•y1Ce." And he is e0 mode eat about the natter that he dislikes to apeak of it himself, er to have ally_ one else.do it. 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A boy of sixteen should be given as much food as a person who is doing fairly vigorous outdoor Work, such as gardening, while a girl of thirteen may easily require more food than her. mother or even her father does, The Song -Sparrow. Like the rusty can cocktd over my -grindstone laripping its ellvery drops, the King-. eptrrrow :Ingo A spray of: notes out of, his frail throat flows Over the fallow world. Lootlly ho aings. And the flee rain of the suit' drills in the air • Riddling his bratncfl with light, though along the ground Shadows are rising on their knees to y hear Earth turn towards darkness with a most solemn sOttaf1. Yet ail to -night his voice will vibrate 911, 1 -lis echo shake 1.11e beavens. until In ehOwers Like loosened petals the white stars rain down. ` To -morrow we'llbe finding the first ;loners. ---Sehttyder Tacksou, in 'Fite New Re- public.:. One Man Feeds Fifty. Wen it you are what Is oaised a small eater the tunonnCof food needed to keel) yoir going for a yewe is eon- siderable In that period you will tat 1201b. of meat and fish, 3781b. of bread- st»tfg, inchldieg other grains suoh es rice and oatmeal, a sinitlar amount of. potatoes, •vegetables, and fruit, be- sides some 201h. of butter and cheese. Added to these will be ie.tions of tea, sugar, mtistary; pepper, salt, and so on. When you remember that there are 801110 one thousand six hundred mil- lion. people in the world, the tunount of food required to feed them all Is colossal. Yet a hundred mIilion peo- ple produce it all. 'rhose plough and cultivate fields, orchards, and gardens, reap or . gather their crops, milk the :Ow C a malts the butter1 ant cheese, s and dateh the fish. Tho Onee may be cited of one Ameri- can family consisting 'of. a' father, hie four sone,a nephew, and a son-in-law. They run a large farm near Menno, in South. naicate.. -. In 1924 these seven men produced, by their own labor, 20,- 000 bushels of wheat, besides keeping anti feeding neaaly one hundred head of cattle. The record of fishermen is even more wonderful than that of farmers: Perone and the Wilted States between them require more than five mullion tons of fish yearly, while the total number of men employed in the ftsher- les of these countries ie under a mil- lion." -So each illion."-So-each man Is responsible for ' catching five tons of net. yearly. The British record is better than that, for fewer than 100,000 men take. between them 958,000 tons of fish. If you put the value of fish as low as $90 a ton, each British fisherman brings in about $850 worth of food yearly, or as much fish as is consumed by flfty peo- pie. Storage Battery Fan. A new type of portable electric fan carries its own current supply. A small electric battery Ate in the tan. dle and drives the motor. 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