Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1896, Page 17

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Beradtion free. Also Free Dispensary, 2 to 5 daily. sa2s-t¢ PARIS CAFE SINGERS Evolution of Schools Described From Paulus to Yvette. WHAT PLEASES THE PARISIAN PUBLIC —_+___ Secret of Success of Some Popu- ’ lar Favorites. REIGNING —— FADS Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. PARIS, April 27, 1896. T= PARIS “CAFE concert,” which an- swers to the London music hall, continues along the rampag- dous lines marked out by destipy for en- tertainments where beer and music mix. The legitimate thea- ter, scandalized by the money receipts ofthese free and easy reunions, con- tinues to slight “the ncise that they make there,” the reper- toire, the literature and the talent of these “artistes,” after the style of Sara Bern- hardt in America when she said of Yveite Guilbert, “Don’t know her.’ Nevertheless —indeed, because of its shortcomings—the “cefe concert” thrives and evolves “stars” and “schools of art,’ satisfying alike to its patrons and proprietors. The general movement of this branch of the lyric stage in Paris, it must be admit- ted, is that of a placid-flowing stream of inarities, where “The Nightingale Far From His Ca-a-ge’” may be expected to follow “The German Patrol is Passing, Speak Lower, My Poor Little Ones!” and “Pour, Pour Out the Cliquot, Glou! Glou! Glou!” naturally precedes ‘Have You Seen My Coco at the Trocadero?” These are the rank and file and not the stars. Stars introduce novelties, generate “tendencies” and date epochs. From Paulus to Yvette Guiibert the tendencies are still alive and kicking. Paulus, the great Paulus, who has been to America, England and Australia, burst on the Paris public as the incarnation of the epileptic in song. Before his time the French cafe-concert singers permitted themselves few gestures id stood up peaceably in the center of the stage, as does Yvette today. The legend is that Paulus,. recruiting his strength in a small village, once happened to see a man in a ft. Setting this fit to music Paulus conquered Paris. With him originated all those waltzing comic songs, breathless hopping and skip- ping choruses, marches, countermarches and noisy jigs between stanzas that today mark half the third-class male ‘French singer: of the music halls and variety theaters throughout the world. Whether as the “Lover of Amanda” or in “Returning from the Review,” his crazy caperings were inexhaustible. The tendency of Pau lus remains today in many well-paid sing- ers, from Evrard, whose specialty is the lyrical description of a family with the St. Vitus dance—“Et scn papa, il fait comme ca”—“and Brother Pat, he does like that (epileptic business)” to Paquerette, the gooseberry-dyed country girl, with green gloves and red umbrella. A Popular Favorite. In good time the system of Paulus was improved upon by an imbecile calling nim- self Kam-Hill. All Paris ran to see him in his scarlet dress coat, black knee breeches and white vest. With Kam-Hill the emphasis should be on every word of a line and every line of a stanza. Unlike Paulus he did not hop about while war- bling, but stood glued to the spot, doing all the wood chopping with his waist shoulders, arms, neck, eyes and lower jaw. To hear him sing “A young man has just hung himself in the forest of Saint- main” you might think he was building a house or digging a canal. He took that fairy-winged thing—song— and lifted it as if it weighed a ton. It was like Litule Red Ridinghood and the wolf. “But those great arms. But those great legs. But those great teeth.” ‘The better to love you, my child.” And the bones of melody cracked. “I possess the son; cried Kam-Hill. If so, it was not without vio- lence. Yet, two years ago, at the height of his vogue, this man was one of the phe- nomena of Paris, as is Yvette Guilbert. It is now admitted that he had no talent, not even the small dose required by the cafe concert. But he had originality to ap- pear in a red dress-coat, claim to be a broken-down roble, and elaborate a series of gestures. He also had the luck to fall on @ song which became immediately popu- lar. “A young man has just hung himself in the forest of Saint Germain.” “Run quick; fetch the mayor. Perhaps, indeed, he is not dead!” and soon the world was applauding Kam-Hill because every one else was doing it. One fine day Jules Le- maitre, the theatrical critic, wrote the simple sentence: ‘“Kam-Hill is insupport- able.” It was the drop of acid that de- composed vogue. The epileptic school gained on the fair ones rapidly. The petulant Duclerc—who has also been in America—discovered in its gymnastics marvelous opportunities for displaying lace underwear. If you talk about the chahut and the dance of the Moulin Rouge, Duclere today is the very queen of the chahut and sings while she kicks. The law suits between the lady and her “furnishers” revealed to the newspa- per-reading public that Duclere had under- wear of surah and foulard chemises, not to speak of the value of the lace edging. A new school was born. : Still in Favor. The expensive underwear school of sing- ing is still in the height of its favor in Paris. The “artiste’’ has only to lead the interviewey to her wardrobe drawers and say: “Behold my repertoire!” Polaire, Najege, Liovent, Derval and Fougere—they are all of the school of Paul- us plus the lace edging. The literature of which they become the priestesses has at least the merit of frankness. It has been sung in America—ait least, by Fougere. Undressed, but in the gauzilest tights and with a hat as big as a house, Mile, Valti discards skirts and lace edging to create a@ new style of architecture, One of the most laborious of these ele- vators of the cafe concent stage has been Emilienne d’Alencon—or, simply Bmilienne, for she aspires, like Sarah and Yvette, to be known by her first name. For a long time she was “searching her artistic voca- tion.” She began with rabbits. She tamed them and made them perform, appearin: on the stage without a song, mute, bui beautiful. Then she trained elephants. Then she appeared dn little spectacular “re- views” at Trouville, where she also in- troduced black stockings into the bathing costume of that frivolous ,peaside Next she had a singing part,of.a half dozen lines at the Folies eRe,.cin a review named after her, “Bmilienng aux Quatre-z- resort. Arts,” and appeared at the as a liv- ing picture, The Broken .Jug,” with ap- propriate si and costumg. Yet, the serlous art of cafe, concert, music hall or variety theater ing remains what it always was, the,art of skilif-l saying or speaking. The true artiste will seek fcr originality of Beste, costume, at- titude and even attempt tojeopyright an original little taking grimace or trick to stamp herself; but she will.not exaggerate in anything any more than. she will be es- sentially lacking in anytl She comes on the scene—for she exists is—frank- ly and without furore. She makes herself mys heard because her voice is sufficient. She makes herself understood because she knows how to “say” the words while singing them. She wears white gloves or black gloves and white stockings or black stockings, jewelry or no jeweiry, low neck or high neck. She calls herself Judie or Yvette,Felicia Mallet, Mademoiselle Auguez. The whole game is in the diction, which can well do without gestures and has scarcely need of mimicry. Only, this style will not bear m+diocrity and this is why so mary preteaded diseuses are bad to hear. They coo along the commonplace rhythm of childish or nasty love songs in three chapters or four stanzas, such as form the bulk of the repertory to which Dupare has given her name. "is pleasing enough in the mouths of its better followers, if one can forgive the “Frenchiness” of it. ‘There is no doubt thst the contour of the neck is a prime favorite in the Paris cafe concert. As a subject for harmles jest it is never out of place. ‘They sing the true, the false, the young and the mature. Paul- us has illustrated them with a polka. “It's iron!” cries Mile. Dufay, slapping her chest. Another subject, slightly out of the track of the English and American serio-comic, is that of stomack ache and its attendant possibilities. Happily, even in Paris, the exploitation of this comic side of our miser- able slavery to the flesh remains confined to the ruder sex. Leck at the blonde Anna Thibaud, the brunette Irene Henry, the plump and kit- tenish Micheline and the whole battalion of fine aud subtle diseuses of Paris; they pre- fer what is pretty as well as risky, and rest themselves at th ize of the a Dupare not the least agreeable feature of the cafe concer! it only lacks originality and has the fauit of sameness—always the risky story told in verse. Responsible for Big Sleeves. In order to get back to something new, the great theatrical critic Sarcey a couple of years ago had the happy idea of inau- gurating a series of lectures on “The Songs of Our Fathers,” with examples in costume. There is a whole literature'to draw from, should one only begin with Beranger. Coil- mance, Dupont, Desaugiers and Nadaud began to live again in 1898, imparting new decency to a public tired of dirt. “Briga- dier—responds Pandore. Brigadier—you are right!” Costumed in the dress of 1830—it is this revival that is respousible for the leg-of-mutton sleeves of jadies’ gowns. Meritorious and pretty artists returned to the sentimentalism of ‘Poor Bouquet, Flow- ers Already Faded!" and “Gentle Tagus, I quit thy happy banks; to thy shores I bid this last adieu! The return of the old song has not, how- ever, renewed the cafe concert: to great ex- tent. It appeared as an»accident, and is passing away. But it raised disputes and engendered wars between various schools of song writers, “realists,” ‘mstifiers,” stes” (zut! is equivalent to rats!) and fine-de-siecleists. The “free song” of the “literary wine shop,” which had driven out the muscular and vulgar “song of the (sec- end) empire,” continued to conquer new fields for itself, and the new Theresa— Yvette Guilbert—had already appeared, pale and quiet, with a note of art which itself can be only called “fin de siecle.” Her funereal gaiety may perhaps be the last form of laughter, for there seems to be nothing left. Funereal enough has been the galety of the other new school of Aristide Bruant, “the Browning of the Paris slums.” Orig- inally this remarkable young man (now re- tired on a fortune made out of slum songs) was a very ordinary cafe concert “artiste,” exploiting witticisms like “Who is it that takes chocolate? It’s papa! Who drinks her little white wine? That’s mamma!” And finding joy in rhyming gruvere (cheese) with mon frere (my brother) and horreur with me soeur (my sister). “His dream was to get out of it, which he accomplished by way of the Chat Noir. Here his “I Seek “Around the Chat Noir,” “Au Claire de la Lune” and “At Montmartre,” brought him fortune, by moonlight, and on the hill of Montmartre itself. He soon had an establishment of his own, “The Mirliton,”” where he put into opera- tion his peculiar form of humcr, which was the gruff, insulting of all his hearers and the singing of poverty, misery, despair and crime. But this is an old story, and the repertory of Bruant has already passed away, after a furore which lasted some fcur years. He was really made at the Chat Noir, and the influence of the Chat Noir survives. Every Sort of Ism. Starved Bohemian poets, artists and song writers always found a friend in Rudolph Salis, the proprietor of that “artistic tav- ern” called the Chat Noir, a friend and patron, whose money, hard-boiled eggs, beer and butter cakes would time and again keep their smoking flax from being quench- ed. In this capacity of patron of the arts Salis has brought out so many young men in the flelds of literature and painting, as well as song writers, that the matter would run away with the subject should one at- tempt to enter on it. In the time of Grevy, Salis was already singing ‘“‘He Plays Very Well at Billiards, It’s All We Need to Gov- ern France, At That Game There We Can- not Lose Five Milliards” (referring to Na- poleon III, and the German war indemnity). Politics, religion, literature and what not entered into the song of the Chat Noir, which has broadened into “The Song of Montmartre.” Here poets sang their own verses. Anarchism and every other ism flourishes in the “Song of-Montmartre.” “If one could be a fiea instead of:!a man, there would be no rent paying!’tiand “Don’t Be Lazy, Be a Robber!” dmouy, MacNab, Maurice Boukay, Pradels, Xanroff, Dela- court and a train too numerous to mention are the stars, singers and writers as well. One example only must show the dominant sentiment—that terrible sang, “The Car- rier’s Wife.” , Ah! it’s the wife, the wife of the carrier, Who goes from’ door to abot, from wine : shop to wine shop i's Her husband for to see, « Tir-e-leal ? With a-a-a-a lan-ter-ne! “Ah, my poor children, mourn for your unhappiness, complain of your destiny to have such a father, for I have found him making free—tir-a-lee!—his arm around an- other!” Then the childrem answer: ‘He has done well,” respond the dhildren. “He has done well to kiss the woman he loves.” “And when we're mup, too, Tir-a-lou! ey pee Papa, we'll do as you!” It is not far to the beauty of ugliness and the school of the grotesque. Matthias’ “The Last of the Troubadours,” the in- vinetble drunkard, and the ugliest man in Paris, gesticulates with a club on the cafe concert stage of the present moment. He desires to hang landlords, preake bankers’ heads and “tap on the pear” of the patron in general. His motto is “Break every- thing!” Clubbing his way around the scene —'Take that, my dirty one!’—he is a dan- ger to the very scenery. “There are kicks and blows, and I break the nose and the Jaw!” Ugly and Stupid. It is the school of the American Irish and negro-minstrel knockabouts, with the note of actual and ferocious communism added for flavor. Of this school also is that fun- 17 ny creature, Mile. Abdala, a star of the first rank as an “eccentric comic.” This young person is really ahead of her century. She is gifted with an eloquent thinness and boniness, and a face like the map of New Jersey. She has been exercising that face since ~her childhood. All the naughty ‘mouths” that naughty little girls make, all the sticking out of tongues and eleva ing of noses and squinting of eyes that ren- ders willful infancy so engaging to fond parents, she has practiced since they first came to her ingenious mind. The result is a shocking parody on lovely weman. As the “Poor Angelique,” who has broken her bicycle—“She has broken her libi, the pauvret-te, she has broken her bi- cy-clette!”"—where Angelique rhymes with Pneumatique, she has all the grotesqueness of a masterpiece of Chinese ugliness. Ab- dala, together with that spherical. person, Mile. Block, whose role it is to exploit her phenomenal fatness, are the pioneers among women to 5 pines on exploit their own ugli It would seem that nothing could - yond this, “The Beauty of Ugliness:’ avd asa fact, there is but one more stage, tare Wit of Stupidity.” Polin, the idol of Oday, has a shining round moon face 2s expressioniess as a turnip, except for its good nature. He is peaceable and easy. going, a fat and Sleepy common soldier, ver his own inertia. “When fis tshing with ‘my comrades, I don't fsh—T just play with the bait,” and “when nee nothing else to do, I spit out of the window!” Or he will’ mumble over a chorus that means nothing but sound, his fat pig eyes blinking wisely: “It's ogival and transversal, collateral, continual and phenomenal and pyramidal, curcurbital, ergiversal”—the life of a soldier. Unlike Paulus, Polin charms even without ges. ure, STERLING HEILIG. ee HYGIENE OF HOUSES, Importance of Securing a Proper Supply of Pure Air. nsed From Cincinnati Lancet-Clinic. The air within the house being really derived from without, we must first of all select our building site with this point constantly in view. The purity of the air is preserved primarily by the process of aeration, and consequently our house should be placed in such a position that winds may readily strike it, keeping the alr well tn motion, and therefore fresh, so far at least as stagnation is concerned. There is one question that enters here ana i applicable cnly to city houses or blocks, still it should be mentio € leaving the subject of acration, feo%e about the narrow light welis and courts that are such a curse to the unfortunate city house. Such features should be strict. ly forbidden. They are simply pockets of dead air, which are scarcely affected by the winds that sweep over the housetops. A iight shaft should be of sufficient area to permit a view of the sky above from a point some distance inside of the window. The next essential to purity of the air is the matter of ventilation. Every room should be provided with a flue of sufti- cient size (not less than eight by eight inches) to carry off the vitiated air. The s.ze should be governed by the draft. When we remember that an ordinary gas burner is the equivalent of four persons in the production of carbonic acid gas, is it to be wondered at that there are so many weaklings among the masses? It is far more importent to have these out- lets than inlet ere are plenty cf nat- ural inlets. The ise of furnace would t ideal method of = uring pure air proper precautions were taken to purify such air thoroughly before it entered the room. But, as with dust, Condes practice gces, the air is laden directly from the coal bin or ash box. When the apparatus is new a great show is made by placing a piece of cheese cloth in the opening to the fresh- air inlet, to screen the air 2s it enter: This will effectually rgmove the dust from the street, to be sure, but it will not do it long unless the cloth is frequently renew- ed. Where there is a water filter in the house it is usually cleaned with much regularity, but how seldom do people think of the dust screen at their fresh-air win- dows! It will be noticed that in course of time ark lines appear on the plastering, indi- ting the p and studs in frame house: cf s in brick houses. This is nothing more or less than the evidence of air currents passing throughsthe plaster, and we must regard this as a matter of much importance. It is spoken of as the respiration of houses. It is the result not so much of the force of the wind as of osmose, and no material should be used that would prevent it, as, for instance, water-proof building paper, for this is also air proof. ei coo ARTIFICIAL FOODS, But a Demand, and a Large One, Ex- ists for Natural Products. From the Chicago Pest. The craft of man has found food pro- ducts which do not grow from the soil, and science, no less than experiment, has ap- proved their utility. Long ago the golden scepter of butter was wrested away by the mightler product of a factory, with which nelther farm nor creamery could compete. Retorts yielded a culinary aid that was better than lard. Scientific young men produced jellies fairer in appearance than that which came from the naturai fruit. In meat production the margin of profit narrowed with the narrowing “range.” As free pastures disappeared with the terri- teries to make room for the states, the price of beef soared. Instantly that food product became the target of inventive attempt. The inevitable law of commerce was obeyed. Big profits attracted big at- tempt. And imitation meat followed imita- tion butter into the field—no, into the mart. “For a long time potatoes held a place peculiarly their own; out the main reason was that potatoes could still, three years in five, be cheaply produced. But the two uncertain years would come, and the rapid rise in price provoked attention. Experi- ment made short work of the potato. A thing of starch and water at the best, its combining was a simple matter, and farm- ers hung up their hoes and bought pota- toes at the factory—ready for the kitchen, and at a rate which undercut their cheap- est effort. - Corn was more complex, but it surren- dered. After all, what is it but a combina- tion ef chemical properties which could be found elsewhere? It was far less trouble to combine them in a substitute for maize than to find the light by which that substi- tute for maize might, on winter evenings, be inspected. Bread products were matter of habit and tradition. Give the race a food which an- swered all the requirements bread bad sup- plied, and the race was ‘oo intellectual to decline it. Laboratories took the place of fallow land. Pestle and mortar were as reaper and mill, The hand skilled at com- bining and compounding wielded at once the executioner’s ax by which the head of the baker was sundered. A thing of steel, with handle bars and chain, elastic tread and lamp-by-night, had pedaled buzzing past the horse, and a crea- ture which had served man well for ninety centuries limped useless away. And with him went the fields which had maintained him. No need for oats, since this better than horse did not eat them; nor of hay, since the animal to which hay were one day a feast had grown too rare to eat it. ———_—-e-—_____ The Robin’s Song. From the Troy Press. A robin sang, ‘The dull world awakened from its sleep, Cast off its robe of winter sadness; The leaves from bondage ‘gan to pecp, ‘The brocks o’erflowed in jolly madness; All nature stened to the warning, And Taughed with glee in epringtime's morning, When robin sang. A poet sang, It was a song that reached the heart Of many a man, of every woman, It_was the fruit of perfect art, It showed a power divinely human, His name was known to all; and then Fame_on her tablets wrote {t, when ‘The poet sang. A mother sang, ‘Two little eyelids blinked and’ droop=d, And bright curlg nestled ou her breast, Contentment’s boifuty ricbly trooped; Sweet {nnocence found loving rest. ‘The slumber fairies tiptocd near, Aud all the angels stopped to hear, ‘When mother sang. e+ —____— Just the Man. From the Philadelphia North American. Rooter—A friend of mine had a load of bricks dumped on him the other day, and escaped without the slightest injury. Base Ball Magnate—You interest me. Where can he be found? ee ae what do you want with im Base Ball Magnate*He's just the fellow for a good umpire. UNITED STATES SUPT. Family of Hon. William R. Smith Made Well by Paine’s Celery Compound. “To him who in the love of Nature Holds communion with her visible forms, She speaks a various 1 ee.” No one bas a deeper insight into nature's ways thap the superintendent of the extensive botanic gardens of the United States at Washington. No one knows so well as he what precious oppor- tunities come with the spring. Smith, like moet scientific persons, firmly that cvery one would be benefited by taking a spring remedy while the blood is readiest to be purified and invigorated. {tis exclusively employed in familie” wherg nothing short of the best of everything pertaining to health will do. It has lived up to the most sanguine expectations of physicians who naturally look for extraordinary results from the discovery of so eminent a physie clan as Professor Edward E. Phelps, M.D., LL.D» of Dartmouth Medical Schvol. That Paine’s celery compound does cure tively and permanently all diseases arising from {impure blood or decline in the vigor of the nerveg is cheerfully attested by thousands of earnest med poste Psine’s ees an a the =, zemstoe sinod Spvaameas: eee |e eee Se Ae ae WASHINGTON, D. C., March 4, 1896, | !anuor tell that the nervous matter in the brain, Gentlemen—The female members of my household | V!¥es and spinal cord is not getting sufficient are more than delihted with Paine’s celery com- | ®CUrsiment. pound. I learn from other friends that its popu To quickly furnish a fresh and abundnnt supply larity is st growing. It aids digestion, xnd j Of Butriment for every tissue of the beady Is the in view of the prevalence of dyspepsia it is one | Purpore for which Paine’s cel nd wag of the benefactions of the first prepared. This rapid produ of fresh Ness acim nous and pure Movd was the aim of WM. R. SMITH, ssor Vbelps’ Jong study of the t. U.S. Botanic Garden. | C2U8e Of nervous exhaustion. Paine's celery compound 4s as far removed as | The result of his life work Paine’s celer the poles from the many trivial, unscientific preps und—this remarkable remedy that eer rations that call themselves spring remedic It huly cures diseases of the liver, kidmeys and hus earned the complete confidence of men and | hb. It is the greatest nerve regulator and women the world over. tury. == = —— —— | WATCHING THE PAPERS. English Detectives t Suggestions From the Advertising Columns. From Tid Bits. There is one official at Scotland Yard who is but little known to the public, but who, all the same, works very hard and success- fully for the public good by closely scanning, day in and day out, the advertisements ap- pearing in every London newspaper. This official's primary duty is to keep a bright lookout for the very numerous swindling class which advertises for man- agers and so on prepared to invest money; but, quite beyond this, he, in the most care- ful manner, notes all advertisements that strike him as being in any way suspicious, handing them over to the heads of different departments. He is himself an expert in all matters that deal with cipher writing, and part of his duty is to translate every cipher that may appear, handing over a copy of his translation to active members of the staff when anything is revealed that jus- ifies such a course. : The writer had the privilege the other day of a short chat with this official—a bright young fellow, speaking several languages, who sald: “IT am afraid that I am not allowed to tell you much, but I may say that no day ever passes without my handing over some ad- vertisement for inquiry.” Our scrutiny in this way has become very keen recently, for it is an open secret that certain foreign catch advertisement swindlers are expected here again ere long. “Besides, there have been exposed in court many cases of swindling recently which have depended solely on alluring advertise- ments. In two of them I gave warning long ago, but no prosecutor would come forward. Were I aliowed to do so, I could show you hundreds of most mysterious cipher adver- tisements in the book over there, the bulk of these, of course, being between lovers, but many of them containing warnings from one educated swindler to another. “Of course, you know that thieves even are all specialists nowadays, and it is sur- prising how soon a bogus advertisement swindler gets to work again in the same direction when he is released from jail. I am advised of the release of these men, and the characteristics of their style are soon observable again in the advertisement col- umns. “We, as a rule, warn them at once that we recognize the new plant, and in this way hundreds of warnings are sent out yearly, and do an amount of good that the public knows nothing of. My duty is very monot- onous, and I dare not get even a single edi- tion behindhand. ———-+: Tarn About Fair Play. From Fliegende Blaetter. Prof. Dusel of Bonn one day noticed his wife placing a large bouquet on his desk. “What does all that mean?” he asked. “Why, this is the anniversary of your mar- riage,” replied Mrs. Dusel. “Is that so? Well, let me know when yours comes around, and I'll reciprocate.” WHAT Some Curiously Interesting Figures Compiled by an Expert. From the New York Herald. “Do you know the actual weight of @ hat?” queried the spruce salesman, as he handed out several “new styles.” “People don’t generally. I asked a man that question yesterday, and he guessed fourteen ounces on that hat, which weighs exactly four and a half. An ordinary silk hat weighs only seven. “I looked up the matter recently, and so I know precisely. A ‘silker’ is almost the heaviest hat made, though hunting hats weigh more from their having an inner lin- ing of great stiffness and strength to save a man if he should be thrown on his head, The hunting top hats weigh ten ounces, and the hunting derbies nine. A wintet derby weighs five and a quarter ounces, varying a quarter ounce either way for size, and a summer soft felt three and three-quarter ounces. “When it comes to women’s headgear, there are all sorts of weights, though sel dom does a woman's hat of any kind run more than seven ounces. It depends on the kind of trimming and fal-lals. Some rib- bons are heavy, and so are some artificial flowers. Jet is heavy, too. The average little bonnet weighs two ounces to two ang a half, a trimmed ‘sailor’ three and a half, and a ‘Sennett’ (the kind that have brims stiffened with glue) four and three-quar+ u “The French ‘creations’ are heavier, but they are not so weighty as you might sup- pose. Six and a half to seven ounces means a big, heavy hat, and one you would need X rays to see through if yeu hap- pened to sit behind it.” A busy woman has compiled for her own vse and gratification a book of quotations, which so far surpasses in cleverness and quantity anything of the kind that I have ever seen, and I was emboldened to ask her how she had managed to make her collec tion. ‘My dear,” she said, “that represents the work of years, yet done so gradually that I have never misssed the hours spent upon it, From the time that I was a girl I have made a habit of reading with a pencil and notebook at hand, and when anything im- presses me as especially clever I ‘make @ note of it.’ Even in traveling I always have a tiny pencil and a sheet of paper In the depths of puree or bag. At any time when I have a few moments to spare at my, desk I jot down the matter collected in this great blank book, and then it is mine for- ever. “Although the books I have read in times past may not belong to me, the best, most pithy sayings in them can never be taken from me. To this volume I often go fot amusement, cheer and consolation. It is an old friend, who has something to say to fit any mood in which I may find myself.” “MY OLD From the Westminster Gazette. MR. CHAMBERLAIN AND PRESIDENT KRU DUTCH.” GER. Oh, no, you've bothered me too many years; -I've never had suitor such, But there's never an Uitlander known to me Tl swap for my old Dutch. (With apologies to Mr. Chevalier,