Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1923, Page 79

' Confederate Memorial in Georgia To Be World’s Greatest Work of Art Architectural Creation, Carved in the Solid Granite of Stone Mountain, Wil Represent Mobilization of the Confederate Army—Ten Years to Be Required for Its Completion at Cost of $3.500,000—Central Group Alone, Comprising Leaders of Confederacy, Will Surpass All Other Monuments of History. ] { BY GEORGE ADAMS HOWARD, N everlasting shrine to the glory of the past, a gigantic memorial to the leaders of the southern people, whose famed deeds will forever be most highly recorded by history, Is now being built fof posterity In graphlo representation on Stone mountain, DeKalb county, Ga. This architectural creatlon, carved in basic outline In solid granite, will | depict the mobilization of the Con- federate army. The llkenesses of its generals and statesmen will be co- lossal. The work, which is now well under way, is directed by the famed seulptor, Gutzon Borglum, and when completed will be known as the Stone Mountaln Confederate Memorlal. It is belicved that the head of General Lee will be finished by his! birthday anniversary, January 1%, when an claborate program will be given. President Coolldge was cently asked to attend. A condensed description of the finished project, which will take ap- proximately ten vears to complete, | at the cost of $3,500,000, is as fol lows: Beginning on the right of the prec- | ipice near the summit and sweeping | downward and across It, a distance of | 1,350 feet, will be carved In full| relief a panorama representing the | confederate armies mobilizing around | their leaders. At the top will be ar-; tillery, appearing at the summit as if coming from beyond, and dropping | down over and to the left across the | precipice in life-like procession of | son, gune and horses. ©n the left of these will be Con- Tederate cavalry in fuill forward mo- tion, In the center of the mountain, where the precipice bulges forward, will be carved a colossal group rep- resenting the principal chieftains of the Confederacy, including Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and four other leaders of the high command, to be named by a commlisslon composed of thirteen state historlans, representing the thirteen Confederate states. S8winging away to the left of the central group will be column upon column of the Confederate gray-clad infantry carved in the gray and everlasting granite. Without the panorama of which it will be a part, the central group alone would surpass all other monu- ments of history. General Lee's figure will be nearly 200 feet high from the crown of his hat to the hoofs of his horse, higher than a seventeen-story office building. The head of Gen. Lee will cover an area thirty feet square. Other Confederate chieftains in the central group will be carved in like proportion. No sculptured figures of anclent or modern times can be com- pared to these in magnitude or grandeur. There never has been in any country anything to approach them. The central group will cover an area of one and one-half acres, or 60,000 square feet of granite on the perpendicular face of a granite ountain; the tops of the figures 300 feet below the summit of the mountain, the hoofs of the horses 300 feet above the plain. * x % % N addition to the figures of the cen- tral group, seven In number, there will be sixty-five more individual Jikenesses. These will portray sixty- five Confederate generals, each state naming five of its most distinguished Contederate generals. The governor of each state has appointed a com- mittee to make these selections, some of which have been made, the others being in the process of belng named. Mr. Borglum's plan Is to distribute these sixty-five generals in the pan- | orama wherever they naturally be- long, according to whether they wera artillery, cavalry or infantry com- manders. The depth of the figures will vary. In Gen. Lee's figure the depth will be about twenty feet at the deepest place (the horse's chest) and will range from that down to| about four feet of depth in Gen. Lee's hat. The depth of the smallest fig- ure in the whole pahorama will not be less than four feet. Approxi- mately 700 figures will be portrayed in the panorama. | s Copyright by TUnderwood & GUTZON BORGLUM, SCULPTOR, Underwood. WORKI ON THE GREAT CON. FEDERATE MEMORIAL ON THE SIDE OF STONE MOUNTAIN, AR ATLANTA, GA. THE FIRST PART OF THE CARVING THE HEAD OF GEN. ROBERT LEE—WILL BE COMPLETED BY JANUARY 19, 1924, WHEN IT WILL BE UNVEILED WITH AP- PROPRIATE CEREMONIES, The memorial will comprise three other features—a memorial hall near | the foot of the mountain, a large am- phitheater on the right side, on the iplains, and an artificial lake on the left. Memorial Hall will be quarried out of the mountaln immediately under- reath the central group. Thirteen incisions will be made for removing the granite and when the hall is fin- ished these openings will form the windows and central entrance, thir- teen in numver, each one dedicated to a Confederate state. The length of Memortal Hall will be 320 feet, run- ning allel with the face of the precipice. It will go back Into the mountain sixty feet deep and will be forty feet high from floor to cell- ing. Floor, walls and celling will be formed by the body of the mountain. No building material will be intro- duced into the hall except immense bronze doors in the entrance, in the center, and bronze frames and stained glass in the windows. Along the front of Memorlal Hall will sweep a broad granite esplanade, formed by cutting a shelf in the mountain the length of the hall. A majestic gran- ite stairway will ascend to the en- trance from the plain. In Memorial Hall will be gathered, for perpetual safe keeping, the rec- ords and relics of the Confederacy. In it will be preserved the names of all contributers to the fund for the me- morial, as well as coples of all Con- federate rosters in existence, the roster of each state in a separate re- ceptacle. On the walls of the hall will be placed bronze tablets bearing the names and deeds of Confederate sol- diers, or others who served the Con- federacy, in whose memory their de- cendants gave founders’ roll con- tributions of $1,000 to the fund. Like a shining band of gold these founders’ roll tablets will encircle the walls ot this sacred shrine of southern mem- ortes. Over the windows and entrance will be erected very large bronze tablets bearing the names of the governors and statehouse officers of the thirteen Confederate states from 1861 to 1865, together with a summary of the mili- tary forces contributed by each state to the Confederacy. On the floor of Memorlal Hall will be'thirteen bronze stars to represent the thirteen states. On the esplanade | will be a large urn, six feet in helght, to hold a receptacle of oil that will be kept continuously burning for all time to commemorate the patriotic herofsm of the south. * * % % T the base of the mountain, on the right of Memorial Hall, where @ recess in the precipice forms a natural sounding board of immense power, will be built the ampitheater, a huge granite structure rivaling the Colosseum of ancient Rome. Granite removed from Memorial Hall will supply the material. At the back of in-a blocked-out inclsion. s, will be built the world's t pipe organ ch, in brief outline, Borglum's plan which has thrilled the imagination of the civilized world. In every country having any art or education, it has been recelved with boundless enthusiasm. President Harding, a short time be fore his death, wrote a stirring letter describing the memortal as “the eighth wonder of the world.” History affords nothing comparable to it, either as a monument or a work of art Solon Borglum, a brother of Gut- zon, was first chosen to direct the giant task. Unfortunately the out- break of the war delayed all plans and during the war Solon Borglum died. Great was the quandary of the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Association, an organization which is headed by Hollins N. Randolph of Atlanta, as to what sculptor could best carry on the project. All worry, howe ended when tzon offered his services, Work was really commenced upon the mountain Virginia day, June 18, 1923. In honor of the cccaslon, Gov. E. Lee Trinkle of Virginia and mem- bers of his staff went to Atlanta to participate with Gov. Thomas W. Hardwick of Georgia in the exercises. A great muititude assembled in front of the mountain and heard speeches dellvered through and immense brass megaphone from a platform 2300 feet below the summit. Mr. Borglum's first task was to paint on the precipice an outline ot the figures of the central group. This was done by means of a powerful {Confederacy, and this testimonial can- | Kiddy Kar indeedly’ projection lantern donated to the memorial by Edwin Porter of the Precision Machine Company. A small i tal. | the assoclation, as it was durlng one stereopticon slide, contalning an out- line of the figures, reproduced the lines on the precipice 1,000 feet from the lantern, in enormously magnified scale. Men suspended by steel cables with buckets of white paint and brushes painted the outlines at night, | Progress has been rapid since that time. The granite removal is a straight quarrging job, but one of the unexampled difficulties is that the quarryman must take the stone out of a perpendicular precipice hundreds of feet above the plain and an equal distance from the summit, and can not use explosives for fear of blow- ing off a part or all of some figure. Meanwhile, glgantic hoisting machin- ery, especially designed for placing a large force of men on the precf- pice, is under construction in the works of the Brown Holsting Machin- ery Company of Cleveland, Ohio, and will be donated to the memorial at a cost of $250,000. This will make possible the completion of the pano- rama within six to elght vears, when without such machinery it would take five times as long as that. * & % % 'HE memorial assoclation, although it has received voluntary con- tributions of various amounts from | all over the world, has only started | headquarters In Atlanta, where $250,- 000 already has been pledged. Branch headquarters at a later date will be extended throughout the United States, Including the nation’s capi- Already Stone mountain, located | sixteen miles from Atlanta by air- line, and by a good road twenty miles, has been visited by more than 50,000 people every month since the work | first got under way. The memorlal assoclation held tem- porary headquarters In the Willard Hotel during the recent convention of the United Daughters of the Con- federacy. The Daughters are backing of their meetings several years ago that the idea was born. The organi- zation 1 not assuming financial back- ing except through the Individual contributions of its members. While in Washington the memorial assoclation was represented by Hol- lins W. Randolph, its presiden Pt James W.. English, former mayor of Atlanta and Confederate veteran, honorary president; Gutgon Borglum, sculptor, and Mr. and Mrs. Rogers| Winter, assistants. Capt. English, Mr. Borglum and Mr. Randolph made a call at the White House, where they told the President about the project and invited him to the ceremony on Lee's birthday anniversary. Mr. Borg- lum also addressed one of the meet-{ ings of the Daughters of the Con-| federacy here, outlining the recent| work. Stone mountain itself is a unique example of nature's handiwork. As its name implies, it is literally a mountain of stome, 5,000 feet long, seven miles around the base, and a mile to the summit up the sloping side, directly opposite the perpen- | dicular facade where human handi- work is to appear. It is one of the | largest solid bodies of granite In the world, containing approximately | 543,750,950 cublc feet of stone above | the surface. Its foundations under- lie almost half the state of Georgla. At varying depths the substrata of | Stone mountain granite have been encountered in borings as far north as the Blue Ridge mountains, sev- epty-five miles distant, and as far south as the coastal plain, 250 miles distant. Time has not produced the slightest decay in this “great granite monster” | during all ages. Many centuries of erosion have touched it as lightly as the ~louds touch the sky. It truly is perpetual. Chips of stone drilled away since the task was commenced have been cut up into smal] pieces and boxed and sent all over the world as sou- venirs. It is on the northern side of this mammoth page of granite that Borg- lum will engrave a‘perpetual and in- destructible monument to the men and women who fought, suffered, sac- rificed and died for the southern not but be, in the minds of all peo: ples, north and south altke, a fitting memorial to the “lost caus CURIOUS DUELS IN WORLD HISTORY Research Made by Ring’ Lardner O the editor: I have been asked by a couple of feeble minded friends from a small county in Minnesota to write a article on the subject of duels which accord- ing to the best advices is one of the livest problems facing the world to- day, second only to the question of whether marked cards should be used in solitaire. Dueling has became so prevalent that a person cant hardly | pick up & newspaper without having a hunch that the news of some big duel has been suppressed. This condition naturally has roused | world wide interest in the toplc and the general public is in a fever to Xknow the different kinds of dueling in vogue in different countries and the rules governing same and it is the purpose of this articie to describe same. The origin of dueling is s0 impos- sible to understand that it becomes Jaughable. The first authentic duel probably took place in the 16th,cen- tury between & man named Geo. Bur- den and the county clerk of Par: guay, South America. These two fel- lows got into a brawl concerning the relative merits of their rival parchesi ‘boards. It was decided that the matter should be settled by a hand to hand fight, using the stypic as a weapon. The stypic is & long handled butchsr's cleaver and the man that gets in the first punch generally always wins, These two fellows fought for one hr. and 20 minutes and at one time nearly came to blows. The final re- sult was the calling of a special elec- tion as the county clerk's position was now vacant. The next record we have of a duel is the famous duel in upper Silesia between Gus Parsons of Asla Minor and a resident of upper Silesia named Harold G@elfreich. The argument started when Mr. Parsons asked Mr. GeHreich why he always slept in an upper. * x ok ok T that time, the rules of dueling in upper Silesia was to the effect that the two belligerents or petters Wwas to meet the next morning and try to pull each other's teetn. Each had to be a dentist graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. The both of them was armed with ' for- cepts and the code provided that the adversary had to keep his mouth open. These two fellows feinted at one another for three days until finally one of them yawned, exposing three canines. His opponent, Mr. Parsons, took advantage of the situation if any and extracted the three canines. Thus honor was satisfied, From that point on, dueling has become more and more laughable. In April of 1825 there occurred the duel which revolutionized all previous ef- forts in the art of dueling. This oc- curred in Galatia- and as iuck wouid have it, the argument was cver a wohan. One said she had been to a manioure and the other gave a sar- castic laugh. This brought on & funny situatl In less time then It takes to tell about it, Harvey Nichols, an entire stranger, had been called cut an¢ toll that the honor vt Worville Jauch, the Galatian, must te satisfied. So Har- vev happened to ask what was the method of dueling in taas country. He was told that the event was put on with dice. Each duelist was provided with a set of two dice. If on= of them mace a pass, the other wag suppo™ to get rid of himself in a quiet way. But if the loser was dissatisfled With the way the dice was shook, he coull de- mand & new shake. In this way some of the Galatian duels lasted for two or three years and the man who was not exhausted by the end of that time felt a whole lot better. * k¥ ¥ THE last great duel of international proportions took place three sum- mers and seven winters ago and was all based on the frantic jealousy of two brothers. Both of them wanted to go to high school and neither could pass the entrance examination, so they declded to fight a duel. This took place in Sweden and the boys" names was both Halam. The elder ‘was named Hugh after his father and the other was numbered. The rules of dueling in that coun- try at that time was that you stood at a certain distance from each other and pulled each other's noses. At the end of a hi. and a 1-2 the judges meagured the noses and the one that bad been pulled the furthest, why its owner lose, Hugh was entitled to & draw, “AT THE END OF A HR. AND A ONE HALF THE JUDGES MEAS- URED THE NOSES.” Dueling in the United States Is lim- ited to a few cases betwoen husband and wife. The usual procedure is for the husband to get mad at the wife and challenge her to a duel. This s fought with cracker erumbs and the one that can choke the most cracker crumbs down the adversary's throat is a safe bet. So much for the history of dueling and 1 am certainly glad my pdmirers Insisted on me writing it it has ‘been on my mind a long wile. RING W. LARDNER, Due to the fall in the value of the mark, cash registers are now useless in Germany. > Tiniest Book, Biggest Set of Books, Among Library of Congress Curios THE SMALLEST BOOK IN THE WORLD, A COPY OF THE “RU- BAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM.” | BOOK too small to cover a| Eirl's fingernall. An encyclo- pedia voluminous enough to reach from the Treasury to the Capitol. A book upon which ¢wo men | 'can sit without touching each other. These curiositles—the smallest book | in the world, the longest printed | work in the world and the largest book in America, respectively—are in | the Library of Congress here In Washington. i The smallest book is a copy of the | Rubaivat of Omar Khayyam. The | longest work is the T'u Shu Chinese encyclopedia. The largest book is| John James Audubon's “Birds of | America.” i The midget Rubatvat is only three- eighths of an inch long, three-eighths | of an inch wide and one-eighth of an | inch thick. Letters in hook, the title page, are o tiny that they | can be read only with the aid of a very powerful magnifying glass. | The book's forty-eight pages of thin | Japan paper are stiched daintily to- gether and bound in green paper. “The minuteness was made possible by photographic reduction of a larger copy of the Rubalyat. The miniature was acquired by the Library of Con- gress in 1900,” William A. Slade, act- | several | rata. ing chief bibliographer, sald. It is displayed, under glass, in the front of the 1ibrary's second floor. Printing of the mammoth T'u Shu Chinese encyclopedia has been called “the greatest typographical feat the world has ever seen. “Three years were required to print its 5,280 volumes with their 800,000 pages. These pages hold from 100, 006,000 to 140,000,000 Chinese charac- ters, scholars estimate. The table of contents alone is forty volumes,” Mr. Slade stated. The encyclopedia fills 250 feet orl shelf space In the library. If these rows of books were joined into a sin- gle shelf and that shelf stood on end it would tower almost half as high as the Washington Monument cyclopedia’s 5,280 volumes, each a fraction of an Inch less than one foot long, lald top of one to bottom of | from the Capitol to the Treasury. Some aged Chinese students have read the entire work once, read it half through again and memorized volumes, library attendants The library's copy of the T'u Shu was given to the United States by the Emperor of China in 1908, It was printed in Shanghai. The en- | AUDUBON. CONGRESS BIBLIOGRAPHER. | The zlant of American bookdom, | Audubon’s “Birds of America,” | forty inches long, twenty-six and one-half inches wide and two and even those on |, .yy would form a path of literature | one-fourth inches thick. So large are | its pages that on one of them a tur- key is reproduced life size. There |are 435 similar, vividly colored en- gravings In four equally large vol- | umes and the Library of Congress has | the entire set. The great books are bound in red horsehide. They have endured ninet; six vears of use, for Audubon pre- sented them library in 1 to the AMERICA’S LARGEST BOOK, “BIRDS OF AMERICA.” BY | side of the world, J. 3. IT 1S HELD BY WILLIAM A. SLADE, LIBRARY OF They were published in London and marketed then for $1,000. Publica- tion of the books cost about a fifth of a million dollars. Because of their value and rareness patrons are allowed to consult these books only with the ald of a library attendant Although Audubon's “Birds America” is the largest book on this Library of Con- gress officials have learned of a still larger book in the British Musewm, Lon- don. It is an old Dutch atlas, six feet long and four feet widen PICKING THE CHRISTMAS PRESENT Wallace Irwin's Letters of a Japanese'Schoolboy. To Editor The Star who sometimes wish for Immigration Law to keep Sandy Claus in Poland. ! EAREST SIR:—In confidential | sneekretiveness T write you ! and ask to know following | angry question: | What would be good Xmas present for a Japanese gentleman, age 89, un- abla to chew much and fond of di- voree? In religion he are an Ostheo- sophist. He have had twins twice and | was slightly sick of smallpox in 1894, | What gift, presant or donation of a | Yaletide nature would polish up his life | & make it more briter? I ask to know. This personality to who I mention are my Uncle Nichi. He already have | & derby hat, which he wear very nicely with his kimono. So that's this. My | soul feel all wet and disgusted to think | Xmas 1s crolling near & near while T| got such long List of people I must get | revenge on by giving something bac! But Uncle Nichi cause me most sor- row because I axpecht he will leave me his steamer trunk when he dles, if ever. What Xmas presant can 1 give him that will make him happy without get- | ting mad? | Cousin Nogi, who are quite intellec- | tual in the month of Dec., say follow- ing sagacity | “Togo, why you not buy him a Kiddy Kar or Scooter, price 4.088 nat? Thusly he could go from places to places swiftly with his own rheumatism.” “O shells!” I narrate peevly. “At sight of such a donation he might get so mad he would blow out his teeth. That are merely a toything for children.” “How do!” snarrel Nogl. *“Are mot Uncle Nichi in 2nd childhood? There- fore he would guggle with joy for 2nd childish pl - “Katz & Ratz!” T jib. So I are still helplus to think without ade of Cousin Nogi or somebody else. * % ok % \IR. EDITOR, on my Xmas List I got AL following Indlviduals that threten send me wsomething unnecessary on Dec. 25 & therefore must be struck back with something equally: 1—Cousin Nogi, who usually send me & collar buttin, hoping T will find a silk shirt to match it. In reply to this he desires a racehorse which he can ride to the races. 2—Arthur Kickahajama, Japanese un- dertaker. He like something musi- cal to keep his customers happy while waiting. What is it? 3—S8ydney Katus, jr., who got mat- ried & ought to be cheered uply. 4—Jumbo Fatomato, Japanese whale- welght puggalist. He tell me last week that he like to find some- thing what would keep Sir John Dempsey asleep long enough to count ten (10). & o0 onwards, Mr. Editor, to in- clude 29 more similar. Since flast week Thuedy, When I commence to shopping prematurely I that warts has grown on my sleeves from hitting so many ladies In my way. Last Thusdy I go to the Golden Rule Busszer, prom. dept. store, in hoping that those Early Shoppers would stay home till Xmas Eave & glve mo chance to swell out slightly. But such were truthless. Everywhere 1 twisted among counters I got treated very KKK. T was straddling Hon. Floor, huntipg one of my ears that got pulled off, when Hon. Floor Marcher come up with vanilla ex- pression. “Howdoo,” he exolalm. “For what are you searching for, If snything?” “ are hunting to buy & Xmas pres- ant for 29 assorted poepls,” I denote. “Pussibly 1 could help you.” he be- #at. “Of what species are they?" “Almost all,” I divulge. “Two (2) of them are febble-minde: “You could find something for them on Book Counter,” he report. “One other of them,” I snuggest, “are very oldy man with lost tepth. “In Drug Dep are a sall of Sponges this week only. What nextly?" “Another one (1)," I manipulate, “require something to keep him silent after meals.” “Cigar Dept.,” he revoke. “There you will find our Porto Reeking pan- tellas. Each one goranteed to burn three (3) hours. without lighting.” “But presant I wish to give are for a childish infant, aged (2)," I sur- ‘mound. “Neverthelessly,” he dib, “the prin- cipal are the same. Maybe you should look around Store and see what we contain.” Therefore he walk off, I commence doing 50, * %Xk ® I SEE many curio sights, Mr. Editor, and 2ce I get In danger of spend- Ing money. In Book Dept. I were knocked senselus by & palr of ladies who was using pretty language while hitting each other with Story of the Bible by Hen. van Loony. I could not stay in such heather surrounding, therefore I took Hon. Elevator dewn- ward to Crockery Dept. Where Fair yeg. Lady Demonstratus holla sweet- ishly, “Won't you try a cup of our Self-Stirring Coffee, free with every 12 Ib, can of our Spill Proof Orange Mamma Laid?" 1 almost spend my 6%, there, but was saved by a smallish Caucasian feminist who was very fast & knock me Into Tinware Dept where I hitt 78 with the front * he snuggest, “there | holla House Detective, “what | ‘From what' you running away with?" bruise on my brain,” T angle. No charge,” he support changing his musstash to catch some | body who was lifting a shop. | In Musical Dept. I nearly bought 13 doz. Funograf needles for Arthur Kickahjama, Japanese undertaker. But when Store lady told me they would not play without a Funograph |T got depressed. In Home Beautiful | | Dept. T observe enlarged pile of some remarkabilous objecks. They was all sirrounded with lace fluff from the central middle of which arose a candy portrait of Mrs. Venus. “What you call those?” know from Hon Sails Lady. 1 ask to “Self-filling Penwipers,” she nego- | tiate. “How fortunate!” I congratulate “That will be the very presant for Uncle Nichi. He do not know how to read & write, but with this 1st Ade maybe he could léearn rapl muchly you charge for that “3.87,” she communicate. “Too sad!" I otter. “With so much spent together I should have merely 2.13$ remainder for all my friends. And so onwards, Mr. Editor. What should ¥ buy for 63 to make every- body happiest all at once? At lastly I come to Photo. Dept. 'where I see something very unnatural, “Buy some genuine postcards of your portrait. “Make loved ones even more so by send one of this, “Price 2§ per doz.” 'Ah there I are settled!” T holla. “With those 3 doz, price 68, I can send my smile to several persons in Amer- jca and some in Asia. Banzail I adore to be generus when it is cheap. Therefore I make strong burst into a curio cell amidst light Where stood Hon, -Photo manufacturing those sweet faces from cameras. “O Mr. Si¢!” I jury. “Can you make something entirely beautiful?” while | bounce, {Lake Champlain in a fog.” * he require quite busi- nes: My face” T artistick. 1f you turn it upside down “maybe it would look he like * % ok ¥ | THEREFORE I permit him to set me in chair with my hair glued to iron holder. With one (1) hand he sieze up a rubber egg while with other he hold a species of Bird which could flotter its wing & say “Cheap;” when he squeeze its lung Hon. Camera gaz at me with Bolsheviki expression. “Do not look at Hon, Camera® he deploy, “for it are not insured very high." So I nudge my eyes upward and when Hon. Bird require “Cheap?’ I report, “Not so very.” Then snap-snip. Something hap- pen. Growells boil inside Hon Camera who do not look healthy. “This have been very axpensive vear for me,” say Hon. Foto Man with si & grone. “Howeverly, maybe it can be fixed with a set of new tires. Name, please, if any?" ashimura Togo,” I ollicute, ery plenty,” he dib. “I have took several Silebritties without injerry to my faithful Camera. Howeverly, every Napoleon must meet his Water Lulu some day. 6% please. And if you are alive next Thusdy, report to this Dept. & I will surrender 38 bony fido portraits of your expression. We sell goods at your own risk.” “0 joyful!" I relapse. “T shall send those picture to 36 persons for Xmas.” “Are you confused he dib. vou umagine that Xmas are Comic Valentine's Day?” And with these £ad thoughts he #o back to his Face Shooting Gallery while Yooking fatigued. Hoping you are the same Yours truly * Hashimura Tego. (Copyright, 1923.)