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PART

11.

1909.

EIGHT PAGE*

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distributing his gifts.

now uses an

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srcms only to increase the jolly old saint's hold on the childish imagination, because it is much easier to realize how he can drop toys down chimneys when he in an airship than when he had to depend on clunsy reindeer, that no one ever saw climb a tree, much less fly over a house.

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fUE HUMAN COMEDY. Parisian jit Humors Xotcd If the
Caricaturist.
Paris. December 11. exhibition of what is appro-h.. third annual now ,-ir called the -ComMle Humaine." l lP.Hit Gallery, contains :W.\ floors at the open are fully T he artists represented .' ""L th<* tra.iiti-ms of Paumier and C.a> of m Abel Faivre. His * T3k^ fr instance. V rfll *> comparison in delicate |i< \M" w-ll cars with Fantin-I-itour. Moreover, his jconsdentloaj qualities enhance Lim an ously Ue artist's sardonic sense of humor. CS aspect is disjcund laJy of venerable wnfc a beautiful white swan. \-tiy i^thinjt. "T^vijrn.ir.t ye has detected the comic note situation, swims away from the venerable need, frantically cackling with apat fu'l Another canvas by ~\ l9r and discontent. n'presents the summit of the Righi, Fai\Tf A beautifully comth a fair.t , tpproaeh of dawn a grotesque group of an( painted while bianco of caricature

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delicate irony, genial humor and graceful, well bred unrestraint. What a precious document for future historians! What a pity that nothing that refloats similar phases of life durjn days the of Lo U:3: 3 XIV. or Napo.eon. in this simple yet spectacular way has been handed down to the

is that of a dioin length it is he of the morning in B ls * ROUl<^- The point selected d I. s just opposite the . Trianon mans of nnCe and PHnCeSS de Sa:in Th tiou*. trees, roadway and broad footpath are painted U art ThC \u25a0*-\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0' is clear and radiant. Caricature hi not pushed to the extreme, but imparts exactly the right note of

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better collection of French second hands in the city." he said STOCK OF TOYS. "Here's Ra Iney (with a curious upward lilt on the last syllable in supposed bnltation of th accent), and here's I'ornellley and Voltatrey abd Tossey." -And wtio"' 1 int.-rrupted, in some perplexity. "Tomey." be re.infntnofiilrx nwl "Tahly pUed; T-o-m-e. Twiilji. he's one or their big writers. H"i.lar vol.Hminous he is I've a tine in Among Them. set of Tonie-ys. A dozen volumes in SBOrooco. Ninepence t rohmw or Beven-and-sixpenee ths "All I wanted to see was the aeroplanes,'* relot." I t>x>k a glance at th books and hnmediati !y snngnt tha set n wai a splendid edition jf marked one boy to another the other day as the two lingered for a moment in front of the Montaigne in .several fomct.

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window district

I'ntrrtttrn Hubs in the llnwtr of Common*. From Blackwood's Bfagnatee.

a large toy store in the shopping for a parting glance before tearing themselves away from the visual feast. In that particular store were several models of

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in hand, are tourists, opera glasses '"' the forthcoming sunrise. '" waiting \u25a0 a'la 1 Vet^r. a ssrt of Itubens of caricature. jtt an admirable series of pictures of the jb c. <-heil trial- Mmc Sttinheil. with her black cambric handkerchief, is ad5s ant! white the juJ?<- >n an outburst of energyin the court are brimful of humor. *y e scenesjinati.>ns of Marietta Wolff by the -j_l a2i? by M. AuWn, Mme. Steinhcil's conn3" with marvellous exactitude ar(l rendered has a highly effective j rf*or. Devambe* aeroplane wedding. The jj,!^representing an that of Taris, near the Eiffel Tower. tw.-nty monoplanes and biplanes There are sorv.c about, lie newly married couple being crdir-S ontire wedding arty. ty^s fo'.lowcd by the delicately drawn pictures by Ibae is a wrics of dealing in a humorously A'bfrt Gafflsome. familiar epis<ides and comsatirical vein with society. Scenes in the sucin smart F:ica.Ui>r.s ' depicted by Israels. pSaj* ari effectively

When you rise up to speak you must be uncovered, but after a division is called, and you wish to raise a point of ordr, you must do it with your hat on your head, and this gives rise sometimes to amusing incidents. Those who saw it can never forget th> occasion when Gladpresent generation! stone, who never wore s hat in the House, had Here we see King Edward VIIpassing along to surmount his mighty cranium with a "topper" hastily snatched from the head of his neighbor l.; with a sm.. in s automobile. President Fai- Herschell. The forbidden things are numerous. lures proceeds to the races in his equipage with It is a serious Parliamentary crime to pass beoutriders a la Daumont. lime. Rejane sweeps tween a sneaker and the chair, and loud cries of order greatly confuse the neophyte who by in her brougham, drawn by her famous pair makes this mistake for the first time. A front

which would actually fly. Old St. Nick may be old in yrars, but in other

respects he is just as "up to the minute" as any highly enterprising business man seeking to capitalize the future for his own benefit. He has a keen "news sense." Wherever his office, shops or storehouses may be. it is certain that

they have a 'live wire" or "live wireless" connection with the world. Every year the youngsters find the most up-to-date things in their

stockings. This year will be no exception, if one may judge from the bulletins coming in by way of the toy shops. One may buy for 44 cents paper winged flying machines, which in no wise infringe the patents

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establishments, who at to the great cootnriert' tour of noon recreation impart such a mirthlal note to the Place de Wndume. where they fjck merrily together, with bare bends an in dresses, like bevies of simple, becoming black
by Pierre Drassaud. figures of golf players in wax or clay by Jacques Loysel. Life in the (Juarter Ls treated by Maud Hunt Squire, caspics.

LosQues and Bernard iioutet de IfonveL The pepuiar "nidin^f- >." or young girls belonging

Ttiere are sorr.e clever

are portrayed

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portrait* of notable figures at the first night

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dirk chestnut mules. Henri Rocbefort la driven in a sisaple cab. Edmond Etostend walks n Benwith an air of abstraction. J.;nett step* briskly by, wearing a black pot bat and in a pearl gray lustum.-. with white waistcoat. William K. Vanderbilt. discreetly dressed in dark clothes, with a cravat of deep blue, with white spots, is n near Vicomte Robert <!\u25a0 Montc-squiou and Arthur Meyer, editor of the "Oanloia." N\ar l>y is J.ini-s Hazen Hyde, of tall a.-i>- t, wearing a light colored suit, black f.It hat and red cravat. The Prim I : \u0084\ may be sene >n discre< I I house ing from th- ir motor ' r ladies tely r"i score* prominent in society, and then :: .K FOOT. of the actresses and actors, dramatic authors, ; politicians and diplomatista most in vogue. The ly E 1. Couse.) effect is admirable. This exhibition In th* !:.:\u25a0 theatrical representations are wittily presented Royale show? that the art of caricature h is fey Esa, who each year gains in strength and in never attained n:ore popular favor than at
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man may 101lon th< small of his back ml bis ixi.it on the table without r strance, but his bumble satellites are bI pulled up by the sergeant-ut-arms il they ventfollow his example. Tou must i lentatiously read a book or a newspaper saw. Mr Chamberlain pulled up for quoting of "The Tim..-."- ->r open letters in the nor ilj Mir speech; and if you Indulge in ted be admonished by Speaker, If anj common Infonnei i.iw the in motion ;. w .-il to --at anything : Nor i your t>! i.c on the green benches 1 ren >n. .-. during one of the all-night Bitting late A M. Sullivan, toward the small hours "f irning. produced a paper bag and pro'i'-'l to f 1 himself with ja:r; puffs, and when hi.- attention was directed t>> this irregularity by th- chairman he replied t, Mr.

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pres'i.t.

C. I-13.

Part*. art^ Pr Bflhouettes" promenading profiles the Paris Tour consisting of ar|i -" portraits some ten Inches in height tf the cost prominent figures of fashion, art,

t^-ty-six worka of Toulouse-Lautrec, depicting: Till: THEROM R BUTLER COLLBCTiOV. varied hats The American Art Association announces the and phases popular life in

exhibition and sale of the collection of Barbizon and other pictures formed by the Ut-Theron R Butler. The exhibition will open on Saturday, January 1, and the pictures will Insold at Mendelssohn Hall on Friday evening, January 7.

were in Committee of Supply." any one pulled up 1 have never, however, seen shment in tH- House Mr. (;: i.i -ton.' tis.-d to slobber up a glut of a. pomatum [>ot. composed, one of iii- sons told me, of gg, ether and sherry; Lord Palmerston sucked oranges; some bench men have th*-ir slass of md an ng -t"ry is told "t Sir II Hicks-Beach, as During a budget B] he tl-n . b he was
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FIFTH AVENUE

A BET OF TOMMYS. From The Manchester Guardian. I disThe other day (writes a correspondent) second-hand bookcovered a new author at agentleman who has shop I. like the French for discovered Moliere's signature, inquired haJ taken classics, the bookseller and French looked as if th \u25a0/ me to a pile of books which In would not drag from me; baa recourse to had lain undisturbed for years. They were not a gen before beginning one of his highly successvarious bindings, cloth and leather, with lind a Mi harangues. yellow back amons them. "You won't
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are thej constructed that one would to tiuil the taxicab Indicator charging vi fares at the usual ruinous rat.- and the f the time honored Jokes mci il chauffeur insisting on the correctness of >n, ap;>ropr;.tt- to th Tasi and said: "Who lr:nk~ rum nowadays?" But a modest quencher the indicator. !' port, brought him from the bar. happened [1 looks aa if the Jolly saint ha.l discarded his i tin tawni variety closely imitating in reindeer for an airship this year. to t Of course, this color the liquor whose disappearance from i">p- cannot be definitely known until "the ni_;ht announced, ular consumption he had and when Christmas," but ;i few flyers have ap-\u25a0\u25a0! it t' his lij..- an immediate shout of r rippled over the green benches. The which suggest that he may. These are W'ilberforce is reported to have taken an in th.- form of Christmas cards, r.-presenting St. .[,ii:'i> pill before he .-;><-k- : and l..>r\l Granarriving in an airship, laden with ville. in the '"Life" so admirably written l>y my Nicholas friend Lord Fitzmaurice, reproached himself sifts, which the pictures Bhow him in the act ributing I I with having once :t. the House <>f Lord* Iren. before Lord Beaconsfield, who had primed himing, or inhaling somes.-if up by li >metl thing, t i fire off at a particular hour. And it H hinted, with what truth I know not, that a young rising politician "f the front bench rank. whose name wild horses or their equivalent ..xyWASHED. CLEANED AND KEIWIUED.
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of the Wright brothers. They fly with th*> success of a $2O.)tX> prize winner for distin.es commensurate with their size. Propelled l>y a simple engine that h\s an advantage over those usually found in aeroplanes in that it never fails until it h;us worn out nam'y. a stout elastic band-it will wing Its way across a room with a speed that will make a deep impnssion if it chances to bump a body's forehead. Indeed, it would be quite possible to reproduce a battle in the air with dirigibles an. I planes, for accurate r.\u25a0presentations of the Zeppelin anil Deutsch airships have ai~.> beea devised. They, too, are immune from the disasters to which the original 11 BO liable, for they an entirely of metal and not dependent upon their buoyancy for support. A Blilss. takes the place of gas. me with miniature parachutes ha* also been devised, in which a parachute Is shot up Into the air by means of a bow and arrow. When the arrow falls the player Is supposed to catch it up and try to take the slowlj dea tiding parachute on it.s tip. tianta Claus possibly could give Conk and Peary points on reaching the North I'ole, but evidently he has decided to keep out of the controversy by the diplomatic means >f passing it on to children and making it possible for Peary to win at one time and Cook at another. Whatever the. scientific so. i. -ties dsrUKi upon, the children can solve the problem for themselves. Tne chief instrument i< a Sat, IW llisjg.ll lar cardboard box. three-quarters of an inch thick and six or eight inches square, on one side is printed a chart of the polar regions. In the centre, on either side, is a round hole half an inch In diameter. The question itself is settled after the CTreek manner of selecting public officials. A brown marble represents Cook, while a blue one stands for Peary. After careful examination of the chart the box is shifted around at different angles until ont_- of the marbles falls out of tha hole. The one which drops forth. Of course, settles for the time being the vexed question. The toy stores carry herds of stash polar bears that growl n.,t. mither do they swim; Esquimau and explorer dolls and Arctic scenes in plaster and cardboard whose Icebergs glisten i.nd whose snowcSad vales are thronged with E timau dogs, sledges, reindeer, foxes, i;-: r ; i::is and all the other objects "iinected with life in the Arctic regions, while whales swim about in th>- darkling seas. Mr. Roosevelt took urn-ut pains to prevent his movements In East Africa beinij reported in Perhaps the news getting ability Urn press of the patron saint of Christmas Is l-.st illusmplish . in what !; has beea a. it: reproducing the life of "Teddy in Africa." "Teddj in Africa" comes in a box, but when unpacked the former President is able t<> perform remarkable gymnastic feats without losing his pith helmet or I while K'-rr.nt does a giant swing without dislodging bis shoulder the camera slung thereon. In the box are joint-.1 reproductions of many of the .. mala which ar-- report. -.1 to have fallen '...fort- the guns of the hunurs, tents and native sun bearers and guides. Everj kind of automobile, from the powerful racing car, with bent figures at the wheel. and the hulking limousine to the taxicab. runabOUt and autotruck, is reproduced with tilelQarages are also provided. Operated by clo 'kwork, these machines hav>- rubber tires and all the other noticeable appurtenances So

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