The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-08-28
CURIOSITY COLLECTORS.
A Denver Dude Who has a Collection Of
Japanese Fans

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A Denver Dude Who has a Collection Of
Japanese Fans
Some people have q mania for vast
ing, others for saving. There have
been misers and spendfhrifts since the
world began and will be until it ends
Although the accumulation of wealth
IS perhaps the strongest in the MAORI
ty of people who strive to possess
something. yet there are many who
possess a mania for collecting
odd and curious articles of more or
less value Many persons Of wealth,
whether they have taste or not
age fond Of spending their money for
alleged works of art, objects of vertu,
bric-a-brac, and, in short, ANYTHING
which will lead the masses to believe
them connoisseurs. Others, with mo-
derate means and taste. by the iudic-
ious expenditure of their means, can
secure objects to beautify their homes,
not deform them. Any one with the
least shrewdness of observation will
admit that the old adage, There is
no disputipg about tastes,' is strictly
true when he encounters half a dozen
collectors of something or other.
Although the feminine portion of hui
manity is supposed to be essentially
weak When it comes tocollectlng trities
as light as air, yet there are men with
as much, or perhaps greater, vanity
than the softer sex. Perhaps there is
not girl in the city who hasn't her
room decorated with placques, picture
cards, chromos, or something of the
kind. but there is young. dudish fel
low, clerk in a dry goods store in Den
yer, can carry off the PLAN. His ma
MIA is japanese fans, and his room in
one of the blocks in the city would be
we'll worth 25 cents admission to see
The ceiling and walls are completely
hidden by tans of all shapes and sizes
The head and foot-board OF his bed are
radiant with Japanese beauties, daub-
ed on cheap paper with cheaper pa Mt.
A young lady on Champa street has
crazy quilt made from the silk In
lngs of 800 dismantled hats yielded TO
her clutching fingers by adoring
swains, who we've perfectly willing,
when solicited, to give up the bright
est thing about their heads. But she
has done the fair thing by the boys,
and every square bears the autograph
of the man to whom the lining of the
hat belonged AS she sleeps under
the quilt she certainly has pleasant
dreams.
Another young lady, also on Cham
pa street. is a collector of banker
chiefs. She has laid her male friends
under contribut on, and woe be to the
young man who exhibits handsome
wipe in her presence. just how many
nose muzzlers she has no Cne knows,
but she appeared at a fancy dress car
nival one night in an elegant gown
made entirely Of hankerchiefs.
1t is a common thing for many
young men to adorn their rooms with
the pictures of actresses, who they
palm off on the unknowing as young
lady mashes, but in marked contrast
to the dude with the fans and the 9TH
ers of the same ilk struck on photo
graphs rs young man, not excessive
fy muscular in development, who is
struck on pictures of prize-fghters and
athletes. and his room is plastered
from top to bottom with the mugs of
short-haired gentry.
And still another young lady-this
one lives on the west side-is bangle
fiend. From wrist and neck and waist
dangle bangles. principally silver
dimes, but here and there gold dol
lar, each and every one with the mon
gram of the donor upon it.
The lady is young yet, but if she
continues through Fife to have as good
luck as she has had during the past
two years, it VIII not be long before
she will be worth her weight in gold.
She evidently has practical turn of
mind.
But your small girl and small boy
are your inveterate collectors. A girl
generally commences on string of
spools, then has a string of buttons,
and when little older has picture
cards, making life rather wearisome
to those from whom she levies tribute
1t may be added that no girl between
the ages of 6 and y years considers
herself excessively happy unless she
has small bag of assorted leans.
Everything is grist that comes to the
small boy collector. Marbles, tops,
kites, balls, strings, knives. and
thousand and one things which would
go to swell his pockets and make him
feel that he is the proud possessor of
something his playmates haven't The
rage for collecting postage stamps is al
so trait of numerous small bows. and
a Denver lad who has applied himself
asiduously to the task for three years
has collect on which would make
him moderately wealthy were it not
that they are ali defaced.
Another boy has collection of
knives, and how he has managed to
secure 400, as he is only 10 years of
age, is marvel, yet he has them nev-
ertheless, and is fond of exhibiting
them to other boys, taking care that
none of them are pocketed by admir-
ing kids.
The true collector, whether of cost
ly curiosities or trash, must have
touch of madness in his brain or is a
genius in his line, as he applies him.
self so attentively to the one thing that
his mind becomes brilliant at one
point of action.
A Louisiana negro is reported by
Southern paper TO be a great snake
fancier, but his fancy gets no farther
than their heads. In his cabin he has
over 1000 heads of snakes and other
raptiles. The heads are all tackled to
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