The Dickinson press., 1891-09-19
A BOOK OF PICTURES.
REMARKABLE CHANGES SEEN IN
SOME ILLUSTRATIONS.

Kappa dSheu Sue OOy, loOh1uS up
from his book, 'can a man grow a real
beard in one day.
II should say not" answered the
father cautiously, being mindful of the
fact that within a week the boy had put
to him this question-"Why does a
woman walk on her heels in crossing a
muddy street," and when he answered
that he did not know, the boy had said.
ITO get across" But there was no sell
about the question the boy asked, nor
about the next one, which was this:
"Can a man get bald in one night"
HE might in an Indian country" IN
swered the father, whereupon there vas
silence for a little time. Then the boy
impatiently said:
"Idon't understand these pictures at
all Everybody in them keeps chang
ing around, and don't know who is
who, and | don't see how they know
each other half a day running"
The book was THE Swiss Family
Robinson" and the title page declared
that there were 400 illustrations" It
was worth while to follow the family"
through the pictures
Putting aside a colored frontispiece
which depicted a lusty barelegged boy
on a rock, with a polo cap browning q
shock of yellow hair parted in the back,
a bow in his hand and his eyes fixed on
a sporting whale that looked like a sar-
dine sneezing violently, the panorama
opened with the family" kneeling in
grateful prayer for its escape. The
father, with head bald on top, smooth
shaver face and long locks of white
hair falling on his shoulders was the
central figure, and made III ideal vicar
of Wakefield. Fritz, the eldest son,
wore a long coat and long trousers, and
Franz, the youngest, was distinguished
by a large button on his coat in the
small of tho back. This was in the fore.
noon.
LIGHTNING CHANGES.
A few hours later, in the afternoon,
behold the change! The fatherhad grown
fine, closely trimmed side whiskers, and
he and hissons had changed their straight
locks for crisply curling hair. From a
gentle faced Madonna the mother had
been changed into Il ~vivacious looking
Jewess, and, strangest of all, two st.
Bernards in the first picture had become
trim bulldogs, with every appearance Of
being able to make Il good fight.
Then there came IL lightning change.
In five minutes their fathers whiskers
had grown an inch or two, Fritz and he
had gotten into knickerbockers, termi-
mating in the fathers case in blue stock
ings and buckled shoes, both of them
had lost the curl out of their hair, and
one of the bulldogs had been metamor-
phosed into a setter standing over a red
ish brown rabbit that was declared in
the text to be an agouti.
Noon, the next day, and the father and
Fritz were again presented, seated this
time by a brook, but conveniently near
stone jug that might have held molasses
and might not. The father looked like a
Highlander in a farmers clothes, and
Fritz, who had grown three or four
years older, was dressed like Danton
when that gentleman was of some con-
sequence in Paris and looked like him.
One of the dogs had become a King
Charles spaniel. The other did not ap-
pear, but was probably in seclusion, set
Ting on the breed in which he would
next appear.
The pair were on a hunting excursion
on their deserted island. A few hours
later Fritz had gotten his shock of yell
low hair back, and traded his Danton
costume for knickerbockers, blue stock
ings and a sack coat, while his father
had somewhere picked upa Russian peas.
ants dress, and grown a full brown
beard, and the King Charles had become
a setter. The,jug had disappeared.
PERSONAL APPEARANCE.
That night the father shaved himself
down to the side whiskers, dyed his own
and Fritz's hair black, put a sailor shirt
on himself and a pair of striped lawn
tennis trousers on Fritz, and the mex
morning went out sailing. While they
were absent the Jewish faced mother
changed her c%ountenance for a subduei
Irish, arrayed herself in a dark blut
gown that disclosed a red petticoat, ani
put a yellow handkerchief on her head
Taking Jack, one of her other sons, ant
putting a trim polo cap on his yellow
locks, the two, accompanied by n o
the st. Bernards, went out for a walk.
A day or two later the father had got
ten back his full, yellow beard, whicl
he seemed to wear with his peasant cos
tune, and one of the dogs had change'
into a hound. But if you hoped til
father would stay that way long enougl
for you to get acquainted with him, di
vest your mind of that thought. Befor
night he had returned to his trim sid
whiskers and curly hair, while Fritz ha'
shrunk in length, broadened in girth
and put on long trousers that We're to
short for him and heavy shoes.
And so the pictures run. The fathe
changes his clothes, his beard and his hal
atleast once, and often two Or three time
a day, Fritz is good second in thi
kaleidoscope performance, the motlre
facially runs through all the races an
exhibits a bewildering number of dife:
ent costumes. the little boys must hay
been branded or their parents woul
never have been able to keep track {
them, so extraordinary were the chang,
they underwent, and the dogs offere
enough varieties to have given a capit'
bench show, The zone hundred illustr;
tons were altogether the most entertain
ing things about the copy of "The Swi
Family Robinson" over which the be
puzzled and the boys father laughed.
New York Times.
A veteran Provincetown Mass.) ifs
erman, who claims to know, says th
when mackerel are on the move the a
, vanced body is entirely composed of +
> male fish, while the rear column
formed of the male.
+ A Door in an Old Church.
Now and then a small door may I
seen high up in the piers that divide Il
nave from the chancel. This is the do
that once gave access from the windin
'. stair within the pier to the footway {
f the top of the screen with which mo
n churches were once provided. VII
screens were fOnnd Inconvenience M