The Critic and record., 1891-05-14
THB CRITIC
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that are being sold at all the toy shops and
on the street corners would have
tendency TO cmbarrass the Treasury De-
partment in circulating fractional cur
reucyn remarked a Treasury official to-
day, land yet such is the case.
"Thcse little banks have absorbed so
many ten.cent pieces that the Treasury
can't supply the demand for this partic-
llar coin. These banks were introduced
not many weeks ago, and tens of thou
sands of them are now in the hands Of the
children, and every child seems eager to
fill them to the top TO see them flip open
and display u fortune of 50. 10 is esti-
mated that there are 100000 in dimes
hidden away in these pocket banks to-
day and there appears to be no way to
draw ON this reserve until the bank Is
glutted to its full capacity.
1T is getting to be craze he con-
tinued. 81 was coming down from the
Hill the other day on horse car and an
old lady slipped one of these toy deposit
tories out of her black silk hand bag and
cautiously slipped two dimes into its
mouth, the exact change she had received
from the conductor. Ordinarily this
ancient female would have paid her fare
in tickets, but she had the craze and
wanted the change.
''Why, every other woman in the build
ing has bank and lots of the men, too.
There are thousand dime banks in
active operation in the Department alone,
and thousands in the other De
partments, and ten thousand more in the
hands of Washington Children and every
one of them has wide-open mouth,
yawning to devour the fractional coin.
II is estimated that seventy-fve per cent.
of the dimes that were in circulation three
months ago in the city have been banked
in these little tubular repositories and the
cry is for more.
"The craze" he concluded "has af-
fected other cities, too. Baltimore New
York, Philadelphia and large CONNER
cial towns are sorely put to it for change
of this unit of value. This demand is
giving the bank cashiers and sub-treas-
Urers a great deal of worry, for it re-
quires three expert clerks a whole day to
count $4,000 in this sort of money"
The art exhibition at the Cosmos Club
which has attracted considerable atten-
ton among the guild and laymen lovers
closed yesterday Every day it was open
found tbrong of admiring visitors
They fingered long over the striking little
works in water colors, some of which were
done by artists whose names are well
known in the art world. The Critic was
most agreeably entertained by little
otIlCS VI ShtlCutSi SuCl us upDGul ulIGCJlN
to the newspaper mans taste, because,
while not only very clever, they are of
practical use in these days of illustrated
journalism. The works are by Charles
Bradford Hudson, young East Wash
ingtonian, and consist of few graceful
pen and ink sketches. Two of them are
of martial scenes, one of heavy skir-
mish line advancing under fire and the
other of a column of troops on the march,
n bind Of vrTrly in, ~ ITpAnal,
painter, Meissonier, famously excelled
notably in his 1897" and lie Regiment
qui passe." Nevertheless Mr.. Hudson's 5
work evinces n remarkable deftness of
| pen-handling with a fidelity to very ami
mated life which arrests the eye at once
and holds its pleasantly. The other eff
| forts of the young artist are fanciful de-
| signs such as are used on magazine covers
| and frontispieces and not unfrequently
ornament topical newspaper sketches. AS
| Mr.. Hudson has already illustrated for a
| number of well-known newspapers and
magazines he will likely have all he can
| do. There is no question of his exceptional
| merits.
1t is surprising how many Washington
young men spend their Sundays in fish
ing instead of gong to church and how
| frequently they come home without even
a single fish to show for their days work
Some don't relish being tested upon theil
| poor fishing qualities while others vel
replace luck with lucre and buy fish, OF
| go home in a roundabout way in order to
avoid their friends.
Just now when fishing is the rage,
said Central Market fish vender yester
day, lit is almost impossible for us to fill
the orders that we have from amateur
! fishermen ! recall an instance last Mon
day morning when two well-known news
paper men, who consider themselves very
fly manipulators of the rod and reel
secured every stall in the market withou
being able to purchase single fresh wate
fish. They knew that it would be suicida
for them to show up at their old haunt'
or even at home without specimens of thu
fnny. As last resort they had me fl
their baskets up with herring carefully
wrapped up in grass.
"1'hey smell like fish anyhow, and W,
will fool the boys sure, u remarked one o
the sportsmen.
~ heard few days afterwards that tn
fool was on the other side, for it cost tn
two fishermen SO piece before the,
reached home, after which the veil i
drawn
Deputy United States Marshal Mauric
Joyce, who, besides being well-knowl
athlete, is quite poultry fancier, tells tn
following story on himself:
81 started out last week in quest of
setting hen, but after hunting diligentl
all around in my neighborhood was una
BILE to find one. ] was over near tn
Aqueduct Bridge one night just abou
dusk when / spotted an old Virgini
farmer coming to market with load o
chickens. He said he had four setting
hens in the lot that he had just take
from the nest. | made a bargain witt
him for one, and tying it down to tn
front of my bicycle started for home
We'll, you ought to have heard tina
hen cackle and squak the moment gay
my machine a little speed, and she ker
it up all the way home. All the occupant
Of the houses along the streets took it 70
granted that was chicken thief an
the mounted police took after me sewers
times. ! managed to reach home safely
however, and deposited my newly-pul
chased fowl on a setting of eggs that COS
me 81. She seemed to take kindly to th
nest the first night but she was up wit
the sun the next morning and | was ur
able to keep her on those eggs.
81 put the hen in the soup pot an
threw the eggs in the ash-barrel, and
will know better the next time than
scare all the hatch out of a setting hen b
giving her bicycle ride.'
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