The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-09-18

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shaven face and long locks Of white
hair falling on his shoulders was the
central figure, and made an 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 the 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 his sons had changed their straight
locks for crisply curling hair. From a
gentle faced Madonna the mother had
been changed into a vivacious looking
Jewess, and, ~strangest of all, two st.
Demands in the first picture had become
trim bulldogs, with every appearance OF
being able to make a good fight.
Then there came a 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
n 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 a
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 q sack coat, while his father
had somewhere picked up q 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 next
morning went out sailing. While they
were absent the Jewish faced mother
changed her countenance for a subdued
Irish, arrayed herself in a dark blue
gown that disclosed a red petticoat, and
put q yellow handkerchief on her head.
Taking Jack, one of her other sons, and
putting a trim polo cap on his yellow
locks, the two, accompanied by one of
the st. Bernards, went out for a walk.
A day or two later the father had got
ten back his full, yellow beard, which
he seemed to wear with his peasant cos
tune, and one of the dogs had changed
into a hound. But if you hoped the
father would stay that way long enough
for you to get acquainted with him, di-
vest your mind of that thought. Before
night lie had returned to his trim side
whiskers and curly hair, while Fritz had
shrunk in length, broadened in girth,
and put on long trousers that were too
short for him and heavy shoes.
And so the pictures run. The father
changes his clothes, his beard and his hair
atleast once, and often two or three times
a day, Fritz is a good second in this
kaleidoscope performance, the mother
f~acially runs through all the races and
exhibits a bewildering number of differ
ent costumes, the little boys must have
been branded or their parents would
never have been able to keep track of
them, so extraordinary were the changes
they underwent, and the dogs offered
enough varieties to have given a capital
BENCH show. The lone hundred i~llustra-
tons" We're altogether the most entertain
ing things about the copy of THE Swiss
Family Robinson" over which the bog
puzzled and the boys father laughed
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