, 1891-08-26

A BOOK OF PICTURES.
REMARKABLE CHANGES SEEN IN
SOME ILLUSTRATIONS.

Extensive Wardrobe.
Papa" asked the boy, looking NJ
from his book, "can a man grow a rea.
beard in one day2'
II should say not" answered the
father cautiously, being mindful Of the
TACT that within a week the boy had put
to him this question-"WR 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 wa no sell
about the question the boy asked, nor
about the next one, which was this:
Can a man get bald in one nighty"
HE might in an Indian country" an
swered the father, whereupon there was
silence for a little time. Then the boy
tmpatiently said:
81 don'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 100 illustrations" 1t
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 n polo cap crowning a
shock of yellow hair parted in the back,
n bow in his hand and his eyes fixed on
a spouting 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 or 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
o
LIGHTNING
A few hours later, in the afternoon,
behold the changed The father had grown
fine, closely trimmed side whiskers, and
he and his o had changed their straight
locks for crisply curling hair. From a
gentle faced Madonna the mother had
been changed into n 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 n 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 n setter standing over n red
ssh brown rabbit that was declared in
the tex 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 n farmer clothes, and
Fritz, who had grow 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 nae become a King
Charles spaniel. The other did not APP
pear, but was probably in seclusion. set
Ting on the breed in which he would
next appear.
The pair were on a hunting excursion
Ou lutlI utStIlGh AaltIh. n lt" LDuIb
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 up a Russian peas
ants dress, and grown n full brown
beard, and the King Charles had become
n 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 n 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 co%untenance for n subdued
Irish, arrayed herself in n dark blue
gown that disclosed a red %petticoat, and
put a 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. Demands, 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 n hound. But II 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 he 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
facially rum through all the races and
exhibits a bewildering number Of differ
emit costumes, the little boys must have
been branded or their parents would
never nave been able to keep track of
them, 81 extraordinary were the changes
they underwent, and the dogs offered
enough varieties to AVE given a capital
bench show. The zone hundred illustra.
lions" were altogether the most entertain,
ing things about the copy of THE Swis,
Family Robinson" over which the boy
puzzled and the boys father laughed
New York Times,
A veteran Provincetown (Mass,) fish
erman, who claims to know, says tina
when mackerel are on the move the ad
vanced body is entirely composed of fe
male fish, while the rear column |