The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-11-19
FADs or THE uoRlD,s FAlRhs1
How the Purchase OF One Curio May SIT
the Feminine Mind Upou Collecting Many.

| How the Purchase or One Curio May = 1.
| the Feminine Mind Upou Collecting Many.
An epidemic OF fads has SGT in as n direct re
suit OF the Worlds Fair. Peorlo who had helt
out long and stoutly against the lem pt alton 1,
| collect" things came under the spell at tn,
| White City.
A critical analysis OF the FAD fever" has ye
| to be written. 1t Ia contracted in vnriou.
| ways. 1t Is with fads a. it is with great n ss
| Some people nre born with fads. some acquire
them. and others have fads thrust upon them
OF this last variety are tho people who have
by chance perhaps. received II present oil
presents. which have subtiy inspired them
with the mania for acquiring other things OF
the snme nature. In this way. for exam ri ..
many n fine and otherwise admirable young
woman has. by the gift OF perhaps single sill
yer spoon. been transformed into one Of the
spoon hends who have been at once such try
ing aud yet such pathetic. figures during tho
past few years.
Other people acquire fads. They take
them up" These are the people who have
more money than they have tastes They
crafty their small likngs without exhaustnG
their spending money" so to speak. and
they take up" a fnd for teapots. or fans. or
in general. anything that they have heard some
one else IS collecting.
the people who have single strong fancy or
love for something. The man who collects
musical instruments because he cannot help
it probably loved them when he was baby.
and the real bibliomaniac doubtless never had
to be repr"ved when he was an infant for tear
But the Exposition iaddisls, were created in
still another way. They are the creatures Of
for collecting curiosities presented to the
American public before. 1t is not strange that
the victims have been MANI. Sometimes the
fad For instance. two New York girls were
one day passing along the Court OF Honor. in
front otthe Agricultural building: All the white
Of Navajo Indians crossing the court look ed
SO picturesque that they soon had a crowd
the people til they reached the centre OF the
group. ,whcrc they suddenly becnmo lost in
Of Leather GsveT n of
once Tho sum named was so fahul0usly large
that they relinIuished the culver with a sigh
But each girl purchased an arrow. And. OF
course. those arrows were exhibited ut tho
boarding house that night with tho remark
that they were purchased from "a real Indlan."
The next day the same young women were
at the Javaneso village. when their eyes fell
upon some more arrows. In weak moment
from, a real lavanese.' was PLACED with the
Navajo WEAPON. That settled it. Duhomey-
every milton which boa sted ain arrow contrib
uted snecimen. and now those two girls are
rahid collectors.
list of the falls which sprunG into life and
wero nourished into vi:or at the taIr would no
amusing enough. Ono woman who began. ns
mere Joke. to purchase two or three Of tho
souvenirs" which were for sale in almost in
finite variety. finally hecamc such full
fiedgel collector that shr ecomomized on
meals. walked instead o! rode. and finally
took n cheaper room in order to make her
souvenir collection rs complete as possible.
She had no. hing which did not bear the words.
Columbian Exposition" or WorlIps Fair" or
some other reference to the Fair Everything.
from little red glasses with the name engraved
while you wait" silk handkerchiefs with u
picture OF Colum bus woven in them. also while
YOU wait" To canes containing mars OF thu
grounds. souvenir coins. and models OF the
buildings. were hut into IA collection which is
really u most interesting one. although Of
scarcely any intrinsic value.