Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-12


poster was made about two years ago,
when an enormous fence was covered
by
A PROCESSION OF PERFECT
LADIES,
whose shapes were exquisite, whose
faces were far, and who were, evident
ly, believers in health in costume. They
told by example that the greatest health
/ was gained by the least amount Of cloth
.ng. But this was a fine picture. Up
to the time the average ballet girl had
| been represented with enormous calves.
twe.ve-inch waist, and forty-two-inch
shoulders. The result was startling.
not pleasing, and the looker-on might
have called the pictured person any
thing but woman. However, the new
school painted a magn.fcently shaped
woman. 1t IS true she was juno and
not Venus, but her foot was IN proper
ton to the SIZE of her body, and while
she rounded in at the waist, she did
not present an unhealthy look. or IN
press you with the idea that she could
not take a good long breath. That
at1cne measured, l should think. at
east five yards by four. The conse-
quence was It could not join my collec-
tlon, but l used 10 go and look at It,
and one day when l was gazing. a man.
also gazer, told me all about it. He
SAID: This IS the finest picture of
women, n group, that has ever been
done, and the reason it's good is because
the woman are real women. real women
n more senses than one. Not only real
IN appearance, but these women exist.
ana each one was chosen a little slen-
derer than the one before her so that
the procession might be effective in
contrast. After the women were group-
ed the artist had models of them made
n wax and from these wax models the
poster was painted" From that time
on l mad more respect for them. but
soon | noticed there was change in
the poster.
MAGAZINE AND BOOK POSTERS.
The affiche began to represent q
young lady with thin face. green eyes.
burning red hair, clothes that were
hred on her with a p,tchfork. and she
caresSed either a rabbit or a bunch of
MES or a red umbrella. Nobody knew
what 1t meant. This T:tian-haired
Young female might have written under
ner 90 and See the Gay English Girls
Io-N.ght.' or the sign night read
Hear Tommy Atkins Sing tbe Patri,
QUO songs OF His Native Land" or her
only explanation might be, Buy the
April iuner! 1t Is Just Out" You
never knew what she meant; she had
10 explain herself always, and the ex-
planatory letters were very queer in
shape and very odd in color. When the
magazines began to send around these
delightful and most artistic posters
then there was JOY, because one could
always bully ones newsman into Civ
ing them away.
There was one that frightened our
dog. 1t was all in black and white.
and represented a dreadful old monk
wearing a high hat-at least il looked
Ike the sort of high hat peculiar TO
that time. He seemed to be arranging
his library. He was supposed to be
book collector, but he never wand
have answered for any book o,.uector
that | have met for he lacked that ca
ger look of the eye thai seems 70 saw
Sell, or give me that book or I'm steal
it, B4t77Qow EGiess you have collect
ed lot of posters you are out of the
fashion, and, according to the proverb,
YOU might as we'll be out of the world.
| tell you, this is not an eXaggeration.
for there has been a book brought out
about posters and with il there IS Civ
en- away most lovely one: ii alone is
enough to make you want to buy the
book which costs three dollars. I am
saving up for it. The trouble is that
/ have started to save in what is known
as a ten-dollar bank. There reposes in
its metal precincts three dollars and
ten cents. and the book might be mine
if | could open the bank. But. alas.
have to wait till ten dollars is accumu-
lated before I can go in and treat the
young man in the shop as If buying an
expensive book were nothing TO me.
There's no doubt about it; woman
likes to buy as if she didn't mind mon
ey. I don't believe she has any pleas
ure in life equal to selecting a box of
fifty-cent paper and offering for il a
hundred dollar note. and regretting
that she hasn't anything smaller. If
the people happen not to have any
change. it does her so much good to
sniff contemptuously, and say, "Well,
really, I came to buy some paper, not
to provide the shop with change"
A SWEET BOOK FOR CHILDREN.
BY the bye, isn't it curious how the
interest in Robert Louis Stevenson has
continued? To be quite honest, | don't
care for only one of his books, but there
seems to have been something more
than charming about the man, for wo-
men who have never seen him shed
tears, bitters tears for him. He fought
so hard against death: he seemed to
have found so much in life that was
good that il was a pity he could not
have made more of the life which he
drank as eagerly as if II were the
finest Burgundy. But the book? 1t
is none of the learned ones; it's none
of the tales Of adventure, and yet G is
the one I like. It is called "a Child's
Garden Of Verses" and it is quite as
good for grown up children az for
little people The lines themselves are
most wonderful; the pictures are joys;
and. well. If you want to know exactly
how good 1t is. I will quote you one
whole poem called "A Thought"
1T is very nice to think
The world is full of meat and drink
With little children saying grace
In every kind of Christian place"
Then here's another. Short and
sweet. Fl is called "Tbe Whole Duty of
Children" and if more children were
raised on It there would be more better
behaved ones in the world:
"a childs should always say what's
true,
And speak when he is spoken to,