The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-11-12

If he Is at all enthusiastic he gets to-
gether o jumble of weird, wicked look
ing articles likely to afflicth his sensitive
minded relatives with bad dreams. No
woman in the house dares dust these
implements of warfare, and as there
Is usually at least one member of the
family possessed of clean devil,
that collection is n corresponding grief
and humiliation, while not infreuuent-
ly the devoted wife spends many anx-
ious hours worrying as to whether her
husband will take all the fingers from
his right hand while fooling with some
Of the guns which she considers infer
nal in device. or whether he Will SIM
ply blow his head off.
The birds nest collector always has
a messy farm yard condition of things
I'm the pursuit of his fad. Some of the
birds were satternly in their building
operations ana the mud, straw and
sticks are continually making a litter.
The eggs aren't always strictly fresh.
or designed to keep indefinitely. The
birds themselves moult more or less
constantly and get moth eaten and
detected in appearance. If he has ami
mails for g. fad-stuffed ones-his wife
never can persuade herself that the
house does not smell ike a mcnagerie
or that the beasts do not need
bath.
There are women faddsts, too, whose
faces aren't always "A JOY to the other
people in the house. One girl used to
collect china cats and dogs. She filled
all the mantles and table tops i'm the
drawing room. Then she died and of
course her parents cannot endure the
thought of destroying the collection"
and they can't quite reconcile them
selves to the idea of putting it away out
of sight as somehow it would seem to
be Il hardhearted procedure as if they
were forgetting the dear hands that
used to arrange the queer little crea-
lures or the sunny eyes that regarded
them with loving care. So they keep
all these little dogs of various degree
and cats of unearthly hue and form
and continue to explain their presence
to visitors.
\ fair and gracious lady made a coll
lection of pitchers. Sometimes SHE
wonders to herself. why, for all her
friends bring pitchers to her from near
and far and her husband has been
obliged to destroy his strawberry bed
(
accommodate the array Of pitchers
that spread themselves over the house
| and almost the surrounding landscape.
| and her fad has outgrown its intended
| dimensions.
The souvenir spoon craze was harm
/ less and rather sensible. but the new
! fad for collecting souvenirs by appro-
! priating some little article of bric-a-
/ brac from your friends drawing rooms
! is somewhat to be deprecated. 1t tends
! to make your friends feel unhappy
when they view their former posses
! siOnS in your collection and you may
not have any thing Of your own that
they particularly cOvet.
But all this isn't what | meant to
say when l began on fada. but to tell of
a woman who has a fad for collecting
! rescmhlanCeS. She always seems To he
looking out for chance likenesses of one
| person tn some other person of more
or less distinction and being close
observer of faces she gets an assort-
! ment of interest although 1t may not
! always be in accord with general Opin-
| ion.
The other day she was discussing her
|
out large aCcessions of her list.
why" she declared, ANY number of
men believe they look like Mckinley
but they don't Mr.. Luther Keller,wher
he is clean shavcn has about the clever
est resemblance t. the president of any
one in this city, although Supcrinten-
dent Howell is rather like him when H.
removes his glasses. Hobart, did you
remark? Yes, they do say that judge
| Knapp looks like him. hut i'm my opn-
ion the Judge is far better looking. Mr.
Thomas f.. Jones looks like Sampson
George BreCk resembles Francis Ju.
Shph of Austria: Charlie Hawley look,
like Chauncey Depew, although really
the Rev. DR.. j. f. Price. former pas
tor Of the Adams Avenue Methodis
church, was astonishinEly like. 1.-THE
Peach" Judge Edwards resembles oX
. GOVcnOr PattiSOn on "A smaller scale
Dick HulCate looks like the late Bal
Butler, DOlph Athertcn is quite lik,
James WhitComb Riley, Lawyer Zim
norman slightly resembles Tom Plat
You know" INTERRUPTED a listener
that LyddOn Flick, of the Wilkes
Barre Times, looks SO much like Theu
| dOre Roosevelt that he has been takei
for Teddy in New York"
NO" exclaimed the faddist. The,
say that John Costello. of Syracuse
also resembles him strongly" Will
another speaker remarked: "Wrll, tn
ClearoSt resemblance known il betWeel
Il. r. Black and Admiral Cervera."
Now, that's So" chimed in all th
others. II never thought of ii before.
Yes and Chr!sty Boland and Wad
Finn. if they had composite piCtur
taken, would be John Wanamaker.
said another. but Christy does loo
amazingly like Senator German. Al
fred TWiniug might also be q tWi
Wanamaker. John f.. Roche look
like swallow, Franklin Howell lik
Albert Edward of Wales, Bernard Me
EarEtc like Gregorovitch. the grea
volinist. Rev. Mr.. Pierce, of tn
Penn Avenue Baptist church,
quite like Amos Cummings. of Ncy
York. The resemblance between Mon
ris Showers and Chester \. Arthur wa
often remarked. Albert Hunt
thought by many people to resembl
Roland Reed, and School Controllg
Francois looks like BOurke Cochran
, The number of chance resemblance
. extends on indefinitely Here are sey
eral more: Colonel Hitchcock bears
surprising likeness 10 Colonel Joh
| Hay. Arthur Frothingham - als
= said to resemble the eX-minister I
= England, j. A. Scranton has alway
2 beer said to lear a strong likeness I
p | Tavid b. Hin, Charles ID. Rreck look
; like w. d. Howells, the novelist. c.
I simpson, if he weighed few hundrc
pounds more, would not look unlik
, / General Shafter. Fred Fleitz look
[ . Ike Sanatnr nnniels of Maat Nirnimi.