The sun., 1900-12-09
NEW CENTURY CALENDARS.
TUOSE ron f0Ot wORI ARTISTIC
NAV ErER BEFORt.
Many Novelties Presented The Hest Color
work for the cal endars Done In Cor
many rtists Who Furnish tho De
signs some Notable calendars =
The wide Gstcnt of tho Business.

For more than year now tho nanufac-
turcrs ~ calendars have been busy with
tho work Of producing designs worthy or
50 Interesting AN event as tho coming of
new century n NAV be news 10 many
people hut II is n fact, nevertheless that tho
work of making calendars Is always year
ahead Of the time when thcv are TO he pit
upon the market Calendar making has
developed into serious business, requiring
time The illuminated pieces of cardboard
are not knocked on a few weeks or months
before the coming of the new year whose
days they record. They are incidents, mere
trine- of the New Year season. but in this
age even tries must be the result OF thought
and work and artistic genius II they are
going 10 meet with favor in the public eye
And in none of the ephemersl items OF
the holiday trade is more time or pains or
artistic skill employed than in the pioduc.
ton Of the beautiful calendars which tho
Inc big business houses, the insurance COM
penies and net few Of "a" octopus trine
holdings, few weeks ago. put out calendars
now-a-days by way Of adyerts.emicnt that
myoys mot Gny sry Of TIA, expeHs eve
above that high rank which is known q.
skilled They are usually decorated win
business advertising calendars. and are IN
the majority of cases distinctly ornamental
70 an office. and. in some cases; even nrt 70 .
do Tor some rooms OF tho house II the glow
na advertisement were eliminated But
their reeson for existence. ana. ABOVE all.
the reas9n why they are d,tribbatsd b rse oo,.
endars that the real arti tic talent is enlisted:
The designs in many cases are the work 81
liable to come legitimately within the category
They are gems. nanv Of them. in their ln-
prelentiou- way. and make q holiday SOU
Snd Snr 'raT rery pleasant i @ thing to receive And
| never before did this hold so true as II does
| Of the calendars which are now appearlnG
| century Not only. is the artistic and me-
chanical work on the ie9i calendtrs SUPERIOR
put forth arc greater One big firm Of tins
city has calendars fer the ensuing year IN 700
| are OF design, that have been used before.
| standard designa, as the daily block oaiendMs
fot nstancs where on one every cry, eai a., YOU teHt
writer This il a form Of calendar that vas
popular from the start when II vas SfS. hTst & n.
bSi BESIDES ' these is % Old varieties done ino little
century this same Arm has something like
fifty desisns that are % ent'reiy new , ana may may
yenirs some Of these aro expensive. costing
| as much as 81 each. but you may have a very
beautiful new century & SarnaaT r. oI aestsh ~ n2s
| The finest OF all j. undoubtedly the REM
brandt. which, with tw2 month, OF the year
has reproduction Of Rembrandt etching
six OF them in all and each worthy Of "a frame
after it has served It's two months calendar
time upon the wall, There were only LOU of
these lte- brandt calendars made and Of these
only a limited number came to this country.
For they are all made abroad. these finest
color work calendars Germany for years
has led all other countries in fine li,h9arsphio
color work, In NuremburE, one OF the land
marks of the old city is one great tho-
graphic printing concern IN particular-.
an oid feudal castle and not in the lees
Place where things modern are done. Nurcn-
burg is the home Of painting for one uiiIT.
class lrthographlc, work has leegre In
,IenShed there siih Of ThIsa shaks
lithographing iS. done IL found near the
has been handed down from f2,her to
son for generations They get ,sInal wages,
too. these skilled Nurem5urg re M i1thSsrsphSSI,
they are a placid, ,conten,ed lot and the small
prices their enil lovers pay them are stu
ffine black and white work in this country
finer and cheaper than anywhere else In
color work 1t /. to Nuremburg we have to 60.
And We are not alone In that respect ing
lend. Italy and even TIE deft hlReled neolje
knowledse i" Tie fact and ,amlably bow, 10 lie
Inevitable. sending In their orders Just as
Several times attempts have been, nnde
In this country to break away from this corr
dition but on each occasion i was failure.
skilled hthograyher- brought up In ths
bsrn s,ndna sh' the beut Workmen have Been
imported here. Rut it was Of no use; There
thai in our hish pressure Ised AmsIcsn ,n AZ AZ
which fh IS chsrac,sris!lc Of the NurembHrs
superiority The imported Nurenburgers
soon caught the intoxicaton Of go t99t
M oqnd Rsr G a homs msey ndh%
of method. Then they abandoned fine color
work altoss'her. for re simIle reason that
coaryer KINDS SO the Nurcmburg. lith9:
sot be- trsnspiantcd and MADE to H oursh
in onr American % climate .rDo c,,,o, ..
and The saS Ssasons % are the "r names e Of Tire.
more of the surprisingly beautiful calendars
that have been brought out TO greet The new
~ BY ilT Il IS The Golden Age" that Is
and SsIs sssuy ,!s I%"s5 sy
F1land. While the Beautiful ilsure design. on
each OF the four pages are the work Of tho
artist Hal Hurst SIN another very beautiful
Natures Gems" aud shows daintness of
o1lor,ng The PC,urcs on GaGh OF s iis isSSye; Srs
water color productions Golden Hours
is still another exqul-te bit of color work in
each oi its six female figures. In the Land
seer calendar there are reproductions OF
twelve famous animal pictures while Favor.
ties of British Art" has eight reproductions Of
paintings by 1 Webster, Sir David Wilkie,
" Collins, Landseer aud Marand
Among the % smoGT Of NE new calendar.
sizes and violets with the calendars deftly
tucked away in the delicately colored leaves
and made to fold up for convenience or to
hang in four drops. Among the new daily
block calendar. il one with quotations from
the sermons OF the late Phillips Brooks and
there are several compilations of Scrlptural
quotations, one for every day in the year, made
up in the same block form Neither kiplin9
nor any of the very modern group OF writer's
has as yet been promoted TO the daily block cal.
endar series. Shakes peare. Ihackeray, George
Eliot, Dickens. Longf"low, Emerson. Whit
tier are the favoritcs. while there IL one block
made up from the writings of eminent musi.
clans Cats have been muCn In favor OF late
for coniCal pictures and figure groups and
there is one OF the folding drop calendars OF
this sort. with the cats done by Louis Vain.
Ia all TIC church. diary and almanac calens
dars for the new century there are not only
new deS yns but an artistic skill In the work
that has not been seen before. and this goes
even down TO Ia" tiny little calendar books that
are not much larger 'han postage stamp,