, 1901-12-31
GREAT IN RESULTS.
CHANGES THAT SOMETIMES AFFECT
POCKETS OF DEALERS.
Little Things That Have Important
Cons"pu"nces-CianCcs in the Cut of
IA Prominent Mans Beard Might
Cause Heavy Mercantile Lus.sa.

Small things sometimes produce
large results, and the results may be
either pleasant or unpleasant. For
instance, should Admiral Dewey de-
eide tomorrow to grow a beard the
thousands of dollars invested in Eho-
togrGphs Of the hero of Manila Bay
would Immediately lose their value.
Had General Grant shaved off his
beard upon his election to the presi-
dency that simple act would have
mean ruin to hundreds of photog-
raphers who invested their all to get
to the nations capital and photograph
the president in the act of taking the
oath with the idea of selling prints
from their negatives. The danger in
these littIe things is better understood
abroad than 1t is here. Some one in
the court circle in Berlin stated re-
Gently that the Kaiser proposed grow
ing a beard. Immediately the lead
ing German photographers got to-
gcther and drew up Il petition to King
william They pointed out that many
thousands of dollars were invested in
photos. coIortypcs and small statu-
cites Of the Kaiser, and in every case
his world-renowncd mustache figures
Observation-Disclosures even more
than it does on the empeTor's face. If
the Kaiser grew a beard all these pho
tos and Ekenesses would be a drug in
the market. Whether or not it was
because Of this petition no one can
say with certainty, but it is a fact that
the Ka. r has abandoned his inten-
tiuu Of raising n beard. Clriously
enough the sudden introduction of
the khaki uniform into the British
army a. the commencement of the
present south African war was a
-tratel financial blow to Germany,
belgium and Holland than it was to
Great Britain. In fact, it restored
some thousands of pounds worth of
trade to the latter country. Most OF
the cheaper toys, especially taosc in
which color plays the chief part, are
supplied by the Continental countries
named above. So soc as war. was
whispered these countries began rush
ing through to England quantities of
British soldiers made of tin, all
dressed in the regulation regimental
uniforms. The same was lone in the
war picture line. So soon as the pub
lie heard that khaki was going to be
the one and only dress, loving fathers
and mothers refused to buy boxes of
soldiers which were obviously out of
date, and a slump in this line followed.
Then a few smart British firms
jumped into the gap, and made many
thousands, incidentally recapturing
the English toy market from their for
eign rivals. One West End toy dealer
told a reporter that the donning of
khaki by the British army had cost
German, Dutch and Belgian toymakers
up to the present something like $780,
900. or $l50,000. Some six years G
the head Of a large English factory,
which employed many hundreds Of
girls, came to the conclusion that his
employees wasted much time every day
in tightening their lace shoes. He
Issued an ultimatum to the effect that
after a certain date, every girl was to
wear elastic-side shoes. He stated
that the loss during a year from girls
stopping to attend to their shoes ran
into four figures. Nearly every fac
tory followed his lead, and today lace
less shoes are in general use in Eng
fish mills and factories. The manager
of one of the largest sweet-meat fac
tories in Great Britain recently told
a reporter that the firm had refused
women passes to view their works be-
cause it was found that during one
week, when forty women inspected
the manufacturing of their sweet
meats, the output of the firm fell Off
to the amount of 800 pounds. When
this was inquired into it was discov-
cred that as the visitors passed
through the departments where girls
were employed the workers always
stopped work to scrutinize their ap-
parel, and then spent another ten or
fifteen minutes arguing as to the
wearers' tastes in dress.-New York
Press.