Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-02-28
HAVE HOBBIES IN ALBUMS.
Convenient Receptacles for Sou
Venlrs.
MANY MEMORY BOOKS
The Guest Record IS the Modern Sue.
cesSor of the Time Honored
Autograph Album.

This is an age of albums. \ score or
more of different kinds of albums, port
foiioS. memory books and diaries are in
current use.
\ young woman spending the winter N
New York has an album for souvenirs %
all the plays and operas she attends.
The east. criticisms clipped from the
daily papers, a cut from some illustrated
journal showing a scene from the play
and the likeness of the chief actor or
actress. serve 20 recall visit to a thea
ter Along with these are a few words
as TO the young woman's own aSsocia-
tons with the play. More than sixty en-
tries have already been made in the al
bum, which will help her. wheI. She goes
home, to retrace her pleasure trips in
Gotham.
4 place is left on each page for the
FASTING in of such comments or news
actor or playwright. She calls this her
progressive album. On the tile page is
an old print showing scene enacted in
an early London play house.
Another New York visitor is preServ-
ing souvenirs of the various dining places
she visits. The more odd the restaurants
the better for her purpose. Fashionable,
IhNiCulldA ana SUBURBAN. IHNtEHS within
the limits of Greater New York are re-
corded in this book by menu cards, copies
Of wall decorations and notices and per.
sonal comments.
Girls keep dainty mementoeS of the
balls and parties they have been TO by
preserving the dance card. a description
OF the favorS that pleased them and of
any unusual features introduced. \
pressed flower from a bouquet and a
sample ent off the particular gown worn
give viridness to the record. Bright say
ings and incidents connected with the
| event are also recorded.
Some albums have the souvenirs fast
ened in with ribbon perrumed with the
subtle odor liked best nv the owner.
Many have the aroma Of sandaiwood or
some Oriental treasured essence clinging
| to them. And the bindings vary from
| the costly. carved or tapestry leather to
| the commonplace cloth or board cover.
Some are brought ont with covers of the
close-woven sweet grass. a light yet dur
able framing most appropriate.
Many odd album covers are To hc had
| ut the gift shops, made by hand out of
| rare tapestry, choice brocades and Of can
| vas or satin. embroidered or painted in
various designs that express the album ;
| purpose. Poker work. both on wood and
| leather, is utilized for covers. Others
| have quaint prints set in on silk or cloth
| iuhIlbHiIbiN.. Olu-liilc aituIl lovers VINO
| had only oie or two stereotyped STYLES in
| covers 10 choose from, mostly in mosaic
| or smooth enamcled board. would not
| recognize the album as il paradcs now.
The oid-time autograph album has Il
| direct descendant in the guest book,
| which IS now as common house belong
| ing as the family Bible and very much
| more looked into. Even the girl colony Of
students or workers eueamped four or five
! flights nm in a mn1pst ~ dY-alliur ho
its guest book, in when every visitor TO
| sup or dine is expected 10 inscrbe some
| original or commemorative sentiment
| along with his signature. and the sen
| fences written are very different from
the tfowery or stilted inscriptions regis
| tered in the autograph albums of form
| or age.
Wedding albums are kept now. In
them are preserved the printed marriage
| notices. the picture OF house or church as
| deckcd for the event, the likeness Of uSh-
| ers and attendants and any incidents
| which emphasized the affair. Apty
worded congratulations containing some
play on names or personal traits are So
| cured 10 postcrity along with data as
| 70 me honeymoon doingS und the number
| and nature of gifts received.
Inc visitor 20 winter resorts kccus
traces OF new acquaintance and pleas
| ulAlle scenes both with name cards and
with photographs. The summer girl
preserves her experiences between covers,
putting down lively remarks as to dances
and excursions, snatches of pnpuIar
songs, bits of rcpartce, catch words and
personal peculiaritlcs Of the people who
helped 10 begule the time The mod
erD album keeper has the advantage over
her progenitors in that photographs
printed notices of interesting places and
printed accounts Of society dongs and