The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-12-26
MOST TALKED OF
BOOK IN WORLD
Publishers OF "Fads and fancieS"
Reaped a Fortune
EXPLOITS EASY RICH
VOLUME is A MAMMoTH MoNU.
MENT TO VAiN.GLORY, CON
CElT AND SELF-Ex-
PLOtTATiON.

New York, Dec, Fads and
Fancies the most talked Of and the
most notorious bcok Of years. made
particularly 50 by the exposures in a
libel suit now in progress has been
delivered in ship shape 20 It's sub
/ scrbers.
1 This book attracted a national at
tent on by reason of the fact that t
was intended to exploit the attrac-
tions, physical and mental, the ae.
complishmenta such as they are. tne
talents and especially the riches 4
those wha had enough money TO nave
/ themselves thus embalmed in gor-
geous style and exploited as geniuses,
1 celebriteg, or persons of high social
4 distinction.
rhe Introduction OF the book, on
American Sc ETY." Is written BY
Mrs. Burton Harrison. The volume is
a triumph In the bookmakar'y art, AMI
i has the dollar mark stamped all oye.
( ii, flgGratively speaking. Ii consists
of 2l0 pages and is very big. The
4 pictorial work, the silk and morocco
\ the gold tracings. arrabesques and
\ Japanese handmade vellum and all
the resi- Of il bewilderingly handsome
I One hundred and five mortals have
4 write-ups In ~Fads and Fancle," con-
1 Itrbuting their hist ry, so.ealled, and
countenanees, TO this mammoth monn
ment TO yain-glory and conceit. These
H los, of the uppercast, represent an
glegaie fortunes of one and one-haIf
I billion dollars There IL writeup
of President Roosevelt and one oi
! 4. rmer President Cleveland, though
neither Of these gentlemen sphecrihed
IL the work or agreed to pay 2 csn'
for the exploitation they got.
In The middle Of the book there Is
full page steel etching Of the late
Colli r. Huntington, for which, his
widow is said Il have paid the nice III
tie sum of $4,000. The article On Mr.
Huntington n cost Mrs Huntington $40
900. The list OF subscribers repre-
sening the large and Influential bunch
of spend thrift commences with Jahr
Jacob Astor and ends with Iietry y
Hyde.
II h a most remarkable hook. O
course all these sketches are written
up according 10 Hoyle," and an i'm
memse profit Went to smebOdy
through this appeal to the vanity q
rich strainers after social prestige
"Fads and Fancies' Is the hook wbicl
created a sensation in New York lcng
before II was published from the fact
that Cne man who was asked TO sub
scribe several thousand collars to fig
ure in the thilg, refused and had the
agent Of the concern arrested en- the
charge of hlackmail 1t appears that
this agent advised the gentleman that
if he did not subscribe the desired
amount. Town Topics. which rs
edited by the same man who got M
Fad and Fancies." would expose a
number Of his alleged escapades with
blondes that would not look well In
print
To give an idea Of h-w "Fads and
Fancies" was gotten up is quo,ed
some fragnentary sentences from let
! iers written by the editor o. Town
Topics and also OF "Fads and Faa
cIes' TO an agen who was rounding
up subscribers fer the publication at
fabulou- prices
IF you put it before him q. Ed
wards Addicksl you viii get him. as
he is a very rich man ana has great
ambit ons. AS | told y0n. Ned
ringhaus is in town now Almost
every day you viii see by the paper
that some one comes Did you ever
Try Arbuckle, the sugar manz
II YOU can catch John a. Mccall you
can interest him so that his vanity
will lead him TO have that half a m !
lien dollar house handed down 90 20
terity AMI he certainly wonld 60 into
tho book when he finds such men az
As.or. Vanderbilt. Aldrich, etc.
Nedringhaus is very r'ch &c; after
him General Fitzgerald Is q
very pompous and vain man and very
rich and I think Il approached in the
right way can be captured. j.
is possible that Forlham Morris miEa-
be able 20 ah0rd O. John ID
Archibald. the STANDARD oil ma.
ought % be gotten Thomas
/ Dorl,a. Of Philadelp1;a. and Cassa,t
sure You did not 20 % Pos.
ton. but Thayes Henry Fl = 'Eginscn
a1d Bigelcw ought % be good vlctlTs
Spencer Trask. uf This city Is
rich and vain eee Timers0u Mac-
MILAN wonderfully rich
You NAV p. uncc ON William 8 Coz
melie II y0u can discover
any say on earth 70 ger two min
iutes with F. C. Bourne who 7 thialI
1 IS now commodore OF the Nsx YoFk
Yacht club yoH car eptHfe him
There Is no cad ro b 5 moaey. ] hail