New-York tribune., 1908-03-23
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

United States Consul Hannah. in a report from
Magdeburg. tells OF the educational Of
pictorial postcards IN Germany. AT the recent
meeting of the German Geographical Society" says
Mr.. Hannah. ''the idea advanced for the first
time to employ picture postal cards as means of
instruction in the schools The postcard industry
has made enormous progress in the last few years.
and in the last few months cards have been
brought into the market illustrative Of natural
history. political history and for in nstruc-
ton in the German language. which have met
with the hearty approval Of professors and teach
OF reputation. The school museum at Breslau
has undertaken to form collection Of these cards
and for this purpose has requested the various
publishers to forward them samples OF their out
put. that it may be determined TO what extent
they may be used for purposes Of instruction
Further. two teachers In Leipsic have established
a central bureau for meritorious postcards OF all
intended for purposes Of instruction collec-
tion and travel. They have also developed and
offer for sale two practical systems for the dis
play and filing of the cards. These gentlemen
select and arrange the cards most carefully
cordlng to pedagogical principles.
Socially fastidious. she?"
Yes indeed She even returns telephone calls"
-Harper's Weekly
The German papers are full Of Pauline Lucca
anecdotes One of these copied in a Vienna paper
from a Berlin letter, runs thus: "Lucca never
tired of speaking of America and of the people
whom she met there. They may know
much about music as We do she said, but they
apprecatve and enthusiastic. I that
I could not have had the experience in America
that had IN Kaiserstadt L was riding in a
second class railway carriage from Vienna to
Rechenau and had two nice looking. highly re-
spectacle men companions. Shortly after we
had started conversation began, and il was not
long before the stage the topic The train
made stop and of the rushed out TO
get glass of beer The other turned 70 me
and said: You know much about it-are YOU
connected with the stage-an actress? Yes and
,-aI civ,
Lucca you have heard the name, probably The
reflected and said: Lucca, LuccaI No: 1
heard the name Then I said. Pauline
Lucca' and he shouted to his returning friend:
Here you, Did you ever hear of one Pauline
Lucca? and. stepping Into the carriage over my
feet. the answered: Lucca? No; who is
she?' And that a Vienna train. 1t could
not have happened In America
And what was your family's decision?'
Practically unanimous in my favor" answered
the young lawyer. mother voting aye and father
dissenting Louisville Courier Journal
Consul General Richard Guenther of Frankfort
in report says that the supreme court OF the
Empire, the last legal resort in Germany. has in
several cases fixed the responsibility of bankers
when advising investments TO their clients He
cites the following case in point "On. OF the lat
est decisions of this kind rendered against
bank which receiving an order from a Gus
toner to purchase 5000 marks Zone mark equals
2Ss cents) of certain class of mortgage bonds
stead of executing the order wrote the customer
advising him. 10 buy instead the mortgage bonds
of another company. stating that the latter were
equally safe and possessed advantages over
those ordered The customer thereupon changed
the order, according to the banks advice When
the company issuing the purchased bonds failed he
brought suit against the bank for the recovery of
the money invested The court In its decision
against the bank, held: The bank has not done
its duty in taking of It's interests
when 1t recommended the purchased bonds to be
safe those originally ordered to be purchased
because the bank should have known that the lat
ter had the quality of legal or trust investment
funds for widows and orphans. wards etc. whereas
the bonds advised and bought for the customer
lacked that important qualification
MIR. Roxley had nothing but praise for your
work for him before the Congressional committee
said the friend.
Yes" replied the lobbyist. gIoomiIy. nothing
but praise. ."-P hiladelphis Press.