The National tribune., 1908-10-29

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since she first began to wake up" In
fact, China has been considering the
| question of making her own bank notes.
instead of having the wofh done by
foreigners, and has gone so far as to
erect the necessary buildings in Peking.
She sent Cinnamon over TO this country
to study the methods employed in our
| Bureau of Engraving. and decided they
were good enough for her. Then she
tried to find an expert to superintend
the work. and got into difficulty at once.
The Imperial Government sent messen-
gers from one country to another In
search of the right man, with the re-
suit aforementioned. Mr.. Grant has
lsigned contract for five years. and
undoubtedly will have most enviable
experience. The Chinese Government
is to pay the expenses of himself and
family to the Celestial Kingdom, and
give him a house In Peking with serv-
ants and supplies free. That means that
| he will live like a Prince in one Of the
most interesting cities In the world.
Mr.. Grant is to be congratulated.
The keen, bright, active American
brain is ever fertile in ideas and con-
stantly at work trying to make practi-
cal application of them. Many i'm
provements or reforms come about very
years of careful preparations, while
others, like the Greek goddess Athena,
spring into life complete, equipped with
the vigor of maturity. The birth of
the National Story Tellers' League
might almost be put In this latter class.
so quickly was its Importance recog-
nized, and so perfect so complete and
so strong in beauty and simplicits was
the idea itself. Nothing in recent years.
along educational lines, has made the
popular appeal it has. Story telling is
as old as the Creation. The education
of the race began that way, for before
writing there was only oral tradition.
Most of the best of our classic litera-
ture, like Homer's great epics. the
Neibelungenlied. etc. were stories told
by the professional story tellers, and
handed down in this way from genera
ton to generation.
Now girls, and boys too. IL you want
to earn some money get busy and make
picture puzzles. Everybody is crazy
over them. You go out to make call
in the evening. and find the entire fam
lily absorbed In piecing together one of
these puzzles Boston started the craze.
think of it, Boston, whose cultured resi-
dents presumably have difficulty in
holding up their heads good and
straight on account of the weight of
their brains, and who are popularity
supposed to sit up nights delving In the
depths of Emerson and Browning; Bos-
ton, the home of all the isms and olo-
gies, yea, Boston has been as a little
child in the hands of the picture-puzzIe
and has bent all its gray matter In put
ting together its myriad pieces. Other
cities soon caught the infection, and
now there is hardly a home north OF
Mason and Dixons line that Is without
one or more of these fascinating time
killers.
But lest this puzzle-wave may not
l,1 OF ,aly vnrf I
latest source of entertainment is de-
scendant of the sliced animal puzzles of
our infancy The picture puzzle of to-
day is different, because there is no
picture to look at. and because the
cutting of the little wooden pieces is
made as misleading and difficult as pos
sible. Indeed, the value of the puzzle
depends on the brilliancy and dash of
the cutting. Anyone can make these
puzzles. some not so well as others. per-
haps. but anyone can do It II he or she
tries. Select some attractive or Inter-
esting picture, preferably a colored
print-the magazines are full of them
paste 1t on thin piece of weli-sea-
soned board. and then take jig-saw
and employ the extent of your ingenuity
in cutting It up into all kinds of little |
pieces of every conceivable shape. The |
price these puzzles bring depends upon
the number of pieces they contain. One
containing about 60 pieces sells for so
cents: some sell for as much as $500; |
s1.00 and $l:50 is quite common price |
to pay for one The bookstores, de- |
partment stores. and the Woman's Ex- |
changes In ali the cities carry them. |
and II they have not yet reached your
town you want to lose no time In be-
ginning to make one. Pick out a TAX
ing picture. cut 1t up into queer-shapedI
pieces. put 1t in box. just plain little
paper box. all one color. paste little |
plain white piece on the center ofqthe |
cover Of the box with the name of the |
puzzle on 1t and the number (No. l. II
will be for youJ and on the inside OF
the cover paste another piece of white |
paper and on II write (of course, you |
will do the writing before you paste !
the slip on) orders flled--then In
brackets put the number OF pieces the
puzzle contains like this--(59 pieces).
then your name and address. This Is
the way they do IT In Boston, where
they tell me girls are supporting fami-
lies by making these puzzles. They are
the greatest boon possible to the con-
valescing invalid, and II is really funny
TO see how tired-out business men hur-
ry thru dinner that they may work out
one. and quite forget to go to the club.
Personally. we may think II a rather
foolish waste of time. but that isn't the
question. / am telling you about them
that you may earn some money by
making them. Hundreds Of women and
girls are doing So Why shouldn't you?
We are told that Julian Story, the
portrait painter, Is doing his best to
win back the affection of his wife,
Emma Eames, the well-known opera
singer. Madam Eames was quietly di-
vorced from her husband about year
ago. very little relating to the matter
appearing in the papers at the time. but
the general impression was that the
diva had very good cause for her ac-
ton. Now. II Is said, Mr.. Story regrets
deeply his conduct and is more deeply
in love with his wife than ever. He
followed her abroad this Summer, ap-
pearing in q hotel within stones
throw of that which she was patroniz-
ing In Venice, and tho he managed to
encounter her at several cafes and
beamed upon her appealingly from his
gondola, she ignored him completely.
Madam Eames quietly slipped away
from Venice. but could not escape her
one-time husband, who followed her
from place to place, greatly to her dis
gust, so II is said, and his bitter disap-
posntment, for he received only stony
stare for his eager. timid overtures. Mr..
Story kept this up In Paris for awhile.
but became SO discouraged that he
finally returned home. Now 1t Is said
that he intends to open studio In
New York this Winter, instead of Phila-
delphia, where he has been previously
located, presumably to be near his for
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