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saging it until it is charmingly bright.
II gives her Just the right color
The blossom perfumes for the bath are
very lnvigoTating 70 the nerves. There
is woman who makes bath perfumes
and depends upon the May flowers for her
inspiration.
She takes a handful Of them and puts
them into a wide mouthed jar holding
at least gallon. Over this she pours a
quart Of spirits Of cologne and this she
sets away for two weeks. At the end Of
this time she strains the perfume through
a coarse cloth, adds a grain Of musk and
half an ounce Of the oil Of rose geranium
TO give body 70 the perfume When il has
stood few days 1t is all ready for use
in the bath.
beauty Jar Ia part Of every brides
trousseau in certain howery parts Of Eng
land. Into the jar there must 90 all the
May blossoms that can % gathered There
can be wild roses, buttercups, clover, any
thing and everything that can be found In
the field. And there can also be apple
blossoms. plum blossoms and the buds OF
the ounce, pear and cherry.
The blossoms are thrown into the jar and
salted down. Then some spice 10 added
Just teaspoonful Of cloves and little Gin
namon. Finally there is a spraying with
spirits Of cologne and little oil OF geranium
is dropped In.
II preferred, one can add few drops Of
the inexpensive variety Of altar OF rose.
1t is very penetrating and very well liked
liked.
The jar Is stirred daily and II IL kept In
the room In which hangs the brides trous-
seau. II win scent the garments as though
they had been laid in the costliest saohet
powder
There is a May rose Jar which for e1-
pense Is unequalIed. The jar need not be
larger than big coffee cup. but II must be
filled 10 the very top with petals OF roses
These should be red and very sweet,
They must be lightly dried In the sun and
then placed whole in the jar, which has
a teaspoonful OF ground cloves in the bot
tom. The leaves are now sprayed with at
tar Of roses, which can be as plentiful as
one may desire.
Finally, tablespoonful Of alcohol Ia
added and the jar is closed, TO be opened
daily. Once in three months II can be re-
enforced with a few drops OF jasmine,
which goes well with the odor OF dried
rose leaves.
This is said 10 be the best known thing
for sweetening the complexion. The leaves
are lightly lifted In the finger tips and held
for an instant upon the cheek.
The May freckIe lotion 10 known the world
over. II can he made with any kind Of soft
water In which there Ia as much boraX as
will dissolve. Two tablespoonfuls Of this
water can he made sharp with teaspoonful
Of lemon juice, and this Is spatted on the
skin. The effect 10 to remove. brown spots
and freckles.
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with bass or snare drums, which the ma
iority prefer.
They emulate each other In The magnif-
cenCe Of their hired costumes which range
from those Of Indians through the gamut
Of Soul kissers and Anna Helds. All wear
suull hats Of straw, doll size, fastened
albut their heads with elastic These
ara Intended 10 show masculine contempt
and artistic scOrn for the women's head
gear, vintage Of 1905 II Is graceful
tribute Poke fun at wOman's hat and
she is sure TO be happy
Whenever there is a confetti hull the
band plays 1t also every five minutes
announces tho opening Of a side show.
marching ten times through the rooms
tO DO il and driving before il placid people
who are enjoying the exhibit or drinking
ice water at MaXims
Sad it is TO hear the self-con stituted ex-
planners telling people who have wandered
into the Fakers' Exhibit without having
visited the MaterColor Exhibit all the subtle
points IL i like explaining Weberfed
parody to those ignorant Of the first cause.
Sadder than these are the visitors from
the art centres of Jersey and The Bronx
who think they are in the original Water
color SHOW
One Of these stops before the fake Of
Robert Henri's Girl Holding Her Hat"
The fake shows a darling little child, her
head an egg with a snood Of crimson, her
body meal sack, her arms two rolling
rims, In one hand a chopping bowl whose
sprig Of parsley lends the last touch Of
realism and imitation. The Hoboken critic
puts up her lorgnette murmurs How
sweet and asks il il il the work OF a be-
ginner The explainer allows that it il.
Another locker. not from HobOksn, but
familiar with the commuters, stops thunder
struck before a portrait Of Charles Battel
LOOMS and asks, will you kindly tell mo
why they should caricature Mr.. LOOMS?
Hasn't nature done that already?-
The Fakers say Of themselves that they
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ish things. cut out some paper cattle, ts
a string 10 the tails 30 they can be pulled
up and down, and spend half an hour AZ
the galleries trying to decide which ona
of them he shall honor with his fake.
Or the applique system being a specially
liked form Of procedure with the Fakers,
a china doll hung by thread TO pieoe oi
canvas outside Of glued on bit OF mirror
is a good piece Of work. There is always
in the original exhibit child looking In a
glass. This time It happened 10 be called
"Narcissus,' that is ALL
Then that clever trick Of pasting paint
chips on a prepared background and call
ing il Moonlight That always goes, and
there are always sore hearts among the
real artists on account Of It. This year
some Faker happened TO take his vacation
at Coney Island. 30 he used bits Of pea
nuts instead Of the paint chips; but they
looked just as much like moonlight and
caused just as many tears Of anguish from
the tortured one as would have happened
by the ordinary method.
The artist who sends a cherry or apple
tree in full bloom and calls II -Sprngtime'
may know that a fake already prepared,
vi hlbits Of paper glued on,some pasteboard
stems, IL awaiting his admission.
This. says the old timer, Is the real pathos
Of the Fakers' exhibit, one to which the
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ever the fun gets low the confetti rises
| Everybody knows how funny confetti can
be, especially II Il gets into your eyes.
The gentleman with the scissors tells you
that you can have four silhouettes made for
80 cents, and while he Ia doing 1871 cents
worth explains that II Is perfectly painless
process, but even 80 some Of the ladies' get
dpadfHly cut up over II. You laugh at
this because you laugh THERE'S popcorn
too, and faker fudge, and the original draw
ings Of the catalogue, so that II you really
enter into tho atmosphere Of the occasion
you can spend dollar and half, and II II
wera not for the fact that you have both
arms full you wouldn't know that you had
spent more than dollar
There are two large pictures on the west
wall Of the fete de Neuilly. One was
painted and donated by William Chase, the
other by Luis Mora both League instruct
ors One Of the art students tows his mother
toward them.
She is from the middle West and has come
on to see the sights. She has heard all
about the Fakers' Exhibit and when she
sees those two pictures she simply doubles
up with laughter. To her they are Just the
most amusing things IN the world and she
even laughs at the real gold frames For
two years Only Son has been writing her
about the amusing skits Of the Fakers and
she isn't going To let him think that the
sense Of humOr isn't just az well developed
In Dakota as IL IL in New York
A 6eep crimson blush stains his cheek.
II il paint put on 10 add color TO his bright
blue costume, for he is in the band. }
explains to his mother that the piCtur's are
10 be auctioned Of for the scholarship FUND.
Fortunately only twenty people overheard
this and they have all promised not 10 tell
The band, of which Only Son is an hon .
ored member, numbers eighteen, The
musical course ia taken in conjunction wi h
the regular academic studies az it does not
with them in the least They only
Fakers' Exhibit and they play on any instru- |
nent they can find, being equally expert |
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black mustache One Of the grlart students
said he was an awfuy nice chap, was good
tempered and home every night at 10, and
when his face was washed he was mighty
good looking
Let any one who is inclined to take the
fakeB lightly talk to that devil and he will
tell him that last year they took in $ljOO
from entrance fees, tickets to the ball and
sale of fake pictures, This money goes
into the fund for scholarships, which makes
1t possible for some dozen or more deserv-
ing students &c pursue their studies at the
league each year.
The spirit Of sadness is as evident at the
fete as II is at "A strawberry and ice cream
festival in Connecticut. You are expected
TO buy cent bags Of confetti and in a buNt
Of Walpurgian mirth throw the confetti at
your escort. who in turn must buy another
bag and throw its contents at you. IL is
impossible to Walpurg at order and you
feel yourself the great disappointment, but
other people rise TO the occasion and when-
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OLD PARIS MILL AT WORK.
LOngchamp Landmark Again Useful After
Rest OF Two Centuries.

Few Of the throngs Of Americans who
go TO Paris faihto visit the Bois dc Boulogne
80 thousands q Americans know the Long
champ windmill, especially those who 90
TO the Grand Prix or any Of the other races
at Longchamp.
A few days ago Parisians walking or
driving in the Pois were surprised TO see
the wings Of this old thirteenth century
mill turning in the breeze that swept the
Longchamp sward Il Is two centuries
since the mill ceased TO grind grain, and
while II has been continued as one OF the
picturesque and admired objects Of this
beautii iul landscape il has not been re-
corded as q machine OF utility.
The mill, however. has been equipped
with four pumps, and now when the wind
serves these pumps increase the water
supply which furnishes the great cascade
Of the Bois de Boulogne. so this interest
ing monument in a beautiful stretch OF
parkland not only adds 10 the picturesque
ness Of the Longchamp end Of the Bois, but
serves q practical use In enhancing the
charm Of q netghboring spot In the great
park,
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the last touch needed 70 make II seem
like that famous Partisan resort.
No impression was added 10 by the piano
playing Of young man whose close atten-
tiOn 10 Art In It's various forms had left
him pren,aturely bald. He wore a fringe
Of confetti around this bald spot, and while
the visitors drank their tea with lemon,
q Ia Russe-you always do at MaXim's
after midnight-he warbled something
which sounded like aDo Not Throw the
Lighted lamp at Mother
The .vice-president, glanoinR with I'M
concealed pleasure about the ROOM con-
fessed that the time had gone by when the
American student felt that Paris had any
thing 10 offer the way uf art, except
perhaps a few more miles Of art galleries.
For all practical purposes Paris had been
obliged TO come 10 US, witness tho present
exhibition. Could anything be Frenchier'
The students dances were like Baptist
prayer meetings in comparison. Anthony
Comstock and Samuel Shaw were patron
saints Mr. Shaw had bought every year
two or three hundred dollars worth Of
posters and fake pictures for the Flemish
room Of the Grand Union Hotel, aud A.
Comstock by destroying the illusion that
the Art Students League was kind Of
old coed home and by tearing away the
shadow Of responsibility that was lowering
bit too close for breathing space had
given the students a certain prestige that
they intended 10 live up to. They had de-
termined TO be just as Gallo and unbridled
and untamed as spring heifers There's
absolutely going to be no end TO the devil
ishness Another cup Of tea? They make
it fresh each time.
II il at this psychic moment that the
eyes Of the visitor note for the first time
some footprints Of the great on the ceiling
The vice president explains that like the
ats they are stenclled He also explains
hat these are the feet of Neuilly,
The fete de Neuilly is presided over by
Ievil with a cashbOS. He Is a real devil, !
or his mother made his suit and his elder |
lister painted his eyebrows and a dashnR |
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quart bottle Of rain water add a teaspoon
ful Of boraI and pinch Of salt. Let II come
10 a boil, strain and bottle adding third
the quantity Of orange flower water. Be-
fore using it scent with cologne
There is a cherry blossom tea which is
said TO make the cheeks pink. The in
gradients are pint Of fresh cherry blossoms
picked from the stem and laid in porcelain
basin. Over the blossoms lie poured pint
Of bay rum and into this there Is stirred a
tablespoonful Of ounce seed.
After some twenty minutes simmering
the lotion is strained and bottled. II is
10 be used on the face after the skin has been
carefully shanpooed,
The shampoo OF the skin is one Of the
new things OF the spring. The skin Is
treated as one treats the scalp. There is
lathering, massage and finally general
and generous shampoo,
IL leaves the skin as soft as cotton and as
white as milk. 1t should take about half an
hour, and the one whose face has been sham
pooed should not 90 out for at least an hour
afterward, or until the skin has cooled
There is a blossom cream which Is being
tried by the pretty girls OF the South and by
those who have country places where the
blossoms can be gathered, The requisites
are blossoms sufficient 10 ill a canvas bag
holding perhaps half pint.
IL Ia best TO mix the blossoms, apple,
plum and ounce. The canvas bag ls thrown
into basin In which there Is Just enough
almond oil TO saturate II. The whole thing
Is now brought to a simmering point when
the blossoms are lifted out and lump Of
white wax, perhaps hah an ounce, Is
slowly stirred In.
When il melts and mixes It Is removed
from the stove and very little rose altar
is stirred in or some oil Of Jassamine, or
rose geranium. The result Is charming
complexion cream.
May strawberries make the best face
bleach known, II one can Judge from the
professional beauties who wait and watch
Tor the straw berries from spring TO spring.
The berries are perfectly ripe and full OF
Juice. II they agree with the skin, they
not only bleach 1t, but give II a rare and
lovely color.
There Is a beauty who has dish Of the
berries brought TO her dressing table
each night She takes them and presses
them To her skin one after another until
she had stained her whole face with the
juice OF the ripe fruit.
Then she washes II on with a warm cloth
and her skin is soft and peachy, There Is
just the right amount OF color in the skin.
In New York there Is terribly eKtrava-
CANT Southern woman who depends upon
Southern berries for her complexion. Each
week during the season there arrives a
gallon jar Of the rich juice and with this she
gooS OForah9 sdns bleaching 4taand mas,
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May The MONTH FOR BEAUTY
LOTIONS MADE FROM THE SPRING
SHOWERS AND FLOWERS.

The Southern Relies Good Looks Largely
Dependent UpOn the Help OF This
Month Strawberries for the Com.
pleXiOn, Rain water for the Skin.
II II we're not for the month Of May the
southern belle might not be able to keep
her beauty. This month furnishes her with
the material for most Of the beauty lotions
which she uses during the remainder Of
the year.
There is May shower tonic for the hair
II is made Of rain water, little quinins
and a little bay rum. II Is said to make the
hair thick and bright
The apple leaf lotion Ia one Of the most
famous Of the Southern beauty specifics
Il is used for softening the hands and can
he made from apple leaves gathered any
where. II is known even in Russia.
The recipe for apple leaf lotion calls for
peck Of apple leaves covered with water and
let simmer an hour. The water is strained
free from the leaves and two ripe cu-
cumbers are cut up and put In. The water
Is brought 10 boil and strained again and
tablespoon Of very finely powdered cas-
lie soap IL stirred in.
This IL used TO soften the hands. II can
he left on the skin for FIVE minutes. then
washed OF with soft water. ,
May rain water Is very soitening for a
rough skin The akin IA first slightly heated
with q warm sponge which has been laid
in a steamer until It Is moist, then a coat
ing u soap Il spread over the face.
When this has been washed Of with a
hot spray the May rain water Is put on.
Il should be dabbed on the face with the
Rngertips. which are Just dipped into it
and spatted on the oountenanoe. The
oftener 1t Is spatted on the face the better,
for II softens the skin wonderfully.
May rain water can Be bottled and put
away for use later on. II one believes In
itS efioacy one can prepare II after the recipe
used by a certain beauty abroad, who has
great jars Of it sent 10 her each year. She
holds that the May rain water Of England
IL not as soft as that Of her native land. and
~ she has her soitening lotion bottled and
sent over 10 her.
RAformnlA u something likethisl ToA
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SAD SIDE or FAKERS EXHIBIT
FtTHOS THE ARTISTS HAVEN'T
REALLI Az iKENED TO YET,

Gallc Abandon Of Art students and a
s,' True Copy OF MaNims and Confetti
e and tho Misunderstood Technique Of
the clan Of the Fakers-The Tricks
~ About tile saddest thing that happens
IN New York during the months which
pociety and art folks speak Of as the sea-
J, son ia the Fakers' Exhibit, which always
takes place Immediately after the circus,
Just why il should be so sad no one has
been able 20 discover. Perhaps It is for the
same reason that Simeon Ford is sad when
y YOU look AT him, and that Punch's jokes
are sad when you hear them and that the
ordinary table talk Of clowns offers not the
i slightest reason for considering them
9 merry men,
Some people say that you will find in this
world whatever you are looking for, hut
: some people never lost an umbrella or they
would not go about uttering such fallacious
Z sentiments. Yet it is true that the impress
sion made by art depends on ones mood
and THE Sun reporter was undoubtedly
Influenced en- route by a conversation over
heard on the rear platform Of a Broadway
car The conductor WIS telling man
there just what he thought of him
"a Don't think you can make me laugh
with yer tricks be said shry. ITS
green transfer you handed me out and il
oughter. heen yaller one. II it I'd been
A yaller one il Nd been all right. but il
amt, andyer a fIker that's what yer are
faker.'
q You shiver "a you hear hc tone, there
1.
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SEA REVEALS PIRATE HOARD.
Portuguese Fishing Village Endangered by
the Atlantic Grows suddenly Rich.


The inhabitants Of Paradelha, a tiny
fishing village on the Portuguese coast some
distance south Of Lisbon have been grow
ing rich Of late on what seems to have
been the hidden plumber Of some long for
gotten pirate band. Some OF them have
gathered in as much as $1,000 worth Of
treasure.
That partof the coast Of Portugal Ia SUI.
fering from the encroaohments Of the ocean.
Many houses have been undermined in
the last few years and have had To be aban-
doned. Sometimes big slices Of dry land
slip on into the Atlantic lon stormy night
and the people wake up 10 find all landmarks
changed.
This is what happened a couple Of weeks
ago in a furious gale The waves washed
far in over the upland and carried away
vast masses Of the upper soil. leaving tho
shelving beach a couple Of hundred feet
wider than 1t had ever been before. A
fisherman walking along the edge Of the
strand saw something glistening in the
slope and roofing II out OF the ground found
1t was an ancient silver cup. He dug some
more and found quantities Of scattered gold
anu bllNeT COINS.
When the news got around the village
the whole population turned out 10 dig.
They found still more money, all dating
back TO the end Of the seventeenth and be-
ginning Of the eighteenth centuries. There
were rings and brooches, orllcifxes and
jeweled ohalioes, jewelled sword handles
and table plate. Nobody knows just how
much the treasure amounted TO, since the
fisherfolk hid II as fast as they secured IT,
and when official inquiries were made
every one denied his own share.
They are sill digging, however, and an
occasional find is made. The sea seems
70 have broken up the cache and distributed
lts contents over many acres OF beach
Objects are picked up as far as low water
marx, and some are doubtless washed back
from time to time from deep water.
IL is believed that the treasure reptc-
sents plunder from Spanish coast towns
IL ls said that long ago there were numerous
bands OF Portuguese pirates which oom-
mitted depredations on a considerable
scale both afioat and ashore and when
Portugal was at peace with Spain they
were obliged 10 be very careful and hids
their plunder. From time 10 time other
boards OF the same sort have been dis.
covered. When this collection was buried.
no doubt, the spot was far enough from
ne waters edge 10 be regarded as safe for
all tins,
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artists have not really awakened yet. When
they do they will find some subject that is
not 50 lacking in originality, maybe. He
says the maybe sadly. as one who knows
the force Of habit.
Tire old timers lend their largesse Of gloom
10 the occasion. You can find them al over
the place, even at Maxim's, where they are
reading aloud the menu and shaking their
heads dolefully Julian Academic potaRe,
Mock Duck, rubber neck clans; bear legs
Comstock dressing; panses en- casserole
acorns roast beer hot or cold booze arts
and saying we used to be funnier than
that"
Clarence Underwood the illustrator; IL
still chershing a ten-year- old grievance
He. was suspended because another student
made the punch too strong, and for one
night, just one night in the seventeen years,
there was really Gallo abandon in the
Fakers' exhibit, the real article not IN"
near that they have to-day He tells the
story with pathetic rendition.
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BR'ER RABBITS COUSIN
N4kAMI YE NGARAGANZA FOOLS
THE JUNGLE KING.
The BasumbwA Mans SImpletOn Untll the
Wise Bunny Shows Him It's Better 20
lie Happy Now Than TO Take q Long
Chance with an Unknown Hereafter.


lie Happy Now Than 10 Take q Long
Chance With an Unknown Hereafter.
Second tale orhs EAT African version OF Brsr RABBIT
There was once man who had set his
net snares He went out to look them over
and found a lion caught in one Of the nets
The lion said then TO him:
Friend Of me, save me on earth, and
will save thee on Hight
The man united him. When he had
finished casting him loose the lion said to
him:
Friend Of me. give me a little bowstring
that may eat ii, since have spent the
night without a morsel' for the bowstring.
it should be said. is plated Of the tendons
Of animals.
The man gave II to him. The lion said to
him.
Friend Of me, give me a little Of your
skin cloak to eat, for was going to lie
down without having eaten
But the man replied:
Friend Of me, you take away my raiment,
! have delivered you from the snare and
you have taken already my bowstring-
you are an migrate. friend Of mel
But the skin he was wearing none the
less he gave TO the lion, and the lion ate ii.
When he had finished eating the mans
skin cloak and left him bare the lion said
TO him:
Friend Of me, give me your little hand
to eat
But the man answered:
Friend Of me, how then s this' You
said 70 me Save me on earth and / will
save thee on high Now. have saved
you and you want 10 eat me- See what an
migrate you are, for II had not turned you
loose from the net could have killed you
Just then the Rabbit comes hopping out
Of the long grass, saying TO himself Nov
it's up TO me TO straighten out this tangle
between these two good folk
40 he asks: "What are you two suuab-
bling aboutl'
And the inan replies; "That friend there"
he says, Il found him tightly caught in the
nets Of my snare. And when / came Alopg