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In both armies were supplied each
with ten rounds of blank cartridges,
and when within range. the firing be-
came very heavy. The boys entered
INTO the spirit Of the fight as If it
we're a genuine scrap and this made
the battle doubly exciting and inter-
tstfng. After an engagement lasting
Ten minutes, the trumpeter sounded
-ecall and the battle was Over.
Captain A. S. Brooks. o. S. army,
acted as umpire for the Blue army,
while General r. A. Ford served in
similar capacity for the Brown ar
my. These officers will get together
and announce the results Of the mimic
light sometime tomorrow. In the
the question of which was
the victorious army is a mach mooted
one.
Another Scrap Tom srrow
Inc program fOr tomorrow includes
mother rimic fight This time it
will be an attack on and defense of a
tonvoy, with the soldiers again divid-
ed into two forces representing the
Blue and the Brown. The Browns
will leave camp at a. m. with such
as is available FOR use
rs convoy, making a forced march.
rhe Blues viii follow at 8 a. m, with |
! view to overtsking and attacking
he CONVOY, effecting its capture If
'ossible. Just where the fight viii |
axe place is problematical. although
will be at some point within few
niles Of the camp.
Returning to camp at 1880 a. m.
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quacking ostrich what loved aquatick
sports & could kick down fences to es-
cape when attacked by his enemies. And
when Hon. O-Jingo beholt this result he
laugh Sofia to think how smart he
was. by this criss-crossing OF varieties
soonly l shall have the beasts OF the air
and the birds Of the field mingled to one
conjamorite whole he report with eye
wink OF a careless Scientist.
But one night when he got to Hon
Roost for feed his herd OF poultry he
observed that Hon. Eagle-Hen and Hon.
Ostrich-Duck had eloped away together
somewheres to get married. So this great
Emperor he jump onto a horseback &
he explore for one entire year for fnd
where them valuable Zoology had es-
capped to. Finally one day he arrive to
dense jinglywood where he hear
sounds of kicking & screeching Q joys.
1t was the Ostrich-Duck In song. He
approach softly through shrubbery-and
what-see? Them two BRIDES. during alb
sence, had raised complete family Of
20 children who had inherited all the dis
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right and wrong ways to alight Any
body who has any acquaintance with the
enormities of German taste in objects of
everyday life will recognize the deter
rent value of the collection of articles
in bad taste which has been opened at
the National Industrial Museum at Stuff
CART.
Gustav PaZaurek is the name OF the
David who has So valianty entered the
field against the Goliath of bad taste
In the home. The ground idea upon
which all museums in Germany is based
are the elevation and guidance of public
taste by the permanent exhibition of OBJ
jects representing the highest artistic
perfection. This. however. is only the
positive side of the question: Nthe negative
side has hitherto been sadly neglected.
People are only shown what to initiate
and not what to avoid and. moreover,
considerations of expediency and economy
and the passing influences of the mo-
ment combine to nulify the good impress
sion consistently produced by museums.
Ii is just in industrial art, which is the
domain of the decoration of the home.
that the grossest offenses against the
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X German Professors Queer Collection Of Art Indscreons

thing in the nature of far-fetched eccen-
tricity.
One case shows examples of incon-
sistency between form and purpose, Their
mometers fashioned like riding whips, toy
revolvers holding pen. ink and pencil. One
of the most interesting corners of the
whole museum is in this group-the col
lection of what the professor has genial
ly dubbed trash" There are all sorts
of subdivisions. The trash thrown on the
German market by the ton as specula-
tion on the patriotic or religious feelings
of the people; souvenir trash: the rub
bisn bought up cheap by the bOurgeoists
for presents Especially wedding presents);
club trash tall the cheap jack badges, etc,
issued in connection with the myriads of
actually trash-as an example of this
Prof. PaZaurek has got together a case
full of the various monstrosities of taste
resulting from the great Zeppelin airshp
furore of last summer-and. finally. ad-
vertisement trash, the cheap. inartistic
kind The last section Of this group is
devoted to plagiarisms. such as imita-
tons in modern German china of Copen-
hagen, Sevres or Dresden ware.
The third group, by comparison.
makes the two other groups seem quite
frivolous. 1t is devoted to interior
decoration. which in Germany, under
the influence of the art nouveau move
ment. is in state of chaos as far as
homogeneousness of style and form is
concerned. The professor tries to show
where lies the golden mean between ex-
travagance in decoration and the ex-
aggerated simplicity of the ultra-modern
school. He devotes one section to what
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he labels "Brutalities of Decoration"
that is. the employment of superfiuities
as represented in many modern books,
for instance. with maximum Of margin
and a minimum of print, coarse. rough
paper and senselessly simple binding
Another section pillories the employ
ment of religious or patriotic motives in
everyday objects. such as handker-
chiefs printed with portraits of the en-
peror and empress or liver sausages
Bismarck.
There are, Furthermore. examples OF
imported dissonant foreign styles as
well as illustrations of the prevalent
mania for historical or ethnological
motives I'm furniture. As an instance Of
the chaos existing in peoples minds in
this matter Prof. Pazaurek, with mar
Vicious industry. has got together
complete collection of modern inkpots
in styles ranging from the Egyptian and
Assyrian ages down to the present time
One large case deserves a word OF spe-
cial mention. 1t is labelled .'Childhood
Ailments of the Secession" and con-
tains numerous examples OF furniture
and upholstering which were all the
rage when the new art movement first
broke out, but are now, a dozen years
after, as dead as the dodo.
Prof. PaZaurek is not content to rest
on his richly earned laurels, but earnes .
~ advocates that his brilliant and Iosi-
cal example should be followed by ALI
museums. He suggests that every art
museum should have attached to it, as
a matter OF course. a collection of hor-
full its confessed object of raising the
standard Of public taste.
Copyright in America and Great Britain by
Curtis Brown
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eye is met by Warming or Yer
bot
1t tckles the foreigner who does not
grasp the vermiform nervousness of the
German mind, and he pats himself on the
back in the proud consciousness that
we" are free people. In point of fact
the only difference between the Anglo
Saxon and German official mind is that
the former takes the broad view and
warns against the general proba bill
ties as instanced in the familiar Keep
off the grass while the German provides
for every remote contingency. every po-
tential lapse from the primrose path, in
some such awe-inspiring prohibition as
1T is forbidden to spit, smoke. sleep, be
drunk. disordery or insulting, to be
accompanied by children, dogs or bicy-
cles."
If the matter be looked into below the
surface there will be found good sound
bedrock of common sense at the bottom
of this solicitude for the peoples veal
and sometimes it has the happiest in
SEPARATIONS. Any one who has seen a Ger
man woman getting off trolley car will
appreciate the timeliness of the warning
pladards demonstrating pictorially the
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So he show me following slight scrap
ripped from newspaper
Little American Lost.
New York, July T.
Andrew McFadden Gumowsky. a small
Scottish child. age 5ts years, were found
wandering in the Park by Policeman Ali
Ben Yusuf and Detective Sergeant
Schnpperfritz. When took before Judge
Clarence Ponzetti the tiny prisoner was
asked what nationality he suspected he
was. and he replied in French with a
German accent that his Grandfather
knew best. Krako Alcibiades. a Greek
candy merchant, identified the prisoner
as child belonging to his granddaugh-
ter, Mrs. Gumowsky (nee McFadden). who
are better known as President of the
Armenian Ladies' Aid Society. Prisoner
so no more.
AS soonly as had finished assimlatng
this news with my mind Uncle Nichi say
on with sad eyebrows,
Are IL not SADLY TO see TINS hlnsuon'
after being started so we'll by Hon. Geo.
Washington & Gen. L. S. Grant, depart
ing off to the Doggies by such route?
Great fux of Foreign immigration are
doing SO to America. No sooner have
America cuddled down to her Fate with
tirm-tooth resolve to amalgamate herself
into one odd nationality. than another
boat-load full of Huns. Zuts Basharks
& other races with names sounding
like they had been collected al Mombasa
arrive here determined to kick off yolk
of oppression & start peanut-business in
the Land of the free and the home of
the Slav. ! am filled with angry RACES
TO think Of When l so out for take
$ walk with my American derby and clean
: kimono. why should l be crowdy of
sidewalks by Films & Poles standing
around expecting to vote?''
Are not Poles appropriate for votes?'
are question l require
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essay on the effect on the Anglo-Saxon
mind of the pictorial panegyrics of soap
and cocoa with which he is daily confront
> ed: in Germany public notices take the
. place of advertisements in the streets and
F.. their influence is patent in the cleanliness
8 and order of the empires great cities.
Whether il is TO distinguish the bench
for adults from the bench for chill
.dren' in the parks; whether to impore
the absent minded public in busy post
: Office not 10 forget stamp and address
letters: whether to illustrate by da-
grams of truly CHASTITY verisimlitude In
"a street car the danger of leaving the
s vehicle when in motion, at every turn the
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This Bldg is constructed
To the Memory OF O-Jingo.
Because nothing Else was left OF him.
He mixed Breeds
To see wha, he Got
And when he Got II
He wisht he Hadn't Did.
MIR. EDITOR. with imaginary eye
1vx glasses I can see Indian Chiefs
a-standing on cliffs near Plymouth.
Mass. date 1872 In away-on a English
speaking ferry-boat labelled Maynower
are approaching.
"Ah. Big Face" say LIST Indian. "let
us kill them Undesirable Aliens before
they spoil Boston
How useless report I'd Indian.
There is plenty more where they came
from"
This are the first OF Great Ex-
cursion' say 1st Indian. When they
are sufficiently numerous they will take
all good poltickal jobs away from poor
Americans. they will seize our railroads
and build clearinghouse all over the
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Generous Praise.

CLYDE FITCH praised at literary
- dinner in New York the plays Of his
young rival. Eugene Walter.
Mr.. Walters plays" said Mr. Fitch
generously. ARE remarkable in their d.
rectness. There is nothing superfiuous in
them. They require no pruning
Indeed" said Mr.. Fitch, with a smile
IF Mr.. Walter were called on to curtain
one of his strong dramas l could almost
imagine him saying truly what. under
those circumstances, another dramatist
said In Jest.
This dramatist. when requested to cut
out half of a third act demurred
Who am ~ he said plaintively, with
wave of his Egyptian cigarette i'm its
long tube of amber and gold-.who am
that | should mutilate masterpiecer
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o.nors of good taste are perpetrated and
so Prof Pazaurek. as director OF .he
Wurtt emberg Industrial museum was .,le
right man to arrange the nrst Museum
of Bad Taste the world has ever seen.
For ten years he has waged ms war
against the spread OF bad tas.e, anu
while director of the Northern boneInlan
Museum. at Prague. he tried IN VAN
tn get permission to make the expert
ment of showing people the reverse "
the medal by opening coiiectiul " ~
rible examples. But trade lhnuehces s
u-ere too strong: his superiors did not
venture TO risk the innovation SO II was
not until he became the Independent 81
rector of the beautiful museum at Seu, -
cart that Prof. Pazaurek was aoie 70
carry out his life's mission.
The Museum of Art Indiscretions, as
the professor calls his collection, has at
,racted considerable attention, not only
from the originality Of the idea' put
.,so from the all-embracing nature OF its
,;ns Its founder has declared war on
avarytbinp smacking of sham and shod-
DIV. against canvas masquerading as
leather. painted wood as marble pre-
pared linen as silk or satin. he Is ruin
lessiy severe in his condemnation OF III.
tations in modern substances or the
masterpieces in statuary. porcelain or
wood carving issuing from the great
yyorkshons and centers of industry or the
mast. The catalogue of the museum is
an amazing work. 1t betrayS the e1-
haustive study of years into a score OF
trades and it Classics and subdivides
the exhibits with a precision and COM
mand of technical Technology Whlch is
simply mastery. The museum Is divided
into three groups, illustrating lapses from
good taste in material In construction
and in decoration.
The first group illustrates what Prof.
Pazaurek calls "Preciosities In Material"
tina. is to say, examples Of things which
pretend to be what they are not or are
made of materials which are quite ir
relevant to the destined use. We all
know those china flower vases made to
look like hollowed-out tree trunks, those
little boxes made of metal to represent
hampers, or those ash trays the pride of
many a saloon bar, constructed with in
finite labor out of SO many hundred cigar
bands or postage stamps. All these arti-
cles fall under the professors ban and
may be seen in the glass cases at Stuff
CART. Then there are the senSeless COM
binations Of materials. such as Of silk
and linen. which will not wash; articles
manufactured out of freak materials
tsuch as human hair: all the varieties
of substances from canvas to linoleum
used for initiating leather and objects
made from substances foreign to their
ALA chocolate busts of the kaiser, such
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IMPAIRMENT of Horri-
II BILE Examples Established
by Prof. Pazaurek, Director
of the Stuttgart Museum
Outcome of Ten Years War
on limitations and General
Ugliness-Proving a Power
full Factor in Improving Pub
lie Taste in Germany-Exhl-
bition Includes Freak Mate
rails, Uncomfortable Chairs.
Rubbish Sold as Letter
Weights, Household Objects
of Homogeneous Shape and
Substance, Plaster Faxed to
Look Like Marble and All
the Other Things That Help
to Make Home Hideous-
All Articles are Scientifically
Classified.
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Catskills. And when the Alien Races
are running America what will the poor
Red Man get out of it?''
THE Carlysle Indian School, I sup
pose corrode Hon. Big Face and track
away into the unpalatable forest.
Hoping you are the same.
Yours truly,
Hashimura Togo.
P. S.-Some wild Scientists is saying
that America-mans & Japanese mans
would look very nice mixed y together.
Do not chew this remark seriously. Mr..
Editor. There are fools In every Ian
guage. Whiskey are a pretty fine dis
tillery when took separate. Beer are
quite delicious brewery when drank
apart. Then why make pour-together &
spoil good beveridges? l require 10
answer. II. T.
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America for slight hundred years so
guess what nationality their children
are?"
would you exclude off all foreigners,
tones.
mot entirely" expose my jay ancestor
But 1 should be much more cross &
stricted about them than now is. Be-
sides criminals of crooked records, luna
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THE LETTERS OF A JAPANESE SCHOOLBOY

boat. But how to tell criminal from
any other italian? This are hard oucs-
ton for all Inspectors. because Criminals
are like inventors of airships-very shy
& modest when talking about themselves.
If you approach up to a Criminal and
require Are you a Criminal?" he will
merely blosh & change the subjeck.
-
One simple way to tell Criminal are
to look him in the eyes and see what
you find there. II he are perfectly
STRAIGHTFORWARD and honest by express
sion. that are a sure sign he have es-
capped from Cicily after numbering his
Hon. Grandmother with saw so ne
could inherit her life-insurance. But Il
Hon Immigrant wear a sneekret IL
Iynch-dog expression Of very cute cruel
ty, this are a pretty sure symptom that
he are a honest man wishing to join
his sweetheart & wives in n. Y.
Another way to tell a criminal are to
turn him loose in America. II he are
caught doing a crime. he are a criminal:
II not, he are either an honest man or a
careful one.
Sydney Katsu, jr., who studied molly
cuddling at Harvard. say-so it are all
Of Foreigners to rich Soup: but some
Soup are deliciously abomirfable because
it got toe much Garlick In it. Also. say
Sydney. human races is like Biological
Birds they got to be mixed with some
discreetness or horrible rumpage must re-
suit
fairy-story about antique Japan:
In date about 5000 before the Mormon
conquest Of England there reside in Yed-
do a Emperor name O-Jingo who was
not only a king. but also god, which
were a great help in his business. Now,
when this Emperor had finished off civil
izng all the entire world excepting of
China, which was late. as usuaD, he go
back to his Royal Farm & begin raising
poultry to show how smart he was. He
were not satisfied to raise merely plain
Ducks, thank you. All, surely 20. He
must have Luther Burbank varieties Of
surprised towels.
Firstly he go to work for breed a
Eagle & a Hen. Them Eggs hatch open
and-alive sakes, what a cross-looking
chicken was there born! Hon. Emp.
O-Jingo were delight to see this birdie.
what growed up to be fighting Ply
mouth Rock what could lay six eggs in
the morning & fly around killing hawks
in the afternoon. So O-Jingo he get am
bilious and married a Duck with a
Ostrich. Result Of this union were a
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No intelligence responded by Nichi
ITO see them give me exclusive feeling
of elbows" resum Uncle Nichi. Must
America be entirely full of Aliens? Why
should not Hon. VIM. Loeb. or some
other gentleman of New England an
cestry. stand at port of n. Y. and knock
off them foreigners when they arrive?
What are that big iron Goddess of
Liberty doing in port n. Y. holding up
piano lamp SO strangers can see-how
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1896 and worked there for seven years.
His little steamboat on the Seine at
tracted a great deal of attention and
worked well enough to convince him that
he was on the right track. Returning to
New York In 1906, he continued his ex-
periments on the Hudson and in 1907 the
world got the Clermont, the forerunner
of the mighty ocean liners of today.
Born in the same year as Fulton, an
other leader in the line of American In
ventors, Ell Whitney, had been working
on different lines. His work attracted
less attention. yet 1t was of vital impor-
lance. for cotton might never have been
king but for the invention of the cotton
gin by Eli Whitney.
Whitney graduated from Yale He
studied law on the estate of the widow
of Gen. Greene. He found there that
the cotton culture of the period was lin
tied by the slow and difficult work Of
separating the cotton from the seed by
hand. Whitney set to work under great
disadvantages to invent machine that
could do the work. and the result was the
cotton gin. far more important than any
other invention connected with the great
industry.
These were some OF the very early
great inventors. About the time that the
last of the trio was in his heyday Samuel
Morse was born. He was destined to
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agreeable qualities OF their surprised an
cestors. They had inherited the light
mindedness Of the ostrich, the mad dis
position OF the eagle. the deceptiveness
of the duck and the hysteria Of the hen.
Them young birds was six-feet tall with
domnick speckIes. hooked beaks and
soft, gentle eyes like duck. When they
seen their Proprietor they hid their
heads in hole with a loud cackle. then
with horrible quacking sound they roshed
at Hon. O-Jingo and ate him to death
after kicking him to pieces.
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n hE Is one as
pect of German life
which is a perpet-
ual joy TO the in
quiring foreigner.
and that is the
tender solicitude of
the official mind
for the welfare of
the pu ID ic. In
these days of ana :
lytical it e nature
s o m e n 2 W IL !
doubtless write an
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Of art" as these.

are the best known products of his re
MUS.
1t Is worthy of note that nearly ali
of these inventions credited to Amer
leans are devices intended for the use OF
the thousands.
With traditions like these backing them
the Wright brothers have fair cause te.
feel thSt their aeroplane is destined to be
the first airship that will have practical
value.
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b-Mrs. Ellen R. McGlyn variety who
nearly refuse to take American
money because it are so Middle
Glass.
I'd Class-Italian Opera-singers, painters,
cooks & bootblacks.
a-Kind what fail to get rich & go
home sobbing that America are
vacant in Art
b-Kind what go home with 100000
declaring that America are a beau
suburbs around ancient Greece.
Sd Class-Foreisn Political Reformers.
a-Kind what thinks Americans are all
Grafters because they reads the Up
lifted Magazines.
b-Kind what meets the real Grafte.s
& borrows money from Them
c-Kind what tries to. but can't
4th Class-Kind what wants to be polite
about America but can't think Of
nothing nice to say. So they report,
american ladies is very remark
able" and depart back to Europe.
4
-~R. EDITOR, I sent this above
lvl skejule to Hon. Philander p.
Knocks. Washington, but I have got no
thanks for comeback Maybe he are
the wrong statesman to receive it: or
maybe them immigration suggestions
was foolish because Of Uncle Nichrs
raw intelligence. Undoubtlessly my
dearie Unc are too peeved about them
Foreigners. II they did not come 30
America, who would? Also, America
must have some laboring done. musnt
It? And who shall build subway & scoop
Mimi mans? America-mans Is too fash
ionable to do this low-down drudgeness.
They must do broke-business In Wall
Street or attend to Trusts politics.
So must we snip scorn to Hon. Dago
Foreigner who, by dent of hard labors
doing pick-shovel work by day & Black
& retire off? Answer lie. No.
Some other good reason why Foreigners
is best-good for America is this: a per-
feet Nation be like a perfect Soup-mix-
ture Of healthy vegetables gathered from
everywheres: beef from England,
potatoes from Ireland, cabbages from
Germany. slight garlick from Italy. pep
per from Spain. salt from Sweden &
Jews from everywheres. Only vegetable
what should be excluded from Hon. Ma
tional Soup is beets, which are less
nourishing.
What-say Hon Ben Franklin about I'm
migrations? He-say. TOO many crooks
spoil the BROTH Therefore, Hon. Unc
Sam shall be very careful to permit only
high-class criminals to arrive here by