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Evening star., 1909-08-21

him. saying that he thought Mr. Cook
would not return such confidence.
''Mr. Cook will trust me with his pocket
book, said Spencer. but he wouldn't
trust you with it, while We go across tie
street to buy cigars.
Mr.. Cook still had Corcorans pocket
book with the jewels in 1t. So to relieve
Mr.. Corcorans embarrassment. Mr. Cook
offered him his pocketbook containing
Loo francs good cash. and Corcoran and
You know the rest. The jewels that Mr..
Cook held turned out to he worthless.
What is this magic place?
Is the boulevard the brain of Paris No,
the intellectual city is the Latin quarter
whose inhabitants are strangers to the
boulevard.
Is the boulevard the center o. Partisan
traffic? No. the Places of the Chatelet and
Republic must always remain this by
reason of the markets and the railway
stations
Is the boulevard the center OF fashion ?
No. wealth and fashion are far west.
Is the boulevard the money centero No,
the bourse quarter is hidden beyond its
eastern limit. and the bourse OF commerce
district escapes it entirely as do those
of the Bank of France city hall and min
iStry of finance.
Is the boulevard the center of pleas.
ure" No. Montmartre with the Champs,
Eiysees and Bois make the boulevard
seem old-fashioned. The pleasures OF
Paris do not help or hurt the boulevard
Its anima ton is highest twice a day at
the very hours when all places OF
amusement are filled-at > o'clock in
10 "a tnr nd af i.~ht
Thus. not very broad avenue rather
ugly. badly built. with dusty trees far
from parks or gardens. without 4 sin
gle square. is nevertheless the palpi-
tating heart of Paris.
1t is the press that does IT, Along
boulevard and on side streets the great
dailies have their Offices What Paris
will know tomorrow the boulevard
knows today. What papers may not
print the boulevard discusses. The boiile-
ward is the public opinion of France
and often of the world.
Every tourist feels it. Toned down To
whatever note of receptivity that NAV
be his. the tourist feels the shadow of
that mighty thrill. 1t is this participl-
ton in a vast collective consciousness
that throws the cautious American off
his guard. The promenade deck of an
Atlantic liner gives the thrill in a small
way. The commotion. the movement
the gossip, the common high spirits, the
=
serious purpose. melt even the fastid.
Gus into chance acquaintances they
would not make at home.
x
The Paris boulevard is like a thou
sand steamer decks in one
1t is charming to sit in the center o.
the world: but you must take care
what you say. Two friends We're talk
ing over a game of poker. He cheated
like Creek one said. A man shot u,
from the next table. Sir. ! am &
Creek.
NV friend spoke French. He rose
folded his arms and replied. hotly: "Yol
wish. monsieur. to put a German quar-
rel on me. perhaps?
.'Mein Gott.' cried Teutonic voice
Il belief 1 am insulted.
My friend grew hot at being drawi
Evening star., 1909-08-21
Nothing Like 1t Here.

Joseph LETTER, at a dinner in WASH
J ington, said earnestly of his approach
ing European tour:
Where | going I'll find something
that We haven't here. that well never
have here-namely. hopeless poverty.
Mr. Letters seriousness gave place to. a
lighter mood.
Why" said he, the poverty OF Europe
is so acute that I am credibly informed
il is quite a common thing over there for
little children, knocking at neighbors'
doors, to whine:
Please, ma'am mother says will ye
lend somethin to pawn till pay day
evenin'? -
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TABLES ON THE SIDEWALK.
M1zzz

the south pole Your children will huy
il as: .'The Tunnel Diggers of BerinE
Strait.
The takers Of the boulevard can sell
anything. Once they disposed of Job
lot of 100000 copies of Landlord and
Tenant Law in three days.
Mime. Normands Authentic Fortune
telling, has ten pages OF text, and a
many wood-cuts. They have sold loo edi-
tons of it.
Among these boulevard takers there are
broken-down mobiles, ruined spectators.
unfrocked priests, dishonored soldiers.
wayward sons, the debris of the past.
once I heard two old ragged fellows talk
ing:
.It was the year we made the copper
pool / gave Amelia her house i'm the
Champs Elysees,'' said he of the dropping
mustache.
Il remember, answered the gray beard.
1T was the year you got me voted in at
the Rue Royale.
Now the Rue Royale'' is OF the
three ultra-aristoeratic clubs OF Paris.
Dishonored old age and gutter bred youth
sell the same novelties. Here are boys
who viii end in jail for garroting. They
are witty. saucy. worldly wise and as
cynical and good-natured clubmen.
They say:
Buy. monsieur the baron?"
If it fails, they promote YOU: Buy.
monsieur the marduis?'
Gaze on them coldly and they go one
better: Buy. my prince?
And you say. condescending. as YOU
purchase trick post card: Good. Al
last. You took your time about it,
STERLING HELLO.
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the children has become great that it
has been found necessary to distribute
cards of admttance. This is done
through the teachers of the various
schools.
The constant aim is To arouse the chill
dren's interest in the proper books. and
the story is made "a means OF opening the
Iages of books which the children would
not read otherwise.
Miss E,ngle. who is in charge of the
work. says: Books are bought and placed
in the library before the demand for them
is created by the story. Now, when the
story is told. the book in which ii is
found is personally introduced by the
story teller. As a direct result of the
work, wonderful change has been no
ticed in the character of books sought
and read by the children of the city
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dog and bubbling with happy anticipa
chair and it crumbled under him. AMI
he picked himself up with joy written all
over his infatuated map and he says u
me:
= This will be a dandy place for week
end parties. he says.
Yes | says but ii poor one for
shape of bathtub around this estab-
lishment. ! says. is cracked soap dish.
and what il makes up in shape | says.
it lacks in size | says. Any time |
says that | should undertake to crow l
my person INTO china soap dish and
take a bath ] says, L have a feeling
that ] would lop over the edges. says.
in q way to remind me of a large batch
of Yeast in small crock
"And I'm quite sure that that ol
sideboard is genuine Chippendale.' puts in
Mrs. Watkins, twittering with joy like a
canary.
.'Ill take oath that the plumbing is
genuine Mohawk Indian. l says 4
guess ! must be lacking in romance and
poetry ! says, but / wouldn't give one
set of hot and cold water fixtures for
all the old oaken buckets that ever hung
in we'll. says. Hanging's none 30
good Tor Them l says.
We'll we stood ii week
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Ulysses victorious return to home and
family.
This series was found to be the most
popular of all. Transations adapted for
chidrens use have been read and re-read
for three years: whereas before that time
these books were hardly ever looked into
by the children. They share all the dan
gers and diSa SterS of Ulysses, and rejoice
in his ingenuity in getting out Of such
terrible fixes: but they take a special de-
light in his triumph over his enemies
when he finally reaches home.
Another series deals with Spenser' S
Fairie Queen. Una and the Lion: ST.
George and the Dragon. Britomart and
the Magic Mirror: Florimell and the Sea
Nymph's Son
The books containing these stories were
never read. owing to the quaint language.
and the lack of certainty as to their
containing real stories. But the story
telling has stimulated such a literary ap-
probation in the school children OF the
grammar grade that large number o.
them now read and enjoy Spenser and
the names of his characters have become
familiar in hundreds of Philadelphia
homes.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
form another series. This is very popu-
lar with the older children, and the in
terest thus directed to medieval English.
through the thrilling adventures of this
famous legendary band of outlaws, has
resulted in their reading many old English
romances and some history.
The story OF the Rhinegold is dealt with
in another series. How the gold was
stolen: Brunnhilde the war maiden; Sieg-
fried the fearless; the Magic Ring. Sieg-
fried and Brunnhilde have become as pop
ular as Jack the Giant Killer and Cinder-
ella. The children will not need a libretto
il they ever go to the opera. for the
librarians state that all the books on this
subject have been read to pieces.
Then there is h series of historic legends
king Arthur and His Sword: Roland
and Oliver: Adventures of the Cid: Will
liam Tell the Boy and the Apple. II has
been found that after hearing one tale.
the awakened interest leads the children
to ask for just those books to which IT
was designed to draw their attention.
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"a WN y
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sieur Chauchard, Two cents,
The takers run mp the boulevard. a
string Of ten. in exaggerated business
hurry. each behind the other crying the
same novelty.
The Americans at Panama. the little
ditchers" Ii is an ancient wooden toy
in which two figures chop alternately.
Years ago il figured as the Madagascar
colonists. Yesterday il was "Charcot at
Evening star., 1909-08-21

ciairS. Beneath tho awnings blow oreeZes
pcrfumed with absinthe, vioiets, c"iiee'
cordials ard tl3e sachets of pretty women
of all lands \ mighty human river flows
past-idlcrs ali.
In this charming razzle the most cool
headed Americans have lost their caution
and their money. The other day, the
representative of a New York bank. sat
lnder the letter ''l'' in the word 'PaiN
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V1lilIl

tached to the great free library system
which has done so much in the last ten
years to forward the cause of educa-
tion. and last year more than sixty
thousand children assembled to have
told to them the famous classics of
fairy lore.
A new season will start in month.
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delightful summer cottage with a well
and a we'll bucket and an orchard and
barn yard full of lowing fowl and cack
ling kline and all the rest of good old 81
Whitcomb's favorite family prescription.
The picture only needed a mortgage on
the place and grasping squire and the
visiting scoundrei with his Slick city vest
and his striped ways to be the first act
Mrs Watkins. Always having lived N
city. she felt that she was born for
life on the farm. just as all parties raised
on farm think they ought to be in the
city So she announced to Watkins that
instead of wasting all their money and
being bored to death spending the month
so up into New Hampshire or Vermont
and pick out highly desirable aban-
Goned farm that had all the modern
eonveniences and was marked down from
eight dollars to seven dollars and seven
ty-fve cents So Watkins asked me 10
go with him. and ! being one of those
weak persons that can always think No
at the right time but never say it-why.
l went along to give them the benefit Of
my advice j ought to know lot about
farms anyhow have an uncle in Mis-
souri, who lives on one Or, at any rate,
he thinks he does Once wear he goes
to the st. Joe fair and on Sundays he
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PHILADELPHIA is

fILADELPlflA Is
the first city 70
have a depart
ment for telling
fairy stories to
children.
1t is as much 4
part of the NUM-
cipal activities Of
the city as the
department of
police or public
works. 1t is at
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Americans Will do
the boulevard.
They will sit in
the exact center of
the world. 1t IS
the open sidewalk
round the Place de
and in the
offine. under the
awning. There are
la,sp little tables
and 10. 11:n little
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The Vegetarian.

From he New York Sun.
Observation-Disclosures was eating grass.
Yes" he remarked. II have come down
to being a consumer
Herewith he regretted his lost estate.
FirSt student-Harod studied too hard.
He was in a fever last night and imagined
he was conversing with old Euclid.
Second student-If he was where Euclid
has been consigned to. no wonder he was
hot.-BoSton Transcript.
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into auarrels by the use of common
proverbs.
You are drunk sir he said .as
drunk as G Pole
stop. there" came a warning voice
from a long haired man. Il will no
hear the Polish race maligned.
NV friend looked darkly at the three.
Since you all take me for Turk ;
head he began. but when yellow
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x Municipal Department for Telling Fairy Tales y

Preparations are being made to carry
on the work on far larger scale. and
it is confidently expected that not less
than 100000 children will gather 20
hear the tales in the next eight months
One day week is set apart for tell
ing fairy stories to the youngsters. On
these days in every public library or
the city instructors welcome the little
ones and spend an aftepoon retailing
to them the tales that have for -centu-
ries held children breathless.
Experts agree that the fairy story is
of vital Importance to the juvenile
mind. 1t stimulates the imagination.
strengthens the love of beauty, trains
the memory teaches lessons of right
and wrong and shows virtue triumph
ant and wickedness punished.
The telling of stories is only prepa-
ration to reading on part of the little
ones. 1t was discovered by the library
experience of many years that the
children had certain favorites and that
they read these again and again to the
neglect of books that also merited con
Sideration.
The children did not know what was
in them.
But as soon they gained a certain
knowledge of their contents by hear
ing some of the stories there was an
instant demand for the books So 1t
has been with the other classes of lit
erature. Tell the children a few sto-
ries from a book and they go and read
the rest for themselves.
Miss Engle. who has the direction
of the work in Philadelphia. has built
up an excellent system the practical
application of which forms a splendid
course in English literature for chill
dren. The stories have been divided in
to series. each aimed to stimulate de-
sire in the children for certain book
or class of literature dealing with cer-
tain subjects which appeal to the chll-
dren. but in manner that shall helI
and strengthen while keeping them en-
tertained.
One series comprises some of the ad
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LAS soon as | took one look at the wag
way the gables sagged down l knew why
the former proprietor had abandoned It
the thought that some night storm
might come up and he'd wake up to find
he was holding shinge roof in his lap
with lot of rafters pressing down on his
forehead had borne upon his mind so that
he'd moved off the place. But Mrs. Wat
kins was all raptures over it. and Wat
kins poor creature that he is, caught
the fever from her. She said she'd bet
anything there was a grandfathers clock
behind the hall door all ready to start
ticking. But the only thing We found
belonging to grandfather was a pair Of
veteran overalIs. and they weren't tick
ing, either. being corduroy. and having
evidently been retired from duty many
years before on account of serious dis
abilities sustained in active service. The
parlor looked like a place where you
could never feel at home unless you were
sitting UP with a corpse there. and the
bedrooms had an aroma about them that
suggested a woodpeckers nest. But Wat
kins was going around. busy as clown
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Ever stay at an apandoneu iarih
repeated the Hotel Clerk.
Il did not" said the House Detective
with firlnness NOR in a haunted house,
nor in a graveyard after II o'clock at
night nor a city morgue. And wot's
more. I never will.
Well" said the Hotel Clerk. every
not saying that / expect to make reSii-
lar habit of it. | can take an abandoned
farm or ] can leave il alone.
Il didn't know you'd gone into the bust
ness Of colleetin' farms. said the House
Detective Specially abandoned farms. "
Your ignorance surprises me-" said the
Hotel Clerk Don't you know it's the
proper thing for everybody of class to
buy an abandoned farm somewhere up
i'm Tie abandoned farm belt of New Eng
land and convert it into little paradise
on earth Well it is It's the proper
thing for every city-raised man with
much as eleven dollars in the bank To go
10 South Buryport somewhere. and lac
an abandoned farmer.
But really. | don't think I'm intended
hy nature for tile role of a New England
rustic Eve noticed that on the stage al
ri them go AROUND with straws in Their
mouths and say BY Heck and 1 YUM.
of c,rrS t.nrd.
that appeal 70 me more than those de-
odorized brands and l wouldn't give a
cent to hold a straw in my mouth unless
il connected with mint Julep or gin
he a New England farmer. abandoned
or otherwise. II was my friend Watkins
that led me into it,
Watkins IS just plain, ordinary man.
stock pattern, size sixteen. with vegc-
iarians under Jaw and the eye Of a
breakfast food eater. BY the time he
makes up his mind 10 the necessity % do
ing a thing the necessity of doing il
las passed. which is one of the advan
tages OF Fletcherizng your thoughts.
But Ills wife Mrs Watkins. is diff,r-
ert. She says its temperament that
makes her act that way. but if dog
behaved in tie same manner you'd have
him gone over for feas And optimistic
Larry If that woman found a chance
III d turkey raiiie the street she'd have
tie whole turkey dinner planned out. in
IL ill the bird with, before she got home.
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pen TO men of intelligence. Some pre-
tend thai the iasidious novel drinks are
Il, blame.
There is a drink called "For the
princes bearing no hint on its label
of the cocaine, poppy and hyssop it con-
tains Absinthe is green with opalescent
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wears celluloid collar and drives nine
miles to church in an Old Hickory
wagon l guess he doesn't iive-he only
thinks SO.
Mrs. Watkins ran the expedition. follow
ing her pleasing custom. She had the
route all mapped and the ideal aban
doned farm located and properly staked
cut, SO all we had to do was to take
the trail and go there.
1--WE took the Flyer. The other trains
stop at all the stations, but the Flyer
doesn't stop al one very small one. sc
that makes it FLYER. AS it happened
the only station where the Flyer doesn',
stop is the one where we wanted to get
off. so we went on to the next station
and rode back in a farm wagon. The
gent who'd interested Mrs Watkins in
the abandoned farms told her this one
was within easy walking distance of the
station and so it was-for Old Man Wes-
ton. or that other pedestrian friend oi
ours, the Wandering Jew. We tried walk
ing it. but after we'd walked about as
far as from here to Dayton. Ohio. oval
"A road that had been laid out originally
by a COW. but not used much since b.
her or any one else. hired one OF
those rigs called a democrat SO called
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| suppose because it's thing that's get
ting rarer all the time. and we drove VI
to Mrs. Watkins little paradise on earth
in due state.
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OF the tapping awning sign of that world
famous cafe. He bought a dehcate
,,latXe-coIored dTiGk. ~ith tink'i-s ise.
i seemed as weak as circus lemonade,
but tasted delicious.
These sidewalk tables. filled with agree
able American tourists. are as good Tor
Evening star., 1909-08-21
Rv Irwin S. Cobb.

AIRY said the
Hotel Clerk to the
House Detective of
the ST. Reckless.
did you ever stay
at an abandoned
farm 90
did | ever
which, said the
House Detective,
puzzled.
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and girls. Olaf the Brave. Alexander the
Great. Joan of Arc, the Princess in the
Tower, Pocahontas. Through this series
Olaf and Joan have become great favor
ties. and old Viking tales and French his
tory have been made popular.
There is a series of American pioneers.
Pontiac. the Great Chief. Elizabeth Zane,
the Girl Who Saved the Fort. Daniel
Boone, the Indian Fighter; Kit Carson
the Scout This series has a great draw
ing power among the boys. 1t satisfied
their love for Indian tales. and led
them from dime novels and har-raising
stories of the plains to standard Ameri-
can history. AS result the Indian took
his place as great figure in history,
and not as outlaw. while the interest
of the boys in their school work received
a splendid impetus.
Robert Bruce and the Black Douglas
form another series. How Bruce Killed
Red Com; How the Three Castles Were
Taken by the Scots: How Bruce Won a
Great Battle. The stirring events ard
battle scenes made this series. also,
great drawing power among the boys. In
the mill districts of Philadelphia. where
there are many people of Scottish and
English descent. this series reacted on
the parents. They heard the stories
through their children. and "A decided
the result.
A series of tales from Shakespeare
proved very interesting to the children.
The story of King Lear was readily un-
derstood even by young children, and
each story carried lesson of respect fo:
the aged and duty to parents.
4 series of Morse stories comprises the
Magic Apples, Lollis Gifts. Thor's Won
derful Hammer Balder and the Mistletoe.
This series was found to be better
adapted TO childrens understanding than
tales from Greek mythology. The wicked,
mischievous Loki is always hailed with
delight. but his punishment in each story
is always voted just one.
Heroes of the Sea is another series.
This is full of romantic adventure and
sterling instruction in standard history.
1t was made dOubly interesting to the
children by having an eloeutionist read
some of the famous poems of the at
the close OF each story.
The popularity of the story hour among
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1T seems Mrs. Watkins got To reading
about what delightful bargains you could
find up among abandoned farms and how
any one by the expenditure of about four
dollars and thirty-five cents could turn
one OF these quaint old homesteads into
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One series comprises some % the ad-
ventures OF Ulysses. His escape from the
Cyclops: his visit to Gree: his shipwreck;
Telemachus' search for his father, and
Evening star., 1909-08-21
I'M the Boulevard Where
~ the Confidence Game
Succeeds With Wary Ameri-
cans-At the Tables on the
Sidewalk-In the Palpitating
Heart of the Cav French
Capital-The First Two Vic
tins of the Present Season.
Why and How?
I T

Special Correspondence of The Star.
PARIS. August L.. 1893.
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Another series deals with historic boys
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-02-12
Home Study Courses in Book
keeping, Shorthand and
Typewriting

Have been added to the Moothart
Business Colleges. Students attend
ing public and literary schools may
take this work In their homes. Tu-
ition reasonable. II interested,
write for particulars to q. w. Moot
hart, Pennington, Mo.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-02-12

Ostentations manners, a faithful
Christian, charitable by nature,
neighborly, openhearted and liberal
TO his neighbors and friends, and
devoted to his family. To each Of
his living children he has given a
goodly portion of land for q home.
His youth to the age Of fifteen or
sixteen, was contemporaneous with
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson,
having been born during the presi-
Dental administration of the latter.
He has lived through twenty-five
presidential administrations, always
after he became of age voting the
Democratic ticket. Being three days
the senior of Abraham Lincoln, the
first OF our martyred Presidents, he
survives him about forty-six years,
and had arrived at manhood when
the eloquence Of Clay, Webster and
Calhoun electrified the country.
A hundred years! II cannot be
expected that many more are In
store for him here, but when their
weight have fallen away a glorious
youth awaits him that will never
grow old.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-02-12
w. c. 4, U. PROGRAM FoR
SUNDAY SCHOOL RALLY

A w. &. T. u. Sunday School
Rally will take place at the NJ. T..
Church at three O'Clock Sunday af-
ternoon, February 18th, for which h
the following program has been ar
ranged:
Reading-Miss Annie Menge.
Duet-Misses DeAllen Mckinney
and Rachel Murrill.
ReadIng-Miss Leila MeClintock.
Violin Solo-PRul Jones.
Reading--Miss Opal Watts.
Solo-Frank Tucker.
Reading--M Miss Cora Nations.
Duet--Misses Irene MeManus and
Ethel MeMuhin.
Reading-MIss Mabel Sackmann.
Male Quartette- Messrs. Court,
Pratt, Nelson and Gaines.
Flve-minute talks by the pastors OF
the different Churches of the town