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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-27
INVASION OF LONDON
BY WEIRD PARIS ART
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
LONDON, November q, 1910
- ONDON is at present enjoying an
artistic thrill and isn't quite sure
- whether it likes the sensation or
not The thrill is caused by an exhibition
in the Grafton Galleries of the work of
Manet and the other artists Of the post
impressionist school which Is so familiar
in Paris, but which until now has not
been seen on this side of the channel.
The first impression that the ordinary
man gets on entering the gallery is that
he is viewing the artistic output of the
inmates of a lunatic asylum. Weirdly
contorted shapes. depicted in colors that
never existed in nature. cover the can
vases which adorn the walls. Women
pose in attitudes that no anatomist can
explain. while purple and blue trees
spring from situations in which no self
respecting tree could maintain itself
And woe betide the unskilled amateur
who attempts to examine the picture at
close quarters He will see nothing but
mass of meaningless smudges and
splashes of crude color or perhaps a
neat checker board pattern of little
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-27

There is no place in the world for a
disfieured woman. Why is it, do you
SUPPOSE, that a woman hesitates to take
up aeroplaning and vie with men in this
sport. as she has done SO successfully
in other fields? Because she does not
want to spoil her good looks. That's the
reason, and no other. Suppose a woman
were to lose control of flying machine
hundreds of feet in the air, as so many
men have done. and should come tum-
hing down to earth and be buried beneath
it's wreck. Suppose she were not killed
outright, but should be borne tenderly
from beneath the machine with q limb
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-27

Of magnifving spectacles, in order to be
BILE to color the detailed portions or the
picture The picture has hrst 10 De mos
tened, and then but one color put on at
a time, which must be allowed to dry pc
fore beginning with another Inc great
est care has to be taken, and the picture
continually busted off in order 10 prevent
even the smallest speck from auheInis
70 the surface as when 1t was thrown
upon the screen it would very materially
affect the look of the picture
For much of my work l have to &C
cumulate data before beginning. For IN
stance, l was called upon to tint rare
species of mosquito In order to get the
proper coloring l had to visit the various
museums and hunt until 1ound
snecimen of the particular species l want
ed. And then when it was found dls-
covered that under the magnifying glass
ito wings were colored most beautifully.
but to the naked eye it appeared quite
plain In another case ! hao 10 coio,
some meat which was useo IN pt III. ,na
lecture In order to properly unt tne
fibers and other portions OF TINS mao 10
visit one or two meat dealers In the CITY
and make careful study or the various
cuts of meat. ,. 49,
her work has come with long experience,
as she has been engaged in similar WORK
for a number of years and comes from an
artistic family. She is a native OF Oper-
lin, Ohio Both her father and mother
were artists. the former having his studio
in Sandusky, Ohio. Miss Piatt attended
Mount Holyoke College. and. although she
had no thought at the time or becoming
a slide tinter, she pursued course oI
studies which has materially aided her
in her present work. 1t is not every girl
who studies geology, zoology and art and
then finds as great use for them as does
Miss Platt.
After leaving college Miss Platt went
into her fathers studio and took ad-
vantage of opportunities which were of,
fered her there In this way she received
instruction from Carl B. Fetsch Of Indt-
annapolis. James Lowe Of New York and
others At her fathers death Miss Platt
opened a studio of her own. and since
then has followed art work She has had
studios in several cities in the United
States, and has been in Washington for
the past fifteen years, during which time
she has done great amount OF work Tor
the government.
Miss Platt uses regular Photographic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-27
Tintinq Lantern Slides for the Government

retouching frame for her work, and turns
the most proSafc slides into delightful
color schemes. In some of the slides sew
eraI boxes of strawberries form the pic
ture, and in even such minute work the
result awakens desire for the return of
berry time the fruit looks so luscious
This same artistic touch is noticeable in
all Miss Platt's work, and whether it be
water, trees, flowers, or even cuts of meat
or fibers. the result is sure to be all that
could be desired. Miss Platts special
pleasure is bringing out the proper per-
Spective in exterior views, and In mountain
and foliage scenes particularly she takes
delight in bringing out the smallest de-
tail. She has the reputation Of having
a larger variety of green's in her paint
box than any other artist here. Besides
tinting lantern slides Miss Platt is an
adept in crayon and pastel work. as well
as india-ink sketches.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-27

squares of red, blue. yellow and green
which seem to have been laid on with
a putty knife. Viewed at distance
these squares blend into picture Whlci.
one often can recognize as a portrayal
of something that really exists in nature.
To any one who knows even little OF
the technique of painting these works
really are marvels of artistic craftsman
ship. They all possess in common the
quality which has been described al:
''divisionism.'' by which it is meant that
the painters employ chiefly the primary
colors and that each color is laid on sep
arately the artist depending for his draw
ing and value on the effect of distance and
light. Even layman can understand
how sure of his technique man must
be when he is laying on these dabs OF
color, which viewed at close quarters
are only dabs, but which six feet away
blend into a picture.
This is the only quality which can be
said to be common to them all. Each
artist has adopted different style and a
DERIVING idea is that true art does not
depict things as they really are, but as
they appear to the individual at the mo-
ment This may account for the purple
trees and blue grass and for some of the
weird contortionS of the human body
But one pities the man who sees things
as some of these artists depict them.
Many of the pictures look like the un-
formed drawings of clever children. and
indeed. this is one of the qualities claim
ed for them. 1t is asserted that the
child sees things as they really are and
not as they are conventionally imagined
to be.
The pictures now on view in England
are not patch on those which one may
see twice year in Paris at the Salon
d'Automne and the Salon des Independ-
ants. English public opinion wouldn',
stand for most of these The French
seem to tolerate anything which bears
the name of art but serious artists in
Paris are beginning to protest against
the license allowed to persons whose
only aim is to attract public attention
by weird sensationalism or by outra ging
all the decencieS.
One of the high priests in the new
movement in Paris is Henri Maltese In
the Salon d'Automne this year he has
two canvases which arrest attention as
soon as one enters the exhibition They
are huge paintings depicting a group of
red devils dancing on black back
ground The anatomy of the figures
may be all right in the place where
devils come from. but no one could iden-
tify the figures on Mattisse's canvases
as man. woman or beast. The red is of
the crudest quality, without the slightest
attempt to render value or light and
shade effects. Many of the other pic
lures in the Salon d'Automne will not
bear description.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-27

birds or are they preserved food prod
The customs court has been working
only a little over six months, and thus
far few questions have come up con-
corning the tariff law passed last year
The cases now being considered date back
from one to three years, and most OF
them have been the subject of long con-
troversy before they landed in Washing
ton, accompanied by .voluminous testl-
mony and interesting exhibits.
There is large back room In the suite
of ohlces occupied by the court given al
most entirely to exhibits Although only
about 500 cases have been filed. the eY-
hibits already occupy a considerable
space. They include everything from
patent medicines to iron castings, auto
mobile tires and pewter pitchers. inside
the bundles in the exhibit cases are spec1-
eggs, canned fruit perfume and laces,
embroideries, Chinese fancy work and
manufactured articles OF all kinds
The customs court was created in the
tariff law of last year, to act as the
place Of final appeal in all controversies
over classification Of imported goods.
Matters Of valuation, with which Col
lector William Loeb at New YORK and
collectors at other ports are constantly
dealing. do not come within Its scope.
The tariff law says that a certain duty
shall be charged on certain thing. but
there seems to be an endless number OF
uncertain things of which the tariff law
and Congress never heard.
1t is these uncertain things upon which
the customs court must pass, and decide
in what class they shall be put and what
duty they shall pay. The articles that
fall between two classes. or on the di-
viding line. or that do not come within
any provisions of the law are sent UP
to the court for its consideration and
judgment.
Many of the cases calling for this ex-
pert Judgment originate in the peculiar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-27

NE of the many interesting features
Of Uncle Sans service which
~ rarely appears upon the surface,
and one which is perhaps less known in
Washington than elsewhere. is the COL
ored slides that the majority Of depart
ments have made for the purpose of Illus
trating lectures on the work being done
by that branch of the service.
The work has become so important
factor in the life of a large portion OF
the people of this country that 1t has
become necessary to devise some method
by which they could be informed Of
what was going on, and the illustrated
lecture is one of several means, and in
many ways the most interesting. Bull
letins are issued by all the departments
but they do not serve the same pur-
pose as the delicately colored slides, which
instruct as we'll as interest.
Not only must the person engaged in
coloring the slides have varied knowi-
edge of subjects, but must be an artist
in the truest sense of the word. Among
the few people who are engaged i'm such
work for the government Is Miss Ella NJ.
Platt, who, perhaps. more thSn any one
person. brings a wide knowledge of DIFF
ferent things to her work, ihaslnuch as
number of departments each of which
handles a different class OF work
!:
1T depends upon the slide" said Miss
Platt in the attractive little studio in
which she does her work. las to how long
il requires to tint it. l say tint instead
of color, although that is the name by
which the work is called. To color one
of the slides would be to ruin it, while
tinting is what is really done. The black
and white i'm the film itself serves as the
light and shadow of the finished slide,
and the purpose in tinting is simply to
make II resemble the living object and to
give the proper perspective.
IF a slide shows great deal Of detail
the length of time required to tint 1t is
necessarily long, sometimes two entire
days On the other hand. there are many
slides which can be colored so rapidly
that fifteen or twenty can be completed
in one day However, / regard from ten
to twelve as an average days work.
I'm tinting the slides l use a large
magnifying glass, and in addition pain
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-27

Unusual Court Has
- Many Peculiar Ques-
tons Under It's Jurisdiction
Matters of Abstract Law
Never Find Their Way Be-
fore Judges Question
Must Identify Itself as Some
thing Mentioned in the Tariff
Law-The Five Judges, of
Wide Experience, Get Sal
aries of $4,000 Per Year
New Court Rulings Are Last
Resource of Contestants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-27

The Chinaman protested and declared
that the duck was not preserved. 1t had
been dressed, sailed, cut up in pieces and
packed in tins, but that did not constitute
preserving he said, for 1t still had to
be cooked when 1t reached America. The
case went into the customs court, with
duck, testimony, Cinnamon. lawyers and
all. The court looked the duck over and
decided that it had kept splendidly. 1t
could find nothing wrong with it..
One Of the Chinese witnesses who pro-
tested that the duck was not preserved
ingenuously said it had been dried and
sailed to keep it in good condition Tor
a long time The Chinese importer
failed to show that the duck was not
preserved, but it required the final de-
cisfon of the Court of Customs Appeals to
officially classify Chinese duck as pre-
served meat product.
The efforts to dodge the duties on pre-
served fruits and vegetables bring many
cases before the customs judges. There
are so many ways of preserving 1000
products, and so many opinions as to the
meaning of the word preserved, that
the cases multiply before the general ap-
praisers and the court of appeals.
The question as to whether certain
strawberry and apricot pulp was pre-
served fruit recently gave the court some
serious study None of the judges con.
fessed to any first-hand knoWiedge OF
fruit-preserving methods followed IN tnelr
own families, so the testimony was gone
over in great detail 1t was admitted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-27

NE Of the most un-
usual courts in the
United States Is To-
Gated in Washing
ton. It is q su-
preme court on
tariff questions. Its
five judges draw
salaries of $4,000
each, and they are
kept busy over
S u c n apparently
trif1ing problems
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-27
WHY WOMEN DO NOT
TAKE UP AVIATION

X = EVER since the willy serpent in the
nj beautiful Garden Of Eden whisper
d ed into the ear of Eve that she
was possessed of form divine and that
her face was nodded in such graceful
lines as to be a charm forever to her
consort, Adam and told the mother of Us
all other delightful things concerning
herself, has womankind been brought to
realize so forcibly the intrinsic, monetary,
value of beauty than she has during the
past few months.
My face is my fortune said the maid
in the nursery rhyme. and until recently
the expression has been little else than a
nursery doggerel.
Today the saying is legal fact. \
woman's face is most certainly her for
tune, and the more misfortune that occurs
to her face and the uglier 1t is made
because Of accidents, etc, the more valu-
able 1t becomes.
Women have always set great store by
their good looks. 1t has been their right.
1t has been the means in most cases Of
their winning husbands. and good po-
sitions if they stay single. In the opinion
Of more than one person today there Is
much more power in a fair skin.
sparkling eye and blushing cheek than
in all the brain development In the
world.
This fact according to Countess De La
Begassiere, is the principal reason that
women have not taken up aeroplaning
to a greater extent than they have.
The countess, who is sister OF Count
De Lesseps, says that a fall might mean
being crushed beneath the machine. The
victim might be brought out alive. but
be terribly disfigured for life. Concern
ing this she says:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-27

N Els a hen q bird?' rs an au1omooHe
n household effect" and 'Is dried duck
preserved meat?
The Court of Customs Appeals is lit
tie over six months old. and Is proving
to be a tribunal of great interest to the
business world Matters of abstract law,
as considered in the ordinary courts or
the country. never find their way into the
customs court.
1t is body organized solely for the
purpose of deciding what things really
are 1t is to the general business word
what DR.. Wiley and his food experts are
to the realm Of pure food. The customs
court has a very large microscope fixed
on the ports of the nation. Everything
that comes through the customs houses
must identify itself as something men
toned in the tariff law, and II 1t cannot,
the customs court decides what it is.
lust to illustrate the profundity OF the
knowledge these Ave judges must pos
sess: Not long ago New York import
ing firm made a large purchase of hair
rolls abroad. These hair rolls are known
in everyday parlance rats, but the
trade designation is hair rolls. They were
made of a wire framework, covered with
wool, and when they reached the New
York custom house the importers offered
10 pay duty on wire articles.
But the inspectors, the collector of the
port (Mr. Loeb was not then on the job
and other administrators of the tariff
law turned the pages until they found
Schedule X, the wooden tariff. This
wooden tariff works in a mysterious way,
and it made those rats over into ar
ucles Of wooden wearing apparel just as
Il would make a wooden article of a rub
Der boot or an upholstered chair or a
cotton blanket, il there was any wool
in IL.
The customs officers decided that duty
for the rats must be paid the basis
OF "a cents per pound, with an additional
DUTY OF O per cent OF the Value-the
wooden duty always assesses two duties
II the importers could have brought the
nair rolls in as wire articles the duty
would have been but a few cents pound
The case was fought up through the vari-
Jus boards OF appeal until ii had finally
landed in the customs court at Washing
ton.
La hair rat an article of wearing ap-
pareI made of wool? The customs court
will have to decide Along with that
question il must decide whether an auto
mobile can come In free household
effect, because 1t has been part of the
family establishment abroad: whether a
Chinese root shall be admitted free as a
relative of the sweet potato. just be-
cause it has been locally called yam
There is also the case of eggs-or, more
strictly speaking the can of eggs. They
came from China and had been treated
10 prevent their spelling. The shells had
been removed and the contents of the
eggs prepared for keeping in small tins.
In this shape they appeared at the front
door of the United States. demanding
entrance as eggs of birds" which were
admitted free under the former tariff law.
The question has finally been laid before
the customs count Are they eggs vi
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board of general appraisers it was held
that the importers must pay full duty on
finished guns.
A case on slightly different grounds,
but involving the same principle. has just
been decided by the new court of APP
peals. A perfume importing house brought
in quantity of French product In fancy
bottles. At the New York customs house
duty was demanded on ground glass bot
ties and shoppers. The perfumers con-
scented to paying duty on the shoppers,
but said the bottles were simply blown
glass The difference in duty between the
two grades is 20 per cent of the value OF
the goods.
The case went to the customs court on
this proposed division Of the bottles and
shoppers The court refused to recognize
any such divorce The necks of the bot
ties had been ground. said the court, as
we'll as the shoppers; and all importers or
such bottles will hereafter have to pay
the ground-glass duty on the entire bot
tie.
The Court of Customs Appeals was ere
ated by the tariff law of August ). 1909, to
take all cases out of the hands of circuit
courts 1t concerns itself altogether with
these classification matters. Arthur b.
Shelton, former secretary to Senator Al
drich, and who acted clerk to the
finance committee when the tariff bill was
being framed, is clerk of the new court,
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would have admitted it free; sbut anything
that has been advanced in value while
abroad must pay duty accordingly.
The court must decide also whether
slides for toy magic lanterns shall pay
duty as toys, at 33 per cent, or as
genuine lantern slides, at As per cent;
whether cork floats are corks, or parts
of fishing tackle; whether goose skins,
dressed" which are used for lining babies
cloaks, shall, be classed as goose skins.
or as furs; and whether numerous patent
medicines, alimentary elixirs and the like
are alcoholic medicinal preparations or
compound liquors. In every case 1t is
the fight of the importer to keep the
article in a lower class, where the rate
of duty is less.
1t often happens that importers attempt
to bring in parts of finished article sep
arately. as unfinished products, to escape
high duty. Sometimes this attempt Is
made with the purpose to defraud. but
more often it is legitimate effort on the
part Of the merchant to see if he cannot
get his merchandise into a lower CLASH
fication.
consignment of shotguns was once
divided in that way. and brought In
through the port of Cleveland One man
imported the finished stocks and another
the barrels The scheme did not work
however as the government inspectors
saw the ruse and on an appeal 10 the
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-09-02
Moses GrinneiI's Story of the Famous
Trip of the Clipper Ship Flying
Cloud Around the Horn to
San Francisco.

In the days when the Yankee clip
per ships were the undisputed queens
of the seven seas one of the most
prosperous and famous of American
shipping firms was that of Grinnell,
Minturn e. Co, two of it's prominent
members being Henry and Moses H.
Grinnell, the brothers, who are famous
in the history of polar exploration as
the financial hackers of numerous arc
tic expeditions and projects. 1t was a
firm that owned several clipper ships.
among them being the famous Flying
Cloud; and 1t is of this former proud
mistress of the seas that tell today
hitherto unpublished story, as 1t was
told by Moses III. Grinnell himself a
year or two before his death in 1877.
1T was at the time when a great
ocean commerce had been developed
between New York city and California.
following the discovery of gold in the
territory, that our firm came into pos
session of the Flying Cloud" said Mr.
Grinnell. This was in the year 1851,
and we placed aboard the clipper what
up to that time was the largest cargo
ever consigned to San Francisco
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-09-02
Farmers Lesson to Comedian

'em, and can dance 'em all even to
this day. | used to be a great beau
when / was young man, and you had
to dance pretty well to be a beau in
those days"
So | took Uncle David to Mr.. Flor
ences hotel. and the two speedily
warmed up to each other. At last Mr..
florence asked Uncle David If he
could teach him the pigeon-wing in
question.
BY Jocks, as sure as you're born.
can" Uncle David chuckled, as he
husked his coat and took his stand at
one end of the room Mr.. Florence
shed his coat and went to the other
end of the room, while Mrs. Florence
picked up a guitar and began strum-
ming on 1t.
Then Uncle David started in. He
executed pigeon-wing after pigeon
wing, with Billy Florence cycling him
intently. Finally he stopped and looked
inquiringly at his pupil
"All of those steps know" said Mr..
Florence. you haven't done the one
/ want"
Uncle David meditated for a mo-
ment, of sudden struck an attitude,