Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-17

lice were about to retire with apollo
gies, when one of them had his doubts.
He asked to return at a window read
ing newspaper. 1t turned out as he
had suspected. The person in ques-
tion was Paul, who had borrowed
Angeles dress, and who had almost
Gordian knot by sentencing the mother
mothers sobs became hysterical at this
point.
Since the new law of a few years
ago removing some of the enormous
formalities surrounding the registra-
ton of associates of any kind, some
new club has sprung up once or twice
a week. One is started for the
"Amelioration of the Breed of Carrier
Pigeons" another for the Develop
ment of all Sport in General, and AVia-
ton in Part ular" Carrier pigeons
are ameliorated. and aviation is de-
veloped. In handsome flats, not too far
from the Champs Elysees, furnished
with many gilt sofas, and a number
of extra large tables, always covered
with green baize. When the subject
of airships and pigeons has been dis
cussed for five minutes, some member
happens to have a pack of cards In his
pocket, and another has a bagful Of
counters. The visitor fresh to the club
generally wins during his first hour of
baccarat. When he leaves, the porter
at the door, If feeling particularly kind
to his fellow creatures, says confiden-
TALLY, 'I would not come again, If I
were you, SIR" These clubs for the
are usually raided once week, but do
not seem to be any the worse for it.
POET INvENTs NEW CREED
Signor Marinatti. believed to be
poet. invented, some time ago, the new
.e..ks. .sg.1n vasNI
to consist chiefly in being strenuous
by driving motor cars furiously and
smashing all the statues ana burning
all the pictures in the museums of
Italy whenever an opportunity should
arise for this holy work of destruction,
the past being a dead thing and the
future alone interesting. Now group
of French artists have started a new
school of aestheticism of somewhat
similar tendencies, called "EXcessiv-
ism." The manifesto of the new ar
tistic doctrine begins thus:
"Ho, there, great excessive painters,
our brethren; no, there, sublime and
renovating paint brushes; come hither
on the eve of the salons, come to us,
and let us smash the ancestral palettes,
make a bonfire of the false master
pieces, and lay down the law of the
art of tomorrow. That law is contained
in one word--excessivism!
''Some donkey said that excess in
anything is a fault. On the contrary,
we proclaim that excess in everything
is a force, and the only force. The sun
is never too hot, the sky is never too
green. the sea is never too red, the hori-
IONS are never too black; just as heroes
are never too daring or the scent of
flowers too strong. Let us sack-yea,
sack-the absurd museums, trample the
infamous ruts of routine and leap with
a lissom and sure foot toward the bet
ter becoming. Sursum palettes, sur
sum paint brushes, sursum value; long
live scarlet and purple and coruscating
gems, and all the whirling and super
imposed tones which are the true re-
Election of the solar prism Let us not
be cast down by the howls of the
skinned polecats yelling in their death
agony"
The skinned polecats are any artists
who are not excessive enough. The
battle cry, sack museums!" is evil
IDENTIFY borrowed from the Futurlsts.