The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-11-24
MUST PAY HIGH FOR FRAMES
Drawers of Lucky Numbers Find to
Their Sorrow That There is a String
Tied TO the Prizes Which Had Been
Promised to Them.

Kenosha people are having a good
laugh at the expense of each other
just at present as during the past
month a lot Of people in the city have
been "stung" by band of picture
agents which worked the city and a
lot Of the same people have some en-
Engagements for which they are now pur-
chasing frames at rate that offers
decidedly good margin of profit for
the men who make the frames It
was the cleVerest picture game worked
in Kenosha in many moons and the list
of the victims of the company appears
considerably like social register of
Keposha and bunch of the members
of the Kenosha Country Club will have
lot of pretty good looking frames to
club house next season. The first
heard of the game was about month
ago when a charming young woman
who seemed to have all the ear marks
Of the artistic temperament went to
homes of people of the city and de-
clared that she represented an art
school i'll Chicago which was anxious
to break into Kenosha and that for
this reason the ass ated artists had
decided to make some pictures for
some of the chest" people in the city
to introduce the work She presented
to the selected victims series of en-
velopes from which the lady was asked
to draw and strange as it may seem
nearly every one of them drew one of
the lucky numbers which entitled them
to a "free" picture. The woman
managed to get a representative list
of "patrons" in Kenosha and secured
picture for enlargement from each Of
them. Of course the women agreed to
show the pictures and as a final sug-
gestion of the Chicago artist they ad-
mitted that they would be willing to
have them framed in good shape. The
young woman finished her work and
left with a generous supply of pictures
for enlargement.
Of course the fortunate women who
had pulled out the lucky numbers had
planned on having some cheap Christ
mas presents for the members of the
families and their friends but this bau-
BILE was burst last week when the pic
lures were returned. They were re-
turned by man who was also connect
ed with the Art School but his devel-
opment along artistic lines ran to
frames and not pictures. He brought
with him proofs of the pictures and
samples Of the frames in which it was
proposed to put them. His artistic
nature was also highly developed and
the women who had been admitted on
the ground floor of the scheme found
that artistic framing of pictures was
expensive. There were several kinds
of frames ranging in price from nine
to. thirty dollars and of course the
women were given chance to choose
but the "artist" had full line of ar
guments in favor of the higher priced
frames and some of the victims were
landed for the frames which ran about
the twenty dollar gold piece mark.
Most of the women declined to welch
on their bargains and as result the
costly frames and the medium priced
engagements are now being delivered.
Stung again. is just at present the
pass word for entrance into let Of
the homes on Prairie, Park and Dur
kee avenues and it is probable that
there are lot of other homes in the
city where the same pass word will be-
popular before the end of the week.
The picture game is an old one
but it seems to be young enough to
work just the same.