The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-13

London physician. CAV. "A most interest
ing explanation Of the might and aaorn-
ing cold"
III went out without an oyarcoat ky
mistake hs said. 4 should saw TO my.
self. Now I'm in for a had cold And
sure enough IN a short tim. I should
begin In sn"ela and cough Violently
hut II did not hav. tim. to think Of INV
missing overcoat there would he no dan
ger AZ all OF the sn.ezing and coughing
MS had brought on hy Worrying about
myself
IL IL just tho same with the people
who suffer from heavy colds IN III. morn.
ing and evening and feel perfectly we'll
during the rest Of the day II IL only
the effect Of mind on matter. Men and
women are too busy Ia think ~ them.
selves In the davtirn. and in consequence.
their cold vanishss; but directly their
mind IL unoccupied and thew begin tn
consider themselves again. they rem.,u.
Der the cold and nv tho mental surges-
ton bring IL on ono. more
Ths death ~ Sir William ASnsw. The
head Of the well known firm II art dealers
has recalled ona 10 the most famous pic
ture robheries on record In 1879 Nessrs
Agnew bought Gsinshnrough' -puche-.
OF pevoushire" for 10000 suineas, and en-
DAYS attervard IL was exhibited at their
bond street galleries week later IL
was gone. and IL was NOT until 1901. a
quarter of a century later. that the picture.
which had been taken TO America. was
restored 10 II. ownecs
The Agnew firm was founded 100 years
ago by the father Of Tho barone, who has
just died He was a young Scot Gilman
who left Ayrshire and came to Man.
chester in search of living. For twenty
wears he worked in partnership with an
Italian clock dealer named Zanetti About
1925 Zanetti retired and Thomas Agnew
began 70 deal in pictures and prints
About 1890 he took his sons William and
Thomas. into partnership. The old man
del in 1888. leaving the firm with big
Lancashire reputation. The merchants of
Lancashire had then begun To realize tha,
their fine houses should be de-orat 81 with
fine. OF AZ any rate expensive. pictures
and the Agnews supplied them with what
they wanted
shortly after the death ~ the father
the younger son. Thomas realized that
the firms purchases in London az Chris
ties had been great METROPOLITAN ad-
vertis.ment. He persuaded his hrot her
William. who died few DAYS ago 10 omen
a gallery in London. and from that time
on the firm was well Known in London
a. in Manchester In tho wears that fol-
lowed the Agnsws formed many colec-
rions, almost exclusively ~ modern Eng.
l'sh pictures for rich cum:hercial men
These vera the palmy days Tor the living
English artist The time came " hen the
AGnews turned TO the old masters
Modern artists complain ,lsat nobody now
buys their pictures a. tho Manchester
men used 70 forty y-ars ago tn pathetic
verse some one has pointed 70
Those happy days cong fen
When Willie Agrsw fed
Not wholly the dead
No less n poet than Rossetti has cele-
brated the firm Of Agnew in one Of his
characteristic limsrICks
There are dealers IN pictures named Agn-~
Whose soti Soap would -ASr old -ag rev
Tbs Father OF Lite,
With biz tai - his Eyes
Cries so - IoFr Agurw H.!l AsnrEr
King Georges kseDreSs a. a collector
of postage stamps - we'll known His
collection - soor 10 bs removed 10 Wind