The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-22
THOUSANDS VICTIMS
Of PRACTICAL JOKER
Each Expects to Meet Possible
Fiance and Meets Whole
ThrongS of Such.
TWO LITTLE WANT ADS HELP
Paris Divides It's Laughter Be-
tween This Jest and Dress
makers Suit in Court.
TWO LITTLE WANT ADS HELP
BY PAUL VILLIERS.

Special Cable 90 The Tribune.
PARIS, Jan. 2l-Paris is splitting its
sides with laughter over practical
joke which wet off spendidly and
left 20o0 would-be matrimonial enthusi-
asts standing staring at one another,
The other day two advertisements ap-
cared in newspaper. One ran thus:
GA rich gentleman wishes to marry a
distinguished woman, even without for
tune
The other WAS Rs follows:
- y wealthy lady would like to marry
distinguished and good looking geu-
tleman, even without fortune.
Replies were to be sent poste rcstante
and nearly 1000 letters arrived.
Answers were returned TO the ladies'
IN d nan $ handwriting and TO the gen
ticmcn in u woman 5, appointed q meet
ing at certain cafe, all of them being
asked to wear white rose TO assist
recognition.
Ono thousand men and women gath
cred in and around the restaurant Sew
crai other men not decorated were
there. They were detectives. who had
been sent by the prefecture Of police. as
the pcrpetrator Of the hoax, who is
also susnected, and with good reason. of
HdN lug bCcn present TO fDlON InG luU-
had forwarded letter informing the
authorities that a party Of royalists.
bent on hatcbIrg plot, were TO meet
1t the cafe Mt that hour
Stolo His Fashions
\ dress may be q work of art and
cannot be monopoized in trade. \
question Of great interest in dressmak
ing circles was settled. namely, that of
copyright for dress, in court here.
Two costumers were mt loggerheads
over the matter. One accused the
ether Of having copied and reproduced
ono of his exclusive creations. Suit
was brought and $1,000 damages were
demanded
Maitre Millard. counsel for the plain
iffs. cited the copyright law rcgulat-
in tbc riohts of literary and artistic
'rapertv as well as the law on manu-
fscturcrs' designs. According to him,
all these laws had been iufringcd, 4
dress cuinvcd copyright as we'll IS any
other artistic production.
Maitre Levisalles. for the defendant,
ssid dress may he an artistic crea-
ion. nevertheless held literary and ar
listIc copyright laws could not apply
10 it. nor the law as 10 manufacturers
drawings. Besides, he added, the firm
had sold lis dresses before registering
he sign, ard therefore il was public
rropert-- The court also adopted this
view, and decided the case against the
plaintiffs.
Parisiennes Like Harem Ladies.
The successor Of the hobble skirt has
arrived. 4 new fern Of divided skirt
10 come into fashion in the spring, is
TO be launched by the manncquins
Of a well-known dressmal;ing firm. The
new costume comes from Turkey, and
,I.. L l,a
dress worn bv the harem ladies. II
consists of long. loose divided skirt
fitting tightly at each ankle.
The latest object of reforming zeal
is the celebrated tavern of the Halles
known us the Angc Gabriel Notwith
standing its title, its clientele were
far from being angelic Here Casone
4 OR. the queen Of footpads, held he1
court The foreign visitors were in
and cxncrienced all the emotions OF
passing through dangerous experience
without much danger. AS a matter OF
fact the bandits pointed out by the
guides generally proved to be innocent
all .nioht workers. However some ugly
episodes have taken place in this
quaint looking house, and police Off
stabbed on the threshold And now il
is TO disappear. with IFS triangular Ian
tern and painted angel, the Vile d,
Paris having condemned the property.
Corots on Exhibit
The incompatible Chauchard collec
ton is at last visible in the Louvre. II
is the more priceless, in that the Louvre
heretofore has had no elaborate collec
tIons of the great painters of 1880, the
Millets. the Ccrots. Tryons, Daubignies
Rousseaus and Jules Dapres
Every one Of the numerous Corots il
masterpiece Corots Is pictures may bl
called the poetry of nature. Corot il
more appreciated as he grows older.
NJ Aynard ance asked Chavanne
who was the greatest painter of tb
nineteenth century. and the artist said
''You know very well that il is Corot ,
Chenevard was asked the same dues
ton, and lie said: '1What foolisl
question:! You know as well as ] d.
that il is Corot''
Corot remained unappreciated fo
years; he was refused in the Salon
Pictures which during his lifetime coul,
nave been bought for 500 now cos
100000, or cannot he had for An,
price.
Cold Water on Audience.
J was ut the Grand Guignol the othe
evening when the big waterpipe burs
=" hhc 'ncateis war III uTesS clrci
box. and could afford to laugh at th
people in the front row of the stalls
They were drenehed to the skin. Th
stage was swamped, of course. so tina
the performance could not continue. Th
accident proved a good advertisement
for that theater, however, for there ar
few theaters here provided with a uss
full supply Of water in case of fire.
For nearly week an insane murdere
1rarf Ina ,ottrn uf hox
at La Chapellc-sous- -Briancon. TI