Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-22
One Thousand Would-Be Brides and
Grooms Gather at Restaurant
at Certain Hour.
EACH PERSON WORE A ROSE
Joker Had Advertised for a Wife and
Husband.
SUIT TO COPYRIGHT GOWNS
One Dressmaker Sought Big Damages
from Another.
DESIGN WAS FILED TOO LATE
Successor of IIobbIc skirt In Paris Is
Divided skirt on the Turkish
plan Reformers would
close bad Tavern.
BY PAUL vILLIERS.

Close BAD Tavern.
by PAUL NILLIERS.
PARIS. Jan. 2i-CSpecial to The Bee)-'
Paris is splitting it's sides with laughter
over a practical joke which went off splen-
didy and left 1000 would-be matrimonial
enthusiasts standing staring at one another.
The other day two advertisements appeared
i'm a newspaper. One ran thus "a rich
gentleman wishes to marry distinguished
woman, even without fortune
The other was as follows: "A wealthy
lady would like to marry a distinguished
and good looking gentleman. even without
| fortune"
! Replies were to be sent poste restante,
| and nearly 1000 letters arrived. Answers
| returned to the women in mans hand
writing and to the gentlemen in
womans, appointed a meeting at GER
/ tain cafe all of them being asked to
wear a white rose to assist recognition.
one thousand men and women gathered in
and around the restaurant. Several other
men not decorated. were there They were
detectives who had been sent by the pre-
lecture of police, as the perpetrator of the
hoax. who is also suspected and with good
reason, Of having been present to enjoy the
fun, had forwarded a letter informing the
authorities that a party of royalists. bent
on Matching a plot, were to meet at the
cafe at that hour
Copyright for Gown.
A dress may be a work OF art and can
not be monoponzed in trade. A question Of
great interest in dressmaking circles was
settled, namely, that Of copyright for a
dress, in court this week. Two custumiers
were at loggerheads over the matter. One
accused the other of having copied and
reproduced one of his exclusive creations.
Suit was brought, and $1,000 damages were
demanded.
Maltre Maillard, counsel for the plain
lifts. cited the copyright law regulating the
rights of literary and artistic property, as
we'll as the law on manufacturers designs
According TO him, all these laws had been
! infringed. A dress enjoyed copyright as
well as any other artistic production.
Maitre Levisalles, for the defendant, said
dress may be an artistic creation; never
theless he held literary and artistic copy
right laws could not apply to 1t, nor the
law as to manufacturers drawings. Be
sides, he added, the firm had sold its
dresses before registering the sign, and
therefore it was public property.
The court also adopted this view and
decided the case against the plaintiff.
New Divided skirt.
The successor of the hobble skirt has ar
rived. A new form of divided skirt, to
come into fashion in the spring, is to be
launched by the "mannequins'' of a well
tune comes from Turkey, and is an almost
exact reproduction OF the dress worn by
the harem women. 1t consists Of a long
ankle.
RefOrmcrs After bad Tavern.
' The latest object OF reforming zeal is the
celebrated tavern of the Halles. known as
the "Ange Gabriel" Notwithstanding It's
title, its clientele We're far from being an
) gehc. Here Carque dor, the queen Of
D footpads, held her court. The foreign visi
} tors were invariably shown the "Ange Ga
briol. and experienced all the emotions Of
passing through a dangerous experience
without much danger AS a matter Of fact
the bandits pointed out by guides gener
ally proved to be innocent all night work
ers. However, some ugly episodes hav,
taken place in this quaint-looklng house
and police officers I'm mufu have them
selves been stabbed, on the threshold. Ant
now it is to disappear with it's quadran
gular lantern and painted angel the Vill
> de Paris having condemned the property
Chnucbsrd Collection on view.
The Incompatible ChauChard collection
is at last visible in the Louvre 1t is tn
e more priceless, in that the Louvre hereto
, fore has had no elaborate collections O
y the great painters of 1890, the Millets, tn
- Corots, Tyrons, Daubignles, Rousseaus an
, Jules Dupres.
:, Every one of the numerous Corots ar
A the poetry OF nature. Corot is more ap
n preciated as he grows older. M. Aynar,
\, once asked Chayannes who was the great
Il est painter Of the nineteenth century. an
the artist said, You know very well tina
n it is Corot." Chenevard vas askeI tn
T, same question, and ne said What
h foolish question; YOU know as well as
r; appreciated for years; he was refused Fl
It the Salon The pictures which during hl
a lifetime could have been bought for $40
n now cost SlUO,ODO. or cannot be had for an
price.
al Profitable Walled Farm.
st In and around this city fruit is abun
d dainty cultivated. In Montreuil tho hes
e peaches in the world are cultivated; 81
q hectares hartare has a hort tho g,trfag