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creation which belongs to the establish
ment, slipe into her old buds and walks
home in the drizzling twilight, tears In
her eyes and humiliation in her heart.
Line. will not grow up one such. The
grown manneQuin is supposed to be a
charming stick-no brains, no CONNER
cial tact, no artistic invention no thought
higher than to stand admiring her artistic
person before the pier glass when not
playing the great lady at the races
where she is really sent to show the
houses clothes. Her salary never in
creases. She has no percentage. She has
women are Jealous Of her looks and easy
life Fitch customers are nasty to her,
because, no matter how stupid the man
nequin may be. however humble her orr
wise she could not be a mannequin) and
the born gift Of putting herself into a
gown and making it alive.
Lines play in the parlors becomes mis-
cry to grown-up mannequins They must
walk with mincing grace. turn, strike an
attitude, display the freedom Of their
body in the new creation, show its front,
its back, its sides. and stand immobile,
all before a hostile audience. Dismissed,
she must walk out-and come back in an
other Ten such humiliating slave-market
limitations. and all begins again. Rich
women chat deferentially with salesWom-
en- and premieres; they have only curt
orders for the lovely mannequin.
Line, child-mannequin, knows nothing
of this-yet. When he took her the man
dressmaker did not tell her. And no one
Is jealous OF child So. she has time
to evolve. OF course she may grow up
one OF those big dolls. carried by their
across the Atlantic in select punches. For
poor gfri. It looks an ideal life Of lazy
grace. Yet It Is poisoned. Their great
chance is rich marriage. Nearly all the
beautiful and more intelligent escape in
this way They make cha rming wives for
rIch men who enjoy a quiet life.
Line will do better. She will grow up
one Of those enviable personages- high
class Paris style designer. Starting so
young, her natural bend will take her
there. Charming life. among artistic
things, where all is high. pure, clean,
serene. Delying into the past. reviving,
adapting, creating, courted by rich wom-
en- who crave an exclusive idea, min
Cling equally with artists and artistes
bound up In history. literature and es-
thetics. hers will be the joy OF beauty
though she may never be rich.
Is it better to be rich? Like Juliette?
And have no time to spend 1t?
Juliette. today. wears mean little fichu
round her neck; yet Juliette is pretty.
She does not even know It.
Juliette is q business child. Is she a
genius? Or Is business less difficult than
we imagine? Is any little girl Of ten
years old-supposing she gets started
right by academies potential as Juliette
to battle on exchange with grown men?
These are the tales Of two little Paris
girls who got there They stand for
two wide extremes of human activity,
both necessary to a state that would not
fall, like Carthage. Just as / begged you
not to despise Line, SO don't give all your
votes to Juliette.
They spoil her enough ON the Postage
Stamp Bourse.
It 70 one Of the unique sights.
In the midst ef the Enyaian fields Of
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residential Paris, hidden among flower
ing shrubs. behind rich childrens Punch
and-Judy shows, meet on footing OF
equality millionaire bankers, retired
grocers. International diplomats. Paris
rapscallions, children of best families.
hungry old women, countesses in velvets,
buxom wives Of clerks and sinister thugs,
pretending to be Interested.
Interested? I should say SO. There
are men who carry $4,000 worth Of post
age stamps on them. Ever since Bos-
son was decoyed to room. assassinated
and buried In a trunk for his collection,
the surete has kept two sleuths Of the
flying brigade on the spot.
Walk up the beautiful avenue OF, the
Champs Elysees. Beyond the back yard
OF the president Of the republic, Thurs
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grades, 5, 10, 15 and

with hundreds of duplicates, all Of bourse
value-before they knew that bourse
existed
One day Juliette lacked a stamp to COM
plete q set Of current japan.
why not try the bourse?" her father
laughed.
What bourse?"
And so, because it was a springtime
Sunday and the Champs Elysees an ele-
giant promenade, he walked his little girl
up to the crowd behind the Punch and
Judy, and told her all about them.
Folks like you," he told her. Inter
ested in collecting. They trade stamps
among each other, buy, sell, get rid Of
their super1uities and pick up what they
lack. Many make q business of 1t and
gain lots of money"
1t was a revelation to the child.
That afternoon she mastered bourse
conditions, made three acquaintance and
won the humorous esteem Of q wealthy
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Paris photographer with the stamp col
lecting bug, and made her plans for
Thursday.
That was three years ago. Soon Juliette
took Margot and Leah with her. Rich in
a big stock and a continuous supply from
the commission houses. they launched on
a trade of cheaper gradeS-5, 10, Ii, -
cents But 1t seemed good to them
Not long. The bourse taught them of
old issues. postage stamps of rarity.
worth little fortune il you find them on
old letters. They learned the meretri
cious value of specialized colonials-and
got 1t. They learned dates, tints. blocks.
wood prints. vignettes and the difference
at times immense-between a perforated
and a smooth edge.
Juliette soaked 1t up like q sponge The
rich old photographer taught her the diff
ference between the dear black and cheap
blue ten-rets Brazil and yellow and blue
Mercury OF Austria-and not to snap up
for $50 q wash baSketful OF child's albums
because one happens to be open on a
Ceylon 1854 four-pence rose or eight
pence brown, and quoted in the market
at 500. Those junk albums are sailed
with beautiful limitations from Germany.
s.
Few would wish to fool her. Giuho, in
sinuating. Acknowledged young Levantine
who unloads, now and then. a French
colonies 1877, worth 10 cents, transformed
by slight addition of his own into
Tahiti. worth $50. would scorn to try 1t
on Juliette.
OF course, little girl cannot know
everything. There are 10000 different
stamps known to the market But she
has it in her. the merchant spirit For
instance. eighteenth century color print
ing has nothing to do with postage
stamps; yet at junk shop in Aurillac.
on an automobile jaunt with her old
friend. the photographer, 1t was Juliette
who discovered the four so-called Marie
Antoinette fashion plates of the Galerie
des Modes which recently sold at the
Hotel Drouot for S1,0S5,
There are farmers who arrive at the fair
with an aged horse and quit in the even
ing with fine colt and $50 There are
men who arrive in cities penniless and
have a big business in six years
Juliette Is like that.
Would you be like her? Or do YOU ad-
mire luxurious. dainty Line, who earns
her way by her light and sweetness, lives
the fashion plates which Juliette digs up
in junk shops and will pass her existence
evoking beauty?
The world needs both kinds.
Remember Carthage
SO, when you see child with ambi-
tion, do not thwart her, even il her heart
be set on clothes.
STERLING HELLO.
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only twenty-four examples exist and
whose blue twopence was recently bought
by the King of England for $1,000!
medically, taking refuge behind Mamma
Claire, whose speciality is envelopes of
100, no two alike. at cents the lot, for
tiny tots to play with.
In this mixed exchange where extremes
meet, a fat boy Of fifteen may be
Napoleon of finance. One such has
formed a corner in Chinese When. the
republic seemed to have chance, he
bought all and any Chinese stamps, old,
new. rare. common-and. particularly,
common. Through other boys as ''brok-
ers" he simply plunged on cheap and
modern Chinese junk by the hatful. Dor
rowed money and bought more, bought
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by the kilo! All have gone up kiting.
Now it is a furore Everybody wants to
buy-and none are selling OF course.
All the old imperial stamps will soon be
rare. What is the fat boy doing?
suspect he Is unloading, gently.
Into this arena of cents to 5000 came
little Juliette With Margot and Leah,
three small sisters from nine to thirteen
are its pets and wonders.
-Four years ago Juliette began collect
ing, as child does, cheap stun in cheap
little albums. But note how she scared.
Her brother and father worked in a COM
mission house on the rue Hautefeuille.
One day they brought her home a bunch
OF less known currents-Dutch colonies,
South Africa, Japan. In three days the
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she was ignorant of colonial surcharges.
by which the (British) officials of Bang
kok, Johore. Gwalior, Sungel-Ujonz,
Jhind and others make q practical fraud
on collectors. But she did perceive an
excellent source Of stamps in commits
sion house, with correspondents in many
lands.
In a week she had won the friendship
of the subdirector and put the establish
ment under contribution Clerks who
collected for themselves kept back the
best: but they had to give her up lot.
and others gave her all. In a year the
second sister, Margot. caught the fever.
Now there were two little girl collectors
in the rue Hautefeuille-and dozen
houses laying aside stamps for them. AL
ready they had a great modern collection,
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Mans FickIeneSS.

THE late Guy Major, a former mayor
or Toledo. had a knack Of iIlustra&.
ing homely truths aptly.
At a Toledo banquet Mr. Major, desir.
Ing to point out that the people were
tickle and often wearied of their political
favorites, said:
ALAS, friends, many a young man
who grumbles at sitting up half an hour
with the baby would gladly have sat un
all night with his wife before mar.
EiaGA"
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partment Of any dressmaking establish
ment of Paris. Few of them have chill
dren's departments. Many rich people
dress their little ones readymade; but
there are others to whom their children's
costumes are a continual delight and a
simplicity expensive enough to make the
average person shudder.
Amid 1t, Line and three others live like
princely children in an ancient court
They are continually trying on new styles,
adorable fancies, child-novelties from art
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burnings,. jealousies, despairs and cold
insults of the grown-up cloak model. The
innocence of her child mind shines in her
face, and there is not q rich woman Gus
toner in Paris who would have the nerve
to farnish 1t with sarcasm.
Nor would Line understand. She thinks
1t just right to show fine clothes to the
richer children. The more she is asked
to change, the happier she is. She knows
that she wears the things with better
grace than most. 1t is her speciality. She
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day and Sunday afternoons, 500 and more
members of this open bourse beneath the
trees stand chatting
Small albums of rare stamps are passed
from hand to hand-though often chained
to owners wrist or waist. Large port
foltos Of cheaper average stand spread
open on park benches.
A smart-dressed old chappie fetches a
pass book from his inside pocket, opens
1t at the right page and iirts 1t under a
rivals nose. Sapristi! three stamps OF
the Rounania- Moldavia 1853 series. of
which pair Of 27-para. black on rose,
with large margins, recently sold at the
Hotel Drouet for $3.50 and single
5-para, black on pale azure, brought $3.50!
Great, isn't it?
Bah! shabby, military thin man, with
big white mustache. pulls the braggart
aside and shows him privately the stamp
Of stamps. the rarest Of the post Office
Of the Island Of Mauritius, 1S47, Of which
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ence Of The Star.
ARTS. April 3. 1912.

H1o, ApIA De AC1S.
TITLE girls OF six
or ten, would you
like to grow up a
beautiful and beau
ty-making creature.
able to appreciate
the lovely things OF
art, dressed per-
fectly and living in
a world OF ele-
gance, yet probably
short Of money?
Or would YOU
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at the same periods OF their careers.
The first contestant in the race was
Judson Harmon of Ohio. He was four
years old when Champ Clark started
running. nearly nine years and half
old when La Toilette entered, and nearly
eleven when Woodrow Wilson first be-
came contestant. He was eleven and a
half when Taft arrived upon the course,
nearly thirteen when Roosevelt Joined
the contest. and past sixteen when little
Oscar Underwood first placed his chubby
foot upon the ring.
The first collective view which we can
get OF these contestants is during the
exciting period of the civil war. Within
those four years Judson Harmon,
ministers son, entered Denison Uni
versity. a Baptist institution of Granville,
Ohio, where ne was to take his A B. the
year after Lees surrender. When. Sum-
ter was fired on Clark. poor itinerant
dentists motherless boy, was doing
chores for a Kentucky farmer, that he
might work out his sisters board as
well as his own, while he attended the
neighborinS village school: but before
the war was over he had, when a lad
OF fourteen, sought a shorter road to
fortune by way of a six-dollar-a-Week
clerkship in the crossroads store, which
mart was, however. soon to go out of
business.
Underwood. born in the second year of
the war. was at the close of that strug-
gle carried from Kentucky to St Paul
along with his invalid mother, who went
part OF the way on mattress. The
father of the saddened family was NOV
Ing his law practice to the Minnesota
city, that his faithful wife might regain
her health. which she did, having lately
entered the venerable category of the
octogenarian.
"Lub" Taft dor thus was he nick
named on account of his size) was in
those bloody days principally engaged in
outgrowing his clothes. Young Theodore
Roosevelt was frail lad in comparison.
He suffered painfully from asthma
during this time that on summer nights
his fond father would wrap him up in
blankets and drive him out into the coun-
try where the fresh, cool ozone relieved
his paroxysms of smothering. These war
times We're being spent by little Woodrow
Wilson in the southern parsonage Of his
father, who was a Presbyterian divine
and by little Bob La Toilette in his
native Wisconsin.
During the reconstruction days Har-
mon. after graduating at Denison Uni
versity, entered the Cincinnati Law
School. where Clark and Taft are later
to be trained as barristers. But before
he follows hither Clark must continue
to tread a thorny path. As a farm
laborer and country schoolmaster he
plods along until he can rake and scrape
enough money together to put him in the
University of Kentucky. Our younger
contestants in the race for the presidency
are during this time dividing their atten-
tons between play and primary schools.
If they did anything remarkable history
has missed ii thus far.
In the seventies all were to make rec
ords. In the first year Of that decade,
Harmon, lawyer Of one years prac-
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and history which fond parents can't re-
sist. When Line is called into the par
lOrs in a sublime slip of embroidered mus
lin and a lace cap worth $50 she knows
that she will be petted by great ladies,
while rich children steal round her, whis
pering questions and receiving tips Line
is q mannequin, but q child-manneQuin.
What difference!
She has none Of the humiuatdons. heart
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is glad to show them, help them and no
one ever called little Line "a walking
clothes horse, second cousin to the sand
WITCH man."
1t may come later il she neglects to i'm
prove her opportunities. If she slops
along without ambition she may grow to
be q hig-Girl manneQuin, the kind who
comes back from the races In the livery
automobile. takes OF the delicious new
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BY JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS,

OR a brief half
hour let US follow
the candidates of
both parties, as
they have raced
side by side
through the dec
a d e s. Ignoring
I II g ir political
theories entirely,
let us see the con-
trasts Of their
respective fortunes
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n NON-PARTISAN Com
"A parison of Their For
tunes at Different Periods
Some Interesting Parallels
and Coincidents-All of Them
College Men-Wide Range
of Opportunity at Beginning
of Life.
BY JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
Gilpin observer., 1912-04-25
SPEAKER CHAMP CLARK
LEADS ALL THE REST.

The Observer the first of the week
received letter from the Hon. Fred
T. Dubois. of Washington, manager of
the Champ Clark presidential cam
paign, saying that Speaker Clark S
lead in the race for the Democratic
presidential nomination has reached
such lengths throughout the nation
that politicians in Washington agree
that he will be nominated perhaps on
the first ballot. With 1S0 votes fav-
orable or pledged, the Speaker has
a clear lead over his opponent OF
125 votes.
The result CT the primaries in
Pennsylvania was exceedingly graft
flying to the Speakers manager. No
campaign was made in the keystone
state for Clark delegates, but seven
teen delegates who favor the Speak
er's nomination We're elected.
Under the Pennsylvania primary
law none of the delegates to the
national convention was instructed.
None of the candidates for the pres
idency had their names printed up
on the ballots. Opposite their names
the candidates for delegates were
privileged to place the name of the
pre- esidential a II iiate favored.
Twenty-eight delegates who thus
pledged themselves to Gov. Wilson
We're elected. The remainder of the
Pennsylvania delegation will go to
Baltimore unpledged, but it is known
that seventeen are favorable to
Speaker Clark
Gilpin observer., 1912-04-25
MoRGUE's INCONSISTENCY.

The Register-Call is a strong ad-
vocate of economy in the conduct of
city business, provided that the prac-
tice of economy is not the cause of
preventing money from flowing into
its Golfers. All during the recent
campaign. the hue and cry of the
Republican paper was to cut down
expenses. AS soon as the election
was over and the Democrats were re-
tanned in power, acting upon the in
sistent demands of the Register, the
administration did direct their atten-
tion to the slashing of the running
expenses of the city.
The policy of saving was to apply
to printing the same as everything
else and the publication of the clerk
and treasurer annual reports was
to be made in just one paper as the
ordinance specifically provides for, in
stead of printing the reports in both
papers as has been the custom since
the Democrats have been in power.
The Observer was made the corpora
tion paper and was given the reports.
Upon learning that he with others
was to feel the keen edge of the
knife of economy. Editor Laird emit
ted an awrgl wall. He claimed it
was all done in spirit Of revenge,
to publish the reports in both papers.
Whether this statement was made
out of ignorance or through desire
TO favor his own position in the mat
ter we do not know, but we do know
that the Register falsified when it
said that the reports had always
been published in two papers.
In locking over the files of the
Observer, we learn that during the
incumbency of the Republicans prior
to April 1907, when the political com
plexion OF the council was changed,
the reports had never been published
in this paper. In April 1907, the re-
ports were given to the Observer
This was the time Mr. Sullivan's
term of office expired as city clerk
ani his reason, no doubt, for publish
ing the statements in both papers at
that time was because his term ex-
pired and he wanted the people gen
orally TO know the city's financial
standing at the time the Republi-
cans relinquished control of the city
government. As to the calls for war
rants the files of the Observer show
that during the several years Of ce.
pablican rule in the city, they were
never published in the Observer.
Personally we DO not object to the
publication of the clerk and treas.
uerer's reports In both papers as we
Gilpin observer., 1912-04-25

Nearly all of the counties of the
state have held their conventions
and nine cut of ten of these will
send instructed delegations to Colo
RADIO Springs for Champ Clark. There
is now no doubt but that the dele
CATION to the Democratic National
convention at Baltimore will be in
structed for the Speaker. The Den
yer organization may fight instruc-
tions, at least that has been the
intention, but since the Clark senti
ment has become SO strong through
out the state, it is doubtful if the
Denver delegation will oppose in.
structions. This will be one of the
few instances on record in the his
tory of the Democratic party in Colo
RADIO, that Denver county will not
have fighting chance in the state
convention.
Gilpin observer., 1912-04-25
PROPOSED ABANDONMENT OF
U. S. ASSAY OFFICES

The threatened abolition of govern
ment assay offices as recommended
by the Secretary of the Treasury is
meeting with considerable opposition
in various parts of the west. This
opposition rather than diminishing,
import is realized. Present indica-
ticns are that the House committee
on appropriations will make no pro-
vision in the executive appropriation
bill for the maintenance OF the
United States assay offices.
The directors of the Great Falls.
Mont, board of commerce have al
ready passed a resolution to be sent
to the members of the Montana con-
gressional delegation, opposing the
abandonment of the United States
assay office at Helena. maintaining
that this assay office is of vital i'm
portance to the gold miners and pros
pectors Of the state, as it gives them
n place to dispose of their product
and to receive payment for its value
1t Is pointed out that 1t is parti u
larly the individual miner c. small
operator who Is thus benefited. since
many of these depend upon imme
date returns from each cleanup to
meet their payrolls and purchase
needed supplies.
The abolition Of the assay offices
and refineries would, it is claimed.
result in the shutting down of many
small properties which would be un-
able to dispose Of their product else.
where except at exorbitant terms
Mining and Engineering World
Gilpin observer., 1912-04-25

II George Hosmer, who pledged tn q
Democratic national delegation from
Colorado to Woodrow Wilson, gets
into the big show at Colorado Springs
next Monday, he will have to snear-
under the tent. Not only was he re-
fused a place on the state delega-
tion frcm his home county, but the
convention instructed for Champ
Clark. Talk about rubbing it in,
breaking it off and sewing it up,
George suffered the embarrassment,
remorse, ignCminy and shame of all
these. The turn-down was an awful
setback to Georges hopes of landing
a state office.
Gilpin observer., 1912-04-25

Mayor Speer is demonstrating that
he is not only efficient at conduct,
ing the affairs of a large city, but is
fully capable of editing and manag'
ing metropolitan paper. He is max
ing the Denver Times the greatest
medium of news in the west. His
special writer's, reporters, cartoonists
clear down the line, are men of rare
ability in newspaper work. The edit
orials are well written and lend an
intellectual polish to the paper.
Gilpin observer., 1912-04-25

Denver organization have told the
writer that if 4 poll of the delegation
to the state convention were taken
it would show that at least three
fourths are for Champ Clark. 1t is
even limited that our valued friend,
julius Aichele, who at the outset was
strong standpatter, is slowly, but
surely, finding his way into the
Clark camp. By the time the con-
vention meets next Monday, Mr..
Aichele will he on the Clark carry
all, with a seat next to the driver.