The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-08-10
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and narrow, that he is moderately
frank and open. Those who possess a.
short and broad tongue are untruthful,
and people should be careful Of those
whose tongue is short and narrow,
for they are sly as well as bad tenn
pered. I The new science makes stick
ing out the tongue not only bad man
nered but dangerous.
London, Aug. 10.-American painters
lack nationalism; they are content to
initiate the French; their one ideal is
prettiness and often prettiness without
meaning, according to some of the
criticism passed by British experts on
a large and representative collection of
American art which has been on view
in a gallery here. The one thing they
find to praise is what one critic terms
the high level of technical excellence"
Eliminating a half dozen paintings
of cowboy scenes, prairies and sky
scrapers, this critic declares "the rest
might well De an exhibition of French
pictures, and those better by far than
may be found in the Beaux Arts. Nor
Is three onX individual development of
French impulses. The roots of Am
erican art r not liked in it's own soil.
but in Montparnasse." - =
ST. Gall, Switzerland, Aug. 10.--The
exports OF Swiss embroidery to the
United States were less last June by
about 100000 than during June 1918.
This enormous reduction is attributed
to what are called inquisitorial
methods of which France is now COM
planning. Swiss firms refuse to show
their books to the American commits
sion which was sent to Switzerland by
the treasury department in Washing
ton a few months ago. Therefore. 1t
is affirmed here that unreasonable
high valuations are placed upon Swiss
embroideries entering New York.
Geneva, Aug. 10. - Authoritative
statistics just published show that the
hotel business is the largest industry
of Switzerland. 1t employ $4,000 per-
sons. The average profits are 25 per
cent annually on the capital invested,
the figures being capital $500. 900. 900
and earnings $780, 00, 900.
Paris, Aug. 10.-The fashionable
quarters of Paris and sections of the
suburbs are suffering this summer
from a plague of mosquitoes. The
source of this unprecedented annoy
ance is a profound mystery, although
the city authorities have been making
S U0SosSA bhS UGSSQluS
places. :
London, Aug. 10.-One Of the most
interesting features of the preDara-
tions for the celebration at the end of
the year of the close of the centenary
Of peace between Great Britain ana
the United States.f is an oil painting
of the plenipotentiarfes who conclud-
ed the treaty Of Client on Dec. IL. 1914.
This undertaking in group ~portraiture
has been placed in the hands OF Ama-
dee Forester, the Anglo-French
painter, whose work, especialiy as an
illustrator in black and white, Is well
known.
The figures Of the plenipctentiaries
have been painted from extant por-
traits in this country and America,
with the exception Of the figure OF
William Adams, one OF the British
representatives, who in his lifetime
r~esolutely refused to have his portrait
pointed. The penalty OF that obstina.
cy is that in this historical paintinn
Mr.. Adams is relegated to a shaded
corner In the background, where he
might be anybody. The interior IL
which the plenipotentiaries stand II
that of the old Carthusian convent al
Ghent in which the treaty was signed
Berlin, Aug. 10.-More than haIf o
the complaints by women of hayins
been held up and robbed are fictitious
according to criminal statistics OF TIL
Z Berlin courts. This has been brough,
! out in a typical case just tried. A
young woman, after a quarrel with he,
! lover, was found, her clothing TORI
and. her hair disarranged, lying in TIL,
edge of one of the small lakes IN tn,
GruneWald, a wooded tract west q
I Berlin. She said she had been as
! saulted, robbed and thrown ipto "a,
! lake. and gave a description OF her as
Y sailant which fitted her lover. Th
man was arrested, ~whereupon III tran
spired that he was not near th
Grunewald at the time of the allege,
q assault. The finally confessed
q that she a torn her clothing an,
jumped into the water, She was sen
y fenced to two months i~nlprisonmen
as an example TO the numerous othe
. Offenders Of this type.
stockholm. Aug. 10.-National de
Tense problems are keeping parliamer
r tn session during the summer. becaus
8 conservatives, liberals and socialist
q are unable to unite on a solution.
The socialists desire a decrease /
u the present cost OF maintaining III
defense. Conservatives and liberia
argue for a larger appropriation. BIT
they are split on the navy program
IS The conservatives want dr~eadnaugha
i and the liberals a navy OF lighter era
d vessels, especially adapted for work
Is the swedish archipelago. The scotia
lists are against the building cf an