The Washington herald., 1916-06-25
SEEN AND HEARD
BY GEORGE MINER

NeW ofk, june Ex-senator Lodge says
that in November, 1874, the elephant was intro
duced in Harper's Weekly by Thomas Mast, the
cartoonist to represent the Republican vote,
which at that time appeared to be timd and
unmanageabie. 1t made an instantaneous hit
with the public generally, as did most every
thing Mast drew, and was adopted as the party
emblem after.
Mast not only created the elephant as a
party symbol, but the tiger also and the Dem
ocrate donkey we'll. The caricaturist is said
to have adopted the donkey in January, 1870
oasing the selection the Democratic partys
reputed ability to do the wrong thing so care
fully and persstently.
The tiger attribute OF Tammany is
shown by unofficial records to date from Tweed
downfall. in 1871 Engine Company No. 6, OF
which Tweed had been foreman carried a
stuffed tiger on its engine, though nobody now
seems to know why. So Mast, during the cru
sade against the Tweed ring, having in mind
Tweed's connection both with the volunteer fire
department and with Tammany, symbolized the
latter IN his cartoons as a tiger.
1t is well to bear in mind that the original
tiger was stuffed one l know several people
who assert that the present tiger is of exactly
the same breed, but that's a matter Of opinion.
Miss Anna Held, who is in fact an English
woman as she was born in the East End OF
London. has been making speeches at the allied
bazaar IN behalf of the wounded French soldiers
her English is getting worse every year The
more she speaks it the more Frenchihed it gets
suspect that il she keeps on talking English
much longer she will forget it entirely That
Just shows you what surroundings will do for
It so happened that Miss Held spoke English
before she did French
She showed me German paper which re-
veals curious state of affairs in a certain part
oil the Kaisers domain. 1t seems that the wor-
ship OF the fashion devils" OF Paris and Lon
don on the part of German tailors and their
tair customers is thorn in the side of the pan
German press, which denounces it as unworthy
OF patriotic Germans. The paper she showed
me, which was the Hamburger Nachrichten. re-
produced the following advertisement published
by tailor in Hanover:
No lady can continue wearing last years
fashion, because Of the great changes in the
| modes AS most of my German assistants have
Joined the army, l have engaged frst-cass tailors
from the prison camp at Holzminden
Your toilets will be cut by Poles and French
men who belong to the first London and Paris
establishments. beg you to take note of this. ~
commenting upon this, the Nachrchten SAYS
The war, with all its bloody sacrifices, has
S'ieS iOi IN so far as affecting feel
ing in Germany. We are just as we used to be
and continue worshiping the fashion devils of
Paris and London"
1t does seem odd for German merchant in
Germany to be lauding French and English cos.
tunes at the present moment I'll bet thew are
not booming German costumes in Paris or Lon.
DON They have even barred sausages in the East
End OF London as being an allied enemy's food
| An Englishman who is recently over from
London tells me that the war has really had the
effect of lessening crime in the Whtechapel sec
ton OF London, surprising as that statement ma,
SEEM In Hoxton, for instance he saws, rowdy
| ism is now thing of the past and the police
compare the neighborhood to well-regulatet
suburb. Gangs with Wild West titles are moi
heard OF any more, and even the most notoriou.
corners are lacking in any "larrikin" element
A mild sort of prosperity, he says, has de-
| scended upon the district Women whose hus
bands are at the war better off than at mos
times; elderly men who used to make precarou.
living by doing odd jobs are now in regular en-
| ployment, while there is an ever-increasinp de-
mand for boy and girl labor. In the window o
almost every factory the notice. Girl Hand:
Wanted" is conspicuous.
In this part Of London generally it seems
there IS more work than people to do it. The
absence OF German competition has given an ex
| traordinary impulse to the toy industry The er,
is ever for more girls to fill the toys and work
the automatic machines that turn them out
The wholesale jewellers, who are largely To-
Gated in the Old street zone, he says are doine
well owing to wartime prosperity and the con.
sequent demand for all kinds of jewery A con-
siderable business is done in collecting residue.
| OF metals. This district is the great clearing
house for old platinum and gold dental plates.
Anyway, the conversion of the rougher quar-,
tiers OF London into peaceful havens of law and
! order is striking change The street stall
keepers say that business is normal, includine
those who supply seeds for amateur gardeners
II you express surprise at this the huckster will
explain 1t by saying that the wife has taken
on the care of the garden.
There are few fried fish shops going now, for
hsh is SO dear as to be scarcely p-cs.able. but
he says, there are as many cookshops as ever,