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lady who has struggled out OF the
crowded shop to get a breath of air
and points to a quite different con-
lection. 1.-THE prize?"
"Bein' you ask me in the window
1t is 81 to you; in the shop it Is So and
God may strike me dead IL 4 lie."
Then came the wild exclamation
from Etinka's mother. quoted above.
The Mi.Iy -Mir.y Wins.
The saleslady pursued unmoved: ut
will suit you fne, dearie." she assured
Etinka. but not SO good as the one
you come for. Want to get it?"
Brushed aside by the customers, who
not finding room at the mirror inside
have come out TO see themselves under
new headgear in the shop windows,
Etinka and her mother have no ex-
cuse for not going in. All Is hub
bub there. customers cluster about the
store people and snatch the hats that
other customers have in their hands
preparatory to trying on. Persistently
the tongues Of the sellers run on:
Darling, you will never look so
fine in hat before; It was your
fool you. What you say? Not in the
new style. you say? Are you crazy,
deare? II Is the last note the
last note 1t is the Mizzy- Mizzy
hat. What do you say now? The
Mizzy- MiZzy!"
Convinced before she came that this
was the hat to make her happy Etinka
is doubly lost when she hears that
magic name although It means exactly
IS much to her as 1t does to the sales
lady and that Is precisely nothing. and
despite her grumbles the fat mother
is obliged to dig down for the cash.
The sale completed the clerk can
now direct her efforts towards middle
q ged woman with drab hair and drab
complexion. She plasters on the former
a sand colored straw Of helmet shape
and stands a moment silent as II toe
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demands he can always contrive to de-
liver. whether It be atmosphere or
smash or anything between"
The explanation Of this adaptability,
this catholicity OF taste lies In Mr.
Platts most remarkable training and
career. Born in a home where his sur
roundings were all rehned-he came
into the world as PLAT Of Platts-
burg" in a fine old mansion on the
shores of Lake Champlain-he early
developed artistic inclinations, and at
the age OF 10 he was sent 10 New York
to study at the Art Students League.
Here he studied under Kenyon Cox
and William NJ. Chase, but peculiarly
enough he showed, while studying I'M
der these two master realists, q marked
Discrimination for realism. They rec
oSnized his ability, but at the same
time told him that he did not belong
in their school. He departed from their
classes, but remained their friend.
Chase often took. him sketching and
encouraged him TO develop in his own
style. Strangely enough, Chase urged
him at this time to work in the theatre,
startling bit of advice considering
the fact that there was then seemingly
no place for artists around the theatre.
But Plat turned out landscape
which was hung in tho Academy eX-
hibition that year and was immedi-
ately sold. Encouraged, financially and
professionally, Mr.. Plat went to Eu-
rope and sketched there for tho next
few years. working under the instruc-
ton among Others of Fritz Thaulow,
Norwegian landscape painter. Still not
yet 81. he had canvas hung at the
"Trional" exhibition in Brussels.
After that he returned to New York
and began work as an interior deco
rator. making a comfortable income
and finding a certain outlet for his ar
tistic sense in identifying homes. At
the same time he revived an early in
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and play games that seem to the eyes
of strangers to he without system as
without mlrth. How they can run and
leap, though, these barefooted. half
clad, underfed appearing children.
Let no one ten us that the children
of tho slums cannot survive, at least
these specimens seem strong indeed.
And there seems to be no intention
to let the East Side die out, for no
where can one see so many babies.
They fill the carriages to overlooking,
for in a cart built for one two are
generally reposing and many are the
examples Of a human three in one.
Their happy mothers wheel them back
and forth or sit on the unshaded
benches (there are no trees in this
oasis). and do interminable crocheting
or embroidering.
Sheds supply what shade is neces-
sary. but these are reserved for the
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time, at first very much against his
own wishes, entirely to this new field.
Through his friendship with the d.
rector of the Vienna Hofburgthe-
atre. DR.. Paul Schlenther he became
Interested in modern stage manage
ment, and in cooperation with him and
Prof. Heinrich Letter Of Vienna his
work soon attracted widespread atten-
ton. Some of his more noteworthy
settings are: For the Vienna Hof-
burgthestre Goethe's Faust" Parts
I. and H.: Hardt's 'FTantris der Narr"
and "Gudrun," Stucken's "Lanval,"
Schnitzlers Der Junge Medardus" and
"Zwischenspiel." For the Vienna Hof-
operntheatre (under Mr.. Weingart-
ner's directorship) Wagner's DIE
Meistersinger." Berliozs "Benvenuto
Cellini," Wolf -Ferrari's THE Secret OF
Suzanne" Strauss THE Gypsy
Baron" the ballots "Aschenbrodel" and
Der Faule Hans" For the Komische
Oper in Berlin Debussy's "Pelleas ct
Melisande." The festival plays in the
theatres OF Braunschweig. Faust;
Mannheim, "Das Rheingold." "Gotter-
daemmerung"; Cologne, die Fielder
maus," Der Rosenkavalier"; SUIT
CART. "Salome." "Haensel and Gretel."
"Lohengrin"; Lauchstaett, Der Ter
brochene Krug" and Erasmus Mon
tanus" Charlottenburg, "Oberon";
Hamburg. Duisburg. Budapest. Wag-
ners Ring. QUO Vadis," &c. For many
other theatres throughout Austria
Hungary and Germany he prepared
1raN Ia
masques-
His productions Of 'Pelleas ct Nell
| sande." "Haensel and Gretel" and
Tristan and Isolde" we're designed and
, executed for the Boston Opera COM
pany; he also built at the Boston
! Opera House The Tales Of Hoffman, y
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bright and faded. whole and ragged
modern and of antique design, that Il
was a changing delight to watch the
festiye procession. Life might be
frayed and tattered here, but IT was
not dull. II was not plain but colored
The news vendors, each with his
bunch of foreign papers, from which
none seemed to have been sold, again
made their noiseless round, the ice
cream carts found a better market.
here came the old Jews once more,
jingling their little box to make the
pennies ratt... Charity!
And ''i, was but an ordinary Sun
day. They say that in the good gay
days Just passed this place was one
mad mass of Joy and gayety. 1t seems
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of the play that only those who apprc-
ciate the artistry that goes into a self
sacrificing background will stop to
speak Of his part.
recent appreciation OF Mr.. Plat
IN the Boston Evening Transcript
said: THE difficulty In defining his
artistic personality comes not alone
from the fact that 1t has been diluted.
but also from the fact that it is essen
TALLY reserved. He does not like to
deal in rlotous colors, as does Mr..
Urban, or in arresting grotesqueries
OF design. like Robert Jones. His set
tings have little In common With those
OF Bakst and Golovin. which arc so
vital that they seem to be actually in
physical motion. Mr.. Platt's are es-
sentially pictures. backgrounds to the
drama, decorations for II, but not COM
mentaries on II. much less parts OF II.
In all his best work the sheer beauty
Of restful but eloquent proportions
must strike the observer first
"Nor does his color, when he Is
working in his favorite mood, seem to
be dynamic, like that OF the Russian
designers. Mr.. Plat seems to seek
first of all TO create the appropriate
static picture. Yet any such generali-
zation as this is misleading. For the
sheer technician in Mr.. Plat is capable
OF achieving anything the situation
seems to ask for. Color was the
memorable feature of the Tanning OF
the Shrew' settings. Color was used
with startling effect, now and then
with 'Medea.' But certainly If Mr.
Plat could work in his own chosen
way he would deal mostly in soft
middle tones. He would soften n stage
which current taste too often demand;
shall be sarish or at least distinct.
Yet as Mr.. Plat has no outstanding
characteristics he seems to have as
few limitations. What the situation
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bond who ground II did not mind.
Over and over he played it until it
seemed that no sound but this would
ever be heard till the end of the
world and that the world would never
end. Nobody but ourselves suffered
or even appeared to hear and when
we had resigned ourselves to living
forever and ever with this sound in
our ears the hurdy-gurdy itself found
the reiteration uncomfortable and broke
down. The spell over us was broken.
too and we rose and went somewhere
else, leaving the poor grinder anxiously
trying to mend his hideous machine.
AS the little boys were driven from
the enclosure to admit elder brothers
for game of ball the people in the
pavilion moved, too, and took exercise
by walking round and round the
square. So many varieties of people
attired in so many kinds of garments,
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throng again in search OF fur"
which every stylish East Slider must
be possessed Of Vendors OF Jewish
papers, old men with long white
boards hold out their queer looking
sheet, but without a cry, other older
men tremble through the throng
shaking little tin box to make the
pennies rattle and calling, Charity;
the pushcart vendors growing animate
as they pass Chrystie street and, with
no policeman to hamper their style,
follow and offer her brassieres in
thinnest silk. Etinka secs nothing but
the furriers' shop. The splendor Of
these daunt the old mother and she
pulls her child down TO the curb where
stoles and neckpieces hang from a
pushcart like disembowelled animals.
"A skid squirrel. cheaps at fifteen
dollar. LADY,"
Etinka scorns the skid. but is at
tracted despite her wish to have real
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full of admiration for utterancc. At
inst II bursts bounds: ..
Beau yutfull Beau yaufml
Darling did you pick out that hat
without help?" She had put 1t on the
woman's head herself. III 1 had more
customers like you dearie. as knows
what they wants, business would be
pic. It's beau yutiful on YOU"
"Aine 1t pretty close to my own
color?"
why, dearie, we can soon Ak that.
See, 1 put pretty blue feather ..
It's perfect An let me tell you, dearie,
it's the latest note don't you
know, it's the Mizzy Mizzy'
Wearing her new hat while the old
mother dutifully carries the old one in
a paper bag, Etinka mingles with the
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who, drudgcd their youth in the fields
OF southern Europe, and came to this
country carrying their mattresses on
tkeir backs, They wear shoes. 1t is
true. but they are not particular that
these should be mates, and their chief
utility$in thess Sunday bargainings IL
that Of a scornfnl chorus: "Womans.
are. you mat s1retty to ask my Btinka
four dollar for Won hadt?"
Etinka and her gasping, "boou<y'
mother have by this time reached the
particular shop where the particular
hat craved by the daughter flaunts It's
naany colored flowers in the window.
The girl isSfor going at once into the
shop. but her wiser mother holds her
back.
She signals indifferently to a sales
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( little girls from to years old, who
swing there as If they would never tire.
Untiring too are the tuneless hurdy-
gurdys. One of the oldest, perhaps
the first one ever made. came and
ground out tune or the remnant Of a
tune near the bench where the out
siders had found seats. 1t was a dole
full melody, but the only one the ma
chine was capable Of and the vaga-
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"The prize ISIS all the same" said she,
init a hat or mitout a hat"
In the stately brick pavilion. like
the pleasure dome decreed by Kubla
Khan, the parents seat themselves to
rest and tell over the conquests of
the day, while in lie grassless place,
enclosed by so high fence no hen
could fly over it, children of ten or
thereabout are admitted to run races
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By WILLIS STEEL.

" HuIiy up Ntet'inoTs NScA
or the hat will have went
- before We get there%
Mamma, dear, in a red sweater and
a small knit shawl. waddled a little
faster. Bead drops OF sweat appeared
on her brow under the ugly horse hair
wig tshe wore no hat). and she re-
piled gasping: ID
what use to hurry, Etinka? You
know I'm boolky!"' >,
Mother and daughter were but atoms
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or nothing by stole Of seal faced with
ermine. 1t is stage ermine and the
cat that wore the seal md been dyed
after death. Etinka's mother blew at
the hairs. "The prize?'
IT hat sell holdings, holdings for
one weeks, lady. You wants that one?
1 puts him ST."
"Iss It real?" demanded Etinka.
"The seal is goot, but small; the err
mine do not say, yesterday was the
sabbath you take him along
for $16."
That Etinl<a might have fallen is
within the possibilities but for d.
version. A wedding party, bride,
bridegroom, old parents, a trio OF
bridesmaids passed down the street.
Etinka, who was at the age to stare
with curious feelings at the wax brides
In so many windows, could not resist
the real thing and followed the party
fascinated by the floating coarse net
veil fastened by a coronal of orange
blossoms, the white satin dress with
out train, but embellished with PAN
els Of pearl beads.
Life in the Same Old Way.
Indeed, Etinka Is not alone in her ad-
miration; the street pauses in its vari-
Gus vocations and gives the blushing
bride and awkward bridegroom a gen
uine tribute of interest and admira-
ton. They have Just been bound In
holy wedlock and are abroad like a
grown-up school procession to pay
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-28

the sweeping reductions reported In
ocean freight rates applying 20 other
commodities than cotton would cor be
followed by similar reductions In cotton
rates.
The South was q seller on the ad-
vance, however, and the market showed
reactions Of several points before the
end OF the first hour under the selling
from this source and realizing.
Liverpool was "A big buyer on the
early reaction and the market was very
firm toward the middle Of the morning,
with March selling up to 20 SIC and
July to 20 soc, or about 80 TO 81 points
ret higher. After the close abroad the
Liverpool demand tapered or, how
over, and prices here showed reactions
Of several points early in the noon hour
under realizing and Southern selling.
Reports that the United States ship
ping board had reduced rams Atlantic
rates on cotton to SIPS PEI hundred
from South Atlantic ports were followed
by another sharp advance in prices
during the early afternoon. March con-
tracts sold up to q soc and July to
20 Csc. or 70 to los points net higher
on continued covering and trade buy
-.
Futures closed strong at advance Of
200 to 1870 points.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-28
TRUSTEES SALE,

Under and by virtue OF the terms
of a certain trust deed, Of date April
rs, 1918, executed by Fred c. Storey
and wife, Jennie s, Storey, to State
Investment company as trustee, EN-
bracing the land described below, re-
registers office of Shelby county, Ten
nessee. securing the payment to Co
mmbia Mortgage and Trust company
of 81, 500, evidenced by 80 notes for
$40 each. of date April rs, 1918, paw
able monthly beginning with May 26,
1918, bearing interest from their date,
payable at maturity, default having
been made In the payment at maturity
of said notes due on the 2bth day of
June, 1918, and each month thereafter,
and same remaining still unpaid, and
the owner and holder of the unpaid
notes secured by said trust deed hay-
ing exercised the option given in said
trust deed. and all OF the unpaid in
debtedness secured by said trust deed
having become due and collectible as
provided therein, and the same re-
naming still unpaid, the undersigned
State Investment company, as trustee
aforesaid, at the request OF the owner
and holder of said unpaid Indebtedness,
will, on
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY s. 1919.
within legal hours, at the Southwest,
or Adams avenue, entrance of the Shell.
by county courthouse, in Memphis, Ten
nessee. same being at one Of the doors
OF said courthouse, sell at public out
cry to the highest bidder for cash the
following described land, situated In
the city of Memphis, Shelby county
Tennessee, to-wit.
Lot thirteen (1S). Englewood subdi.
vision: Beginning at a stake in the
east line Of South Engiewood ,piac,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-28
GRAIN MARKETS
Expectation That Hog Mini
mum Will Be Continued
Gives Corn Bulls Help.

CHICAGO, Jan, 2S-Greater conf
dence in the maintenance Of hog prices
gave an upward swing today to the
corn market. Opening quotations,
which ranged from sc TO 2Ec higher,
with May sll7i4 to $1.lSia and July
s.. liTs TO $ll6ls, We're followed by a
slight reaction, and then an advance
higher than before,
Positive but unveJffied assertions
that the February hog price would re-
main at $3.50 caused sharp further
upturns in the value Of corn, The mar
ket, however, receded later, Prices
closed unsettled, 20 to 4Ac net higher,
with May SLIP to Hl9A and July
81 l6A to SLICE.
Oats assembled with corn. After OPEN
ing NC to lac higher, with May 59c to
bNhc a moderate sag took place, but
II was only transient.
Provisions, like grain. developed un-
mistakable strength.
Maximum advances were scored. On
the bulge shorts covered freely.
Open. High. Low. Close. Prev.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-28

Under and by virtue of the terms Of
1918, executed by Fred c. Storey and
wife, Jennie S. Storey, to State Invest
ment company as trustee, embracing
book 67s. page 2Sl. in the registers Of
lice OF Shelby county, Tennessee, secur-
ing the payment to Columbia Mortgage
and Trust company Of S1,500, evidenced
BY SO notes for $40 each, of date April
70; 1913, Boayabls monthly beginning
their date, payable at maturity, default
having been made in the payment at
maturity of said notes due on the 25th
day of August. 1918. and each month
thereafter, n same remaining still
the unpaid notes secured by said trust
deed having exercised the option given
IN said trust deed, and all OF the un-
paid indebtedness secured by said trust
deed having become due and collectible
as provided therein, and the same re-
naming still unpaid, the undersigned
State Investment company, as trustee
aforesaid, at the request of the owner
and holde Of said unpaid Indebtedness,
will. on
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY S. 1919.
within legal hours, at the southwest or
Adams avenue entrance of the Shelby
county courthouse, in Memphis, Tenn,
same. being at one Of the doors of said
courthouse, sell at public cutlery, to tho
highest bidder for cash, the following
described land. situated in the city of
Memphis, Shelby county, Tenn. to-wit:
The south 36 feet of lot 81 of Walter
c. Tyndall Realty company's Cummings
subdivision in lots IS and SO of the
Willoughby Williams tract. as shown by
plat OF record in plat book 7. page II,
OF the registers office of Shelby county,
Tennessee: Beginning at a stake in
the west line of Cummings street 36.5
feet south Of the south line of East
Edna place; thence south with the west
line of Cummings street 80 feet to a
stake; thence west 1914 feet to a stake
1857 feet south of East Edna place;
thence north So feet to a stake; thence
east 124.7 feet to the beginning.
The equity of redemption. homestead
and dover in said land are waived in
said trust deed. The title of said land
is believed to be good, subject to the
prior trust deed securing the payment
Of $4,000 to Columbia Mortgage and
Trust company, due April 25. 1923, with
interest thereon, but the undersigned
will sell and convey as Trustee only.
This January 6. 1919,
STATE INVESTMENT Co,
Trustee.
BY PETER G. GRANT. President.
Dur 800 p 1I~-
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-28
NEW ORLEANS T r

NEW ORLEANS, Jan 2s.-The favor
able turn in the ocean freight situation
caused a buying movement in cotton
today. which carried prices 90 to IS
points upward in the first half hour Of
business on a moderately active market.
The official announcement OF a rate
ON cotton room for Liverpool out Of
the gulf ports Of 81 80 per 100 pounds
caused further buying, At l.o'c'ock the
trading months were % to 1871 points
over yesterdays close.
Reports from the interior that spots
we're not being offered for sale and the
lumOr here that the March ocean
freight rate on cotton would he re
duced TO s. per 100 pounds, Increased
the demand In the tracing up to noon
the advance was widened to 81 to =
points
Spots closed steady and unchanged.
Ordinarr, 1900 good ordinary. 1850;
low middliug, 22.75c: middliug, 27,00c,
good middliug. Is 00c. Sales on the spot.
7Ss, to arrive, 80; delivered on con-
tract. none
Futures closed strong at an advance
Of zoe to 1855 points.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-28

Under and by virtue Of the terms Of
a certain trust deed Of date AnriI Ok
1918, executed by Fred c. Storey and
wife; Jennie S. Storey, to State Invest
the land described below, recorded N
book 67S, pag 234, in the registers Of
flee Of Shelby county, Tennessee, secur-
ing, the payment to Columbia Mortgage
and Trust company Of 81, 500, evidenced
by so notes for $50 each of date Anril
%, 1918, payable monthly. beginning
with May %, 1918, bearing interest from
their-date, payable at maturity, default
having been made in the payment at
maturity, Of said notes due on the 25th
days OF November and December, 1918.
and same remaining still unpaid, and
the owner and holder of the unpaid
notes secured by said trust deed having
exercised the option given in said trust
deed, and all of the unpaid indebted
ness secured by said trust deed Hayine5
become due and collectible as provided
therein, and the same remaining still
unpaid, the undersigned State Invest
ment company. as trustee aforesaid. at
the request OF the owner and holder of
said unpaid indebtedness, will, on
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY s, 1919,
within legal hours, at the southwest or
Adams avenue entrance of the Shelby
county courthouse, in Memphis, Tenn,
same being at one of the doors of said
courthouse, sell at public cutlery to the
highest bidder for cash, the following
described land. situated in the city Of
Memphis, Shelby county, Tennessee,
to-wit:
The south 40 feet of lot AZ Of Walter
c. Tyndall Realty company's Cummings
subdivision in lots IS and SO Of the
Willoughby Williams tract. as shown
by plat of record in plat book 7. page
II, of the registers office of Shelby
county, Tennessee; beginning at a
stake in the west line of Cummings
street 14O feet north of the north line
of East McLemore avenue; thence west
parallel to East McLemore avenue 1924
feet to a stake; thence north 40 feet to
a stake; thence east parallel to East
McLemore avenue 1927 feet to a stake
in the west line Of Cummings street;
thence south with the west line of Cum
mtngs street 40 feet to the beginning.
The equity Of redemption, homestead
and dover in said land are waived in
said trust deed. The title of said land
is believed to be good. subject to the
prior trust deed securing the payment
OF $1,000 to Columbia Mortgage and
Trust company. due April %. 1928. with
interest thereon, but the undersigned
Will sell n convey as trustee only.
This January s, 1919.
STATE INVESTMENT CO.,
Trustee. ,
BY PETER G. GRANT. President. :
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