Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-11-04
GUARDS
/. PARRISH SOUVENIR
College Keeps Under Lock and
Key Famous Notebook Of
Chemist.Artist
QUAINT DRAWINGS FEATURE

AiaxHcld Parrish's chemistry noic.
book--that remarkable souvenir Of bud.
ding genius which Is treasured in the
Haverfcrd College library-has become
so endangered BY the attention Of the
public that henceforth IL will be kept
under lock and key.
This move has been necessitated by
the patent suferinss Of the company
Of enomes and whimsical beings who
people its pages. A recent examina-
tion Of the book BY the library authori.
ties revealed numerous faint. but un.
,nistakable hnserprints, many Of them
encroachins upon the delicately tinted
decorations painted there BY . distin.
guished hand. thirty years ago. Part oe
the cover, too. Is torn away.
And 90, In order to preserve for DOS.
terity 4 priceless personal memento of
one Of her most talented sons, the col.
/ leee has placed the notebook In a gloss
case protected from the light BY q
heavy green felt curtain. This the via.
itor> may draw aside to peer upon the
one opened page which he may see.
No one but Maxfield Parrish-cven
youthful rarrisl--could have conceived
or executed that page. No one not an
invested the intensely practical science
Of chemistry with the sunset glow Of
exotic imaeinings.
Amiable Grinuine Gnouss
It dcpicts ln expefiment in dis.
tillation---of q. strictly Volstsadsan M
ture-under the active supervision of
three quaint. -rotund LITTLE gnomes
in jenkins and long. pointed shoes.
| One, perched upon the retort erins
amiably at the leader and hourisn.~
a placard informing all concerned that
this Is experiment No. -.
Another sits below, -astride q candle.
stick. directing the fame against the
bottom OF the retort, and displaying Nh
enormous amount Of concern in so do.
ing. while still another. holding in his
arms great bowl of water. p0urs its
cooling stream upon the receiving fask
! to hasten the condensation.
In another experiment of n ike or.
der the receiving flask Is cooled By n
stream Of water flowing from an ex.
quisitely designed fountain. fashioned AZ
a lions head. Yet another portra ~
Humpty. DUMMY. presumably before his
fall, putting in a few leisure momcnts
in holding a fame beneath a test tube.
Every succeeding page has soine new
surprise: The fifty second experiment
Is brooded over by q curious bird OF
M undctermined species. which displays
the Characteristic peculiarities Of the
stork. the pelican and the dodo ut one
and the same time. The combined ef.
feet Is striking. Moreover the creature
, has an air Of sly merriu:ent. OK though
nose, and didn't intend to tell.
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