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THE LAKE SHORE NEWdy THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4. 1918. titer, Noted Landscape Painter, Had "Smallest and Dirtiest Hands on Record," THE NEWS'GALLERi OF BEAUTIFUL LAKE SHORE HOMES ^â€"--- Says Exchange. JOHNSON WAS GROTESQUE It is surprising how careless ot " their outer appearance many famuu.i men have been, remarks an exchange. It Is said of Turner, the great land- scape painter, Uiat his hands were "the smallest and dirtiest hands on record." Perh#s that is an exag geration, but he was certainly very â€" slovenly in his dress. He ware a I black swallowtail dress coat, very j â€"much in need of a clothes brush vigor- j ously used, and in the warmest as; well as in the coldest Weather, he I wore round bis throat a sort of wrap j or muffleiv which he„would unloosen, letting the ends dangle down in front and dip into the colors of his palette. He always worked either with his old â€"Irat on his head or with this same^ large inufBer over his head. His ap- pearance was more like that of an r old-time coachman than of a famous j- Royal academician, for he was short and stout, with a red and blotchy face. Dr. Johnson and Thomas Carlyle. Dr. Johnson's slovenliness has al- ' most passed "into provefbf "~'lifeTe irre ' -many contemporary accounts of his j -turning out of his house in Bolt court with his wig back to front and his stockings down. When Boswell vis- ited him at 1 Inner Temple lane, he records, "His brown suit of clothes , looked very rusty; he had on a little , old, shriveled, unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head; his shin j neck and the knees of his breeches , were loose, his black worsted stock- ings ill drawn up and by way of slip- , pers he had on a pair of unbuckled ' shoes." When it is added'that this; great man was constantly twitching. grunting, shaking his head, puffing his ; cheeks and blinking his eyes it must -be admitted that his appearance was not only uncouth, but grotesque. ~ Thomas Carlyle, coming of a peasant race, never conformed to society garb He was always,the inspired peasant., He would sometimes go out in his old j dressing gown, over which he but-1 toned a big coat, gray with age. When j he waa -leftâ€"alone in the house he delighted in swilling his flagstones with pails of water, and many a dis- tinguished friend found him thus en- "gaged with a kind of smock on and his busliy hair all tousled. He went ; about all the summer among the high- ! est aristocracy in a frieze jacket which , „_was part of an old dressing gown. All : the cabmen and bus drivers Chelsea way knew him. One said: "He may wear a queer at, but what would yer give for the 'eadpiece inside of it?" How Tennyson Was Dressed. It would not "be seemly to describe â-  Tennyson as slovenly in any real sense. He was a singularly noble look- ing man, but he did not care a Jot What he wore. His old slouch hat had seen unnumbered years and flapped about at all angles, and the Inverness cape which he invariably wore was. about as old as his hat. I'eo- rpbaVho met him without knowing his Immense distinction would have re garded him as a father quaint char- acter, and a tailor's cutter would not have assessed him at half a dollar, all told. This is a description^ the daily ap pearanee of Edward Fitzgerald, the , immortal author of "The Kubalyat" of Omar Khayyam: "Straggling graj hair ai.d slovenly In dress, wearing an aneient< batteEed, black banded,'sliiny edged tall hat, around which he would in wintry weather tie a handkerchief _, to keep it in place; his clothes of baggy blue cloth, as though he were a seafarer, his trousers short and his shoes low, exhibiting a length of white or gray stockings. With an unstarched shirt front, high, crumpled, standup collar, a big black silk tie in a care- less bow; in cold weather trailing a green and black and gray plaid shawl. In hot weather even walking barefoot with his boots, slungjto a stick," Sure- Name-On FOR XMAS » ^-S"-1"^*" Orders must be placed before December lt)th to be deliver- ed before Christmas.* â€"Courtesy of the Book of the North Shore. Lodge and Stable at Entrance to Frinklin Rudolph's Grounds, Winnetka. ORDER rWinnetka Garage NOW \ Foster's Garage from I William S. Lord Winnetka Wilmette Evanston + tor the Attention ol MyMany Evanston Patrons cial Reduction FOR the MONTH OF DECEMBER I WILL MAKE DURING DECEMBER $65 SUITS FOR $45 $50 SUITS FOR $35 This Will Include the Best Material and Silk or Skinner Satin Lining. H. A. ROPINSKI La%es'Tailor 1137 WILSON AVENUE CHICAGO OPEN EVENINGS FORMERLY AT 508 DAVIS ST.. EVANSTON Ca,irte8y_of the[Book of the Karth Shore. « * .'•; Parkway ana l^rwry-srFmz^hT^vmr, Greenbay-Roadr Highland Park. They always satisfy and are always appreciated by young or old. We carry a complete line of gift books of ALL PUBLISHERS, also a magnificent showing of Bibles, Testaments and Hymn Books. See our display of Calendars, Booklets and Christmas Novelties. Subscriptions taken for ALL MAGAZINES. Headquarters for Bibles of AH Kinds. THE Methodist Book Concern 1018-1024 Wabash Avenue Chicago, Illinois BUSKIN PROOFS Home of Marshall S. Marsh, 521 Belle Avenue, Highland Park. STATE BOARD FLAYED ^Y PROF. NIGHTINGALE (Continued from Page 1.) Ills committee received a visit from a <-lerk of the county clerk's office of ly "Old Fltz," as Tennyson called him, Sangamon county, who asked the corn- took the cake for slovenliness of all mltieo not to make any changes in the the immortals! WORK OF GLENCOE ARTIST. Oil paintings done by Miss Harriet Ulackstone of Grove street, Gleneoe, arc on exhibition at the Art institute in Cbtcagor among the collection of wort: by American artists. Oiie of the paintings is a sketch of her -^Brother which is pronounced by ail who have seen ft to be a splendid piece otâ€"work.------'â- ----------â- ---------------------- valuations sent in from Sangamon county, "as it would mean so much -teeuble for the ..county' clerk's office in altering their figures." "It is much the same in all the com- nil'tees," continued the speaker, "ex- cept that in the railroad and capital stock committees the work is a little inorf serious. "There the tax agents and attorneys for the railroads and public service I cori)oraTTohF~ make shrewd and able ! speeches which are rules of the board is that the reports of the three committees on personal property, lands and towff and city lots, shall be open to amendment by the board for at least forty-eight hours after they have, been reported. This means, he said, that if a person want- ed to make any investigation he had only two days to do It In. Rule Passes Quickly. "A like rule which applied to the re- ports of the committees on the assess- ment of railroad property and eapital stock of corporations was this year en- tirely suspended by a two-third vote," lie asserted. "This piece of legisla- tion, the only serious work of the board for this year, was passed with- in fifteen minutes without discussion. This, of course, is a travesty on gov- ernment. "The board has no power to compel attendance of witnesses or production of^Mipers as_evidence as it may de how Chicago corporations are 'soaked' 9n thejr capital stock assessments. In l»i)» capital stock assessments in Cook county amounted to $34,443,000 out of a total capital stock assessment for the state of $35,444,441. Local pub» lft?'service corporations in Cook county wen assessed for ^30,903,341." ----- As a remedy, Mr. Nightingale recom- mended the abolishment of the pres- ent board and the appointment of a board -of experts, who should hold their position for a period of from Ave" to "eight years. Further, be" said, all taxes on personal property should be abolished. uIWLSERYICLLAMlJS- BY HIGH COURT RETURN WITH DEER. Two Highland Park huntei'sr_-Ed- ward - Zimmer and Edward Huber. were successful in a week's hunt in Wisconsin last week. They returned Friday, bringing with them two deer UNIQUE DRV OQQPg ORpjR. i faintly understood and several red foxes shot in the sire or rather nowadays pretends toJ^nG Forests of the northern section =Wiiliaro-Andersonra Highland Park dry goods merchant, received an order =!«** ^fM»W fr<Mn_MLra. P., jfc <?lftrk Of Hong Kong. China. MrsT Clark for- iaerly resided In Highland Park, but la now enjoying an extended stay in China. not more than by the rubberj desire. All the committee does is-to"ofihe Badger state. stamp, ward-heeling politicians placed j nrPPm Hi7 rnilrrntfs7 figures, occnslon.J on these committees by the powersj.qly increases The valuations of the} ,»f i -'^Vme V thi?*Viei1 ar°-PQrra'»g^ stocl^ an^Tas~lhl8~7ear^de4 lltical retainers In the Cook county j PreaaPH capital stock^Either way, in treasurer's office; representativ corporations. RETURNS TO CgBMAMv,â€"= Louis Ling, who has been engaged the barber business In Highland _^he constitutionality _g_f the Illinois state civil service law has been up- held by Judge Thomas G. Windes in the Circuit court of Cook county. This decision was reached after tbe court had passed on testimony in the case of ^stenographer who was fighting to Mtain her position which she ob- j tained through the civil service ruling •and from which she had been dis- charged by State Auditor James J. Brady. The court hehr~tha^ the- de^ fendant had been illegally discharged and should receive back pay from July 1: Judge Windes' decision was anfi- cipated by those seeking the Invalida- tion ot the civil service act. It had been expected that a lower- court would n^declare^he_Acl_ujlrjmstL^ Rusk in proofs are genuine photogravures of the works of the great masters taken from the originals in the art galleries of Europe and Amer- ica, printed t^y hand, one at a time, and hand colored with the best of imported water-colors. We have a hundred subjectsâ€"many of which carfnot be duplicated before the -holidays.______ On exhibition this week only. Churchill's Picture Shop +630 Orri ngton Avon tie------- represent* of ^^ J^\^^e C^^^ ^es ^ ^re ^^ ^ X ™™*^ "as "d^ppsel ----- or' of his shop and returned to Germany. tiohaP^^he-case^wili be taken to the Supreme court where it may b<4de- elded next March Attorney General" tucey attacked j printed before their passage. Perfect Fitting Suits at $30.00 and $35.00 Style and fabric that cannot be excelled at that price. 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