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FADS ARE DRAMAS ON WORLD STAGE WIDSPREAD IN EFFECTS& Bulletin of Nat. Geographic Soâ€" ciety Tells How Many of Them ‘~Started and Notes Their â€" Brief Popularity â€" PAGE TWO Â¥en Fu Chien, of Foochow, is puzâ€" flohlnembnntom he has decided that. Americans mus be: astonishingly changeable, says news bulletin of the National Geograâ€" flm:_; ES C ud T couldn‘t paint them fast enough for the Americ¢ans. Then, all of a sudden, America did not want so many mah jong sets. : Yen Fu Chien lost his job. He could not know that the fad of cross word puzzles bhad cut into the fad of mad jong in America, And he did not worry much. ‘The changeâ€" able Americans developed a taste for Chinese parasols. These also needed ornamentation, and since Yen Fu Chien was a decorator helate again. Hair for Parasols Yen Fu‘s sister was not so fortuâ€" nate. Just about the time her tresses were long enough to market the botâ€" tom dropped out of the hair net trade because bobbed hair was "all the go" 5000 miles from‘ Fooehovn. S::“hd to accept a low price,. it is mvhingwed&o‘fiethelzqu- per covering to the bamboo ribs of the parasols her brother decorates. All the world‘s a stage for the "Fads of 1925" or any year. Their first acts may be laid in Foochow or in some other strangé outâ€"of.theâ€"way place:} Arctic Islands, tropic jungles, _ Â¥en Fu Chien left a job ornamentâ€" ing fans to paint polished bone and bamboo chips for mah jong sets, He ‘moponingc?rhino{“l’htim," a . 20th â€" century comedy based on Charles ~Lamb‘s| famous â€" roast <pig story, rises on a street scene in Quibâ€" do, Columbia. As<a. prologue it is necessary to <point out that the mothers of most of us were as proud as peacocks of their engagement diaâ€" mond in its gold setting. Ask a 1925 "#apper‘ to wear anything but platiâ€" num filigree and you will probably stay single for life. ‘ deserts; the second act on Broadway or Michigan avenue, : The third act may reveal a high ceiling room where grave diplomats draft a treatyâ€"or may be "same as Act I." . * Windes & Marsh Licensed Drain Layer Sewer and Water Contractor Private and Public Catchbasins and Septic Tanks Phone 1151 Highland Park 650 * Ladies and Gents 102 North First Street Illinois® Licensed Surveyors _ Highland Park, Box 261 H. L. FROMELT M. WOLAK Phones w Shak m , ie t ts i m eeraaape ves, as ‘ S sance the‘mvy lumps they had to separate from ‘the gold. The lumps were platinum. When they realized that platinum . was worth four: times as much as gold they began franticalâ€" ly to pan the creeks .which are the town‘s streets for the discarded nugâ€" gets. The government laid claim to the streets, so they panned their garâ€" dens and door yards.. Finally one paâ€" triot burned his house down. Panning the ruins he obtained enough platinum to build a new house and still have $4,â€" 000 in the bank, thus coming off much better than Lamb‘s Chinaman, â€" ~With all the enthusiasm of Kansas farmers in a good wheat year natives of Cape Colony, South Africa, are hailing an: obscure ~Americanâ€" news item. It is an announcement from Deâ€" troit, Michigan, that a great percentâ€" age of automobiles now : sold : are closed cars.. What connection can there be between the rocky, droughtâ€" ridden tip of Africa and sedans? To find the root of the rejoicing the first act must be seen again. Ostrich Feathers and Autos In the lqst part of the nineteenth and the first part of our century royalâ€" ty in Europe took to ostrich feathers. By 1910 the "willow plume" was one of the dearest possessions of Amerâ€" ican womanhood. â€" South Africa disâ€" covered that raising ostriches was its special vocation and nearly a million birds . stalked its pens.. An. attempt was made even to start ostrich farms in California. With the war the botâ€" tom dropped out and tens of thousands of ostriches had to be slaughtered to save them from starving. . South ‘rAfrica says that the arrival of :the open Aautomobile‘spelled downfall for the ostrich feather as a hat ornament â€"but the closed car is their "rainbow of hope" for the revival of the trade that brought them $15,000,000 in one year. ~ At the foot of the modern monuâ€" ment to the Tmflne six are said to be the wrecks of two other minor DUFFY & DUFFY Deerfield Agency, Hofman‘s Barber Shop Highland Park Transfer and Storage Company FIREPROOE WAREHOUSE, 374 Central Avenue MOVING â€" PACKING â€" SHIPPING Dry Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing f BAGG'AGE â€" FREIGHT â€" EXPRESS ~_~___ Automobile Storage f ALEX RAFFERTY, Sr., Manager Office 374 Central Avenue Phones 181â€"182 Cleaners and Dyers Transfer of Leavyes No Bitter T aste You will never find a trace of bitter taste in food leavened with Dr. Price‘s,even though you should happen to use too much. wilio® ‘ware to Folinass pups: Sand: fish, The tink Pekingese, which $s a marringe ‘of the marmoset and the lion, once. :were owned by Chinese Ro: )me in 1860 five e more : ‘In. than in ‘any other : country . in . any other age. To fads civilization owes much for they, rather : necesâ€" saries, â€" often have been ~the firsl springs of internsational tr: Mediâ€" terranean people blazed | first trade routes to north Europe for amâ€" ber, the ancients‘ most precious subâ€" stance. â€" Lapis lazuli, with which King Tutankhamen‘s tomb was richly ornamented, was to old Egypt what diamonds are to the twentieth century, Egypt traded her emeralds for Perâ€" sia‘s lapis lazuli, T < Brazilian Fad in America The United States serves other countries with fads just as they supâ€" ply us. Richly ornamented watches are "Made in America" for China. It is often immaterial. to the Chinese purchasers whether the watches keep time or not for the purchasers prize them chiefly:as glittering pendants. Brazilians have a curious legendary character called "Sacy," who is supâ€" posed to bring good luck. He is brown, has only one leg and that ending in a cloven hoof, smokes a pipe and wears a bright red cap. 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