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Show IN PLACE OF AUTOGRAPHS English "Society" People Have Taken to Collecting Thumb Prints of Their Acquaintances. The latest craze English society has taken up is getting the thumb marks of their acquaintances in little books specially prepared for the purpose, says a writer in the Gentlewoman. Dining at the Savoy the other night one of these little volumes was handed hand-ed to each of our party. We pressed j our thumbs down in the portion of the book filled with some moist preparation, prepara-tion, and then impressed this mark in a section of the page before us, afterward after-ward adding our signatures. We laughed and wondered If (he detective de-tective force would ever find itself benefited by any of our thumb marks, j Who knows? The most unlikely per- ' sons have become criminals. We spec-ulated spec-ulated as to what form crime would assume in ourp. Murder, we all agreed, ' was quite out of the question; forgery was quite impossible; theft fof photographs, pho-tographs, umbrellas, etc.) quite ordinary, ordi-nary, and libel not impossible. The waiters were evidently accustomed to i the game, for they brought us slices i of lemon to take away the stains from thumbs. I |