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Show Alphonse Mucha, the French artist, !f, ' 11 whose posters of graceful American I'lM'il fl women are no less popular in America : LI ; than in Paris, was recently making a .'.! v fl tour of tho United States. "What 'j u '! fl pleases me in America," M. Mucha d j ' ' B said, "is tho intelligence of the people. 7 !; jH The American public is far ahead of l the English. On my way over here h m' I stopped a few days In London, and ili , in the British Museum one afternoon I B a remark that showed well how be- 'M'.- B nighted the English public is-. Two (f B mon were looking at some old Egyp- fc , i i B tian coins. 'Them there,' said the flrst l.s - B man, 'must be three hundred or four W;' B hundred years old, eh Bill?' 'They're ly.-l' I B three thousand years old,' the second hH''! jfl man returned. 'Ah, g'wan, Bill. What W ; do ye take me for?' said the first man. m 4 " ; ' 1H 'Why, we're only in 1906 now.' " Ar- $j & ' ' B ganaut. B |