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Show ANTIQUITIES MADE TO ORDER. Switzerland Proves Itself in No Way Behind the Rest of the World in This Connection. Switzerland will have an additional attraction this season for the tourists. "The one hundredth anniversary of the struggle for independence will be celebrated, and the thrifty inhabitants of the little republic," says an American Ameri-can tourist, "always watchful for the coin, are making great preparations for the various celebrations. Aside from the pageant and other civic festivities, fes-tivities, they are laying in a stock of historic souvenirs, for which they know there will be a ready market. An Innsbruck paper says that one of the popular manufactured antiquities is the Swiss flag of a hundred years ago. A new one is made to resemble a centenarian by a process which includes in-cludes fading the colors in the sun, bespattering it with tallow and laying it in the granary, where the mice soon give it the necessary tattered appearance. ap-pearance. Finally it is subjected again to the rays of Father Sun, is mounted on a worm-eaten, broken staff, and is then ready for the English or American Ameri-can tourist in search of centennial trophies." |