Show I I Why Not Start a Bc Scrap rap Book II BY MARGARET E SANGSTER i iI I Ai OT a into which we weI NOT I cast worthless bits and the flotsam arid and jetsam of desk and library baskets basket that are filled and emptied with incredible swiftness in a aday aday aday day or week In a reading le household hut but scrapbooks which wll h preserve for tor or future future reference the tho st in the news newspapers newspapers newspapers papers and magazines are the theme of ot this bit bk of discussion disc Various devices of ot this kind are sold soldat soldat soldat at the stationers Envelopes that are labeled for different clippings books that are arranged with appropriate headings and properly interleaved but for practical purposes an ordinary blank book and a pair of scissors with witha a good supply of paste plus brains are The most fascinating scrapbooks I have ever seen are those bose of a friend who ho for years has never laid aside a newspaper without cutting out poems the anecdotes the reports of or discoveries and inventions the quips and jests and the serious articles that have interested her Without much method this lady has lies daily pasted hex her store of selections culled from many man sources on the pages of or school compo composition composition books or occasionally in a diary with its dates of months and days and I weeks When she has secured for tor her self el the core eor of a paper she throws it awa away or leaves It for fOl the cook to kindle the kitchen tire Ore Her net result Is a charming miscellany just the chance collection Into which like the immor immortal Immortal immortal tal Jack JaCI Homer Horner you ou put in your thumb and you pull out a plum For an idle afternoon or the tho leisure of convalescence or a rainy evening when you are at a loss for tor amusement this unsystematic and irregular scrap i is a ri re l S S I But It ft Is Not Scholarly For ires a predetermined predetermined mined and a certain skill and anda andI a carefully followed plan Why are you ou desirous of preserving from loss lOBS the useful items I oms and the entertaining episodes that tha make m ke up the current his history history history tory of humanity hum in your time Why save from fro i forgetfulness a ft chronicle of lifes passim passins show If It you ou are arci aroby by way w y of taking laking part in debates or 01 making speeches sp hes at politE political cal meetings it Js Is needful for you to reinforce m by seasonable illus illustrations illustrations the papers are full of them Personal P character was never so widely wl el exploited as now Our great men stand where a of publicity is for forever over ever flashed i upon their smallest ac kc actions actions tiomi The moves on at a pace so 80 rapid that electricity is its only par parallel parallel aUel The scholarly and the convenient conven lent way Is to know what you ou want and to pur pursue pursue sue it according to routine Under sep separate separate separate arate captions arranged either topical topically ly or 01 alphabetically paste whatever of or value you sift from the daily dally news that is your wheat For you the resi real residue residue due Is chaff Or It is your gold and the remainder for your purposes is dross Discriminate decide what impresses you OU and put aside your material for future use Index your scrapbook and then without a moments unnecessary ry delay dela I Iou you ou can turn to what you ou are searching I for tor Where does docs a n certain popular pastor procure so s many man fitting fl g stories allus allusions allusion lon ions and anecdotes The question was asked by a who seemed to fancy that the clergyman evolved them from front his inner consciousness I could have hav ha replied that he had the useful habit of ot the orderly scrapbook from which on occasIon he brought forth i things new and old Pictorial Scrap Books The twentieth century has wit witnessed immense strides in iii pictorial art Beautiful reproductions of great paint paintings paintIngs paintings ings are given in ip exquisite e color and tone Photography has reached reache amazing and singular delicacy and the plainest cottage in the land may bo be adorned with pictures at the cost of an outlay that the slenderest purse can Whoever wishes may keep for friends and children in scrapbooks that will fit into the shelves of the home library a complete pictorial his tory of our thrilling and absorbing ab ing period All the magnificent command commanders ers era of ot the day the men who have don n ducted the titanic struggle on sea and land In the far east the groat diplo diplomats diplOmats diplomats mats the astute statesmen the cap captains captains thins kings and queens the republics republics lies modest men who take tak the tile helm stepping from civil life Ufe at nt the th call and returning to the ranks when their tasks are done all the fore foremost foremost foremost most men and the foremost women too of or our country will wUl be In a portrait gallery cut from front the th e weekly monthlY or daily press Splendid buildings too triumphs of modern architecture enchanting gar gardens gardens gardens dens foaming torrents mountain mount ln I passes picturesque ravines scenes cenes of I battles and siege are depleted depicted in finest I art with deftest touch In the papers I and may and should shou d be saved for i e fireside and the family group by the simple method of the scrapbook Cartoon and Caricature The cartoon as a weapon of t war or oran oran an fin adjunct to peace has reached coT cop sp prominence With a few rapid strokes by an ingenious and simple I composition by a few strong contrasts I and vivid efforts the cartoonist tells a zt astory story in a 11 picture He makes men laugh He makes men furious His pictures are battles or sermons He is like the kings jester in motley whose sallies sa Hes were veiled truths that masquerade as folly but strike home The fun the wit the cleverness the guile the art of the noted cartoonists and caricaturists are arc patent to the most ignorant amateur and delightful deU to any unprejudiced dUe critic Twenty years ears hence a scrapbook 4 devoted to toda s cartoons will pOlIo po satin sess an interest and an value not to be betim o ci tim by the men of ot O C Reader Header Re der whoever r and you 4 I Ire re begin your art scrapbook ae tomor tomorrow t trow row morning 1 l Copyright Cop 1905 by Joseph B Bowie Bowles i p |