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Show A Nation of Souvenir Eiends. It Is agreeable to hear that the difficulty at Toklp in which Mr. Bryan and the Japanese Jap-anese wai Ktool Ilgured lias been adjusted satisfactorily, to both sides, and all Is well In asking for the stool on which Adtmnil Toge had sat Mr. Bryan Intended to nay high tribute to the Japanese hero, and In acipeding momentarily to the request re-quest the Japanese exhibited that perfect per-fect courtesy for which they are distinguished. distin-guished. Then came the explanation, delicately made, that the stool was an heirloom of great value and then the return re-turn of it, with the proper apology, from Mr. Bryan. The Orient got a taste of Occidental Oc-cidental curiosity and relio hunting, and for tho moment was shocked. With v-. 'hat yort of thing Is carried to the greatest extreme e hardly take account ac-count of how far It is carried There Is a rush for the pen with wh'ch fhe Presl. dent, oc some popular Governor of a Slate, has signed s meas.u'e ut unuauai Interest. A scramble sets up for a cane oi a riding cron that some popular faor-Ho faor-Ho has used Prince I,juIs when In New-York New-York attended a show, and asked about the lighted cigar ho held In his hand. Smoking he was told, was against the rules, but the rules in his QMS were sus-panded sus-panded But he politely declined the rom-I rom-I lln lent, put out th the and threw the weed aside The slump at once became pn i louf. and one of his hosts secured It and has It among his priceless and smokeless smoke-less jSosjesslons. And so on Another fnd of ours Is photography. Kodaks are thick as blackberries In season, sea-son, and anybody can work one. All celebrities cele-brities are made to stand and deliver. It is a case of your picture or your life. Visiting foieigners of distinction are caught In every attitude. Count Witto and his staff and Baron Komura and his staff met photographers at every turn of the road In the P6rtsmouth country and sat for pictures all over their hotel. Prince Louis, a handsome man with nothing to fear, ran the same gantlet and saw his face twenty limes u day it. tho newspapers. newspa-pers. Well. It's all right. The public demands It, and in this country we all strive to please Washington Star. |