Show it J T d J 0 r Strange rang H Hobby 0 bb Y I 1 4 E worlds world's greatest t collection of i J f presented jr to th the t British museum officials fi register exquisite delight These ft as rc collected b by th l te Nathaniel Rothschild Q s child of the London ba banking t j L i f I fa family Rothschild hild too took gre great re t pride in his fleas He ransacked the world for them ExI Expense Expense Ex Ex- Ex- Ex I pense pense was vas no object He ev even n sent a costly expedition into the far Far North 10 to get a aspeci specimen specimen men of the flea that annoys a certain kind of f arctic sea seal seah Strang Strange thi things gs happen in in world vaudeville but rarely anything stranger than this hobby of the rich banker Up speaks Arthur F. F Samme Englishman calling attention to his own peculiar collection match 1 match boxes h has tio tion He lie s different specimens and h he boasts t that at it jt to took k fourt fourteen fourteen four four- t teen en years to acquire them Ahem Samme claims s With dignity and confidence that he is the worlds world's greatest re test authority on match boxes No doubt Mans Man's instinct for accumulation is in its simpler form fonn tle the quality of v virtue known kno as thrift Carried to extremes to its logical logical c conclusions it is responsible for some people being too rich at t t the e expense expense of others who remain too poor Many a a millionaire will smile at Mr Samme coll collecting match boxes o r Mr Rothschild Rothschild Rothschild child collecting rare fleas But the match matchboxes matchboxes bo boxes es and fleas fleas' have benefited their owners owners about as mu much h as e excessive possession of dollars dollars dollars dol dol- lars benefits the extremely ly rich A queer quer que r animal ani ini- ini mal ial at times is man In justice to Rothschild Rothschild c child lild it mu must t be admit admitted ed that his hobby did the world a a little good since ule fleas s spread diseases diseases diseases dis dis- dis- dis eases and a a knowledge of them is obviously valuable I |