| Show SKULLS AND SNAKES SNAKE S uncomfortable ornaments for Gent gentlemen leme ns canes and the extent to which idiotic cane he heads ads and unit umbrella rella handles will be carried is ii capable of astonishing if not horrid horrifying yin the bell beholders elders thero there b have I 1 ve been plenty of the 1 grotesque monstrosities on exhibition among silly young men ever sine since oxidized silver came into fashion A favorite thino thing 0 has I 1 a handle of carved wood elaborately painted represent representing ingan an uncanny head half human find and liali half beast A college graduate sat in an orchestra chair at a theater with it a cane in his mouth most of the time the device was an U oxidized silver skull as bin big as a hens cr et 1 I and ostop on top of the skull there crawled the well educated an on enameled lizard young bouno man sat and chewed this lizard in ill a away a to madden any delicate worna woman in his vicinity tv in a new aNew york store win dow were lately shown a stand of fifty of the most villainous inventions ever put on the tops of canes or umbrellas inside and from a handsome case the polite attendant produced a cane and umbrella ambrella to which the same knob could be attached and in fair weather or foul the happy possessor could make himself a terror to society the knob was a lar large c skull of oxidized silver with a flexible e jaw th that at n wriggled at you as you moved it while from the ca 0 elesa sockets on the slightest agitation there protruded the heads of two snakes etwas it was a thing to make one shudder but the proprietor spoke with pride of being the only importer of this infernal design robert roberl heller used to wear an enameled skull as a scarf pin an eye eyeglass 0 lass made ot in an air emerald craid occupied one socket and by a connecting battery in his pocket he made the dreadful little 1 tiling thing chatter its teeth in a truly hairs hair standing fashion but robert was a t disciple of the black art and it was his business to surround himself with the attributes of diabolism the usual young monkey who buys such toys hasil pt t the brains to become a prestidigitator digi and is only a social nuisance auis anco detroit fres free press |
