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Show I Mostly In the Brand. I Tins' other day a ship brought into the port I of Now York 2,000 empty cheese boxes bearing I t'.io brands of Camembert and other popular I French cheese. These are to be filled with Am- I erlcan cheese and sold at double price to such I Americans as cannot taste American cheese, but just dote on the cheese from beautiful France. I In the same way California pure wine for many years has l ;en shipped around to Bordeaux. There it is unloaded, mixed with inferior, French wine, bottled, packed and sent to the United States tor those ladles and gentlemen of sensitive taste I who cannot bear to taste the coarse wines of the Golden state, but delight in real rare French I wine. We laugh at such things or swear accord ing to humor we are In, but after all this Is an almost universal weakness of human nature. Our tourists in Europe spend millions every year for curios and multifold works of art, though as an eastern publication points out there are thieving establishments scattered all over Germany (honest Germany, think of that), for the production of antiques; the same in Austria and Italy; while Greece and Egypt are filled with ancient an-cient coins made the day before and when an ancient sepulchre will become an attraction to a spot the sepulchre Is soon in place. On the other hand some of the finest French carpets it is said are woven up in a defile of the highlands of the Hudson. The meanest swindle of all, however, is when an empty case, French, or Italian, or Austrian, Aus-trian, or Hungarian, comes over with his foreign brand and sells himself to one of O' i- beautiful American girls. And the prices that some of them command is appalling. And yet that, too, has been human nature over since before Dido stood with a willow in Iter hand and waved her love to come again to Carthage. |