Show t A a 6 ae 0 FA M U L j I 1 HE autograph fiend baa has a tar f a r more i amusing fad lust just now than the mere collecting ot at of or binary signature signatures of ox tra ordInary folkard fol folk kand and the newest thing in this hobby necessitates the possession of a ghost book to hold bold the signa turoa which portray the ghosts of the eminent ones these little books are becoming very popular both in london and in new york they have an advantage advant opo over the ordinary autograph album because the collecting of signatures has been so w ardone ien lone that many of the great ones have had rubber facsimiles made of their very best autographs autograph snot not the kind that appear appears on their checks and instead of taking time to respond whenever a stamped and addressed envelope ie Is all they do la Is to pass the letter request or it never gets beyond the secretary at all ad A d the auto graph Is stamped on in buch such a manner that it 4 the purpose well and saves mr air author mr sir actor or mr air singer a lot of time and trouble but a request for a name in onea ones ghost book haa has a certain novelty about it and there Is too considerable curl olty to see ce just what eort sort of a ghost onee ones name will make so that nearly everyone will take the trouble to picture hie his ghost for you in making the collection tor for a ghost book partially reproduced here many well known men and women were aked asked for ghosts president and mr aire tatt taft were amused at the idea and both took the keen eat interest la in peeing how their ghosts would turn out the big statesman adjusted his glasses fold cd ed with the utmost precision the paper on which ho he waa was to inscribe his ghost looked around for a tub stub pen which unfortunately he could not find rn his desk in the hot springs bungalow and then lie he t wrote hie his name and hastily folded back the cannot say that for euch such a big roan man aa as I 1 am urn n the flesh my ghost cuta cuts euch such a rt wide swath be he laughingly remal kel as ho be held the pa ve per r up for atra taft to view but anyhow tho the smaller ones one ghost the better perhaps bo be added afro tatt taft was more pleased with her ghost than ohe she was with that of her you are more impo important pant juet just now but ro ghost ie ts a far more artistic arti stio creature than joejr and really moru she laughed I 1 II 11 will bo be noly that a part E of mra airs tufts tafts beare bears a remarkable blance to a ma ala onic emblem atlas 1 mary gar den practiced soy eral times on her ghost beace ehe she would allow allo the final one to appear in the writ va ere ers ghost book p ghosts like av grything ory ery thing eleo else lin im S prove by practice j and I 1 look upon u tur final ghost aa as a worthy effort laughed was atlas gar leer derr in fact I 1 see the urn above rom which my boote must have hopped out bhe she said aid and sure a u one will look at the prima donnas ghost host it wilt will be fot boim 4 ditc to true miss ties geraldine Cerald lne farrar farr was enchanted with hr her ghost which she eald said looked liko like a veritable butterfly how ilow splendid to be so picturesque a glinith Kh gli ailsa farrar commented mils emma C thursby has one of the most remarkable ghosts of alt all and for beauty and sym symmetry metty it ie Is quite as pleasing as a wrought iron aock ork design or a japanese Japa brass candle tick stick 1 I prefer to think of 1 it q something that was by the shades ft ome iome japanese artist which idea I 1 absorbed when I 1 visited some of tb great temples in japan eald sald lady warwick says she ho bellee in ghosts at all but she was very much impressed by the appearance of her titled name when her ghost became a reality 1 I think I 1 shall design a book plate out of it that wouldn t be a bad idea would it the countess added as she viewed the strong bold writing that formed her signature lady casmo duff gordon was enchanted with tier bar ghost and ghost collecting has become such a fad ad with her that she has purchased a dozen of tho the little volumes for her friends 1 I put my ghost in each one and I 1 suppose I 1 must be a woman of a number of selves or else there are A number of warring ghosts ir mv mr ace ice fry ry for each one of my signatures produced a gho so totally different from the others that one would scarcely barcey car cey believe that they tame came from rom the same name and handwriting dut but I 1 ata rather pleased with the idea tor for what Is more prosaic than lack f of varle variety tylo I 1 have made my fortune by original and diverse designs in the making of frocks laid said the titled dressmaker so why hould nt signatures portray that characteristic ira elinor olyn glyn author of three weeks had made her ghost she thought that it bore some resemblance to a tiger and eagerly pointed out its cliwe the tiger 1 essentially ane of my transmigrations or shall I 1 say manifestations fe remarked sirs airs olyn glyn hence my i tiger ghost paul pal would be pleased with that he aha she added ath if a smie smile bonimy destinn the gifted bohemian prima I 1 a m of tle cloyal opera house berlin vrho ho has t iad 0 1 just punished a brilliant brillant 11 first season in america aid said that the ho could see in her the shades of tho the late empress dowager ot of china that fancy may have occurred to her because when ehe she made her ghost the news of the death of the chinese empress had just been received george bernard shaw linen t time for ghosts or interviews or writer folk at all be he sav yet tills this most inconsistent of men generally gives his interview and sees the writer person and hern we have his ghost mr air shaw generalli generalI 5 makes it 11 us as uncomfortable na as possible for the inter letter before allowing him to be admitted but alter after that the genial blue eyed irishman in sd irresistible and one readily fo forgives atves him any thing that has seemed rude the writer sent a note asking for an interview with mr sir shaw in hn chambers just off the embankment in london last summer and in response mr sir shaw characteristically act wrote my dear miss atlas I 1 will have ten min minutes ules rest tomorrow to morrow ow some time between II 11 and 12 30 if you catch ae e during the ten minutes I 1 will see ou if it you atay longer I 1 will throw you out of the window GEORGE B S 8 the writer went ent at a quarter to twelve and mr tr shaw sha talked and talked and talked until perron perrou will often show an apparent wide differ ence in conformation e owing to tho the hape shape of the I 1 pen pan the cw of the ink and the amount of prea pres sure raed a more careful tiny liny will make it clear that the chief char chat hold through out the ghost Is true to Us ts type 11 who then men will inter pret and nud reveal the true meaning of our ghost au 40 bavar to graphs here is 1 a new field for investigation and amusement with the adient of the ghost book we have a new twist to an old old tad fad tr travelers IL celers in central europe as early aa as the fourteenth century used to carry their book of friends an octavo volume in which names and sentiments were in scribed on their return home they could show an interesting record ot at the famous personage personages they bad had met these ara are the first autograph albums of which we hear but the passion for collecting manuscripts and autographs la is as old as the history of cultured society and ie Is not without lia its romantic side one of the Ptole mies once paid the starving athenians in wheat for or the privilege of copying some treasured manuscripts of tho the ita immortal greek dramatists the wretch kept the or originals finals and returned the copies if it had been the ghost signatures of eu euripides and Sop hocka that the unscrupulous ruler was aftin he would not have found it easy to perpetrate so heartless a trick r al A R aa ja awa 4 Is ae 1 W J k X 00 i ilist titio or nt oe nearly one a clock and not a word as said about the window Indo wor or the playwrights strong right arm for a man of his brusque threats mr nir shaw has a very mild and looking ghost flinte nives hives haa has a ghost wat might be of orient il origin for it an antique and elaborately carved vase of chinese design than anything else P li Is meant for the urn that c r A As i my y the tho foitl 1st at laughingly remarked of course one may juat just care to have the ghosts of ones friends and not particularly those of people celebrated in the art literary or poll gollu cal cat worlds and then it will be a simple matter to nil 1111 up ones ghost book for the making ct ghosts will be found to be quite a novelty at a tea or other social affair and taken alone along with ones hand luggage on an ocean voyage IL ghost book will prove a source of endless amusement while it will mako a lasting souvenir of the trip the ghost book itself Is a email small affair tint thit cin be gotten in the pocket of an overcoat or can be b carried easily in a muff or big hand bag so that one can always take it along with out any trouble when youns you ask klora lor a ghost signature you prepare tha a ago for the writing by py folding it and the person whose ghet you are after writes directly on the line cf of the fold 4 stub pen which holds n haree amount of ink if 4 best for this purpose as its the size and mystery of the ghost depend largely upon the ink after the name ie Is written the pae Is folded together again without blot ting and lo 10 the ghost appears try it and cot sect it Is not necessary to have a book one can the signatures written op ke ee parate sheets of paper and collect them but care must be taken to use soft paper that will absorb the ink readily these theme separate sheets can then be pasted into a scrapbook scrap book hat the letle ghost book itself will bo be found more convenient at the top of a page in the ghost book la its a small dotted line for the date and below appears anothy line for the writing of the name after the ghost Is emde so that after nil all la in a ghost book OBO one gets a genuine autograph as well as the spook signature while several ghost signatures of the same ft |