Show MONEY IN THE V COLLECTING FAD An Avocation That May Grow Into a Profitable Business KEEN JUDGMENT REQUIRED Stamp nut and Coin Colit Collections Are IC re the theMo Mo l Popular J Picture Gathering Gather In lag ing Is Ii h c. c tike Make money moncy as 85 a collector Yes you OU can if iC you ou collect along tho the right lines and with judgment You cun can lose mone money too umi vcr very cas easily II Probably many more moro lose money that way than make It Most Moat stamp collectors must bur bury their money mone in their collections und mil so must coin collectors Collectors of oC paintings must have havo a adeal great deal leal of non money to to exe exercise th their lr Cad ad d at all and unless they snow know pictures PiCtures pic pie tures Lures well and anI arc are able to foretell the tho public taste iste years curs ahead they stand to lose heavily I if the they arc forced to sell seU says sas the lie Kansas City Star tHul There have been ben picture collectors however who have made great reaL profits out of or their thell paintings s at just the lie times they needed needed needed need need- ed mone money most The lute late George I. I Seen banker was isas one of or these After Arter his famous failure he ho sold the pictures he lie had gathered for lor man many years cara so successfully that he ho had hod a anest anest anest nest CJ egg that was well worth while with which to start over again Profiting Profit Profit- ing lug b by that experience he set about at tit once collecting a n lot more paintings and on this second collection ho made another goodly sum One of oC the odde oddest l collecting Ca fads s was that of the art arl superintendent of oC one of oC the tho big publishing houses of New York Vork lie Ho collected bottles and andas was as still at nt It Jl live or six years ago o. when wilen lust Just heard of Very likely he Is still though to the ordinary mind It would seem to bo ho easy to tire lire of ot S' S gathering bottles with which to ornament ones one's home He lie once said that when ho h was a aboy abOY aboy boy ho used to take delight ht his grandmothers grandmother's camphor bottlo up to the light lIs-ht to see ace ce the brown blown glass turn to In tho ho sunshine of or Odd J Accordingly Jy his collection Includes es n of or not to s. say V design which V he heng consIders almost byr l InS InS' ng thuin that the light will shine through them prop properly he ho c can n get Iel color cotor effects that cannot wen well bo be produced In any other wa way Not a fL few of or them are arc o of the commonest c glass ss and some are arc so painfully commercial as us to bear beur the names blown In the glass of oC the patent l 1 the they once con con- tamed When he is lIS rallied upon this he says Yes I 1 know but buL wait walt a while B By and by the models from which these bottles were wele made will be broken and then they will vill be priceless But DuL he lie has plenty plent of oC bottles that thaL were made of costly glass and are arc of or artistic artistic ar ar- ar- ar forms besides There are arc bottles In Iii the shapes shape of oC men and anti women some sonic beautiful and an- sonic some grotesque ro t there I C I V I arc bottles eU lI nan U anu allu pigs ib an and many other animals Collecting menu cards Is a fad that may be bc Indulged In without much di direct direct dl- dl root cost if you are a frequent public litter diner though to attend enough public dinners to gather a Ii big collection of oC han handsome some menu cards would be highly ex expensive i eli S I VC A consistent und anti persistent menu collector cal col lector was Miss lIss 1 F i H. H Buttolph of or New NewYork York Two or three years ago she sho had gathered X or 13 noteworthy cards curds together and In time the tho collectIon collection collection tion Is to have a place In the New York public library that Is to be the result of combining the Astor and Lenox li libraries Ii- Ii and the TU Tilden en library fund Till 1111 the new marble building Is ix completed completed com corn the collection will be he housed In Inthe Inthe inthe the Astor Aslor library V Collection of Menus It Is really a most Interesting collection collection collection tion and b by n no means without historic Interest IntermIt It Il Includes menus of the dinners dinners din din- Henry of oC Prussia Prussia Prussia ners tiers given when sia and Prince Louis of Battenberg Dattenberg visited America of the last luncheon given to President resident McKInley of the wedding banquet given cn to Queen Wll- Wll and so liO on Some of them are arc I Ivery very elaborate and artistic specimens of the tho printers printer's rs r's art some are done b by hand and some some mostly mostly of very Important Im ito- dinners Indeed Indeed arc are cd-are arc very simple sim plo and unpretentious Butterfly collectors exist In tho ho United States Slates by the hundreds perhaps hundreds perhaps bv by the thousands and thousands and there are aro a few persons persons who make their living that thaL wa way Two brothers located at Welles carried on a nourishing flourishing Icy h Mass long Jons- trade at collecting and may muy still bo be engaged In It These brothers b hud bad id many Interesting adventures in the course courso of their quest t for the beautiful Insects In Australia one of them heard of a remarkable variety of or butterS butterfly which rarely or never ne came camo to the ground but InhabIted Inhabited the topmost branches of lort lofty trees from which circumstance no specImen specimen spec spec- imen was 1 known to have e been tap cap Hired The llie American butterfly hunter was wan equal to the lie task however howo Selecting So- So lootIng a shell loa loaded ed very fine lino shot hot he fired tired at one of the butterflies bringing It to the ground It was wa badly ly shuttered shattered of ot course too badly In fact to lit Ite of an any use 1150 as a aI specimen Jut But the collector spread tho the broken winged insect Ins out upon a low shrub unit and As he ho expected It IL was UK only a short time tune before other but- but of or the lie 8 same samo species seeing oneO ono one O of their number resting closely to tho thu ground ro Il fleW w down to keep It IL company Four were captured and afterward th the d decoy coy plan led lcd to tho the capturing cal of oC many more |