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Show French In Caricature. Why Is It, I wonder, that the Frenchman French-man always has been and still la portrayed In British comic Journals In tho traditional guise of a gay boule-vardler, boule-vardler, wearing n Van Dyke beard and dressed In a ridiculous velvet Jacket Jack-et such ns the Montmartre artists affect? Marcel Boulenger asks In Cartoons Magazine. Do you remember the legendnry Mnrlus of Marseille, whoso droll silhouette sil-houette was one of the masterpieces of poor Carnn d'Ache's delightful art? Such, or nearly such, Is the portrait accorded ac-corded us In the most friendly way, of course on the other side of the Channel. In tho naive Imagery of tho British peoplo It Is thys we appear. And no nmtter where this strange, gaudy personage shows up, Tommy Atkins At-kins nffpctlonately gives vent to cheers, for ho has recognized his comrade com-rade But why under tho sun should the sympathetic Tommy picture us like that? Ho should know better now. no surely knows that the averago Frenchman French-man no moro resembles Mnrlus than does tho typical Englishman resemble Lord Dundreary. But no matter. Con. vcntlon so orders. |