Show Bookshop Patrons Obtain Real Eyeful Books With Subtle Picture Pictures Attract Many Clerks Who Have Been to College Wear Three Differ Differ- Different Different Different ent Suits Each ch Day ay Authors Sign Title Pages UY IW JESSIE TF HE NEW XI lORIEn U AURO SpecIal I lI 1 path to 10 The Standard Standard- r 1 maii Press A PARIS June 2 26 Its If th the fash fash- fashionable fashIonable fash- fash thIng thine among amone AmerIcans here hero ju just t now to pat patronize pat pat- patronize the book shops hops Since this good new news got cot around book shop have e opened with a bang bane ban hither an and nd 1 yon on and Paris would soon be bethe bethe bethe the literally center of the erse It IC It only the book shops shop sol sold old 1 ilL- ilL lit literature The rhe books they seem to sell cell most however are aro those which contaIn subtle pictures You could send one of oC these books to Aunt Prud Prudence ence once back homo home and an 1 she the could real It all nil through and look at nt the tho Il Illustrations II- II and feel foci that you ou hal had grown Into a very fine floe moral young oung person A AND D lOll iOU LOSE liOSE OUT OUTI But Dut some seine day doy a detail amid these illustrations would 1 catch some body body's eye Th The entire village would woul l borrow th the book book such Is the Amer American ican can Interest In art and an 1 eventual eventual- eventually I ly Iy one or another of the tho killjoys would explain to tD Aunt J Trudence I very Cry gently and ond Auntie would 1 cut I you ou out of her will ili Still Stilt and all theres there's there a a certain new American proprietor of a book boole shop thop who Insists on stocking his place with Ith real literature Not for his classic shelves just around the corner from the heart of Mont Mont- Mont parnasse parnasse Is any of ot this transIent trashy stuff which everybody Is Isrea rea reading It If everyone Is la reading It ho he wont won't give elv the tho book shelf thelt room Just the other day he announced that while huie hed he'd had ha 1 three or four copies of a popular volume dealing with the Iho hirsute predilection of gentlemen lie Ie wasn't goIng to got any more moro copies because the work worle didn't come como up to the standard he had set PLENTY TY C It make malee any difference what youre you're like or what you ou like hen first t you enter that lint shop you come forth with culture out all over you ou and a couple vol volumes VOl- VOl VOlumes umes mimes of oe maybo maybe or Edith harton under your Arm Surely this i Is th the right idea Mea If IC youre you're going to sell Looks books why not sell real one ones Still and all this thi particular particular- this very book particular book ular-book book shop felt It Inexpedient to rely on liter liter- literature literature aturo alone It had to be given nn an atmosphere So si S there thero was thought up that which nobody had ever thought up before The rhe book clerks who wait upon the tho fashionable Americans arent aren't ordinary book clerks Each Each has ha been to college 0 matter whether or why ho he didn't finish the th course each is 11 1 conversant with literature In at least two languages and each Is I dressed dresse 1 according to the tho time of oday day CORRECT CLOThED i iTo To TD an nn American who knows vs what the real gentleman should 1 wear there Is la perhaps no thrill abl able to being sold old book books before the tho stroke of noon by a young gentle gentle- gentleman gentleman man man In correct mornIng garb Uti- Uti Unless Un Unless less its It buying books after mId day mid from room a II gentleman dressed for oft oft- aft afternoon tea tta even to the tho gardenia In hIs hi lapel or buying one around night mId or later from a youn young gentleman Lu In evening attire It has Indeed 1 been hinted 1 that a number of ot Americans Americana In whoso whose the frock coat cot Is b not her her- hereditary hereditary are oro haunting the tho ho bool book shop not merely to obtain a hut but also an eyeful The Tho Th result cannot fall fail to 10 bo bu good food In many directions When Pa la goes BOC back home for x cx- ex example ample he wont won't commit the error of wearing a 1 red tie to lbS th lodge lod dinner the way he did dl 1 that other time and very ery likely Ma 1 can cnn even get him Into white spots pat for tor Sun Sunday Sun Sun- Sunday day afternoon SIGNED SiGEl HY BY AUTHORS A As for or th tb Lbs effect on literature o of till this new dignity that that's all to the Ibo good of course courso For another Innovation ha has come como In on the leel heels of the tho first and a group of oC o who are aro writing real books book Is to be b found In the tho book shop hop every day willing not not to 10 6 ly ay very willing- willing willingto to autograph raph volumes volume of ot theIr works How except How except by being an auto auto- autograph graph oneself can one ono como come clos clos- closer do- do door or er to 10 o literature than by purchasing a volume red re 1 the Uie hand of the tho writer after one h has actually seen him dip pen In Ink and an 1 sign hIs hi name namo nam to the title page pare |