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Show THE PICTURES OF THE VERY RICH. W. A Clark, former senator of Mon tana, might have been just as happy in his ienoranoo as lie now Is in hlfl creator knowledge of art. if the bankruptcy bank-ruptcy pnx eedlngfl against the Chicago Chi-cago dealers In "de luxe" goods had ncer disclosed how thoroughl well dei eived he had bean Senator Clark had contracted to purchase for $680,000 paintings that had been bought lor (36 000. Hail the pictures ben priced at 550,000, do doubt the millionaire would have jected them An eastern writer has taken Mr Clark's measure in derlnrmg that what thrilled the copper magnate's1 1 sensibilities was the price and not the pictures Mr Clark had built a lious- n KiH!i nw;ni.' .i monument to big mone , from the de luxe curb to the de luxe chimney tops It is the home of opulence and Is to Mr. Clark what a yellow waistcoat is to t bt moai popular man about the barber shops in a small but live village ot ,sporting proclivities. "Mr. Clark's hope was that it would look like ready cash and lots of it, and therefore make a profound impression im-pression upon a metropolis in which i here are many priestB of the Golden Calf The fact that New York looked upon the Gibraltar of dollars and tittered tit-tered did not disturb the happiness of its builder, who was confident that he had put up the great symbolic Am erlcan home. "To put $680,000 in twelve pictures and hang them in the art gallery of this home was a neat touch In decora fion, and no matter what the plcturoK were worth Mr Clark was gpttlng fulj value for his money and It can only be a matter of disappointment to him to have any embarrassment placed In the way of the sale. The only con solation we can suggest would be to hang up the money and never mind the pictures." Some of our millionaires have so much money they do not know what to do with their wealth. With Seuu-tor Seuu-tor Clark, hl6 one ambition is to outshine out-shine his millionaire friends in the lavishness of his expenditures on brlc- I a brae He must have nothing cheap' I In his home, so he demands hlgh-I hlgh-I priced articles regardless of, whether they have any real value. oo |