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Show Odd Human Passion Is Mania for "Collecting" I know a gentleman who lias devoted de-voted the best years of Ills life to collecting clay pipes and the buttons but-tons from soldiers' uniforms- He tins, In effect, married clay pipes and military buttons, and Is living liv-ing with both in bigsmous content. In this marlt.il union he probably Qnds happiness above the average. It would be Impossible to produce comparative statistics In proof, but anyone who has touched the fringes of this subject will agree tlint collecting Is on the Increase; It ! Is one of the major enthusiasms of i our time. I A list of tilings wlilcli are the objects ob-jects of the collector's passion would sound like the table of contents con-tents of a mail order catalogue or an inventory of the city duir.p : shaving shav-ing mugs, mustache cups, gilded rolling pins, hat boxes, cigarette snuffers, miniature furniture, glass slippers, maps, old Insurance poll- j cies, conch shells, wishbones, wood- I en Indians, wax (lowers, time tallies, j playing cards, hymn books, bended j bags, fans, canes, baskets, beetles, babies' caps, spectacle cases, ink ' pots, buttons, garters, crutches, ; talking machine records, petticoats, j old love letters. It Is revealed that : at least one macabre amorist has ' even made a collection of tomb- ' ftones. Mary Day Winn In tbe ! North American Review. j ! |