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p^P^w i *v wjflww w^^mm^^fk^w^ IS IN PROTES Ugly Advertising Posters Meet With Disapproval. Famed Beauty of the Streets of the Gay Capital Disappearing Because of Greed That Dominates Commercialism. The beauty of Paris! Do not im agine that Paris has a patent on good taate. Recently a completely Parisian concern of the Boulevard painted its entire front screaming red! Mme. Roland's historic house has a side wall, high, exposed, and one of the department stores spread pink and green letters on it, five feet high. The extensive building operations of the Boulevard have raised up immense hoardings. All are covered with pos ters, and a fourth of those posters are in doubtful taste. Can what is grotesque, comic, ugly or aesthetically shocking make a good advertisement? The general practice of greater Paris advertisers says no, but leaves the field of "shock" all the more free to the small and hungry who strain for effect. Nevertheless competition tempts the great advertis ers to novelty, and ugliness is novelty in Paris. So the beauty of the streets trembles in the balance. The French government wishes to encourage art in street advertise ments. When pictorial posters are ar tistic the public taste is soothed and uplifted foreign visitors find the beautiful streets free from a note of discord. But note the native poor are even more concerned. "The street is the parlor of the poor," says the poet Rostand. "The rich In their automobiles can hurry through dirty streets and shut their eyes to advertising vulgarity, but when the poor have an hour of leisure the street is their parlor, salon, mu seum. Why hang lis walls with ug liness and banality?" The author of "Ohantocler" as advertising specialist need not astonish you the astronomer Poincare, cousin of the prime min ister, has even analyzed the princi ples. '"Pictorial advertising- has two ob jects," says the sublime mathemati cian. "First, to attract attention sec ond, to fix an obsession, a haunting of the mind. But in order for the obses sion to be .fruitful the memory must connect the advertised object with the Fountain in Paris Square. haunting picture and certain other details, as its use, its place of sale, etc. There should be no subconscious effort to forget, as when the impres sion is ugly, distasteful or merely banal." Whence the mathematician con cludes for simple beauty and harmony to produce lasting returns in posters. Also, if posters be really admitted to the coming Salon, such philosophy of advertising will become part of the art critic's baggage. The merits, not of Vasseur's massage cream or Mil lard's mincemeat, but the obsessing beauty of Roubille's or Leandre's pos ters of them will obtain solemn dis cussionto the equal advantage of Vasseur's and Millard's sales! It will be well worth while to order an art poster. HAD TO PART WITH QUEUES How Soldiers at the Gates of Kashing Enforced Magistrate's Orders on the Citizens. A week or so ago our Pen Ful ot dered every man's queue cut off. Many at once did so, but the business men were opposed. Also some other class es. So the magistrate wrote a concili atory proclamation, delaying the time a few days. Then he resorted to the method of appointing a great gathering of Chinese of all sorts, especially the aoldievs, at the Kashing Fu school. The only requirement for entrance was a "queueless head." About 1,000 were present. The Fu himself with his officers appeared before the people and then gave an account of the his tory of the Kuh-mintang movements In Kashing. One of the most interest ing features of the occasion was the presentation to the volunteers of a number of goodly presents, from rice in quantity to dressed pigs and other delicacies of all sorts. This for their faithfulness to the cause and a mark of the respect and sympathy of the people who were in and around Kash ing. Hut all the above methods failed to secure the shopmen's queues and also those of many other people. So finally the magistrate set a day and. proclaimed that every man*~not hav ing his queue off by the time set would be compelled to cut the badge of Man chu servitude off and relegate it to the waste basket. So in due season soldiers were sta tioned at the gate (some three days, ago) and many were the queues sacri ficed. Many were the howls of some of those whose dignity, in their esti mation, was thus lost forever. The writer passed along the street lately and could not see a single queue. So the Fu has proved his words! There is a wild enthusiasm for for eign hats, overcoats, cloth and every thing of this nature. A good tailor might make a good thing of it here. Kashing correspondence Shanghai Mercury. 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