“‘Indians in New York?’ he came back. ‘Plenty of them. You come from Manhattan and must have noticed a number of them in front of cigar stores with uplifted tomahawks. These Indians are exposed to all kinds of weather and it is your duty to observe the weather effect and be ready to report on the same when the committee meets.’
“I asked him when the committee did meet and he said, ‘I have been here for the past six years and it has not met yet, but it is likely to meet any day.’”
Sometimes tobacco signs are painted on boards, and of such a curious example is to be seen at the door of a small establishment bearing the sonorous name of the “Mephisto Cigar Store.”
It is a typical representation of the typical stage demon, dressed in tights and furnished with the regulation bat like wings.
Sothern As “Dundreary”—The Others You may Name as you Please
VII
AS the “Wooden Indian” has long been a by-word, and a popular symbol of stolidity in mind and body, I have thought it worth while to show that like more pretentious statuary he may furnish inspiration to the Muse of Poetry. Here is an advertisement in verse sent me by a lady of Seneca Falls, New York.