Art: Brodeur Kahn

M. Nephtalie Kahn of Rouen finished another egg last week. Reporters came out from Paris to interview him at his studio "Aux Oeufs Erodes," (at the sign of the embroidered eggs). If genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains, M. Kahn is a genius beyond a doubt. Nephtalie Kahn is the only known egg-embroiderer in the world.

Anyone who has ever opened a boiled egg for breakfast knows something of M. Kahn's difficulties, but difficulties mean nothing to him. It is his boast that any egg that can be laid he can...

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