Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-16
xor SUFFICIENTLY CLAD.
+be Public is Gradually Ac-
NV n,stomed to the Nude in Art'

nv" s,op,ed to the Nude in Art.
From the Ne,0 York Sun.
l. M longer an outcry against
,,s nude in art" said a sinister ou' Nss'-
gnrcessful advertising agent gestet-
..ard we are taking advantage OF IL
u" usual difident and retiring man
We nave, so to speak, looked at IL
neL, flushed, and then Rrapplen IL
hsk "ajTs6rhed it and made II our own. we
nno shv. but if you will permit me 10 say
az r,a Kinder get there just the same"
No is a small man with slhiul loohihS
ne ,nanner of covert watchfulness.
eye eye. '' "f his PASSIONS is the accumulation
One O,,oodinglv dangerous looking cigars
Oh et.ted rnarled. fattened, black, 0!ue
~. snotted and rank looking weeds,
.hoI are enough TO give sensitive man
tn.tnvrn on first sight. 1t is said that
hee%os heen known to smoke these strong
nud anparently fatal cigars, out no one
"nn he found who has been an eye VIII,
Uass TO the feat. he ls prooigai
IN bestOwing them on ms Iieuus,
nIuovs nrefacing such gIIt Win sVory
a. 81 me difficulty he was put to In import
or ~ W that particular brand. He never
l n9 the same man twice. Ordinarily
y" waars one in the corner OF his mouth
noS1Sobtad-tne cigar, not the mOuth-and
tn;sfs II around as though the flavor was
s,most too delicious TO bear without
"ornaming. The one he had yesterday
rosembled in general contour youthful
RoIogna sausage which had been stepped
mon run over by newspaper train.
.Pesod through an ore crusher, and
ppoished off with trip hammers and jig
Owo The little agent wore his cigar
onintinp inward, and his nat cast over
W. bridge of his nose. he is mighty
nower in the advertising world, and he Is
oU,to aware of it.. His powers shine
tSrightest in working up sensational ad-
xartisements for various sorts or manu-
tsctured goods, he taking an interest In
oil increases of business over given
4 az ,me' settled on before he begins to
Ss6andle' the article. II Is new bust
ness. and to him at least very profitable,
for his income is estimated as consider
hbly in excess of $4,000 year.
"You have doubtless observed the
rravalance ofpictures of ladies of scant
attire in the papers, ehf' he said, holding
nm sheet. "Here's one OF the New
York dailies, for instance. Take this
cage At the top is picture OF woman
in bath tub. Only the shoulders, bust
and arms are seen, but do you suppose
4hat would have been permitted few
Years agoP Certainly not. 'Its all well
enough the public would have said, 'to
advertise towels, but decency first, you
Know The picture isn't absolutely in
decent but it's rather-rather
touchy, nevertheless. The papers
nearly all take that picture now. Next to
1t YOU see a picture of girl making a
rather startling exhibition of hosiery.
Below is a man comfortably clad in a
plaster, here is woman bulgfng out of a
corset, and the last picture on the page Is
that of famous beauty of Louis XIV.'s
nav, who makes an appalling exposure
of her charms.
There you are" he continued, holding
the page out at arms length and taking
a fresh grip on the cigar with his teeth.
"Five nude pictures. Every one is big
extending across two cOlumns-and
every one is more or less shocking, but
they are nothing, my son, to what are
coming.
"Jimmyp' be yelled to tall and grave
man at the other end of the Office, "bring
me X-43-7"
The clerk arose, bowed with great re-
spect, and, retiring, returned with
big portfolio duly indeXed and evidently
one of a series. This was laid out on the
desk and opened. 1t revealed the care
and iorethOught OF the little advertising
man. There we're fully a hundred pic
lures drawn with admiral skill by ar
female figures more or less free from the
conventional habIiments OF the day.
They were very large-the paper nearly
two feet square-it being the custom to
make them that size and subsequently re-
duce them.
"Many artists who are supposed to be
hlgh and mighty chaps" said the agent.
ARE very glad to turn penny by making
these Tor US. They find it pays them we'll.
D0TrtOliO
much, Jimmyp'
Two thousand and seventy-three dol
lars"
80 you see we cannot afford TO make a
mistake IN Judging the public taste. II
"ele 10 put these pictures on the mar
ket now there would be great uproar.
Dut In a year they will be found lust
palataole enough"
no what do you attribute the change
IN public opinion ~
"Well," he said cautious,v ssit ia mort
y tne advance Of civilization-for tney
wi stand pictures in New YORK that
would not be tolerated in the West-and
psiuy C1e result OF tncessant hammerIng
alone ldea' certain body of men have
seen pushing their pictures further and
,urther from the old lines, until now thew
Uegin 10 nave elbow room. The saloons
wave u?he much for New York, for the
Iuoe'oe Va Lne average man makes
nlm aunt that il he can look with an
ploNai on a nude Bougereau in a cafe.
mere shsfe IS no reason why he should be
ssp"sneu at more generously
uTaped figure in a newsna.
peL. Inc weekly illustrated papers
uow satisfy the same taste by printing
Ioples o. famous masterpieces OF the nude
VI painting and sculpture, to saw nothing
s y. tle enorts of the art journals. On the
ss1age women are now presented in cos.
s suis mat would have caused police
Laiu even IN the days Of The Black Crook
IN SCOTT, the feeling has grown general
toaI IL Is provincial and narrow-minded
twooJect 10 The nude, and this does more
T rran a. yIhlng else to sweep away old
peludIces. Now we have the correct
sssase OF the public and we hold the whip
tins MS there danger Of revolution OF sem
G, Nolhing ls more imminent. II some
s CIV, soes 700 Tar, the public may take fire
sU no and reform, and then there'll be
"S,oe Oh Virtuous Indignation, ana this
6,h ,no ua ana a great many more in the
''Her room will be junk"
Succi a ffap HE ITaat