The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-05-22

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| doubtful whatever was done. This SANDER
1 Gus opinion may have been associated
| with his failure to establish his patents.
| On this side of the Atlantic IL cannot be
/ treated as much more than spitetul eXag-
/ geratiOn. kfpling's third point, that we are
/ content to DO without good roads, has some
! foundation. All good things come to those
! who wait, and if Il we're not for the numerous
/ railroads TO accommodate the public, our
/ highways would ere this have been con-
| stTucted on good engineering principles. IL
| should not be forgotten that while Rud-
! Yards countrymen like TO take long walks,
| the American peODle prefer to ride even Tor
| short distances, and this accounts for the
| federation Of bad paving. The rails are
| sm Doth enough.
Something like a storm in a teapot has
/ been raised over the exhibition of drawings
this year at the National Academy OF De-
/ sign in New York. People went to see
/ students work produced at the academy
/ classes, and blushed TO think that such
pictures were possible in vrtuous, II not
/ artistic, country. The amount Of prudery
shown about art studies suggests that those
who carp and denounce are secretly
! impure. and only wear their modesty
as veil. 1t is the practice Of
some people to den0unce the nude in
art as if il were necessarily immoral and
Eliminating, bur happily the world Of
/ cOmmOn-Sense is broader in charity and
! taste than that Clothes are no essential
/ attribute Of modesty. The Sandwich
! Islanders were probably a much more viz
! tuOIs race when they wore a necklace and
/ nothing else on dress occasions than they
/ are now. The Athenians were possibly
/ a pureT people than the citizens
! Of our most civilized cities, and
/ they were not accustomed to regard
/ the human form divine as Tepellent or in
/ herently base. The art Of the Greeks IS
/ higher than that Of all other races, and is
! pureT, yet unQuesu0nably there was free
/ dom about the studies OF those who fol-
! lowed art which is unknown to modern times.
/ One may ask what the offended visitors
wanted 10 gaze al when they went to an eX-
! hibItion Of students drawings The
/ human form must be drawn cor
Tectly surely, and how can that be
! attained without models? Really, one
! of the reasons why so many students ffuck
/ 10 Paris or Munich for study is that they
/ can advance themselves without being sub
! jeCt to the criticisms of the Mrs. Grundy
/ censOriOus tribe An artist has 20 get his
/ knowledge, and there is no reason to berate
/ him as q foul monster because he adds to
/ the Der of Susannahs and the Elders to
show his skill in composition and his lofty
! purpose in handling delicate themes.
! Does it ever occur to the squeamiSh, who
/ human beauty unadorned in picture, that
/ evening party or ballroom costume should,
! i'm their pure eyes, be far more censurable,
/ aud yet because the fashion runs thus, the
/ moss decOlete dress. with the arms, the
+ neck and portion of the back uncovered,
1 is accepted as CONNIE il faut. There is
nothing shocking in having q lovely neigh
! boz thus attired AZ dinner. II may occur
! TO male party-gOers that dress so
/ devised would be uncomfortable or
/ az least cold, but not at all
/ The dear ladies who are thus Respondent
/ ale the embodiment Of ease and comfort,
/ and are quite happy that they at least have
/ the sense TO be in the prevailing mode. IL
Won look back in the fashion books, and
! even in some books Of history. you may dis
cover some surprising developments in
/ studies. Much that appears outrageous
was accepted rs elegant and proper at
The time, and so it Will always
be. Tie fashion which is uppermOst
! is inc0ntroveTtibiv TesDectabie aud becOm-
ing. In Wrights "Caricature History OF the
/ Georges" you may see skjt upon the mode
OF the day quite appalling The Duchess
OF Gordon is at ball very decOllete. and
her baby is held up by nurse 10 take nour-
isimeut at natures fOuut. II becomes those
who lecture the community on the way
they should 60, 20 be deterential and not
too Opini0natiye when they glance at the
Tagaries VI custom in apparel.
Doubtless there are some Shetland ponies
in California, and their owners may be in
terested in knowing that a siud-bo0k of
Shetlauds has now heen started for the
better preservation Of the race in purity.
It is a useful little animal, aud strong far
beyond what its tiny dimensions would in
dicate. A visitor to Shetland, nearly two
a.
small that a man can lift one OF them in his
arms, and yet so hardy that they can
bear a man and his wife on their backs and
carry them eight miles out aud as many
home" The enterprise of improving the
breed Of the Shetland sheltie IS due % Lord
Londonderry, who had need of the
ponles for h is coal pits, and who found
that the stock was deteriOTating He
has succeeded in diminishing the size and
increasing the strength-two very desirable
attanmeuts, and the humble Shetland now
commands from $50 10 S100. 1t has fine
qualities Of patience and genileness, and
children find il a delightful companion on
their rambles.
book on book-burniBg has been pub
lished, conveying some very curious infor-
nation On the innumerable instances in
which the works Of authors have been un-
palatable to their day and generation, and
have been sOlemnly burned by the hang
man or some other duly constituted au-
thority. The practice goes back to The
earliest ages and has continued into our
own. As late as 1919 james Anthony
FrOude's Nemesis Of Faith" was committed
to the flames by the authorities of Oxford
University The author has now the salts
faction OF being one Of the professors of
history 70 the University, so that in his
case the purgatiOn Of error has ended
L.
may be traced in the literature
condemned by those who had the power to
suppress the opinions, religious, political,
moral or philosophical, they did not relish.
1t was a manifestation Of Intolerance
prevalent Ia pagan as we'll as in Christian
times, and had some good people the
power as we'll as the will they would to-day
make bonfire of numerous works too rank
or PeTnicious for their taste. Ii they con-
fined their purgations TO the pornographic
list they might confer benefit upon man
kind, but the Wisest would be liable to error
IN a crusade against books. The wise made
innumerRble mistakes in the past.
An eccentric clergyman of aristocratic
pedigree, the Rev. Ralph William Tolle-
mache- Tollemache, has bestowed on the
children OF his second marriage names Of
such length that they require an effort Of
the memory to master them. What sort of
flag at school would a boy make
who bad this patronymic - Lyulph
Ydwallo 0din Nestor Egbert Lyonel
TOldmag Hugh Erehenwyne Saxon Esa
Cromwell 0rma Newell Dysart Plantagenet.
Plantagenet would have been enough for
the clergyman who performed the baptism.
One Of the daughters rejoices in these
names. happily to become of secondary i'm
portanee when she gets married. as all good
girls should: Mabel Helmingbam Ethel
Eunfipsfotuar Paafrfaa
geline Wise de LON de OTellaus Plantagenet
Toldmag Saxon. BRUSH
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