Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-12-08
The Magazine Fairy.

4 Bill Barlow, who makes his readers
smell sagebrush and see beauty in a
\ Wyoming gale OF so miles an hour, is a
4 critic who spares not the subject on
which he writes and shows the weak,
ness of human nature in much OF his
work. His writing is TO the point in
4 every instance and, at times, might be
couched in language not so plain He
q has seen the decollete advertising pic
lures in the magazines and these led
! him to the following observations:
While nobody ever called your pas
] tor persimmon prude and proved it
I on him, yet feel and profess to be a
| modest man. l admire the nude in
sculpture and in oil. and l never could
cotton to the ultra polite fiction that
Minerva was born fully clad Never an
artist who could ignore the pose of
4 rounded limbs meath the draperv his
brush delineates-never the SCULPTOR
who failed to breathe into marble
/ masterpiece the animnlism of virile life.
L nave always contended that the
! prudish intolerance of that class of
people who reverentiallv refer to him
as gentleman COW is morbid and alb.
normal and not natural-but by the
great horn spoons with which Moses
absorbed his soup, present day adver-
using agents do make me blush! Take
the Illustrations appearing on the pages
OF the magazines aud Sunday papers if
You please-what sdbtle and intimate
studies of physical life they afford.
There's the girl in the gove-fttiag
rcorset and hug -me-or-Ill. scream smile
Tor Instance; the naughty young thing
VINO boosts for iast-black hosiery, or the
high-kicker whose tribys are shod with
the latest things in shoes as a fitting
finale to lace-trimmed lingerie and
svelte legs. Is it really essential in
order TO sell these feminine necessities
for my lady to so freely display the gifts
"t generous creator? Then there are
the bath tubs, invariably presided over
by kimona clad baby of steen or more
summers who tried to dodge the camera
as she ought, but didn't; the lithia-
water girl who wears wings with the
abnormal, but beautiful Meliu's Food
glands; the automobile maid so anxious
for an airing that she forgets her
clothes, and the winsome miss who
insists on your taking a chance on an
Ostermoor mattress. We have been
confronted all summer with a well.
nourished lass clad in a twenty-cent
slip calculated to bring a heap more
money, who now that the nights grow
cod is succeeded by glddy goddess
who has fastened few buttons to her
altogether and calls it union suit.
Then, there's the tooth powder PROPOSE
tion who insists on shucking most of
her apparel when she sapolios her
worries; the face bleach fairy who has
reverted from the analytical to the |
automatically realistic on which you |
don't have to guess again, and the |
|
token invites tonsilitis and bronchitis |
and pneumonia and all sorts of kindred |
ills to say nothing Of skeeter bites and |
tans. Even the kodak girl wears
suggestive sort of catch -me-if you-can |
smile. These things are nothing short |
of grievous sins as have said, in the |
ewes of the really and truly modest |
man, and yet so common thas many of
us never attempt to peruse the adver-
tising pages of current pbamplet print
save through smoked glasses and with
the lights turned low.
And it has occurred to MEAS it has
to you if a man-that the women them
selves are much to blame for this sad
state of affairs-that the dear creatures
are not more than qnarter-post
behind the adventurous advertiser in
this soul-shriveling demonstration of
health food segments. | counted three
moles aud more than Il million freckles
through the lace curtains of an alleged
shirtwaist the other day while honestly
trying to wind my watch, aud everybody
knows that the display of edging and
blue baby ribbon and embroidery
while half concealed and is really more
than half revealed-is so common dur
ing the heated term that it fails 10
excite comment. for one, am willing
to take few things for granted in cases
Of this sort, and don't always have to be
shown-and anyway when you've never
been introduced and don't know her.