Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-06-25
COMSTOCK BAN ON
OUR FIRST PARENTS
Vice Censor Out to Suppress
Restaurateur S Picture
of First Fail.
TOO sPARING OF FIG LEAVES
eve Has All There chivalrou,
Adam Too ThinIy Clad
for the Public
Gaze

New York. Special: Admirers of tbs
chaste in art will be greved to learn
that Anthony Comstock has been at IL
again. and that picture that has given
Joy to many many may have to depart
from the sight of men.
Yet such are the melancholy facts and
as follows
Kali. of Park place. who combined thu
business of restaurateur with that OF
patron of the fine arts, has a picture In
his place that has Long been the boast
of mis- friends.
1t represents Adam and Eve sitting at
the gate OF Eden both in detected atti.
tudes The eye OF child can discern tina,
the pair are down on their luck. Eve IL
crying, apparently from the cold. and
Adam sits on his launches in the back.
ground evidently nursing a profound
crouch.
Tojetti, the artist. who according to NJ.
Kali got $1,000 for the Job. has made IL
clear by a subtle omission that Adam was
a kind husband. Elise why does he sit
stoically freezing to death while all the
tig leaves in the family do their poor best
to protect Eve from the singing blast?
Adam Too Thinly Clad.
True the family fig leaves are few In
number. Poor Eve can scarcely count a
dozen to her name. while Adam has none
at all. But tand this is the po;iD that tho
picture IL masterpiece is shown by the
fact that men are known TO have taken
the pledge In kalil's on the score that they
could Ewes leaves rustic In the pic
ture and Adams flesh creep with the
| cold
Last Thursday there came casually to
tho cafe d man wearing side whiskers and
grim smile. He looked long and dsap-
provingly on the unhappy Adam and his
Wife, Eve ON the wine on l<altl's side.
| board he looked not at all but presently
he addressed the bartender and flashed a
gold badge
Go tell the proprietor of this establish
ment that Mr.. Anthony Comstock Is
| here
The affrighted servant obeyed. and Mr..
Kali, tearing himself from his balance
sheets. came and stood IN the presence.
Comstock (for 1t was he), pointed an ac
cusing cane at the figure of the chival.
rous Adam and the shivering thinly- clac
! Eve.
Kali Starts Argument.
They must GO. he said. they are
| within the puryiew and they offend They
must go
Then there followed what NJ Kali do
scribes an argument" Comstocs
1 quoted law and precedent and spoke dry
~ OF jails. Kali quoted Peter Paul
Rubena and his latest disciple. Tojetti s,nd
cosmos that he, Kali. WAS powerlcss II
put it there. Full thrice he offered Com
stock refreshments on the house, which
/ Comstork did thrice refuse. Then Mr.
Comstock went away, but came back
ON his return visit he picked ont thrc,
moro examples of recent masters con
scientious nude OF girl by Il bathtub
another girl washing her face at a wei
and third girl sitting in a grassy plac
wilfully DESTROYING danueltunS Mr. Com
stock said that all three damsels cam
under section something or other of Thu
f,".,..i oaai4 -anl ai.er.o.s, To thc
mothers into the bargain. All three, alike
Adam and Eve, lie said. would have t,
fall
Kalll replied that he'd be blowel If h'
would and hot footed 1t down 10 James w
osborne. his lawyer. Mr. Osborne tool
descriptions of the pictures and told Kali
that they Were respectable pictures anc
could hang pat.
Wen. the pictures are there yet