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in spite Partisan sculptors now say.
troubled, in their search for models for
those divine arms. All the great Partisan
anatomies have been turned down. The
shoulders of Charlotte Deles had been
compared TO those of the great Venus. but
II is seen that her elbows have their knob
by points. her forearm tapers with mere
chic" abruptness to wrists that are weak
and Ill made.
Helene Verdes, who has been much
spoken OF. has the same defective fore
arms. too weak. abruptly finished for her
lovely lines above the elbow, Yet she al
most travels on those arms. does Helene.
So, too. of the fair Daubray. with noble
shoulders and well modelled arms but for
the pointed elbow and a clumsy wrist.
but the whole texture is so soft and puny
1T is the roundness of fat. Here Is the
European dilemma. Both society ana
stage beauties living lives of self-indul-
gent luxury. in which the fear of fat alone
can stir them up TO replace honest ath-
letic exercise by lazy massage, bring us
arms that will not INT" the Venus OF Milo
There are no muscles Swallowed under
that white skin: the bone structure is felt
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Grafton that includes luxuriance and ex-
cludes weakness.
Even the manner in which the outer
skin is reproduced is indispensable. After
rubbing with pumice stone Greek sculp-
tors of the best period let the chisel skim
lightly over the marble again. to produce
a skin warm with life and soft as velvet.
''On some of the best antique works"
says the Oxford scholar. this outer skin
has been destroyed by polishing. Here
nothing of the kind has taken place; the
naked parts shine like elastic cellu.oid
tissue in the warm tint of the Parian
marble" She is perfect in great sense.
her predominating. quality being that
''decor"-union Of beauty with dignity
which is the ideal chosen by the best
Greek period for the feminine type"
Venus speaks for herself. And while
there was no need for the French to de-
stroy an inscription to permit them to
ascribe an earlier date to her. 1t Is easy
to understand Dumont d'Urville's silence
as to the disastrous breaking of her arms:
and on this data had to be based all
ideas of restoration-up to last month.
If the coarse hand fragment of the
glass case belonged to her Venus held
an apple. Otherwise she might have held
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be from :he descendants of those who
were driven from the county three CEN
turtles ago. 1t is a curious fact that
even to this day Plymouth has maintain
ed Its radicalism on the subjects of re-
ligion and politics.
The Church of England has constantly
had to accept the fact that Plymouth Is a
center of the Non-Conformist power. and
until the present election there has never
been a chance for the election of two
conservative candidates. Usually there
was an even split. each party getting ona
Something of the stern determination
that drove the Puritans from the old
world has inhered in their following ten
generations removed. and today it is
possible to very quickly stir up opposi-
ton to either the government or the
church in this venerable district.
But self-interest Is factor here as
elsewhere. The prosperity of the city
is much affected by any curtaiIment in
naval activity. The member whom Mr..
Aston aspires to succeed was a liberal.
and 1t was he who got in bad odor by his
fight for economy in naval expenditures.
II Mr.. Astor Is successful his father
win carry to triumph his long campaign
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turtles later an American would have
chance to sit in the lawmaking body that
not only permitted their oppression. but
had assisted in 1t.
First IL would have seemed incredible to
them that any citizen of the new world
would wish to go back to what they cailed
the land of injustice. and. secondly. they
could hardly conjure up the expectation
that such an aspirant would ever have
chance of being chosen by the people ana
tolerated by the crown.
The Astor Family Tree.
Perhaps If young Mr. Aston had come
of stock that crossed the Atlantic on the
Mayfiower that stood on Plymouth rock.
that went through the long stress or
bloody wars with the Indians, that bore a
heroic part in the early days of the revo-
luton and furnished the men who Kept
the nations courage stirred up to the
point of resisting King George III. ne
might not aspire to take a place In par
Lament.
But Mr.. Aston is of different emigra-
tion-the Dutch who settled New York.
The Astors, as they are known according
to the family tree that the head of the
line had constructed in order to show his
ancient lineage, were animated by no he
role motives in coming to the new world.
1t was only the practical idea OF chance
to better fortunes that brought the first
of the family here, and the present Mr..
William Waldorf Aston was only too glad
to get away to England to spend there the
wealth his family amassed here.
Plymouth. the original, for which the
American town is named, is a city of con-
siderable pretentions, and should MI. As
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are known by it's opponents, tory.
1t was members of this same organ1za-
tion radical ever in it's support of the
king and the established religion. that
declined to tolerate the effort Of the
members of the new faith In their battles
for reform.
The tory of the seventeenth century
had no charity for the aims of the Puri-
tans to substitute for the forms of the
established church less pretentious wor-
ship, which should do away with what
the Puritans called the survival of Ca
tholicism. The Church of England in its
entirety suited the tory OF that day. MOI
could he abide the effort to take from
the king his absolute rights. The Puritan
was considered both hereto and a
traitor. and from the prosecutions that
were directed against him proceeded his
necessity for coming to the new world tC
find a haven where he could worship ac-
cording to the dictates of his own con-
science.
Perhaps in the widest dreams of the
stern, somber men who left England to
become the pioneers of the new world
who had only hatred In their hearts fol
the land they quit, the last thought that
ever came to them was that three cen.
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shoulders. where is he to get his model for
the arms?
Not in Paris. No Partisan model has
such arms. Indeed. 1t has been long a
sour grapes" joke. both Of professional
models and Partisan beauties of society
and stage. to stand with their admirers
before the Venus of Milo and chiner (guy
disrespectfully) her form.
Once famous Paris beauty. Jealous Of
an artists praise Of the statue, bought a
life-size plaster copy Of It, and dressed
Venus up in modern clothes.
The effect was as tough as the device
was unfair to the unyielding stone. The
marble figure. lithely graceful only as the
antique sculptor left her. all her effects
hidden by the modern costume. seemed
stiff and uncouth beside the living, NOV
ing, laughing modern beauty, all her de-
fects hidden or turned to attractions.
A ND, Of course. there is the difference
"A between Chic" changing fashion
ideals. luxurious loveliness and merely
sensuous charm on the one hand and. on
the other, the ideal beauty of the feminine
form as ANTAGONISTS, artists and poets see
it Enthusiastically.
why she's like one of those beefy
American college girls who go in for all
kinds of SPORTS and stalk like men up the
Champs Elysees!" the Paris beauty
laughed.
She said 1t. What the Paris beauty said
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two wreaths for victors at the games.
Or the position Of the shoulders, with the
left-arm fragment Of the glass case.
might permit her to be writing on shield
that rests upon one knee. But IL the
mysterious base socket were part Of
the statue Venus stood beside Hermes
pillar or rested shoulder or a forearm
on it. All great sculptors and art critics
have had different theories Of the arms
positions-mystery beyond solving!
VET. now, suddenly, word comes from
L Athens that gets all the artistic and
learned world excited. The impossible
has come to pass. We know how Venus
arms were. The greatest work Of all an
tiquity or modern times can be restored!
In a word, they have discovered. in the
Island of Monemvasia, prefecture of Lace
demonia, statuette that is an exact
COPY of the Melian Venus.
The great find is a terra Gotta figure
about twenty-one inches high: and every
one who sees it in the National Museum
at Athens perceives that 1t can be moth
ing but a reproduction by local sculp-
tor of the peerless work now in the
Louvre.
A few slight differences between the
pose of the new-fOund statuette and Of
the Venus of Milo are attributed to the
possibility that the sculptor. after a visit
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to Milo. reproduced from memory But
even this superstition is argued against
the form and face being so nearly identi-
cal that daily comparisons with the orig
tnal. while modelling, might well have
been necessary. In particular the man.
ner In which the right arm supports the
falling drapery around the hips is seen
to be precisely what the Venus of Milo
ping of her entirely. The left hand holds
mirror. Very strangely. none of the
great restoration plans foresaw this pose.
When they admitted a mirror II was al
ways placed In her right hand.
The left hand holds a mirror--as the
midshipman of la Chevrette', declared
And now, while the learned world is at
its solemn discussion leading to official
recognition of the pose of Venus the ar
tistic world stands aghast at the tempt
ing, fearful and almost presumptuous
task Of her restoration.
1t is not that attempts at restoration
would risk injuring the divine master
piece. Venus could TRY on" arms-as
you would try hat on at the modiste's.
no; what holds sculptors is the fear
that their skill may not rise to that
Of Praxiteles or the unknown Andres
just as the forms, of the loveliest women
models Of Paris fall short of the contours,
at once softly round and nobly athletic,
OF the splendid Greek girl of old times
who stood for the immortal statue.
For there is no doubt the Venus of Milo
is q statue-portrait. Certain irregularities
have always been admitted as proving
that the sculptor worked upon II from the
living model. Thus real girls arms
must be put on her or she will appear to
have been given lifeless. artificial arms.
however nobly imagined: because it is one
Of the greatest qualities of the great an
tiQue work that its sculptor treated the
whole organism SO as to reveal much of
the main fabric, the surface showing the
shadow of the bone structure beneath.
And. should the modern rise to the con-
summate ''veritas" of those magnificent
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dres, Menides' son, from Antioch on the
Meander, made the work.; but profounder
students, like Farnell and Furtwangler,
cannot find that it belonged to the great
statue, though discovered with or near
It: while the fragment Of hand holding
an apple, exhibited In a glass case beside
it in the Louvre, 'is Of far too rough exc
cution to have been part Of the Melian
figure" Contrarily. the fragment of a
left arm, kept in the same case. "having
edges that exactly correspond, certainly
belonged to the statue
Hare says the pedestal underwent
change in the Louvre workshops-"the
inscription Is no longer there" Farnell.
better posted, admits that 1.-The frag-
ment of a basis has "mysteriously dis
appeared but that "it is an insult to
suggest. as has been suggested. that the
Louvre authorities deliberately destroyed
it, as proving their great acquisition did
not belong to the best period of Greek
sculpture
TITLE matters! Whether the unknown
l. Andres of the second century BIC. or
Praxiteles made the goddess, every chisel
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ture of the subject down to guide DOCKS.
In particular a French naval officer VINO
had been a midshipman on La Chevrette
later on wrote letters which l have seen'
declaring that the Venus arms were
smashed In the mix-up between TURKS
and marines. she being perfect when
Jorgos delivered her. and that she held a
mirror.
From 1920 to last month nevertheless
all was but mystery, accusation and con-
lecture. Much has been made OF rag
ment of basis mot 1.-THE PEDESTAL. as
Hare and others have it, with socket in
its area and bearing the inscription: on
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stantly employed here. They share the
radicalism of their brothers in Liverpool.
and before Mr.. Aston Is selected he races
the task of placating these men, for they
power.
Father and Son Are Tories.
Mr.. William Waldorf Aston has ever
been liberal giver to the cause of the
conservative party. Curiously enough for
man who spent the greater part OF his
life In the atmosphere OF democratic
America, he is one Of the most extreme
tories, and has no tolerance whatever for
anything wearing the badge of Liberalism
The chance of his son to win the ponti-
cal honors that have steadily been denied
the father comes from the big quarrel
over the question of the navy.
A large element in parliament has con-
tended that economy demanded reduc-
tion in the size of the present navy. At
the present time when Germany is add
Ing to Its list of ships at fast rate, ana
Japan, Russia and other powers are
carrying forward most elaborate plans OF
trenchment have become intensely I'M
popular with that lingo element which is
so large in the land Of King Edward.
The present member for Plymouth took
navy. and instantly forfeited the back
ing OF the longshoremen. government
dockyard employees and naval men who
are to be found in such numbers in Ply
mouth that they may be said to hold the
balance Of power.
This was the opportunity for which the
Astors. father and son, had been seek
ing.
Immediately young Mr.. Aston announc-
ed himself a candidate for the place on
the platform of a British navy larger
than the combined war fleets OF the
world, so that the maritime supremacy
of the nation should never by any chance
be even placed in jeopardy.
Aston Pocketbook a Factor.
This is the kind OF talk for Plymouth.
Moreover the powerful pocketbook Of the
elder Aston has an eloquence all its own.
and to certainty the son will make
most formidable run.
His worst opposition will. undoubtedly.
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Lucie Denis.

floor Of the Louvre Museum, in the clas-
sic calm of long vista, dim and cool, she
CLEANS white afar of. Approach SOL
EMMY She was great and terrible god
dess, worshiped once sincerely. Even to
this day the tourists of the world, as
they stand round her alone in her noble
shrine-like room at the end of the vista,
speak in whispers.
Some say "Praxiteles made her., but
all whisper Of the splendid arms that
were, that are not, but that may be.
Jorgos, peasant. found the Venus Of
Milo in brick-arched vault, beneath the
ground, as If made to hide and protect
her in some age-forgotten turmoil-per-
haps in iconoclastic times when Chris
tianity was breaking statues.
He and Antonio Bottoms proposed its
sale for 5000 to Louis Brest. French con-
sui. who hesitated to disburse so large
a sum- for the worlds masterpiece that
would today bring millions. And 1t was
to the ardor of Dumont d Urville. young
lieutenant on the man-of-war La Chew
relieves and doubly-that France owes
its possession.
First, the young lieutenant fastened to
Constantinople for the authorization of
the Marquis de la Riviere, then French
ambassador to buy the marvellous statue.
Then returning he found that he was too
late-the Turks who owned the Isle of
Melos claimed 1t!
1t was strenuous life in 1920. Dumont
dUrville. squaring Jargos. gave his husky
man-o-war's men shore leave-and sug-
gested they might meet an unknown
Frenchman at a certain spot. who might
require their protection from bad Turks
It was enough for the French jackies-
and for the lieutenant, who himself pro-
posed to be the unknown Frenchman.
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WITH professional Paris models II 10
" certain that a generous nutrition
makes for feminine beauty. The magnif-
cent Greek girl who posed the Venus OF
Milo had more nourishing food from
childhood than the fair slips of Parish
ennes who start so poor that they must
take the models trade. Nor do they get
exercise to build a Melian Venus. Their
one special merit is not to have spoiled
their waists with corsets!
Their arms are too slim for Venus. Like
professional stage beauties. their wrists
often remain clumsy and their hands
without distinction. Emilienne Vasseur.
one OF the most successful models of the
hour Is tall enough: but her contours
are slender Lucie Denis her chief rival.
has perfect modern" figure for Paris
painter. AS a young girl she got her
start by posing for the arms" with Bou-
guereau. Well. Lucie's arms would bet
ter fit upon Dresden china fgurine than
on this Venus
Nowhere In Europe can we find tho
arms" a great sculptor has been saying
in the papers. Noble robustness can be
found among the peasant girls who work
the fields; but with 1t comes the lack OF
the aristocratic line. Forms OF pure
beauty not without strength are possessed
by our foremost city models; but they
grand manner" of physique which We
seek in vain. also. among the luxuriant
darlings of stage and society.
THE antique Greek girls body had II :"
he continues. because she was practi-
cally an aristocrat who lived an OPEN
air, athletic life. Sapristi, there Is but
one modern type to have such arms-the
athletic American college girl!
And so the word went forth.
Those Yankee goddesses who scare US
by their splendor they stride through
Europe in hygfenic Shoes" repeats the
art critic of the Gaulois. Nevertheless,
one judges that within those American
shoes are feet of perfect form. They
are big girls. They have big waists and
shoulders. Their long limbs swing free.
They are a new type. even for America.
A new type? No. an old revived. They
are Venuses of Milo"
STERLING HEILI0.
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Mons. Coquelin in Cassel's Magazine.
Nowhere else in the world are the
true artist and true art more appreci-
ated than in England. Society opens its
doors to all who honestly use their
talents, whether 1t be in acting. paint
ing, music or authorship. The higher Q
man rises in the world of art-by his
own ability-the more he is respected
by the English people.
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Most Curious of Political
1V4 Developments Is the
Fact That Young Waldorf
Astor, Son of William Astor,
Is a Candidate for the Seat of
Plymouth, England - From
This District the Oppression
of the Church and Crown
Drove the Puritan Fathers
Three Centuries Ago to Find
Home in the Wastes of
the New World Landing
on the Famous and Now
Revered Rock, They Named
Their New Home Plymouth
The Unpopularity of the
Present Member, Gained
Through His Advocacy of a
Reduced Navy, Is Regarded
AS the Best Prospect for Mr..
Astor's Success.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.!

tor attain his ambition he will have much
to do In his capacity as its representative.
At the last census the population was
1O7. 500
1t Is a market town for Devonshire; It
Is also noted seaport.
The Great Western docks. covering an
area of fourteen acres, were huiIt in the
three years between 1850 and 1853, but
from time to time they have been modern
lied, and today they rank with the best
of similar structures anywhere in the
world. In one year 5,755 vessels of almost
a million tonnage entered and cleared the
port.
A great army Of longshoremen Is con-
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THE Turks came upon them as they
were about to take the statue to the
rowboat. Undoubtedly there was a fight,
after which the Venus was triumphantly
embarked. Dumont d'Urville, who finally
became an admiral and has Paris street
named for him, always denied the story
of a breaking. but a tale Of accidental
mutilation leaked out and remains cur
rent, if mysterious, fact in all the litera-
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Special Correspondence of The Star.
PARIS, July 30 1905

TENUS needs an American girls
arms.
" The greatest statue Of antique
Greece. blooming with eternal
youth" 1.-The full-blown flower of
womanly beauty" Incompatible among
the sculptured works of old or new" has
been without arms since 1920. when 1t
was discovered in the Isle of Melos by the
peasant Jorgos. and fought over in the
night by Turks and French man-o' wars
men.
Under the cool arches of the ground
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MYSTERY of the Mutt
N1 lated Masterpiece of
Milo-Solved by Discovery
of Contemporaneous Terra
Gotta Copy-Why a Living
Models Arms Are Necessary
to Restore the Greatest
Statue of the World-And
Why European Artists Can
not Find Such Arms Outside
Athletic America.
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for recognition in England. 1t has been
a hard fight, and the greater part of It
was made in opposition to King Edward
himself. for the monarch never cared for
Mr.. Aston. On a couple Of occasions
he went out of his way to criticise him.
and he used carefully to cross the name
of Aston off his visiting list.
But of late he has mellowed to Mr..
Aston, and II the son takes a place in
government councils, committed to the
policies of the king, the father Is likely
to get the consideration he has long de-
sired
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Freedom in the desolate wastes of the
new world.
This Is a remarkable possibility of the
candidacy of the young Waldorf Aston to
win the Plymouth seat at the next gen.
eral election.
The son of William Waldorf Astor. who
gained the dislike of many Americans by
expatriating himself. has better than an
even chance of election. and 1t may be
his privilege to hold a place OF power in
q district that was once made impossible
to the heroic men who founded New Eng
land.
No stranger development in the rela-
lions of the two countries has yet taken
place.
Like his father, young Mr.. Aston is a
conservative, or, as members Of the party
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N American may represent In the
u,rliament the English district
from which the Puritan fathers
l wero driven three centuries ago
to find political and religious
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About Men and Things

]. d. Stantial came out from Con-
cord last week to visit his family here.
LATE Yates has returned to Lewis
ton after visit of several days in the
city.
F. E. Fogg came up from Lewiston
the latter part of last week for brief
business visit.
Carl Van Pool was confined to his
home several days this week with ar
attack of the measles.
Ed Abrahamson was i'll and unable
to attend to his work at Days shaving
parlors Monday of this week.
Miles Rice came out from Elk CITY
the first of the week. He report,
everything as decidedly lively in Their,
this spring.
Miss Lena Rumpf, of Spokane, i
visiting her aunt, Mrs. Frank Val
Deventer and other relatives an,
friends, this week.
l.. Bates and David Howell expec
to leave soon for Nome, Alaska, t
spend the summer in the gold camp
of the locality.
A. ]. Schwartz and family arrive
here from Bellingham, Washington
last Friday. They expect to max
this their future home.
A. w. darlington is sojournin