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he traced the struggle between natural
talent and the influence OF debaslng
surroundings. by which is meant the
influence of hideous barrack tenement
houses and gimcrack modern furniture
Whether ii has any Significance 1t Is
impossible to say but as d curious cir
cumstance 1t may be mentioned that
there are not more than half a dozen
nudes in the whole collection
What humor there Is in the cxhibl-
tion is mostly of q political 1. G. So
cialist. character. There is little
drawing of the PrussIan policeman
whose back is made 10 serve as n pin
cusSion- An appropriate verse is ap-
nended with a punning reference to the
Prussian authorities alleged policy OF
pln-pricks against the working man.
BIRTH OF THE IDEA.
Standing there I'm the midst of these
revelations of the workman's soul, Dr.
Levensteln spoke OF how he came TO
conceive the idca OF an exhibition OF
workmen's art. the first of its kind
ever to have been held
"All my life" he said. II have lived
with the working people, the Social
Dcmocrats-I myself am one-and 1
have tried to learn their way of think
ing. their outlook on life. l have gone
among them as n lodger, lived with one
family in the most miserable quarters,
shared their meals, their pleasures
observed their interests In their sur
roundings. That was how discovered
the germ OF art in the working man
and l tended it.
Now look here" and he pointed to-
ward his office through the open door OF
which was to be seen an immense pile
of pictures. roughly wrapped in paper.
some without wrapplngs at all, exc
cutcd on every imaginable substance
from canvas down to cardboard.
"Those are some of the 1.5OO pictures
sent in by workmen after | opened This
present collection and there Is a large
collection OF sculpture and plastic
work awaiting classification for exhibit
tion purposes at the Trade Unions,
House.
DO 1 think the idea may be applied
elsewhere? must confess that. with
regard TO the artistic endowments OF
English and American workinGncn |
feel hardly qualified TO speak but [
think the main difficulty in the develops
ment OF the artistic temperament OF tbs
working classes would lie In the alb
sence of this system OF mine to which
I have devoted my life. My own wish
would be to take this exhibition OF
pictures as 1t stands. with cheap, rough
frames, or with none at all. to London
and then to New. York and other great
American cities to show the Anglo
Saxon race what Social Democracy
has done for the raising and educa-
tion of the working classes
C. VALENTINE WILLIAMS.
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Lady Granard Make Big
HIT With Her Irish Tenants

I at Charles street directly and will be
there for the next couple OF months or
perhaps longer Mrs. Ogden Mills will
be visiting her daughter there for some
time.
Like the typical. American woman
Lady Granard is very keen on pushing
her husband to the fore. The story
goes that a certain high official has
promised her ladyship that IL the Lib
erals return TO power Lord Granard
will have the refusal of the lord lieu
tenancy of Ireland. Lady Granard
likes the Irish and they like her and
by all accounts 1t is as the mistress
of the viceregal lodge in Dublin she
would like to shine in the near future
In any case she has no end OF schemes
for the betterment of Ireland in hcs
mind. 1t is expected that through
her influence there will be great re-
vivaI of trade in Irish lace and other
handiwork. Her great aim is to put
the workers In direct touch with the
purchasers and thus do away with the
middle men who at present get most
OF the profits. Later when Lady Gran
ard returns again to Ireland she VIII
offer prizes for the best flowers and
vegetables and the prettiest gardens In
the neighborhood.
EXCLUSIVE WIDOW.
Society here is greatly interested IN
the future OF Mrs. James Henry Sn :.
died on his honeymoon. Since the
death Of her husband. Mrs. Smith has
had quite as many offers of marrial
as Mrs. Potter Palmer who was sup
posed to hold the record in that
spect Up to the time OF the mar.
of her daughter she was hard as -d.-
mant to the overtures or her suitors.
amongst whom were included wei
known Liberal peer, very wealthy
widower. Now. however. that Anita
has become n princess. Mrs. Smith ad
mits that she is very lonely" and
she is about 10 relent and accept the
hand of the cavalier whose persistence
has outdistanced all the others. The
fact that Mrs. Smith Is about to ac-
qulrc a house. near her sister. Mrs.
Anthony Drexel, in Grosvenor Square,
has given color also to the rumor. This
new mansion Mrs. Smith intends to
buy outright Since the marriage OF
her daughter. she has become exceed
ingly exclusive though. be 1t said to her
credit. she never passes over an old
friend II is now regarded a special
mark of social distinction to be lnclud-
fcontinued on pore fourtcen.)
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The Venetian Dress Refornre,
Won t Haze Divided Skirts

own beautiful person in long mirror,
and then continued:
After she has taken in thoroughly
what 1 have said 1 lead her to that
picture" pointing to a reproduction OF
Baldassare Peruzzi's Penelope" "and
say. Is there any comparison? Look
at the line of the bosom and of the
hips. II nature gives us these beau
ties she surely does not intend us to
dlstort and conceal them But even
putting 1t on the ground of beauty or
even that of comfort, I do not need to
point out how far superior the old style
was"
BLOTS ON VENICE.
Signora Genoni told me that, curious
ly enough. she was led to open her
campaign by seeing some Americans
getting Into and going off in gondola,
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Especial correspondence
ERLIN. Jan. 11.-One would
u hardly imagine that the cond-
tions OF life of the modera
working man, even in a country
,,here social legislation Is so advanced
os in Germany, would be calculated To
bring out that leaning towards the
artistic which is within every man ana
woman in one form or another Highly
educated and Independents minded as
the majority of German workmen are,
Il might eXcusably be supposed that
creative art would only find expires
sion in that small minority of tae'r
number whose work brings them into
daily contact with the more refined
orafts Owing to the inventive activity
of the press agent and a Glut of prod
igy tenors the world has become n lit
Tie scepticaL of the talent that blooms
is discovered by some chance aad
stands revealed to publicity as an ac-
complished although unframed artist
This scepticism Is disarmed, however,
in the case of an exhibition of pictures
which has attracted considerable at
tcntion in the German capital 1t Is
nothing less than a collection OF paint
ings and etchIngs by absolutely un-
trained German working men, got to-
gether from the four quarters OF the
empire and hung in gay disorder. the
very good by the side of the very bad,
the inspired cheek by jowl with the
tastelesS and banal.
COLLECTION BY SPECIALIST.
The collection which is the first Of
It's kind has been formed by DR.. Adolf
Levenstein. a psychologist who has
made special study of the mentality
of the German working man. The s55,
pictures the exhibition comprises are
housed In he upper rooms of a beer
restaurant In the busy Potsdamer
Strasse in the heart of Berlin. The
exhibitors include canal worllmen
shoemakers. carpenters. weavers, me-
chanics, composltors. saddlers, mnsons.
photographers. locksmiths. upholstcrers
painters, miners. brcklayers, garden
ers. cigar workers. tailors and a score
or more Of trades with their ininitc
subdivisions. All the artists are Social
Democrats for the collection was got
together under the auspices of the
Red party and, indeed. 1t is not hard
10 1rrognize from the tendency OF near
" all the pictures the class hatred and
discomfort preached by the world re-
formers.
There is no catalogue of the exhibit
tion but by the side OF every exhibit
or group OF exhibits is a printed slip
giving the working artists name and
details of his conditions of life. 1t is
wonderful how few bare facts about
the personality of the artist illuminate
the work of one of these proletarIat
painters. Here is the slip of tho author
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Especial Correspondence)
yENICE, Jan. u.-From time i'm
memorial men have expressed
" surprise that women should bo
such slaves to fashion as to
don the most unbecoming things, and
cling to them through ridicule and out
at the other end. Thus they, at least,
should applaud the initiative OF We
netlan lady. Signora Rosa Genoni. a
writer, who not only has rebelled
against the dictates of fashion in her
own person but has gained the ear
or other women, and formed q league
OF dress reform-not dress reform" in
the Anglo-Saxon meaning of the term,
but In Latin, or, to be more precise,
Venetian sense, as reform with them
is a falling back on antique Vene-
tian models.
Signora Genoni. who is an elegant
young woman OF magnificent proper
tlons. not ashamed to have the waist,
hips and bosom of her Venetian ances-
tresses. and who looks like figure in
one OF Tltian's pictures. received me
enthusiastically, saying:
Pray do not apologize. II can takc
my reform beyond the confines of
Venice. 1 shall be only too glad to feel
that / am feministe' in the sense that
am benentlng my sisters in 'bondage-to
the corset"
SIMPLE ARGUMENT.
When I mentioned the word dress
reform" and deiIcately hinted that she
did not herself vlsIbly wear even di-
Vided skirts. she looked at me indig-
nantly, and broke out:
Have ] not said that 1t is beauty
and appropriateness that / advocate so
That 1 could not be such an idiot as TO
Try to induce women to drop one FASH
ION Tor another much more hideousl l
base my allurements on human femi-
nine nature. and l must say that. con-
sldering the time 1 have been at 1t I
fsave had considerable success My
arguments arc simple and have the ad-
vantage of illustration so that all can
see l take my victim To my window
which is on the Grand canal. just
above one OF the big gondola statlons)
and say. Look at that woman who
considers herself so smart Just OBJ
serve her position; she cannot lean
back because OF the coat OF mail she Is
wearing In the shape OF corsets. She
mas no waist. and. seen from behind. no
1xt-lr .af h0
hat conceals them: she is not woman
but monstrosity.
Here Sisnora Genoni glanced at her
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seen In the streets. policemen. post
men. sailors. He has a rare command
of line.
But a visit to this workmens art
exhibition is worth while If only for
the sake of the insight it affords into
the psychology of the German work
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of the dandy OF the works. the beery
master printer, the greasy little Polish
Jew who pays the wages and so on.
Their author, himself compositor. Is
obviously quite unaware of his talent
as is evidenced by the rough texts
appended to the caricatures,
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Y ONDON. Jan. 5.-Lady Granard
delighted all her Irish friends
by placing an immense green
flag with huge gold harp and
shamrocks on 1t to sway in the breeze
over Castle Forbes throughout the holi-
days.
1T was so thoughtful. so diplomatic.
so charming of her." they all said
Hitherto 1t has always been a Union
Jack which announced that the Gran
ard family was in residence"
The poor of the neighborhood and the
school children have had the time Of
their lives this year; so many festivi-
ties did the countess arrange for them
and so many hampers of good cheer
did she have forwarded to them. Lord
and Lady Granard are expected back
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he found he had a gift which made
his fellows laugh and brought little
sunshine into the greyness of Industrial
Berlin and nc used it as God gave 1t
MIN.
But the majority Of the pictures arc
of the grey. depressed impressonlst
school There are some exhibits by
men employed in the great steel ana
electricity works. showing accidents; Il
little group OF horror stricken workmcn
about a huge swiftly revolving ma
chine. waiting in thrilled silence for the
Behemoth to render up the victim IL
has sucked into its Jaws. There are
three mournfu sketches I'm chnIks.
which, one feels. reproduce all the ter
ror instilled into the heart OF Il sensr-
tive man by the vast problem of life.
the unanswered question why some
may idle whilst others must work
These deeply impressive pictures arc
by carpenter who. in sketch OF his
carpenters workshop, shows himself
plunged in thought while his fellow
workmen sleep away the lunch hour
How does religion reveal Itself in the
worker? Look at this rather garish oil
paintIng-"Death and Life" its author
calls It He is a baker and painted
this picture night after night as he
tended the bread ovens in a cellar bak-
cry in Berlin. 1t represents all the
fruits OF Its creators bitter night-re-
Elections. the thought that he was sac
rinclng health and mind striving aft
er higher things In nightly labor that
the rest of the world might eat.
PICTURES BY A MINER.
On the imaginative side one of tho
most remarkable and interesting exhl-
bits in the entire collection Is u big
frame containing scpa sketches made
during his years of retirement after he
rad got past his work by an old coal
miner who had spent 80 years of his life
underground. These pictures are naive
and unpretentIous but they show the
workings of the miners imaginatlons;
the faces and fantastic forms which
the shining masses of coal, the trick
ling streams of water the gIimy sup
ports, assume In the distorted visions
of the toilers in the bowels OF the
earth. Not the least interesting contrl
buttons are those which show the
workings of religion or of very PRINT
tive artistic inspiration; badly drawn
allegorical groups, included in the ex-
hibition perhaps only for the sake of
the artistically lofty thought they con-
yey For instance. an allegory of the
Social Democratic teaching that re-
ligion Is a mockery; wretched figures
flitting through the darkness find no
consolation in the group OF the Cruel
fixion in the foreground of the picture
whilst to the rear other figures are
bastening towards the light on the
horizon. the dawn OF Socialism presum-
ably. In these allegorical groups can
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man. Here is a whole series of carlca-
lures, evidently dashed off for the
STAFF of newspaper foundry The
spectator, though he does not know
the originals. feels that these are liv-
ing caricatures, these droll sketches
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-10-20
Public School Notes.

The High School Basket Bali team
is thinking of challenging Boonville
High School team Tor game OF bask-
ct bail, to be played on the home
grounds.
Howard Stephens is dcsirous of
starting a class i'll pronunciation.
The Literary Society will render
the first program Friday afternoon.
The Juniors and the Seniors are
making a tabulated outline OF the
thirteen English colonies.
The school board has abolished
the common drinking cup and buck
cts, and instead use the individual
drinking cup and water cooler. This
is indeed move in the right d;rec-
ton. as all will testify who have seen
the use OF the buckets during this term.
Linn Barber enrolled in the prepar-
a,ory Freshman class. This makes
90 bright and energetic young peo-
pie enrolled in this grade this year.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-10-20
A 0RaAT RAilROAp PRESIDENT
PRAISES PENSloNe.
Experience Of the Pennsylvan's Ral'.
road Demonstrates That tho
System 10 a Wise and
Proper Ono.

Under the regulations OF the pen.
SION dspsgtnent Of the Pennsylvania
RailroeA. retirement is compulsory at
10. ,spd also at G5 II the employees
physical condition is such as not to
enable him OF perform steady and sat.
is1Actory service Tho pension is a
psrcentags-for each years service.
OF the average yearly earnings for ten
years prior TO the date Of retirsmsnt.
Our experience has led US to believe
that the system Ia . wise and proper
oas."-Jas. McCrea. President Penn
svtvania Railroad.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-10-20
No. q News.

Wheat is looking fire in this section.
The Ouachita has closed down for 80
days.
CLAYTON Clemens, fireman on the Rock
Island X. X. visited his parents recently.
Mrs. l.acruse. of Kansas City is visiting
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs, Duuton.
Walter Freadly attended the state fair
at Seda!ia.
Miss Lula Clemens health is improv-
ing under DR.. LatIinm's treatment.
Mrs. John Huffman is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Geo. S,ultz.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-10-20

Music has been added to the course
this week and you can hear the strains
OF do, re, mi, ETC., in all the grades
and high school.
DR.. Kelly visited the school last
Wednesday morning.
On last Saturday Professors Johns
and Wittcn attended school fair
held at Pleasant Grove school house.
The teacher, Miss Pantins, and pu-
pills are to be commended for the e>-
cellent display OF agricultural pro-
ducts, pastries and school work.
The basket hall team is talking OF
covering the basket ball field with
saw dust, also to have canvas
stretched around the field to keep the
onlookers from viewing from aiar of
and thus getting 25c worth OF iun for
nothing.
School is progressing nicely, and
it is our desire to keep striving tina,
shcn the year is past we can look
back and see that we have accom-
pi;sl:ed that for which we labored.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-10-20
Dear Bro

George Vaughan filled the pulpit
at the NJ. F.. Church at II O'Clock
Sunday. He is student at Fayette +,
Mo-, but a boy, bu, he gave us a
very practical talk, which was highly
appreciated by the congregation.
We admire your position of putting
the boys and girls Of our county above
the dollar, in refusing to sell your
paper for whisky advertisements.
DAVID BOWMAN.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-10-20
Scattered Items.

Grandma Buell. visited John Ali
son ana oihe. relatives in nor,h Nor
gan the past week.
Las. week while Joe Moore was on
the road to the coal bank his team
ran Of and bruised him up consider
ably.
Ray Hunter last Sunday aided the
JameS,o~n baseball boys in game at
Prairie Home, Cooper county, Mo.
Frank McColIis,er bought at Asa
Gums sale a nice buggy horse for
Si57 10.
l.rst week Asa Gum, OF Marvin,
sold at auction his personal effects
and Monday, with his family, left for
Dakota, to take pos session OF his new
farm.
Tom Hunter is improving his fine
farm by pat,ing up new buildings and
repairing others and getting ready
for cold weather which will come
bye and bye.
ID. o. Merriott, of Gravois. had a
sale Wednesday and will soon move
to Oklahoma.
Last Sunday double wedding was
celebrated at Cy Hix's of Marvin.
VIA Alley and Bud Hays were the
hr.degToons aud Cy's daughters the
b.iirs. They had a big dinner and
2DD or more people to eat it.
Claude Hunter, of St. Louis, came
home on visit for the week. Claude
knows where TO COme when he wants
plenty OF something good to eat, be-
sides fellow gets hungry to see Sis
AID pa and ma. don't lac Claude1
Oscar Scott and wife left Tuesday
for visit to relatives in Oklahoma.
Chas. Brownield last week sold
Parson Foster nice buggy horse.
Last Monday Rev. Dan Bowers
sold his personal effects at auction
ard will move to Latham ior his
wiic's health.
Sunday Mr.. Alb Cochran and Miss
Gertic Mellow were married.
Al l3Dwlcn last week sowed A lot
OF CHEAT to see if It would grow. He
says it grows as well as wheat or any
thing else. If you don't want CHEAT
il your wheat don't SOW it.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-10-20
PENSION FUND NO
BURDEN ON STATE
RELIEF or RETIRED rEACHERe
WILL BE FROM LOCAL. re.
SOURCES WHOLLY.
SHOW NO DISCRIMl lNATlON
Amendment Nc. 2 Involves No Unfair
nes. TO Districts Outside
the Citiss.

supporters Of Constitutional Amend.
ment No. 3. to be voted on November
q. Authorizing the establishment Of
teachers pension funds in 81. Louis.
Kansas City and St. Joseph, Advance
two arguments in it's favor.
Ore 10 directed to teachers In the
state outside the three cities. The
second argument appeals 20 the gen
sral voter.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-10-20
CITIZE N S!

VOU have had two years Of Republican
L executive administration in Missouri.
And the Republican Party submits
its record in the management of public affairs
for your approval by ballot, November 8.
The promises made youn 1908 for efficient,
economical and progressive administration havc
been effectively kept. In State departments under
Republican management there has been established
better standard and q better measure OF public
service is being rendered, than tn. people of Mis-
SOUR have known.
The State eleemosynary penal and reforma-
tory institutions being conducted with
humane regard for the welfare of the inmates, and
alons scientific and business-like lines than
in past years. And it has remained for q Repub-
iican administration to nausurate the development
of Mssour's great natural resources. now being
conducted through the Immieraio Bureau, Board
Of Agriculture. Dairy and Food Department.
and Bureau Of Geology and Mines, with the
surcd promise that Missouri will soon regain her
position of fifth in population as we'll as fifth TN
wealth, which position lost during forty yea1s
of Democratic rule.
Upon this record Of public service you are
asked to approve at the polls Republican policies
and Republican performances by casting your
ballot for the Republican candidates on State and
County tickets
For Missourfor YOURSELF
CHARLES D. NORRIS Chatruson
Republican S,as Coxnsst,tss
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-10-20

Our glorious Italian climate seems
to have "done went" on vacation.
HOPE it will be short one.