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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-03
Nuc;ty in Art.

The slashing in of ribbons OF Ken
yon Coxs painting called The Giri
With the Red Hair, a study OF TIE
nude owned by the Art Students
league, was the work, it is supposed,
either Of merely mi.chievous rogue
or Of a prude "a art.
In sculpture it is certainly true That
the most beautiful and the most dig
nified work has always been in the
nude. No combination OF garments
has ever been invented which could
give the opportunity for beautiful
modelling presented by the bare human
body. Subtle differences OF surface
and line by which the sculptor gets
his color" can not be obtained from
any other model so completely as from
the nude human model OF painting
this is not so true, but it is true that
even in painting the nude Is capable
of great beauty and of dignity which
is much Jess easily attained in clothes,
Tor the reason that then the lines are
not SO pure, the effect of the form IS
not so essential, the general result rs
more decorative. and consequently less
fundamental.
The prudish puritanicai dislike of
the nude fortunately is on the de-
crease, not only as regards plastic ART
but also in other ways. The new
style Of dancing is showing people NOT
only that nudity may be beautiful, but
that he may be treated in a much more
9ignifed and less suggestive way than
many methods of wearing clothes.
The dancing OF lsadore Duncan and
her school is not only beautiful. but
il is far more dignified and chaste
than much of the dancing which pre-
ceded it which was fully clothed. =
II is as lacking in immortality as a
Greek frieze.
In fact, it IS beginning to be seen
that the nude, instead OF leading TO
immoral suggestion, has the opposite
effect when treated with simplicity
and dignity. In this respect our so
ciety is much more civilized than It
was a few years ago. Our increased
interest in art, increased knowledge OF
beautiful art objects in general have
tended TO take away that prudishness
in regard to the nude which has no
more relation to morality than light
has to darkness York Press.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-03

the vase and will cover the water.
These win form network which will
help TO hold the sweet peas in place,
When the foliage is all fixed take
the sweet peas, one at a time. and
stick them here and there among the
green until you have as many in as
you can withour crowding them. When
finished the wio!e will look like a
dainty basket filled with flowers the
arch Of ferns across the center form
ing the handle Nasturtiums, daisies,
corn flowers or any other small flower
may be used instead of the sweet
peas
Eight or ten iris with two or three
long sprays of the feathery asparagus
fern will look beautiful in a medium
high, broad-topped vase. These, too,
should be placed in the vase one at
a time; in fact, IL is better to always
do this when arranging flowers.
Perhaps there will be some holly
hooks growing in the back yard. AT
a glance these do not seem suitable
for cut flowers, as their foliage is not
especially pretty, and unless whole
stiff. straight stalk is cut they cannot
be placed in a vase. for the indiyid-
ual stems are too short; but there
are great possibilities in hollyhocks.
Take a basket and cut dozen and q
half or two dozen single blossoms.
The red and white OF the pink and
white may be used together, but
pexer mix pink and red. Now, perhaps
some lily of the valley leaves found
somewhere in the garden Get two
bapdsful OF these Half fill a large
deem Matter tme platter with wa
ter and lay a row of the leaves around
the edge, hiding the platter entirely'
Law more leaves on the top OF tiie.
water and here aud there between
them tine hollyhocks float, stem down
ward The effect will be that OF a m'u-
iature water pond. Pond lillies shouiu
he fixed in the same way.
The epergnes are especially pretty
for flowers, but rot everyone mas one
There was one ingenious glrl VINO
was arranging her flowers one DAY
and she thought how nice II would pc
if she only had an epergne. Sacdenis
the idea came to her. why not use the
old silver candelabra? There were
ave candle holders in it; in the center
ONO she nut two pink roses, with
niece az fern, and in each OF the
other four she put a pink rose ana
mini, carnation. with q piece of terh'
| She was fixing it for luncheon
table 50 around the bottom OIL the
eanGelabra on the cloth she laid some
asparagus fern. with a rosebud PEEP
ing out here and a carnation there
Ii was very pretty and she decided
that tie candelahra answered the pUF-
pose as we'll as an epergne.
There are some flowers which
might be used with other flowers very
well while there are some which are
pretty in themselves. but are made q
regular eyesore when combined with
no wrong kind Of flower, For In
stance. take the golden glow. A
large bunch Of these in bowl or q
gardinere is beautiful, but put 1t In
vase with some red geraniums, and
the result would be decidedly ugly
Never nut some really short-stemmed
aovers in the same vase with long,
sten,med ones, for this combination
would not be pretty. 1t would look
Ike they were stuck hurriedly in the
vase Without being arranged at all.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-03
The SECRET CHAMBER.

Into the secret chamber of my heart
Wherein no mortal enter, Lord
come thou,
And make thy dwelling place ere day
depart
Even now the clouds are golden in
the west;
The long, slant shadows, creep
across the way;
The glory fades on yonder mountains
crest.
II viii be mig. jail soon, for faint and
far
4ae pallid moon, silver crescent
hangs
Above the low reach Of the horizon
bar.
The night is lonely and beset with
fears
Come thou. o Lord come in and
dwell with me
Throue, the long darkness TIL the
dawn appearsl
Q Thou who didst create the human
heart,
Didst thou not make one sure place
for thyself?
1t is high sanctuary where thou arr
Thou know est, all, thou knowestl
Words are weak;
When the tongue ialters and the
lips are dumb,
Thou knowest all the yearning heart
would speak!
The muttered prayer thou nearest
10. The shrine
Waits for thy presence! Ere the
day be done
Take thou possession, o thou Guest
divine!
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-03
Vase of flowers

There is an art in arranging vase
Of flowers artistieally, but this arr,
unfortunately only belongs TO few
Most people crowd too many bios
Sums In one vase, or they put the
wrong combinations together, spoil
ing the effect entirely. Perhaps they
use the wrong vase for the wrong
flowers.
Generally speaking ysse which is
somewhat flared at the top is much
more desirable than straight one,
The Ilared top viii make ii possible
to give the flowers graceful appear
ance, where they would look stif and
uncomfortable in straight vase, The
straight vases are not, though, to be
discarded entirely, for there are some
flowers which look very we'll in them.
For instance, two or three roses or
ether long-stemmed blossoms will be
o. tty Ia a tall, slender, straight
vase.
The Japanese are the most artistic
people in the world, especially so
when they are arranging their flow
ers. The idea is 10 have each separ-
ate flower stand out plainly, so that
none OF its beauty viii be hidden. If
this plan is followed it viii be impos-
sible to oNer.croNd them.
Some asparagus fern with the
flowers will improve them Immensely.
rrtse fe aacfl,+ orrr4y,, co f,psa would no
wise 10 keep three or four plants in
the garden 10 use with cut flowers, Ii
is especially pretty with sweet peas
and nasturtiums. There are special
vases mace for the sweet peas, Of
transparent glass. which seem 10
have oaptured,all OF the colors OF the
rainbow The vessels are decidedly
fiared at the top so The fewers viii
look graceful and there M,sl be room
for a large bunch Some prefer 4
bunch Of different colored sweet peas
all mixed together, hut the prettless
ARRANGEMENT is where there Is but
one co,or shaled from 3 white TO the
deepest shade. For example, have
some white ones and thea graduate
from the paiest pink 10 the deepest
rose color: or from a paie lavender 10
q deep purple In arransing one Of
these vases OF sweet peas 6rst fiji the
vase vita water then take two or
three long sprays OF asparagus fem;
Try 20 select the ones that curve pref.
thy. and Irvine them in an arch
across the center OF the vase Now
put few more sprays ia, SO that
they win just reach above the top q
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-03

beauty would have been terrible
handicap.
Tee history Of the female portion OF
the family dates back to GuyaHdotte.
". Va from where three sisters ex-
tremely poor, but wondefously beau
tifnl, left their home to live for a time
III Portsmouth and asterward il Gin
cinnati Their life history made the
most remarkable story in fiction ap-
pear insipid and almost silly in com
parisJn
The husband Of ore, who at that
time was a very popular travelling
salesman. died forsazen in the old
Walnut street hotel, Cincinnati. How
the sisters got east and built them
selves up socially has been always a
mystery Bur one of them finally was
married to Governor Sprague OF
Rhode Island. Their lives were event
ful and stormy
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-03
STAGING COURTROOM SCENE.
Elaborate and Unnecessary Effects at
William SeyIer's Trial.

Elaborate and Unnecessary Effects at
William seyIer's Trial.
A man was on trial for his life at
Mays Landing, N. j., following the
atrochous murder of a young woman
who, according to the state, forfeited
her life while fighting for her honor
He was adjudged innocent: at any
rate. he was entitled to that pre-
sumption until a jury, after weighing
the testimony and receiving the
charge of the court. had found 9th
Nrwise. That he would have the ben.
eft of every reasonable doubt in his
favor under the law was certain
Citizens are not railroaded to the
gallows or the chair" in this coun.
try.
The issue at court was clear, and
the problem that confronted the in
quisitors was by no means a recon.
dite one. A girl was found dead al
the end of an Atlantic City pier
Examination showed that she had
been first assaulted ana afterward
killed. Suspicion pointed to an III
dividual who was arrested in an
other state and taken back to New
Jersey.
To the man III average intelligence
it would seem. the Philadelphia Even,
ing Telegraph says, That nothing was
necessary but for the authorities te
produce their testimony and for the
prisoner to offer his defense. The
jury could then reach a conclusion
in cool blood. With the effect OF
that conclusion they had nothing to
do. If it were guilty the blood OF
Seyler. the defendant, was not upon
their heads; it did not stain theil
hands. If it we're mot guilty" the
| prosecution must rest. content.
But of late years there has beer
evident an unseemly tendency tC
dramatic criminal trials. The stage
managers of this particular case
seemed to hold the opinion that 4
murder trial calls for certain
amount of hysteria, and one of the
situations pulled off" in the courr
room caused strong meu to weep
according to reports The hysterica
male is not a cheerful or appealing
! sight in any circumstance, and i
makes little difference why he be
comes fearful. 1t is significant, how
ever, that the situation referred tC
was not descriptive of the confiding
I girls wrongs. 1t was the defend
ants attitude toward his own child
who, by the way, was not on tria
and VINO had no business in me
courtroom. Being of tender years
she might have been excluded with
all propriety. Why weep over any
| defendant? If he be innocent he
doesn't need the lachrymose sympa
thy of emotionals of either sex: il
guilty, he doesn't deserve it.
A courtroom is no place for melo
drama, for the obvious reason tina,
melodrama is devoted to fancy, while
the whole duty of judge and jury
consists, or should consist, in uncov.
ering facts
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-03
Good Common sense.

A writer in the Chicago Journal has
this hint from wise mamma. When
her hoy seemed out of temper or Ia
elined to rebellion she sent him cur
At once to run down 10 the end Of the
garden and back This panaeea Tor
older folk is not without its aeyaa'
taces. Instead of struggling vanity
with a mood oi depression or annoy
ance and making something Of IT, the
yerv simple and sane process of going
ont To walk and forgetting all about
II Mill better serve. Returning from
this period Of fires dom in the open,
where the free wines shame one
pettlness and she big out Of doors re
n4ssias ore 81 how full the world is 81
a number Of thing more important
than ores personal worries, one
casts about in wonder for the cause Of
ths temporary annoyance and laughs
al the foolishnsss that a while ago
seemed 4 cloud az uomentous portent.
This is better than rolling up the diff.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-03

New York, July 23.-Announce-
ment has jus; been made of an inter
esting engagement. that of Miss
Katherine REWARD, of No, $40 West
Eighty-sixth street, to Mr.. Adolph G,
Schwartz, only son of Mr.. and Mrs
Anton Schwartz, Of this city. Miss
Reynard was educated in the Con
vent OF the Sacred Heart Manhattan
vile, and later she perfected herself
in languages in Venice and vienna
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-03

largely upon the great manifestation
of popular curiosity to see Mr.. Mans
field as Peer Gynt.
How far this attitude of managers
toward what they regard as the pub
! lie taste may be carried is illustrated
| by the account of brief converse,
tion, not long ago, between the
writer and a gentleman whose bust
ness is producing plays with music
He expressed himself as all at sea
| in his efforts to decide upon comic
actor for an impending production
The writer. out of MS ignorance, sug-
gested wellknown performer in
! that class of entertainment. The
manager gentleman's negative glowed
with contempt and derision. Never
in the world! he replied. He's too
tall. This is a short comedians
year.
so far as we can Judge the cur
rent and fertile farce year was pre-
cipitated when, last season, the late
| Mr.. Fitch produced The Blue Mouse.
Better farces and worse farces mad
failed to win approval in the sea-
sons directly preceding. Managers
were refusing farces, whether of ma
| tive or foreign make. When Mr..
Belasco. departing from his accus-
toned type, also put one over in
! Is Matrimony Failure?' managers
pushed aand iostled one another 10
| get possession of new and old exam
pies of the comic drama, as old
| fashioned booksellers catalogued plays
/ of the kind. How active they have
been in the matter 10 clearly SHOWN
Blue Mouse and Seven Days, within
the year: Her Husbands Wife and
The Upstart are newly gone; Is Mat I
rimony a Failure?, Lulu's Husbands.
and Billy. are upon us; The Cheaper,
Cor whatever Der Doppeluensc6w will
be called in English). The Commit
ers, The Lottery Man and Baby Mine
are in the offing.
1T is our opinion that the manag-
ers have overlooked the important
factor of actors in farce. Apart from
pure burlesque no other division of
the drama is so exacting on the in
terpreters We should be hard put
to it to name offhand a score Of
American players fitted properly TO
act the average farce of commerce.
A sood stage director can work won
ders with hand of commonplace
PLAYERS in any other field: but an
actor cannot play farce through sim
ply being told how.
'Mr. Fitch, with the market to
hand. selected what ne wanted for
The Blue Mouse, and to that we at
, -ribute much of the success of the
piece. SO with Mr.. Belasce in put
ire together he cast of Is Matri-
monv a Failure? which is very wen
acted. indeed. Both producers en-
loved exceptional facilities, plus the
talent, for taking plenty of time. We
Know of no other playwright or pro
Queer who would have had the judg-
ment to select Miss Mabel Barrison
for the role she played so well in
Mr. Fftch's last comic play. Her as
sociate in that cast. Henry Conor.
learned his craft, of course, under a
master. the late Charles H. Hoyt.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-03
A MAN. A GIRL. AND a CURL

on the rack it hung all day,
Near the ribbons bright and gay
And the ties.
But at night among her tresses
When she wore her pretty dresses
In the guise
OF bud Of fashions choosing,
1t was really quite amusing,
Such sad signs
The little curl would hear
Whispered in a pretty ear.
And the lies
Gro make a ringlet tremble in sur
prise)
of the crimson OF her lips
And the crimson of her cheeks.
That lay all day
In an -alabaster box
On the dresser with the locks
Nor tar away
And near IL. on the side,
Peroxide,
When the ringlet heard him whisper
That he never could resist her.
All the beauty OF hSI u4oom
And Of her charm,
The ringlet lost its grip
And suddenly let slip
To his arm,
Where it fell, a golden wave,
And, trying quick 10 save
/, from narm.
The maiden lost her head,
And bitter tears she shed
In her alarm
The sudden heavy shower
Washed the color like n dover.
From her cheeks.
And that's tue reason why
Now he's very. very shy
When he calls
Upou the pretty lasses,
And always wears his glasses
To the balls.
Celia Myrover Robinson IN Smart
Set
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-03
The United states.

A gentleman Of Ohio who was him
self in the civil war and participated
in the march through Georgia writes
to the Atlantic Constitution about hi
recent visit in those regions. He was
specially touched to note at one place,
whore a battle had been fought, a
monument lately erected by southern
ers of the neighborhood 20 unknown
northern soldiers. The inscription
says that they had fallen there fight
ing for the cause they thought right.
He says that such an act shows how
things really are between the south
erners and northerners Of this gene
ration.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-03

Charles S. Rolls, one of Britians
famous ayiators, was dashed TO in
staat death in his Wright aeroplane
while making a flight at Boummouth.
'rhe hero of the Channel flight fell
one hundred feet to his death, while
thousands looked on. He was q pio-
.neer lii aeronautics and was to have
contested in the coming international
cup events. His recent Light across the
English Channel excited considerable
comment
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-03
MAJORITY OF WOMEN.
Want To Be Mothers, and Men Nearly
All Love Children.

Want r. Be Mothers, and Men Nearly
All Love Children.
Collier Week.. Men like children.
Unless served to them in unlimited
dose. or at inopportune times, most
meT. like most children and they are
apt to be e oeedingly fond of their
own children. Should they have none,
still the thought of children of their
own appeals to them about as strongly
as shat Of any other benefit to be be-
slowed on them Women, having the
sole physical care of children, are pop
ula;ly supposed to possess the larger
share OF devotion to them, but thi; Is
an unfair division of parental sentl-
ment, for though he may be clumsy in
his expression of it and reticent and
anskilled in its display, the father is
usually as interested in his child, as
con iderate of its welfare, and as
ready to make sacrifices for it as the
mo her. There is perhaps nothing
that so holds man to a woman, even
after she has ceased to be attractive
to him, as the fact that she is the
mother of his child. Men have been
known to perform prodigies of loyalty
to a woman who has sumed that re-
lation to them. Even the woman lille
gal, TO whom neither in history nor
in fact has man proved himself con-
spicuously faithful, has been able to
assume a role almost dignihed when
it became maternal.
Neither is it to be successfully de-
MED that the majority of women, down
in the bottom of their hearts, want to
be mothers. There may be circum-
stances in their lives that have tenn
porarily warped their instructive pre-
ferences. There may be prohibitions
of the spirit and Of the body There
may be waste of moral strength in
foolish ways Of living. There may be
d sacrifice OF nervous energy in the
perpetual motion most social women
consider a mark of success These
things may render woman unfit for
motherhood or unoesirous of its re
sponsi5ility, but they only temporarily
abate the love of the child in her
breast, and it is never very far dis
talt.
1t must be very powerful idea that
can successfully set itself up against
snch conviction of Indispensable
function as maternity. For deny it as
she may woman finds it unacceptable
that willie the work of the worlo
might be successfully accomplished
without her assistance, as a mother
she is indispensable; and if she de
MES it or II it is denied her to fulfill
her most necessary reason for exist
ence, the other things wherewith she
enriches her life are only more or less
ornamental substitutes. Yet we find
her cultivating these substitutes I'M
der the name of broadening mentality.
We find her using up her nervous
energy in the pursuit of larger variety
of living than domestic life affords,
and so uniting herself physically for
successful motherhood, and we dis
cover her hunting for the miracle that
shall divide the threatening sea of in
tellectuahty on either side of dry
path for her feet, and in the search
finding neither time nor desire for
children.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-03
The American idea.

There Is what ! cal! the American
idea. This idea demands, as the proxl.
mate organization thereof damoc-
racy--that is, a government of all the
people, by all the people. for all the
people, of course, a government on the
principles of eternal justice, the I'M
changing law of God; for shortness
sake, l will call it the idea of freedom.
Theodore Parker.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-03
Mlss KATHERINE keYNARp

She returned home last October and
in February she made her debut. She
is very pretty and popular among a
large circle of friends. No date has
been set for the wedding, Miss emma
Josephine Schwartz, the daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Anton Schwartz, Is now
the wife Of Mr. George Il. Rupert
of New York. MFR and Mrs. Schwartz
left recently for an extended tour OF
Germany, Austria and Italy.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-03

fculty by aimlas struggle to control
thoughts the source of which Is not
weIl understood. OF course, the better
panaeea is the habituai consciousness
of harmony which serves to shut out
unwslcome intrusion.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-03

Medical inspection Of 1000 5-year-
Old children IN Surrey, England, mas
revealed the fact that those who had
several decayed teeth weighed on an
average Of 2.6S pounds less than those
who had sound teeth.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-03

Tipping college boys who seTeve as
waters at summer resorts IS starting
them on the road to bribery and Pc
Jury. said Prof. Robert P. sibiey OF
Lake Forest university, in farewell
address to seniors.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-03

When q mans children are Sfr4id
of him. be is as proud Of his work
Of discipline as q drunkard is Of his
particular form Of meauncss.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-03

The trouble is not that times have
changed, hut that you haven't
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-03

.HzfIs" ~
Wagner, o. the PittSourg club. says:
= ara tired of playing National
league ball | do not think man
ought to have to play ball except
when he feels like it, We are not
much better than wellfed slaves now.
We are to be ordered around ny the
manager as his fancy dictates. l am
tired of it" The disgust the former
baseball wonder expressed was
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-03

After romance lasting
White Mr. Melville
chief justice
Canada White nine
friend in Denver where Mr. and Mrs White and
meeting ripened
in trip Of several