The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-19
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The Suffragette Grand Duchess Banshed to Nunner>
But Still Teaches Votes for Women '-lndiana-
polls Art Center of Indiana

based, degenerate, ignorant objects
that dldder up to the polls and cast
their vote for important or unimport.
ant measures or people or matters in
general while the great body of intelli.
gent, informed, capable and enlight-
ened women sit by the windows and
watch them go by to decide what the
latter shall or shall not do with their
property hOldings-there is manifest
/ injustice.
But these are time-worn allusions.
1t is only matter of time when all
women will be voting just as We'll
all be riding in airships, making ev.
ening calls on friends in Mars and
spending the weekend in Jupiter.
| little run to Venus for Sunday
will be nothing more than going over
to Indianapolis to see boxing bout.
At this date nobody knows who will
win. This column would bet on Say
lor If 1t thought the prosecutor would
mt mind. However since women can't
vote no notice should be taken of a
harmless bet on the side.
1t is actually said that pots are be-
ing made up on the series in strong
holds of purtanism.
Demonstrating the grip the nation
al game has upon even the most rock.
ribbed.
This is great world and there 5
| nothing funnier than people and moth
ing surer than universal suffrage.
In a statement issued by the An
derson Art association, in embryo, it
was said that indianapolis had fol-
lowed Richmond, in organizing an art
association
This is not the case
The Indianapolis Art Association an
te-dated the local one by a decade or
two. 1t long ago celebrated it's quar-
ter century. Long before Richmond
ever heard of art with a large and
bristling "a" indianapolis was giving
exhibitions of the work of noted pain
tiers and conducting a Furnishing art
! school.
The indianapolis Art Association
manages the Heron Art Institute, err
ties, this being one of the best known
art museums in the country.
Richmond was also said to be 1.-The
art center of Indiana and the home of
| several artists of national reputation. "
Richmond is the residence of but
! one artist of national reputation-J.
E. Bundy.
re hoin IN, snrt
is ridiculous.
An art center" is community
where interest in art is continuous
and where a coterie of artists have
their residence; where lectures on
art are constantly being given; where
there are galleries and museums;
where people buy pictures and judge
them intelligently.
While Indianapolis, with all it's cru
dities, could hardly be called an art
CENTER" still if there is an art CEN
ter" in Indiana it is in Indianapolis.
1t is the home of a number of well
known artists. 1t has large art mu-
scum and art school where there are
series of exhibitions and continuous
instruction, with lectures for the lay
public.
This column is not knocking-but
there is too much transformation
floating about concerning a lot of
things as we'll as about art centers."
The truth is that the public is la
mentally lacking in accurate know
ledge about matters of this sort and
enlightenment is not going to fol-
low mis-statements however amiable
the intent in making them
This is on the order of an amusing
article written by Mr. Edgar Tiff, of
this city and published in the Indiana
polls Star, to the effect that while
standing at Emerson's gate in Concord
he was asked by two tourist women
with notebooks
rs this the home of Thomas Car
lisle?"
That's about as near as people get.
Its on the same principle that Rich
mond is called an art center"
The Andersonians have another
guess coming.