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The chronicle=news., 1913-11-03
SUCCESSFUL ROOT AND HERE
REMEDY.

The study OF roots md herbs. their
character and power over dlacasc.
was what led Lydia u. pinkha:n Of
Lynn. Mass. to produce for woman's
iiin tho most successful remedy the
world has every known. and while
sho passci to her reward some years
ago. her work among suffering NO.
men Il still carried on BY trained as
sistants and many tons OF roots and
herbs are consumsd annually In the
manufacture OF the now famous l.yd.
ia e. Pfnkham's Vegetable Com
pound. as originated by her.
The chronicle=news., 1913-11-03
STRIKERS eIyeA
ANOTHER eaANcE

sCs.sssssA ssso sss. T.,
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1913-08-28
ems! Have Your Children Worms!
e they feverish, restless. nervous,

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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1913-08-28
EvanS-JameS.

Scranton, August 26:-Married,
Sunday, August "a. 1918, by Notary
Public ] NJ Parker, Mrs Wander Ev-
ans and Mr. Geo James. I'M G.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1913-08-28
Hustling hemingway.

Editor County Record: =
1t has been quite a while since l
have written a line for The County
Record, but will say, l never fail to
read it with pleasure.
l had the pleasure of spending the
21st day of August at Hemingway.
a new town on the Marion Branch
railroad. 1t is quite a shipping point,
as there are about a dozen stores in
Hemingway. Notwithstanding the
fact that it is only about two years
old, the ginnery,, the hogshead fac
tory and the saw milling plants all
60 to make Hemingway look very
much "townish.
Also,I shall not fail to make men,
ton of the picnic your scribe had
the pleasure of attending while in
town. 1t was given by the Junior
Order of American Mechanics, and,
friends, / will tell you those Jun
ior Mechanics, with the help of the
ladies, know how to build a picnic in
the right style. 1t was a sick man
who could not eat dinner when it was
handed out to him, as he stood by
the table in the cool shade listening
to the merry laugh of pretty girls,
while the bright new U S flag float
/ ed in the breezes above his head. An,
I only want to live long enough to
enjoy many such picnics.
Sailing tobacco and pulling fodder
are the order of the day, soon to be
followed by King Cotton.
f>don, August %. Ting LING.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1913-08-28
Remarkable Cure for DySentery.

n 81 was attacked with dysentery
IHbout July Is, and used the doctors
medicine and other remedies with no
relief, only getting worse all the time.
fwas unable to do anything and my
weight dropped from 145 to lbs
pounds. l suffered for about two
months when / was advised to use
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Di-
arrhoea Remedy. l used two bottles
of it and it gave me permanent re-
lief" writes B w Hill, Snow Hill,
NC. For sale by all dealers. adv
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1913-02-28
The Political Mirage

have suffered thirst the DESERT
whose lips have become parched whose evered imagination has
things whose rifle has behed signal shots in van whose
tongue swollen his mouth knows the of
palm in the distance only find that it
mirage.
In public life there here and there occasional mirage
Some the forces of Wisconsin had
county option bill nearly through the legislature Senator LaFo
appealed the liquor forces in their extremity His leaders
generally supporting the Something happened and
few hours enough of Laoes Topped and killed
the bill as dead a Nantucket mackere.
The powers of LaFoe whose chief stock trade and is
popular stabbed death in the alley this
which nothing else but application of popular
Then, when the Webb bill the United States
February where Senator Laoette? How he voted
the final ballot unknown record made But when the
OGorman dealers,
Senator LaFolee lined with the blind pig senator's
and voted for it.
Friends of the position to know state that La
Toilette against the bill "all the way through"
The bill merely make popular government possible
the liquor business and Senator Laoette with the blind
piggers
Senator LaFollette is political mirage.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1913-02-28
Skygack' S Puzzle

Skygack nhabtant of distant planet made visit the
earth Meeting terrestrial being he accoed him. Say Terry
what of stuff that which the earhbengs pouring
their necks those places called saloons? have wesse
respectable vigorous looking persons drink and aferward have
the broken health deped clad in lying
in the slop and filth of the gutter.
81 have loving husband and father drink then home
smash the household furniture beat his wfhe who
cooks his meals washes his Clothes and keeps his homeand
wife and children out of the house into the cold night.
Il have owning fine welfurnished homes take
drinking the stuff Presently their homes neglected and
of repair Ultimately the sheriff and took their
them and wife and children and all they had left into the
have drink and then reel and stagger along
the until officer hauled him off jail wohouse
81 have apparently sensible drink
fools and later them shut tip in madhouse.
Il have healthfu vigorous young drink and few
later have lot Of diotc vicious kids tagging along
after him calling him papa.
Say Terry, what kind of stuff Why you earth
beings drink h have heard that you animals
say Gully, you don't look it me-"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-29

makes natural gesture OF fear.
The crouching Venus Is in the same
position.
"Anglo-Saxons are race Of hypo-
critics. Mayor Gaynor represents
one variety of our hypocrisy when
he talks about outward decency.'
He has the viewpoint OF the SLOW
emily chambermaid who sweeps the
dirt under the bed.
Americans strain at moral
gnat and swallow a camel There Is
no country where divorce is so
speedy and remarriage so precipi-
tate as here"
Judge Wauhope Lynn, the distin-
guished jurist, a popular leader
among warm-hearted Irishmen, de-
tended the picture heartily:
81 don't think you can Justly
judge the American attitude tow
ard art by Anthony Comstock. I
have known Tony for thirty years.
AT the beginning OF that time people
thought they should do away with
offensive writing and signs on
fences and In other public places,
and they set Tony to do the work.
But now he is going outside his
province.
PriSon officials Will not allow the
picture OF any woman, even a saint,
In a prisoners cell. They may be
right, but we must not assume that
our ordinary citizens have the moral
itA of convicts. We cannot abolish
women because some men are abb
normal.
Il wish there could be a picture
like September Morn in every
show window in town. People who
are used to the sight OF the natural
human body are never corrupt. The
Puritans cased their women as with
armor from head to toe, and they
we're whited scpulchres. We are re-
acting from that sort Of thing, and
that is why men find the slit skirt
interesting"
Richard Bennett, the actor, has
been playing the leading role in
Damaged Goods" play which,
though dealing with repulsive sub
ject, is warmly commended by good
men and women. In discussing the
picture Mr.. Bennett remarked clev-
erly:
"Chabas's September Morn is no
more immoral than the lovely morn
ing would be without the figure Of
the girl in the waters of the lake"
DR.. Homer Gibney, the noted New
York surgeon, who approaches the
question from a unique standpoint
because his professional work has
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-29

eeihe-gris and women who grip ones atten-
tlon as with eager nervous hands
lhese girls are mostly dark-dark as Gree
AND the long. Shameless man-entbralling
eyes OF the classic seductress haunt and fasci-
nate one up and down the length of cvery
boulevard They possess feline grace of
movement and the slim shape OF them suggests
syiph In d!rectoire corset--if one can mag
Inc such combination. And they know how
10 dress-wiih one exception That exception
is 'heir lcet which, to put il mildly, do not
as rule carry out the sylph smile | have
seen sartorlal creations so much 'up to the
moment that they We're we'll ahead Of Green
wien time, ana looking like a cross between n
day dream and nightmare, being carried
around by pair OF shabby, squashed trodden-
down SHOES which the average Australian girl
would shudder al
Inc Parisicnne Of this Intentionally con-
splcuouS type is sex conscious to such an an
norman extent that it gets on ones nerves
This same constitutes a certain docadent but
potent fascination, exotic, hectic, and supreme
~ unwhoesome
But IN Australia our beautiful girls arc not
only Nenuses in face and form: they are ex-
qulsite In their taste for dress and personal
adornment and. far from being hard and cal
cuiathg, they are sympathetic, human If New
YORK girls would lose their calculating hard
ness they would come nearer than any other
to the Australian Venus"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-29

innocence. That any one should
wish to Danish it is Incompetent
sible. should be ashamed to ad-
nit that such point OF view is
American. That September Morn
should be asked TO move on and
some shocking, horrible theatrical
posters allowed TO remain would be
funny If it were not so sad"
Rose Pastor Stokes, the East Side
working girl who married ]. G.
Phelps Stokes. a member of a mill.
lonaire family. and now lives with
her husband among her people,
spoke enthusia stically for the pic
ture:
september Morn is a glorious
work Of art, portraying the loveiiest
dream that nature ever made real
tho human Body Beautiful.
The Body Beautiful is as sweet
and pure and sacred thing as the
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-29

her figure Is inoffensive, and it is not the kind
which Is evolved by the directoire corset; her
complexion is her own, and her clothes are
coverings Every woman knows what that
distinction means. She badly needs an Aus
tralian friend to teach her how TO dress.
"The New York girl is beautiful. Never have
! visited a city where the beauty average for
all classes OF women so high. really
plain girl is almost as rare there as an ichthy
osanrus.
The typical New York girl is of medium
heisht-in fact. more often short than tall
with pretty figure, good carriage the small
est foot in tho world, l honestly believe. per-
feet taste and style regards dress. eXqus
itcly manicured hands, brunette coloring,
very pretty face-and expression as hard as
piece OF road metal.
The female New Yorker is about the hard.
est thing on earth-granite. paving slabs. nome
made stones and adamant not being excepted.
She Is not woman; she is a cold
biooded bandit, with calculating eye extract.
Ing Je~elry, theatre tickets, expensive restau.
rant meals and automobile rides from her
circle of male acquaintances She has no use
at all for any man who cannot Show her
good time'-and how any man IN FULL posses.
sion OF MS senses can have any use for her Is
more than can comprehend
Never in my life have watched so manv
vivid girls and women as in the city BY the
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-29

Soul Beautiful. If the youth Of our
land are not aware OF this fact-if,
standing before the rare portrayal
OF the Body Beautiful in 'Septem Der
Morn they are not elevated do not
regard their own bodies and the
bodies OF others with purer rev.
erence, but, on the contrary, are
caused TO feel ashamed of their
bodies and the bodies OF others, the
fault lies not with the perfect pic
tire, but with false and most I'M
perfect education, and our business
is not to condemn the artist and his
work, but the educators and their
work
Even If our educational system
has succeeded in leaving not one
clean-minded youth in the land, It
seems TO me more wholesome TO
meet the shame that lies in an un.
clean state OF mind with frankness
that is pure than to meet it with
pure Hypocrisy"
1t liz only just to say that there
are Americans more cultured than
Anthony ComstOck who question the
propriety of displaying the picture
in public. This type Of opinion is
we'll represented by the Rev. Sgd.
ney \. USHER. associate rector Of
ST. Bartholomew Church, a very
fashionable New York Episcopal
congregation. He said:
There is no doubt that there is
a different standard of morality
abroad from what we have In Amer.
lea in questions of art The h,.
initiating reason is, we must admit.
that the average American under
stands and appreciates real art far
less than the average European.
"lnasmuch as America can never
become eminently nation of art.
lovers. because realism is here too
strongly opposed 20 idealism,
would not recommend so vivid an
example Of nudity as September
Morn for public exhibition. | am
sure the great majority of observ.
ers would not be inclined to take
the right viewpoint"
James Montgomery f'lagg, prob
ably the most popular black.and.
white artist in America and a social
caricaturist OF great ability, ex-
pressed the feelings of his craft
when he said:
There is something the matter
with the brain of man who gives
his time to seeking the prurient.
Only diseased mind can find any
thing immoral in September Morn
A young girl is preparing to take a
bath in the lake, and the cold water
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-29
& RE we nation Of prurient
~ prudes, mock moralists and
1 IA tasteless barbarians?

That is the question that has been
raised by the assault made in New
York upon Paul Chabas's painting
OF the nude, September Morn"
The episode has been used to
cast discredit upon our taste and
moral standards in Europe, and many
cultured Americans Indignantly
share the European view. On the
other hand. there are undoubtedly
respectable Americans who hold that
the picture is demoralizing, and have
no sympathy with the artistic view.
point.
This newspaper has interviewed
long list of intellectually repre-
sentative Americans and found few
who did not praise the picture
warmly.
The painting represents young
girl, little more than a child, bath
Ing IN lake in September. She Is
drawing herself together with an
attitude natural to one who feels
chilly. She is entirely nude, and the
girlish figure Is beautifully drawn.
1t requires a powerful imagination
to find anything suggestive in the
work.
Those who condemn the picture
are opposed to all representations Of
the nude. but, in addition. they see
something particularly Objectionable
in the crouchiEg attitude of the fig.
ure in this case. Artists and the
majority Of broad-minded persons
see in it only the natural action Of
a human being feeling a slight chill,
but the puritans are strangely ex.
cited by it. This is the point on
which the more intelligent critics
centre their criticism. They allege
that il is not simple picture OF the
nude, but an afiuring, suggestion OF
concea!ment. The answer TO this Is
that such view shows a distorted
mind that seeks to discover evil in
everything.
The painting won gold medal at
the Paris Salon and was bought by
rich Russian resident of Paris The
artist had refused to sell 1t to al
American lest ii be taken out OF the
country. a fine print Of the pic
ture was, however, exhibited in an
art store in New York.
Anthony Comstock. the profes.
sional vice crusader, ordered the
picture removed The art dealer re.
fused. and when Mr.. Comstock ap.
pealed for an order 10 remove It
from a court ne was not sustained
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-29
American Girls Beautiful London Dowdy; Australia Venuse
r OTHlNG like girl to put other girls in
j their place,
One observing girl who has taken that

KToTHlN>G like girl to put other girls in
IN their place!
One observing girl who has taken that
task upon herself is an Australian, who writes
under the name OF Dulcie Deamer. Having
completed her observations Of New York girls,
che has sailed back TO London. From there she
will hurry home AUstraia-after analvzng
the charms and defects Of the girls OF most
of the European capitals
I Before sailing from New York. Dulcie Dean
! er ep!tomzed her girl Impressions FOR the BEN
eft OF readers of this newspaper
''The American girls beautiful" she said.
l'DThe London gicls ara positively dowdy And
now I'll share my mos, important discovery
with you. II you want to see Venus on her
native heath, YOU must 80 10 Australia. There
is nc doubt about that. Can you blame ME for
hurrying home?"
4 More in detail, the pretty Australian said:
"Where Paris offers chic seductive fashion.
plates. London offers homely dowds. I was
never in any city whore ordinary feminine good
looks we're so conspicuous by their absence.
If one should accept the standard Of the Lon
don streets typical for the whole OF Britain.
one would be forced 20 conclude that the Great
majority OF English women are plain, common
place. and shockingly badly dressed
"Tbe London woman who most persis,en,lv
assailed my observation is usually shortish:
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-29

consisted largely OF correcting
bodily deformities, can see nothing
but beauty in this picture.
''If I had a daughter" he said,
this picture is the kind Of decoration
/ would like to see OH her wall, and
II had son I should be happy to
have him feast his eyes on it every
day. 1t shows the beauty OF the
human form as nature intended II
to be. 1t cannot but inspire higher
emotions In any but the degenerate,
and fortunately the degenerate class
represents but a very small minor.
ity OF the American nation. To SEQ
the beautiful purifies the emotions,
gives one an aesthetic bath. so to
speak. and psychologically such a
bath is valuable"
Abraham Cahan, editor of the
Jewish Daily Forward. the New York
Jewish newspaper which represents
the most advanced socialistic ideas.
is in entire accord with those who
uphold the rights OF honest, sincere
art
I'VE could print Chabas's picture
In our paper. and it would do good
rather than harm" he said Some
people are so constituted that
beautiful picture like this conveys
nothing but smutty suggestions to
them. People of that type scarcely
hear an ordinary English word with
out interpreting ii in some indecent
manner. They are TO be classed
with degenerates.
This picture is the very embodi-
ment Of beauty and purity 1t up
lifts the mind instead of dragging It
down to the mire Of obscenity One
must possess very low psychology
indeed to construe this beautiful
thing into something suggestive of
lewdness"
Lady Constance Stewart Richard
son was the one person interviewed
not American. She is an authority
because her artistic specially con.
ssts Of barefooted dancing.
ITO regard the nude body from a
sex point Of view Is SIM" said
Lady Constance. But it ia a sin
rather on the part of the parents than
on the part Of the children. 1t is all
question Of education, subject In
which l am deeply Interested Chill
dren should be accustomed to see but
slightly clad and beautiful bodies
from the beginning Of their lives. and
the usualness Of such sight would
remove all suggestion from It,"
Miss Mary Shaw, the actress, ccsa
sidered the best interpreter Of ID.
sens female roles, said:
Americans lack an artistic con-
science. They have not the cour-
age to stand alone for an opinion.
"A few years ago l was arrest
ed for playing the womans role In
Mrs. Warren's Profession by
Bernard Shaw. When the play was
sanctioned by law those who had
been busiest in slandering 1t were
the most eager to see 1t.
Private pleasures. not public
scandals. Is the American motto.
In Continental Europe they are
drawer in life and art"
David Belasco. the mastery con.
structor Of stage spectacles, spoke
wormly for the picture:
1.-THE. presentment of this shy little
maiden bathing in the GOODNESS of a
lovely September morn can conjure
in the imagination no sensation save
that of a recognition OF her own
childlike innocence To be privileged
q view OF Innocence such as this
is ennobling, whether we see II In
the picture or In real life."
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-29

human figure should never be dis.
played in public without proper
clothing. We must save the children
from such sights"
AS against Mr.. Comstock's view
here is what Miss Inez Milholland,
the New York suffragist leader, a
thoroughly representative young
woman, said;
The picture is exquisite and deli
cate, depicting perfect youth and
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-29

view. The customs division Of
the New York Post Office
opened a consignment of prints of
the picture for the purpose OF col.
Letting. duty. They were shocked
at the nude and referred the prints
10 Washington for instructions.
The high postal officials there were
doubtful whether the picture was NJ
for circulation in America, and pass
ed 1t up TO Secretary Bryan, with the
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-29

suggestion that he
should order its re
turn to the foreign
sender.
The picture Is de
moralizing in the OK
IRENE and especially
calculated to excit.
immodesty In the
young said Mr..
Com Is took "The
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-29
Or Is 1t

AS Some Of America s MOCK immoral
lists : Maintain, Shocking Example Of
French Immodesty Which Should Be
Barred from the Public Gaze in the In
terests Of Decency and the Children?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-29

In Chicago the police ordered the
print removed from a window, an
incident that is interesting as show.
ing that Comstock was NOT aIo,.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-29
Is This Picture

"A Glorious Work of Art Chastelv
Portraying the Loveliest Dream Nature
Ever Made Real and Fit for the ADJ
miration Of Any Lover Of the Beautiful
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1913-07-23

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Leader Want Columns.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-06-24
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