The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19
KANSAS COMMENT
THE NUDE IN ART.

THE NUDE IN ART.
Chicago has lately been considerably
Morn,'' wherein a Young Thing is depict
ed going to her bath without her
even il it seems immodest to us old-fash-
ioned folks. The police objected to the
display of the picture in an art dealer
window, and there was a trial by jury,
which vindicated the picture and the art
dealer and said, in effect, that Art doesn't
need to wear clothes if it doesn't want to.
much to sell reproductions OF this paruc-
ular work of art.
is, who would provide kimonos for the
statuary groups in the art gallery, ana
cover many famous paintings with store
clothes. Evil is largely state OF mino.
and those seeking suggestion In ART or
life will find it without the assistance
of birthday clothes, and the world VIII
free and unlimited exhibition of the sep
tember Morn" and like efforts of the
artists. There are many worse influences
for wickedneSs, including the very pruoeIy
which rails loudest against such exniol-
tions. Prudery and Ignorance SO ire
quently go hand in hand, and hurt where
they hope to help.
Mt taoin taoin taoin taoin taoin aoi
And yet we do not swing so far the
other way, as some do as to regard the
few clothes features as a bulwark or pal
ladium. Art they may be, but not art IN
There are so many better subjects TO
paint that there seems no need OF re-
quiring the model to stand in draft @ @ciao
in her surging thoughts, while the artist
does his work. All things may seem pure
70 the pure, and evil to him VINO eVh
thinks, but so many do think that way
that there is some excuse Tor not asSra-
waiting the case.
Hence, if the niceties of Art demand
certain per cent of nudity to make the
exhibition complete such showing prob
ably should be made in art galleries. anu
not along the main hignWaysh ign ss yhoiIv % helnfiii
and to be commended, would have dl1i-
Guilty explaining why certain saloons run
to decorations of that design.-Atchison
Globe.
AN IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT.
One night this week, at the banquet
of the Business association, Wichlta
saw two men of unusual ability stand
side by side Senator Bristow and eX-
Senator Long. These men used to be
Republicans of the same type. They
were for high protective tariff and Id
eral pensions and sound money, ana
they believed the Democratic party
was a menace to the nation. They
were personal friends and congenial
companions.
New conditions arose; new issues
New term of political war
fare We're created, such as revision or
the tariff downward, physical valua-
ton of railroads, direct election or
United States senator's. initiative and
workmen's compensation,
federal food inspection, conservation.
recall minimum wage scale, federal
regulation of corporations.
In a little while it was noticed that
the two tall men who stood before a
Wichita audience this week did not
look at public questions in the same
light. They talked differently. They
grew farther and farther apart. In a
short time one was running against
the other for United States senator,
and while they appeared to be both
it took a wide stretch of
ina gination to reconcile the doctrines
of both under one party banner.
Now everybody knows that Mr.. Bris-
tow and Mr.. Long do not belong to the
same political party. They are looking
in entirely different directions for pub
lie remedies.
Men talk about bringing the Progress
sives and the Republicans back to-
gether into one party. No party could
be elastic enougl to reconcile Bristow
and Long. 1t is not necessary to say
hat Long is dishonest because he does
not believe in the things Bristow
breaches, or that Bristow is a political
lemagogue because he does not be-
ieve in the conservative attitude of
Senator Long. These men are mere
ypes of public thought. Both are
strong in prejudices. One is radical,
he other is a observation-disclosures
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