The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-13
mike! ANGELS
WEAR SLIT SKIRTS;
RED ONES AT THAT!
idea, That New style Of Dress Il Dew
lPs invention, Not Supported by
Old Mastsr's Paintings Of
st5 Sanity onsa

New York--when the Rev. DR.. Len
q. Broughton, pastor Of Christ church,
Westminster, London, preached In q
sermon in the Tent Evangel, In Har-
lem, that no woman who wore q slit
skirt In this world would be found n
heaven, he challenged h credulityi
OF authorities on art and at the Same
time started q discussion which at va
rious times in the worlds history has
perturbed feminine humanity.
Michael Angelo, the inventor or
women'g portraits, was seriously OPP
posed to the slit skirt and the dia-
phAnous gown, according TO h pic
lures OF his which are now In the
Metropolitan Museum OF Art. IA
thing but a cloud" said Of the
attendants yesterday as he pointed
to the pictures, ''and when 1t came
to angels he left of the cloud ef-
feet and screwed On a couple OF
wings E
DR.. Broughton declared that In
heaven we would not know our loved
modern slit or diaphanoug skirts,
both Vaccinations OF the devil. In
fact, the distinguished clergyman
said ne would want no better post
than being the devil with the prtvi-
lege OF walking through broadway
AHu cAL2 avenue anu plChlMB Oh th0
girls who 30 exposed their natural
beauty. He said they were bound
straight for hell and that in heaven
all angels would shun such gar
fnents.
The Proper Garb for Hsavsn,
In a desire to determine what was
the proper garb for heaven efforts
were made to see those who might
know most about II. Anthony Com
stock refused 70 be interviewed. IT
was explained that he was preparing
q specially copyrighted edition Of
volume which would give fuls and
species Of angels. Mr.. Comstock has
been seriously opposed to h unciad
angel and goddess. and once tried to
pull Diana from her pedestal on
Madison Square garden.
At the Metropolitan museum,
where the experience OF the art III
thorities is limited to such authori-
and Gustaye Dore, 1t was said that
there was eminent authority for the
slit skirt and hat there was no au-
Ethority for angels in the conventional
dress OF today. Not one OF the myriad
angels portrayed by the masters could
be found who wore q corset. Not
wore q bracelet or a wrist watch.
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None wore the full length skirt,
with shoes and other fandangoes OF
modern dress.
Wings PrineiRsI AdornmenA
Every angel consulted In me
Metropolitan museum tried to get
along wf:h an little dress Is posi-
BILE. True, Sir Joshua Reynolds
painted That's with a gown slit so
far that one may see far above her
knee. Also It Is true, that Paul
jacques Anne Baudry portrays
Diam Driving Out Loe" clad In a
small silk handkerchief, Trees make
an effective background.
But all other angels are described
In long, flowing white robes, with
feathered wings sprouting out OF
their shoulder blades through a hem
stitched opening cut on b bias. In
explaining tlis discrepancy between
his theory OF an angel in q non-Hlit
skirt and the theories OF the old
masters who lived back in the time
! when angels were made, DR.. Brough-
ton said I'm his apartments In the
Gotham hotel:
.The angels you see on the canvas
are not in heaven, and neither r the
artists who painted them. They don't
have to go Co heaven 20 picture angels
of that kind. Most OF the famous ar
tigts picture ideals, dead things, and
dead things don't hurt anybody. It's
the live, kicking beings who do the
| most harm. / don't think the extreme
| STYLES affects the level headed women
of the world; 1t Is only a small per-
centage that wants to be conspicuous,
and they don't amount to anything"
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