The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-29
Training Fashionable Society to Like Being Carcatured1
Rabgoi the Popular Partisan Caricaturist
Explains the @'Refined Delight" That Lies
in Learning to Enjoy Being Made An1usingly
Ridiculous

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Your Monsieur Tom Powers is a type OF the
RICH; kind. His technique is different from
anything we know in Paris, but he is so anus.
ing. We should enjoy him very much. He
understands the little weaknesses of the little
Women SO perfectly! Our women would know
how 10 appreciate that, and our men, too
BUT still it seems that good personal carl.
catura is very little developed here am
sure that most of Your people would enjoy
II very much but perhaps your important men
could not stand it as ours do in Paris. am
gong 10 do my best TO educate them UP to the
Partisan standard
have been told that law has heen nassed
III pennsylvania making * n crime to carca.
tnre public man and that similar laws have
po!ltlcian who would suggest such law should
lie Carlcatured TO death. That is what
would do with him in Peris.
The man who thinks his person TOO sacred
70 be caricatured is a for the lunatio ASYLUM
He belongs with types like the Emperor Nero
and Ivan the Terrible. His mind is either tina,
OF silly child or \ frantic egotist.
How little the idea OF carlcature is developed
IN America Is shown by one fact. You always
write the name of the person caricatured
across the drawing Of him. Evidently your
people are not at all familiar with the features
Of their public men,
II the art OF caricature were more developed
:his would change. Your people would learn
to Enow their public men by sight and to take
an interest In their personality. 1t would pro-
mote real democracy.
believe that II American pewspapers would
publish really pt!less caricatures OF prominent
men II all callings and professions 1t would
attract a great deal OF attention and circulation
The pictures should make the subjects per.
fectly ridiculous.
As for the caricature OF society men and
women, ii seems TO be entirely lacking here
l nat OF course, is my specially. l am going
30 the places where fashionable society passes
n New York to make some sketches OF the
most interesting types. ! shall also invite them
10 come 10 my studio to be caricature6 so that
they may have something to hang In their ex.
fens!ve houses more interesting than the foolish
OLD things they collect
Perhaps Your fashionable types are moro
reserved and t!md than ours are do NOT
Know yet have seen the rich Amer!cans-the
Ianderbilts. Mackays and others-in Paris, and
mere they do very much as the Parisians do
society should expose itself freely to the
PUBIC. That is an essential condition of de-
7ocracy and good feeling.
IN! have no doubt your society does ex.
pose Itself good deal. but not altogether In
the sense mean
Some Americans have learned to like being
ca!icatured in Paris. Why is it that your Mrs
Phil Lydig Is such distinguished figure
In society! Because she has been so ceyerly
caricatured by Sem.
The society woman who IS willing TO IA
caricatured shows proof OF a great superiority
OF mind and character. She Is still more un.
common than the OF similar breadth n,
mind But woman is advancing, as we ali
know. have found that the woman whose
features lend themselves best to caricature
Is the type most generally loved and admired
a french gentleman, nobleman or million