The Penn's Grove record., 1916-12-15
HOW 70 Be BEAUTIFUL
Mental Jars in Making Penns
Grove a City

old staid minds who have been thinking
IN old ruts so long that the rigidity OF
brain grooves have been hard to move to
the new order Of things which has come
to Penns Grove in the past two years,
while being changed from an old fashion
county town to the population and do
ings in cities. 1t has been hard for some
who have never seen what is elsewhere
and never think nor have a vision Of new
things. The remova OF old landmarks
the making of new buildings-some with
little artistic taste-ihe Improvement and
widening Of streets, have made mental
Jars that time will soon adjust after i'm
~provements have been completed whether
marTed or made more beautiful.
The grading of Broad Street, especially
the cutting down of trees and putting
back Of ferces from Emmanuel Church
TO the Cove corner, making the street the
legal width of three rods SIS laid out by
commissioners of the Court, August !,
1905. causes a brain sensation to those
accustomed all their lives to old lines and
fences, which some think necessary be-
cause they have always been heretofore
when hogs, cattle and dogs ran in the
streets.
A civil engineer can see new visions OF
more beautiful lines and grades after the
improvements are completed. The archi-
tect has visions of p%rettier homes if lie
were allowed to give advice. All this
comes in the making of Penns Grove and
the adjustment OF the mind to the new
order of things.
MORAL JARS
The influx of a new population has
brought a new social life and the patron
age Tor entertainments in picture shows
and theatricals where formerly only ell
tektainments were given that met with
the tastes CT a reserved Methodistic soci-
ETY.. Where the line shall be drawn has
been left to boards of censors whose men,
tai conception of what should be exhib-
tied depends upon their moral and ethical
education. The u. $. Court las decided
that 1.-The question Of obscenity in any
particular article must depend largely on
the place, manner and object Of its pub
licatlon.'
Whether the nude or diaphanously
drapedin sculpture and art may be NOR
ally viewed is according to the Judgment
OF different mental conceptions described
by the W words from the same deriva-
ton, sensual or sensnous. The ethics of
sensnality is to regard the pleasure of the
senses in that of carnal passion. The SEN
suous mind has a warm appreciation OF
the beautiful or the refinement of lnxury.
These two different minds may go to me-
tropolitan art galleries and view the same
finest works Of art with different concep-
tons. The moral prude would drape all
the s~tatuary and cover the greatest artists
paintings of human forms Whether such
may be exhibited OIL screens outside OF
art galleries with moral propriety depends
on the educational and conventional state
of mind of different localities.
To state that the advertisement of the
exhibition OF Purity" in last weeks
Record caused a mental jar on sensitive
moral minds is stating 1t mildly. The
publication OF the diaphanous portrait of
Audrey MunsOn, who had won a $1,000
prize as the Venus model for the art ex-
ilibit at a worlds fair was startling for a
staid old town.
1t is the duty of evangelical ministers
to be OIL the vanguard to protest against
the Introduction Of immortality and OBJ
scenity. They passed resolutions and
protested from the pulpits, according to
their duty as they conceived it. Moral
conception and conscience depends OH
education.
Whether we have been educated only
in the history OF the ancient Jews-old
testament-or in Roman and Greek myth
ology, all of which are considered part OF
a liberal education, we become aware that
there are higher truths and lower truths,
u sensual life which is vulgar and lacks
modesty, even tho draped from the chin
to the toes; and a sensuOus life, simple,
chaste, virtuous, pure, beautiful in pose,
thought and action, even those nude or
draped in d%iaphanous gowns.
The exhibits OF Grecian mythology,
how all the earth was Inhabited with
playful grace and beauty until the ills
came from Pandora's box, has its counter
part in Adam and Eve with the serpent
in Jewish theology and Milton's adorable
Paradise Lost.
purity Worth became all artists
model and 10 TX part in Greek plays to
earn money for the publication of her
lovers poetry. After both became fam
GUS he resisted the allurements of the vO-
luptuos siren, while she resented the APP
proaches Of the llcenti0us art critic. The
modest grace of pure and true love was
beautifully portrayed in contrast to the
exhibitions for licentious COZ quests. The
ethical motives for her acts were sensu-
Gus, not sensual.
MORALITY AND VICE
Human depravity as well AZ godliness
and spiritual living are both toId in tire
Bible. The jewish moral code Tor our
social conduct tells how we should live
Some would not mention the story of Ra-
hab, the first scarlet lady OH record, Jez-
ebel, nor how David got his wife OH the
housetop, yet David's repentance and
pleas for righteousness are beautiful He
brew poems TO live by. The wisdom OF
Solomon is unsurpassed in the world and
his temple was the greatest and grandest
ever made up to his day. Its beautiful
attractions brought heather Queens whose
allnrement made All ungodly end for him.
A King OF Zenegambia died a few years
ago who claimed to lie a descendant oil
Solomon anu the Queen OF Sheha. That
las been 4 lesson ter Jews never TO mary