The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-04-11

It IS fe0afklDlC l-tdI fAle:fhd h@o not come to the fore as tourist resort before tn;s. Tn inland pass age flouc can afford more real scenic beauty .h.l c1n b3 ab:',rved in any other part of the world. One would therefore imagin3 that the lcisurcd c:sss5S whose privilege it is to rest icng and work little, WI le making life a. plea2ant and enjoy able thing as possible, would have availed themselves of the opportun- ity always was theirs of beholdins nature at is widest end at it's best.
 But that would be to rate the leisurcd classes ct too high an esthetic figure. The fact of the mat ter is that as 9 class th1y arc the most dull, drcary and lo'.st beauty struck in the world. Their ;decls of beauty are to be discovered il some European gambling de" where the exaggerated styles of the cami-mon- dainc give the standard of fashion to the world, or where thoY are more respectable and slso more hopelcgc, their s>nec5 ere lulled to d security by tho sordid archit cure of a modern church or the m rbled atrocities that garnish the tombs ot tho departed p.utocrats.
 As Q general rule it r the harc working classes who first discover beauty, and those rare exceptions among the lcisurcd classes who can admire and understand natural magnificence, gre 60 far beyond the ordinary run of the four hundred bra;n-powor, that the latter arc willing th1t they chould sst the others fashion between whil1s.
 ThuG 2, few of thcm discovered tho genius of Ibsen and popularized q trip to the Norwegian fjords so that they might the better aprrec'- ate the local color of tho Nors9man's dramatic genius. And behold every society mimic followed suit anl trips to NorwGy became quite fashionable.
 Some two or three nOvelists se. the scenery of the Riviran as the back ground of spicy fiction that the leisured classes particularly ap- preciate, and the Riviera with its sunny sky and blue waters became the Mecca of the easily tied who c0uld sate their scnccs with Medi' terranean calm and stimulate them selves bucking the Monte Carlo tiger at the same time.
 How it comes about that Euro pean scenery should be so beloved of the American rich and le.sur20 while American beauties were ig' nored is therefore to be explained by the fact that the American rich and leisured sought neither beauty nor scenery. American Squaws wen' after coronets for their daughters, and the fathers went after the seduc- tive delights that mon speak about in an undertone as peculiarly easy to access in the Gcy PGris. Besides lt was the fashion. It was the otamp of the elite that trip to Europe should be made, and when soberins up between the social cxcesses ( liberal talk of the beauties and greatness of the various sights they had seen, gave to their conversation a polish and an intellectual finish might otherwise be lacking.
 The working classes are begin ming to appraise the culture of the leisured ones at it's proper figure. and the artificial nature of their esthetic sense and the ridiculous ar- fectation they manifest regarding art and literature, music and paint ing. travel and natural beauty. is already quite plain to the masses who observe the phony much quick CT than they are given credit for. The Pecksniffs of art, and tho Peck sniffs of travel we have always with us. and that is why Alaska has been so long neglected.
 Now the fortunes of war react In favor of this territory as q field for, travel. Some writers have already made people familicr with the Yukon and with the glaciers and with tho Eskimos. It giycc one a cultural finish to have read these things. but much more does 1t con for cultural eliteship upon those