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New Britain herald., 1922-04-27
Building Comm. Banquets
 Its Canned" Members

Political obsequies for Commission CTS Arthur N, Rutherford and Stan ley J. Traceski who have been drop ped from the building commission, were conducted last night at the Hotel Bond, Hartford, when the board held farewell banquet. The two com missioners will leave office next Mon day.
New Britain herald., 1922-04-27
SOUNDS A WARNING
Fire Chief Says Practice of Autoists Driving Cars Over Hose Must Stop

During the past few weeks thought less automobiles drivers have dam aged hose belonging to the fire de- partment, by running their machines over them. Chief William J. Noble said today that at least 100 feet of inch hose has been greatly damaged, and will have to be replaced. He has issued orders to all the firemen that in the future the numbers of cars which run over hose will be secured, and the owners will be held responsi- ble.
New Britain herald., 1922-04-27

Nicholas, the last of the Russian czars, abdicated on a Friday.
New Britain herald., 1922-04-27

Platinum was recently discovered in Brazil.
The New York herald., 1922-01-29
Mexican Government Sends
Promising Pupils Abroad to Study

From among the graduates the school
authorities choose the most promising and
send them abroad at the expense of the Gov
ernment to complete their education. There
are Mexicans in all the capitals OF Europe
to-day studying music in its several branches
at the expense of their Government. In
New York alone there are about fifteen
Mexicans.
The one request the Government makes Of
these favored ones is that they return to
teach q year or so in the conservatory.
service which the alumni perform proudly
and eagerly. The school is Justly popular.
drawing throngs Of students from all the
states Of the republic. At last report there
were no less than Ave hundred enrolled.
Besides this, the Government does much TO
assist the dissemination OF serious music.
Orchestral societies are generously assisted.
Sometimes, the Government will place at its
disposal one OF the many public concert
halls; and. in the event OF the engagement
OF a noted virtuoso, the Government will
guarantee the payment of his fee. Each
year the Government guarantees payment
TO the operatic companies that perform. no
matter what the amount runs up to. Con-
certs in Mexico are not so numerous as
they are in this country but In proportion
to the general education and state Of civili-
zation of the Mexican people the number is
actually phenomenal.
Military and police bands perform regu-
The New York herald., 1922-01-29

larry. Every large city and every State
capital has its police or military band which
gives concerts within the city limits and In
the environs. Only recently the police band
Of Mexico City went up to Dallas where in
competition with several American bands. il
won first prize. The poor Of Mexico City do
not suffer for lack of opportunity to listen
to good music. Prices at concerts and at the
opera are always extremely moderate and in
the event that they lack even the small
sum charged for admission they can stroll
out to park and listen to band concert
The average Mexican is born with a good
car and invariably he possesses a guitar
which he has learned to play without formal
instruction and frequently without instruc-
tion of any kind. Everywhere opportunity
to listen TO music awaits him The poorest
cafe has it's pair OF flddlers and a pianist
who play for him while he sips his cafe
con leche" The larger cafes have lists OF
pieces scattered about the tables from which
the patrons are at liberty to select their
favorite and suggest its rendition to the or
chestra leader.
Combined with the Mexcans love for the
classical in music Is the fondness for the
snap and Jingle OF American Jazz music. AT
one time Partisan airs were the great vogue
hut from the north came the staccato OF
ragtime and the sweety-sweet OF sentimental
ballads and utterly displaced the French in
the Mexican heart In the cafes and
cabarets American music is the predominant
ing note. Many of the more popular songs
have been translated and are sung far and
near in the streets OF the capital Several
Of the lighter OF the modern Mexican COM
posers have taken TO aping the Americans
and have produced creditable ragtime
marked with q slight Mexican accent
Music composition Is not as far advanced
in Mexico as II might be. The more enlight-
ened are seeking their inspiration in the
folk songs, the simple old tunes OF the
Mexico poems. These are frequently heard
in concert halls in Mexico, either as they are
sung in the hills or as they have been ar
ranged. Recently. Henry II. Holder, a
young Mexican of Scandinavian descent
rendered several OF these songs on the piano
for New York audience with marked sue
cess. Still another Mexican, Rosendo Serna,
tenor, has been able to please sophisticated
audiences in this city with the songs Of the
poems.
The New York herald., 1922-01-29

dlvidual II he is to obtain the education
necessary for the adequate development of
his gift. I'm Mexico he finds waiting him
a superbly equipped conservatory where
tuition is gratis. The only qualification for
admttance to this institution is some proof
of the applicants Mexican citizenship.
Not only are the rudiments taught here
but all of the finer details of virtuosity as
well. All instruments are taught from the
most elementary stage up to the point where
instruction in department on the concert
stage becomes necessary Voices are
trained and cultivated according to the most
modern and most widely accepted methods,
and those pupils whose bent is composition
find complete courses in harmony at their
disposal
The New York herald., 1922-01-29
Day of All Concealing Skirts
Drew Attention From Knees

Also. that was the day when knees were
Of little Importance, for It was the era Of
full and all concealng skirts. Knees might
knock with the vigor ascribed to old OPP
portunity himself. and, like Opportunity.
be never needed. There are new standards
now--new standards OF length and breadth
and thickness, and maybe even OF the
fourth dimension.
DIR. McKenzie's scientifically and artist.
cally trained eye may have been put bit
awry from its plumb Of learning by these
new standards, for now is the day when
knees are In such frank and open display
The New York herald., 1922-01-29

that even the impersonal eye of the master
of science might be overwhelmed in one
afternoon of research along the grand high
ways of New York-or even Philadelphia
watch is DR.. McKenzie's readiest field.
For these are the days of new standard
of length, and that standard has been ap-
piled to skirts as we'll as to hours of labor
IL is reasonable that where knees and
lumpy calves are famboyantly displayed
one should find fewer specimens, to admire,
IL one has a turn of mind adversely criti-
are also more specimens that are found
beautiful, for more are shown. and the law
of averages cannot be downed.
There are two camps OF protest against
DR.. McKenzies verdict against the legs Of
the American young woman. One rises to
assert that he Is all wrong-not in declar.
ing that knock-knees are ugly, but in say.
ing that American girls are in the major
ity knock-kneed. This camp is the flag
waving group, ready to stand and defend
the good name Of America and its reputa-
tion for any virtue no matter what, whether
II needs defense by bombast or by mean
ingless words of praise.
often the members Of this group have
no points of argument, but in this case
they have. They assert and cry the merit
Of the argument that American girls are
not in the majority knock-kneed. But that
is. perhaps aside from the point. II may
be true that our country. may she ever
The New York herald., 1922-01-29
Redeems Himself by Praise
OF Americas Young Men

1t is the further assertion of DR.. Nc
Kenzie, which because of his dignity and
reputation and position of authority is not
to be considered facetiously, that Ameri-
can young men are the handsomest in the
world-comparable even to the idealized
youth of the Hellenic age, as envisioned by
the marbles of Apollo and Adonis and the
young Mercury; and Eros and Bacchus.
Moreover, DR.. Mckenzie has had sculp-
tured according to his own high-fxed
standards, statue which he names "the
perfect American man." and he says 1t ep-
proaches realism. But, truly. that is of
less controversial Importance than his
fiat, ungallant and somewhat unsup-
ported asseveration that the figure of the
American young woman is far from perfec-
tion-his outright intimation that Agesan-
der would not have found his Aphrodite in
the modern Western world.
That Praxiteles would have had little
difficulty In finding a Hermes among the
men OF America Is a contention of less
interest, for It is to the mind Of the Ameri-
can a negative contention--our pride Of
late has been that our women represent
the perfection Of symmetry and proper
tim of body, and that is the nurtured illu-
sion which would bring deep pain IL shat
tered.
But perhaps DR.. McKenzie's theorizing
or result Of practical research, as the case
may be- Is not really condemnation. 1t
may be- for all we know, praise. Auguste
Rodin, the French sculptor, who has ex-
erted the greatest influence upon the art
Of the present time, the genius who gave
"The Thinker to the world, Is quoted as
having said during the period when he
was studying under Barge. that the per-
The New York herald., 1922-01-29

Dr. Mckenzie no doubt can find concur
renee in the opinions held by other men
among the modern scientists and artists.
The American sculptor MacMonnies is
said to have given knock-knees to the
new Statue of Victory, which is yet to be
dedicated.
There is one voice which cries in protest
that the perfect woman of America and of
the conception of mind is as straight
limbed as acclaimed masculinity. This is
the voice of one whose knowledge of
ephemeral, passing beauty is not denied
from any source except, perhaps from the
envy reeking quarters of rival producer
of epics in human pageantry.
He is Florenz Ziegfeld, Of "Folies" fame.
A point of beauty, in his set of standards,
is the straight knee. And he finds straight
kneed beauties. But his declarations bear
out the statements of DR.. Mckenzie in
great part, for he asserts that to discover
a straight legged beauty for his shows is
an ordeal indeed.
They come to him with the loveliness
and charm of the Graces themselves, and
he looks at their knees and finds the
women unadaptable because the knees
swerve toward each other. To become
Ziegfeld star young woman must be en-
dowed with body such that. standing, 1t
shall be as straight from head to feet as
a plumb line would fall. The rule is IRON
clad; but, after all, 1t is only one mans
rule, one mans standard Of perfection. and
it may be that the Ziegfeld beauties are
written down in the great Pigment book in
which all final dispensations are written,
as 'the almost perfect women; beautiful,
wonderful freaks"
There is nothing absurd even about sup
posing that underneath her staid. circum-
spect, ample gown, old Lady Liberty on
Bedloes Island has a perfectly conven-
tional pair of knock-knees.
The New York herald., 1922-01-29

knock-kneed through the ages-since those
whose proportionate attributes of beauty
have willed them knock-knees along with
hands and arms and thighs and angles that
were as near perfection as approach has
been made-then has not standard been
established, and Is not that standard for
beauty the demand that knees be not
straight? And there is something about
that questioning that intrigues, isn't
there?
To get back to research evidence, anato-
mists, such as Ole Worms. who was pro-
fessor in Copenhagen in 1850, and Herbert
Spencer testify to the tendency of woman
The New York herald., 1922-01-29

from Creation to be trifle knock -kneed.
And evolutionists bark back to the days
when man was the plumed peacock Of
leisure and work was the prerogative Of
the female-the woman was the bearer of
burdens.
These sources point out that it has not
been an UNREASONABLE time since woman
began to straighten her back from the
bowed posture of a burden bearing biped
to the prouder carriage which has ended in
the vote for women; and the same hard
ships, the latter day Darwinians say, drove
woman's knee joints inward.
Phryne foam born goddess of love and
wedlock, to whom was attributed a beauty
so compelling as to have blinded the eyes
of men against the warnings of conscience,
was brought to trial. charged with murder
and found guilty by her judges In spite of
the splendid eloquence of her adorer
Hyperides.
Hyperides found the judges adamant to
his word magic and as his final appeal he
undraped the beauty of Phryne to their
gaze In their impulsive reconsideration
the judges decided that the life of so per-
lect creature must De spared.
Many Notable Examples
In Art of the Centuries
A comparison of art and sculpture and of
legend proves that Hyperides was a clever
lawyer. Legend has It that he disclosed
Phryne's lovely bosom to the Jury. But
Appeles's picture "Aphrodite Anadyomene"
and the "Cnidian Aphrodite'' of Praxiteles,
show figures of a knock-kneed woman
Phryne was the model for both
Moreover, the Copenhagen Venus is
knock-kneed; the undraped woman of
Titian's Earthly and Heavenly Love" is
more so, and it cannot be gainsaid that
the knees of the Winged Victory" herself
appear through the scant stone drapery
about them to be somewhat drawn toward
each other.
Michael Angelo, master anatomist as
we'll as artist, gives his female form
straight knees. But it is suspected that he,
in his nurtured inspirations, might have
created his own schemes Of perfection
and justified himself before Arts high
court Of appeals.
The New York herald., 1922-01-29

w yHATEvER the faults of the people
\A/ Of Mexico. lack of appreciation OF
music cannot under any circum-
stances be included among them. All Mexi-
cans can strum a guitar. All Mexicans
know and appreciate good music. So inn
PRESSED was the late Enrico Caruso with the
discrimination of the average Mexican audi
ence when he sang in Mexico City that he
asserted In all sincerity that the artist who
pleased an audience in Mexico had passed
the acid test and could be warranted to
please any audience anywhere.
Mexico's present Government recognizes
this aptitude In the populace and has done
and is In process of doing many things to
encourage the development of musical talent
of a high order where it exists. Nor does it
confine itself to the assistance of budding
virtuosos but makes great effort to help the
masses who must remain TO the end appre-
ators, by providing them with music Of
tn, first rank This subject is timely just
now in view OF the recently announced with
drawal of the subvention under which the
Chicago Opera Company has been operating.
The New York herald., 1922-01-29
Porfno Diaz Aided Artists
And All Music Means

The attitude of the Mexican Government
to-day like most good things in Mexico dates
back to the regime of that iron man of the
southern republic-Porfrio Diaz. Diaz
realized the value Of music as cultural in
fuence and he gave aid to rising artists and
to opera and symphonic societies whose aim
IL was to furnish good music to the populace.
The man who carries on the tradition to-
day is the Minister Of the Interior. Adolpho
de la Huerta Not only is De la Huerta an
ardent concert and opera goer. but he Is
himself a tenor Of no mean attainments. De
la Huerta was an intimate friend of Caruso
and II was largely on account Of this friend
ship that the peer OF tenors was persuaded
TO sing below the Rio Grande.
The youngster in this country who shows
talent is compelled to depend ON his family
The New York herald., 1922-01-29

r. TAFT M'KENZIE of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania has aroused
considerable interesting discussion
by his recent statement that American
women are knock-kneed.
There is some disposition, it is true, to
dismiss this statement of DR.. Mckenzie,
who is an authority on physical perfection
in the human race with the question:
well, what about it?"
The fact is, there is good deal about
It, for there are great many in this
country who have considered it a point
over which there could scarcely be any
disagreement, that the American woman
IL physically the standard Of perfection for
the world and the universe, for to-day and
the ages
But is she? DIR. McKenzie's statement
does not settle the question. The fact that
the typical American woman is not a
young Olympian goddess-if it be the
fact?-is not to determine definitely and
to the satisfaction of all, particularly all
Americans-that she Is the inordinately
imperfect specimen of womanhood of all
time. For many there are who believe
that the Olympian goddess, the Diana, the
Venus the Persephone. was an ideal and
no more than an ideal. And we. IL we like,
may idealize the American woman and pic
ture her as the consummation of feminine
evolution, forgetting knock-knees or-bet-
ter-accounting them graceful attributes
Of the perfect anatomy.
The New York herald., 1922-01-29

sion of his own thought.
His first work, 1.-THE Man
With the Broken Nose," aroused opposition
because of its realism; but it was truth;
and his search for truth, relentless search.
did finally win over his critics.
1t has been the theory and the belief Of
all time that perfection of hands and arms
and legs are one-that the perfect legs,
thighs, knees, calves and ankles; the per-
feet arms, and the perfect hands and
the perfect neither limbs are inseparable in
one figure. Hands have ever been field
of research for the realist among the delv-
ers into the art of stone and clay, and it
is invariable that the true artists Of now
and of the Hellenic period and the inter
vening ages have found grace of fingers
and hands accompanied by the same smooth
dignity in uniform distribution through
out the body.
And a diligent study of the sculptures
of undraped feminine bodies will prove
that where the hand is beautiful and
smooth and inevitably work of truth in
its perfection, there Is no stiffness of
knees, no stilted rigidity Of posture that
must be suggested by knees that are too
straight. There is for the realist among
us perhaps a too great perfection-a
studied perfection that. because it is
studied and labored, is not a perfection
at all; and many of the truly great sculp-
tors have avoided that, to the greater glory
of their accomplishments.
1t Is possible that an old almost dead.
resentment may be revived by the cry
arising from DR.. TAFT McKenzies sane
tum Of wisdom There was once an ac-
cepted dictum-"The American and the
English girl for facial beauty and coloring
Of flesh. but the French woman for bodily
charm"
That had almost died and had almost
been forgotten; but now It may arise
again. That was a judgment which grew
to a platitude in the days when ample
grace was in order in the days Of busts
and bustles and bold curves-before the
etherealized. spiritualized slender igments
of such new minds and brushes as of
Burnes-J Jones'
The New York herald., 1922-01-29

be in the right" Is overrun by knock-kneed
women, but it is an equally acceptable the
ory to one who has never taken an adequate
census on the situation that it is in the
vast majority of cases straight-kneed. The
point is, to the second camp of those who
protest that it is perfectly proper and
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it is perfectly proper and
properly perfect for her to be
knock-kneed IL she really is
knock-kneed.
This second faction holds
that DR.. Mckenzie has no
right to withhold the palm
of beauty from the American
girl even II she is knock
kneed. Why should she be
set aside, ask the more doleful
minded of these critics,
because of a feature of
ugliness which women
have commonly to bear?
All women of all ages
nn> have been Z predomi-
nantly knock-kneed, say
w those who pretend to
IN know, and since it Is a
physical characteristic
IN Of all women. then why
should one small lot Of
them be chastened for
what Is not their own
fault-what Is proha-
bly,, not a fault at all
nor ugly.
A theory of relativity,
of a sort, is brought to
bear in this futile de-
bate. Some say that,
since women have been
4 n y-Aty0h fhn a o0aG-cfnnQ thnco
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