Year: 1876

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tsAsps u mcssal bsfsrs you;thsss svlV
rsaaon that ~ modes eys of : la1y should
Withdraw to other lss bold md truthful
objects. Naked art furnishes the most
faithfll ideas for students, OF these who
admire II, and cannot be called an Obscene
exhibition, but il il i rspulsiveto 70 modeay
there is but the one remedy left, and that
l. not to look At il. This Is being gradu-,
ally overcome, BY custom ef ight and the
subserviencs Of modssty 70 curiosity. A
lady who would not the 6rst New days Of
her visit to the exhibition have gone
through the Art Department without the
color mantling te her face at almost every
turn, or severe thoughts towards the gentle.
man who lead her there, can now look on
these sights with conposurs. Such
is the effect Of custom
and the art department is now much fire.
quented part ofthe exhibition by both ladies
and gentlemen, who in common admire
the subjects Of art before them.


/ do think though, that modesty has
reason to screen her eyes against some
things that have been on exhibition here,
and they are numerous. One of these was
the wax figure much spoken Of in the
newspapers, Of Cleopatra, in perfectly
nude state, with the naturalness hsighten-
ed by the appliances Of inventive genius
to supply thewant of life and to give the
bosom an emotional swell, to move the
eyes and enhance the deception. The hair
is natural; a naked slave stands in the rear
tanning her, and a naked cupid reclines at
the feet of her recumbent figure. This is
supposed to represent the ravishing specta-
Gle that she presented upon receiving her
Anthony. And Judging by the throns Of
masculine ideas who constantly surrounded
her in the exhibition, there was charm, Of
natural beauty, that Anthony wa, justi6-
able in appreciating. believe that the
beautiful Cleopatra, her slave and cupid
have been removed to less conspicuous
place. Modesty in the feminine compost
ton found in this something that curiosity
or custom could not subdue.


Ibelieve that the latitude given in en-
hibiting naked art at the Centennial has
tanned the eye, and on Chestnut street, We
see in the window Of the Anatomical
Museum, a naked man lying prone upon
his back with an Indian woman in the act
of tattooiug his skin, in fact she has almost
succeeded in pricking into the flesh over
the whole body representations of all ami
mails native to the American forest. She
is naked to the waist, and but for narrow
strip Of cloth thrown loosely over his thighs
he would appear in nudity. Yet ladies
look upon this, and admire its beauty, il
there is any, as much as men. One old
lady turning wyour correspondent remarked
that she thought the man was worst marked
with small po4 than she ever saw before
and that his wife must be very devoted to
kneel over him while he is in that condi.
ton. Young ladies say"Aint he splendid
fger," and grave mammas say "Oh! come
along that amt no fit sight for daughte,


of mine to look at" There are very few


though who do not take good look before


they express their disgust,


Philadelphia conversation reminds one
very much of dish Of that indispensable


something to boarding house, which many


for better name call mystery, in which


onions and garlic smell the loudes


and taste the strongest. Philadelphia


conversation forms a dish made up o


a mystery of subjects in which


the Centennial is the strongest and loudest
We feel up here that when the Centennia


is lifted out of sight that we must start on,


upon our own hook to keep us alive How


we can ever again drop into the old hun


drum of every day life, after such feas


Of excitement IL contemplation not pleas


ant to the imagination. Every time W


pass Independence Hall, we must dof ou


hats in gratitude to the statue of Washing


ton, for the pleasure he has caused us b
, the part he took in events one hundre