Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 35, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 March 1883 — Page 8

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THE MAI IS

.1 PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE

THE NUDE IN ART.

tJHAT CONCERNING IT WITH A MODEST GOTHAM MAIDEN.

"Flaneur" in The Argonaut

A modest girl said to me the other dav I no:?"

'I'm far from being a prude, am

I said she was. She is. "Nevertheless," said she, "I can not go anywhere without being shocked and embarrassed."

Who is it this time T" "Ob, it isn't a man. Tha bugbear to me and to eVery sensitive woman now is the nude in art."

This surprised me, as the girl though modest and gentle, is very far from being squeamish, and holds his liberal opinions. I bad often wondered what the sensations of women were when they gazed at nude pictures of other women and I gradually reached the conclusion that when they didn't feel envious they were bored. Of course, a man never feels bored when gazing it the nude. The rapt intensity of his pose and the eager poise of the head render such an assumption absurd. But with a woman it is different. She doesn't feel anything at all. I certainly believe, after somewhat extended observation, that the majority of women have less real interest in paintings of the nude than in landscapes, portraits, marines,

and

That is why vou see nothing iu The ethereal purity of your own nature makes you beautifully unsuspecting. But, to be serious, I feel called upon to remonstrate. Do you know that when a girl is with a gentleman it is unpleasant to be suddenly confronted by a picture of half a dozen huge women utterly without raiment? Well, it is." 'Tis, eh? Well, I'll have to see about it." "Yes, you can write out to San Francisco, and start a revolution in public sentiment which will sweep over the whole American continent in a great tidal wave of mortality. "You'll have no dilBculty in doing this, judging by the way you talk of your influence.' "My own opinion, gathered from reading the Western papers, is that San Francisco is rather a discouragiug place to start a great moral boom iu. But whence tht«e tlings at me? Have I not known you from childhood, and ever tolerated your frenzied sentiments with vast good nature?"

Yes that's it exactly. You grin aud dismiss the subject. But I am «etf6us now. On Thursday I was brought home from Aunt tirade's tea by your bashful but charming young friend, Jack W We walked down iVladison Avenue aud met lots of oople, aud both of us felt very jolly and sociable, and 1 thought that for once you had introduced a man to me whom 1 thoroughly liked. So different from those ctreadfullv self assertive club men aud over-dressed amateur athletes, that you usually bring around. Every one of them is completely wrapped up in himself, and none of them can eat soup because of his big mustache. By the way, ain't it funny that your mustache dou't grow? If I were vou, I'd" "Yes I know. But yeu digress. Besides, I'm sensitive. Concerning Jack?" "Ah, yes. Im't

he nice?"

"Yaas but how is he identified with nude in art?" "He isn't. He's not that sort of man at all. But ir you're so dreadfully Inquisitive, I suppose I'll have to tell you. Well, we came along Madison Square, and crrtsaed to the southern side of Twenty-third Street, when Mathew's Art Uallery loomed right up in front of us. Well, your bashful young friend didn't act as you did once, wheu we were together. He didn't wear a dreadful expression that clearly Implied that I had purposelv led hiui there and he didn't protend that lie had lost his purse when he got to :lie window, so as emlanass mo aud theu wear an ill-bred grin.'' "No he's young yet."

Well, he did ask me. very prettily, if I couldn't stop for a while. And I said I didn't think mamma would object. So we went in." "Well, I'm glad you have arrived." "Men are uhvays graceful when they are sarcastic. I presume yon meant to be sarcastic then? Well, we wandered about, and looked at the pictures, and had such a nice time until we came to a little gallery that was partitioned of! by maroon curtains in the rear. We got some tickets and wandered iu." "Another dollar for Jack, and he's at college yet." I murmured. "Well, what do you suppose we saw? A score of men sitting in chairs and gazing at a picture. They were highly respectable men. I knew several of them. Not another woman was present

Slanced

at the picture. What do you

biuk it was?"

Bouguereau's Bathing Nymphs,' which took a prize at the Paris salon of 76. It presents a view of fifteen feminine figures, entirely nude, with a satvr and a young man behind the trees. I was on hand the first day it was exhibited." "I've no doubt. Well, what did 1 do? I jrftKed at tte picture, and tried not to blush, and then your friend—whose tact, bv the way, was admirable—gently we backed out, and I came directly home. But, oh, dear me! where wks our jollity, and what had become of the good-fel lo.vship? Why didn't we chat easily as we did before we saw that horrid picture? We couldn't! The day ended awkardly. It was too bad, and yet I don't see that it could have been heT. I see nothing in the dreadful old picture to admire, and there ia no excuse for making a public exhibition of tt. As I said, vou Know I'm not prudish, or I wouldn't talk to you so freely, even If I had known vou all my life." "Yon are "right. There are too many auch pictures in New York's public places now." "Indeed it ia so. Why, one cant go anywhere without meeting tbem. What ha* become of the popularity of Oerome, of Meiasonnier, of Wagner, Bonheur? Copies of their works were once common. Now all ia Gabanel and Bouguereau. Everywhere I go are these huge and often preposterously misformed female figure* standing brazenly oat. They are in the bookstores, in the shop windows, in ail the galleries, everywhere. The highly colored female pho

lilt

still-life subjects.

And I said to the modest girl: "You s'prise me." "Well, do you know that the god of art iu America to-day is Bouguereau?" "Er, yes, be has a picture in Ed. Stoke's saloon—you know Stokes—feller that murdered Jim Fisk—tirst-rnte, too, I mean the picture, not Sto" "Yes, I know the picture I saw it in Montau's before it was sold. To be candid, it was simply three life-sized naked women and a repulsive satyr. The group can not under any circumstances Be characterized otherwise than as indecent." "Oh, yes, 'to the pure all things are

tographs, two or three feet square, most have attracted your notice?" ••They have.''

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"Don't yon notice how matfy there are? Even the big furniture store next to Grace church has its windows disfigured by copies of 'Venus,' 'Diana and her Nymphs,' 'Truth,' 'Charles ^. Entering Antwerp,' and the interior of a snltan's seraglio. It is not right, despite the cant of all things being pure to the pure. What excuse is offered for the rage? Why is Bouguereau the prime favorite in America?'"

Aba matter of fact, th© sudden craze for the nude has its basis in an indelicate and I might almost say an indecent, turn in the taste of the public. There is no excuse for it. There is no place for the nude in the life of to-day. It belongs to antiquity. It is not proper that it should be thrust into the every-day life of the nineteenth century. As for Bouguereau, I am not bound to ad.mit that he is popular because his striking picture is onview in a bar-room, where men may

There is no question about the im morality of the great Union Square success, "A Parisian Romance." It is by all odds the most vicious, lascivious, and off-colored drama on the American stage. It created a big sensation the first night. The dialogue has been somewhat purified since. The story of the play is involved, and, indeed, consists entirely of scandal aHd a series of intriguesbetween married men and women. The central figure is a millionaire financier who is a physical wreck from his excess still keepL pleasure. He is about as revolting

es, but eeps up his mad chase after „_e is about as revolting a character as I ever saw on the stage. In the fourth act he dies horribly while presiding at a snpper given to his latest mistress, the premiere dctnscuse of the ballet. By the way, there were many blasted hopes in the breasts of the valiant men-aoout town when Maude Harrison came on as the Queen of the Ballet in this act. Cunning rumors had been circulated for months before the production of "A Parisian Romance" concerning Miss Harrison's state of mind. We were first told that the girl's natural modesty would never allow her to take the role. She would not consent to appear in the costume of a ba.let dancer. Then different rumors were started. They said in effect that the reason Miss Maude would not appear as the dancer was because her locomotive apparatus was sadly deficient in the lines of symmetry—dear me, I'm trenching on the nude again—and that she would not exhibit them in tights. When the excite ment had reached its highest point, and the subject had begun to attract the attention of the Nineteenth Century Review, the agitated world was suddenly Informed that at last Miss Harrison had consented to'accept the role. Then was there joy and rapture among the great men of Gotham, and they repaired to the Union Square Theatre with fac« expressive of sly and artful thoughts. But when Miss Harrison came on the stage a moan of desolation and despair swept like a cloud over the bald-headed brigade in the foremost row, for she wore a costu aie not unlike that usually adopted by "serio-comic singers" in the variety shows. Not more than six inches of pink hose were visible, and the dress was high in the neck. The whole costume was absurd,in view of the role Miss Harrison played. How could she dance in a stiff skirt that fell below the knees? Thedress was, furthermore of heavy brocaded silk and velvet, with the most elaborate trimming. Any woman who attempted to waltz in such a costume would inevitably be roasted. What would become of the premiere danseuse of the greatest ballot in the world, if she wore such a rig and tried to dance Fudge Miss Harrison has no right to lacerate the feelings of a perennial first nighter.

CONVERTING TRADE. Ind. Journal. The good people of Decatur, 111., evidently have one eye single to the glory of God and the other fixed upon the main chance. Harrison, the evangelist, is conducting services there, for which he is paid $ 100 per week. When he began, the brethren informed him that no meetings would be held on Saturday, «nd that he could have the day for rest. This suited the "boy," as it gave him an opportunity of saving souls in adjacent towns for a remuneration of $25 per Saturday. Finally these outside services became so popular that he agreed to put in a week of forenoons at a neighboring village, returning to Decatur in time to hold the usual services there. This was too much. The brethren had looked with uneasiness at the Saturday excursions, but to more they could not submit. They had engaged the evangelist to conduct a revival in Decatur, and this division of time was detracting from the interest. People who had souls .to be saved went to other places, when they ought to have come there. Beside, as one pious merchant remarked, the revival at Decatur had attracted thousands of persons from the surrounding country, and "their trade amounted to something." It was unanimously agreed by the brethren that all the rivivalist "drawing" powers were due to Decatur, and that there should be no side shows —or words to that effect, A conference was bad with Brother Harrison, and the understanding now is that people of that region who want to be converted, or who have trading to do, will find it to their advantage to come to Decatur.

A FABLE.

THE HKK AXD THS FARHKR. A Hen having laid an Egg set up such Cackle that presently the whole Barnyard was in Confusion and the Farmer came running ont to see what was going on. "What is it?" he demanded as the Hen cackled louder than ever.

Wbv. I've laid an Egg!" "An "Egg? Why, a single Egg isnt worth bat two cento at the present market price." 'Yes, I know, but If I didn't do two shillings' worth of cackling over every two cents' worth of egg, the world would soon forget me."

MORAL:

Send a bundle of old clothes to anorphanasylnm and then interview a reporter.

DONT FAIL to take ont an Policy tilth Riddle, Hamilton A Co

HIS

reat shame, that's what it be stopped."

"It is outrageous," 1 said, and then put on my hat and strolled around to Stokes's, to have a closer look at Bou guereau's sensuous work. In the course of half an hour Jack W came in This time the bashful youth was among men. All his diffidence was gone. He was in evening dress, with a cigar in his mouth, his opera-hat over his right eye, and his hands in his pockets. '"Ow are you, old boy said he, with a highly patronizing air. "Cum, 'aye ... —zing at the are

They are gorgeous," I said, and con eluded at once that the craze was a good thirg.

Then I -started for the Roekifes but liked this country, and settled here. At first the change helped me, but about three vears ago the benefit ceased. Then I failed so rapidly that I could be out of bed only part of each day. All my old symptoms returned. At this criiss, a party of Eastern gentlemen, -Vf & "ON A BUFFALO HUNT,? made my house their headquarters. In the party was a Dr. Wakefield, who informed me that I had a bad case of itth curable Bright's Disease, and gave me a preparation which might, he said, ease me for a few weeks or months, but that was the best that could be done. Around the bottle was a newspaper. Now a newspaper was a rarity in our home, and I sat in my chair looking it over when my eye providentially fell upon an article relating a most wonderful euro of Bright's disease—the very malady that was killing me—by the use of Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, (of Rochester, N. Y.) Convinced that further delay would be fatal, and everything else falling, the next morning I dispatched one of my boys to the nearest railroad station, many miles distant, to obtain a bottle of the Safe Care. The druggist said the demand for the Cure was so reat he could not keep it in stock, and had to aend to Kansas City for more. It was more than a week before it arrived, and I was daily getting weaker. But it came at last, and 1 at once began to take it. When I told Dr Wakefield what I was taking, he gave me a look, half of seorn, half of pity, as much as to

s«y,

'POOR FELLOW!

he is putting his trnst in a humbug.' Nevertheless I persevered and for the past year and a half I have been as stout and rugged as I ever was In my life. After escaping the attaches #f Indians and half a dozen doctors, I was lying at the trey of a still more dreadful foe that was about giving me the finishing blow,

when that great remedy stepped in. slew my adversary, and placed me firmly on my feet once more. I had commenced preaching again for I look upon the circumstances and manner of my care as a direct interposition of Providence, and to Providence are my services due. That is my story. I think it ia as good as a romance—and much better, for it is true."

Such is the substance, Mid very nearly the language of Elder Kite's narrative. Those who read it, and are suffering, inav benefit by his experience, if they will follow his example.

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TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVEE IISTGr MAIL.

ELDER MOSE KITE.

TTATR BREATH ESCAPES FROM SEEN AND UNSEEN FOES.

Troy Kansas Chief, Jan. 18,1883. Most of our older citizens will remem ber Mose Kite (who lived in Petersburg Bottom), the hero of our state's early political history, who was of stalwait build and powerful physique, who in 1858 led a colony of our people to Pike's Peak who fought the Indians on the plains and was shot through the body who on his return here after the rebellion was converted and baptized by El der Henshall, of the Christam church at Petersburg Bottom, and became are vival preacher of celebrity all through this section. They will also recall the fact that,attacked with consumption and reduced to a skeleton, he was obliged to remove to the Rockies in the hope of saving his life. None thought he would succeed. Last fall, however, the editor of this paper met him at the head of the Republican river, bigger and more ro bust than ever, "Why, I thought you had died t,f consumption long, long ago. Elder?' "Me? I never had consumption, man though people thonght that was what ailed me, and I thought so myself. But the doctors had sept me on a wild goose chase-after a dozen other diseases, just as fatal, and this was the wildest one of all."

The good Elder then recounted to us, in a charming vein, his many adventur es in the rough and ready life he had led "but," he said, "remarkable as you may think my warlike life has been, I have a much more interesting story to tell you." "You know what a rough, noisy fellow I used to be and I could stand any hardship. Why, on a wager, have knocked down an ox and a mule with my fist. I have fought ruffians, border outlaws and Indians but I was

DOGGED FOR YEARS

by a more dangerous unseen enemy that was ever getting me more completely dian in a fight on the plains, Dut that wound healed readily and gave me but little trouble, After I returned to Kan sa8 and commenced preaching, I first began to give way. I had a dull feeling, accompanied with a paiD in the right side. Dr. Butler, our family physician, said my liver was out of order causea by the malaria of the bottoms, had always had an appetite like an ostrich, but my digestion became seriously impaired. While on the circuit preaching, I consulted a doctor, who said I had dyspepsia. After that, distressing palpitation of the heart followed, and the physician said this was caused by my indigestion and diseased liver, which would probably terminate fatally. Sometimes I had a ravenous appetite, at others none at all. I was feverish and then chilly. My food seemed to do me no good. A racialist told me I had a tape worm! _hen I was troubled with unusual quantities of water and a frequent desire to urinate, which was done with difficulty and great pain. The specialist said I had a touch./»f the gravel, caused by use of the alkaline water of the plains. I then begau to suffer acute ains in the loins and the small of the ack, accompanied with siAdden'attacks

of dizziness, during which,I4had to sit or lie down, to avoid falling

I was forced

to abandon TRAVELLING AND PREAC because I could no longer ride on horseback, or trust myself out alone. I began to be seriously alarmed, and sought the advice of the most noted physician within reach. He said that my frequent horseback riding had jolted tfhd jarred me until, the old Indian wound, which bad injured my kidneys, had become in flamed. He treated me with medicines and electricity also, but gave me no permanent benefit. My painful symptoms all returned. I began to cough, got very tbin and my legs were disagreeably numb. I began to despair. At each attempt to cure, my ailments became worse, with new symptoms. I next consulted a celebrated physician from the East, who, after thumping and examining me, stated that I was in an advanced stage of consumption and threatened with diabetes and paralysis! He thought I might possibly prolong my life for a ear or two, by seeking a higher and rier climate. Thie was my condition when the people in your part of the country last saw me.

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