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Show 9 . i r 7BB1 Hard to See Uhrozigh. 1 ' IB "Denver, Colo., Oct. 20. The spectacle of a pic- ) . l vm tufe of the late Frances A. Willard, the great tem- rw HJ perance leader, surrounded and encased in wine- 'JL i colored glass, is too contradictory to be permit- Me l ,vKL ted. So say the women of the local W. C. T. U. t.l'l ff lodge, and that is why a memorial window in Par- M ,.t 4B son Uzzell's church will be removed and a new one ijv tj jJJH placed therein. The Cassell W. C. T. U. lodge '3B placed such a memorial window in the parson's 1 4 ' fjH tabernacle and the unaesthetic sense of the de- ! I '!. i . B' signer chose a glass pane of a deep wine color in L M which to encase the picture of the great temper- ) $ 'B ance leader. The members of the Cassall union ', & tf I K'ijB were aghast when they awoke to the incongruity J m " 'fB of the thing and a new glass will be substituted." mhfc ,fll The foregoing is an Associated Press dispatch J jry'NM sent all over the country to let the good folk know lH'i !kbS that a bunch of antiquated old barnacles in moral 1 if ?MB' Denver have seen their duty and they done it. 1 !FI, $ JH But where is that artist who so defiled Frances I fcJTk lB Willard and that house of worship? Drag him. 1 j fH from his den of infamy, show him the deep wine ill" ' H red pane he gave that enlightened sisterhood, pic- ; 1 ' p H ture to him the bottomless pit to which all such lit ' Sl creatures are consigned, make him sit through a f i H recital of "The Face on the Bar Room Floor," and i j if '!fflH then in a Christian-like manner lynch him. 1 j! j i..B But what is the solution of the problem? Make IhH IB the glass clear and white and what then? Will it Ik V B mean gin or anisette? Make it a soft cool green, fiiJ JH and when the dear sunlight slants through will it 41H symbolize absinthe or cream de menthe? Deepen 111 ' H it almost black in a royal purple and a dream of 1 t ' l' &fl summer and blackberry brandy will steal through 11 f jL JH the art glass to your poor contorted brains. The I 1 i ( ''jfl radiant amber with its topaz glows but banish 1 iJjH the thought, for Budweiser and Falstaff would 1 KvH flood the reason and call the mind to earthly 1 I. H things. Mr. Cicero used to intimate that nothing 1 f 1H could be so absurd that some philosopher would I f , 'V not defend it. Whoever he be, he'll have -to work 16" , B double shift on this proposition. 1 L' 4jfl |