Show ART AND OVERALLS Every little while the country is treated to a lecture by some high authority au-thority on art and culture on the elevation ele-vation of the working classes through II the study of art The country is told that the people should get culture But getting culture is a matter of secondary importance to getting bread yet when the bread is gotten culture is not always to be had even In the great cities like New York where means for giving It exist in greater or less abundance There no man who I wears overalls is permitted to visit the I I Metropolitan Museum of Art So declares I de-clares General dl Cesnola He says I During the seventeen years that I have been connected with the Metropolitan Metro-politan Museum of Art no man in overalls over-alls has been admitted to view the collection We would just as soon think of admitting a drunken man or a man without a coat or for that matter mat-ter a man without his trousers One case is as bad as another People who come here must be properly dressed We must draw the line somewhere and we draw it on overalls A custodian custo-dian who allowed a workman in overalls over-alls to penetrate beyond the main entrance en-trance would be discharged on the spot It makes no difference that the overalls over-alls are neat and clean the man who wears them may not be admitted It may be doubted whether any man was ever excluded from the Louvre because he wore overalls or a blue blouse They order this matter better In France |