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Show modest woman, we feel this to be nn offence to our womanhood, an attack on the dn'icacy of our daughters ami th morality of our son.1' Thorn can be no tpiestion hut what a number of cheap shows go about the country with uo other intention than to ponder to vicious tastes and if the tidal wave of protest were directed solely against them it would deserve the support of a moral public. The same may be said of a cities of pictures designed solely to satisfy sat-isfy a lewd" taste, lint the indiscriminate indiscrimi-nate war on art, that art which suggests a Rosalind in "As You Kike It," or Ymi.a in "Twelfth Night," smacks too much of Philistinism to be successfully revived in this ua:e. TK.IJlS. A celebrated writer once remarked thnt there is nothing more ridiculous than the Hritish public iu one of its periodical pe-riodical fits of morality. We think he should have excepted a portion of the i American public when it is seized with a spam of prudery and stpieamishness. I Some time aj?o tho lioston purists, in-! in-! cited by the scandalous production of ! "the C lenteneeau Case," started a cru-, cru-, aade against the appearance in pu'blic i of females in titrhts, and as Bo-ton is ! supposed to be tho center of virtue as I well as the hub of intellect, the movement move-ment gathered rapidly in force until it swept over the country in all directions and the efforts of scores of committees were directed toward the suppression of tho exposure of the female form in fights. In Minnesota the delicate subject sub-ject has even invaded the legislative halls in the form of a bill making it a misdemeanor for any woman to appear on the staire in tights exposing her limbs. Hand in hand with this crusade goes the proton against the nude in art which has already al-ready caused tho withdrawal in certain museums of pictures and the draping of sculpture that depicted niau ami woman in their original state. Lately the directors of the academy of fine arts in Philadelphia received a letter objecting object-ing to "the flagrant indelicacy of many of the pictures now on exhibition" and declaring that "as christian women, as j |