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Show selves lightly clothed, appear to be scalping three f;nr maideni, wholly unclothed. Touring the tuuntiy in those dayi was not what it is today those good old days of seven petticoats, bustles, poke bonnets, shawls and ankle-length . bifurcated undcrthings never talked about in mixed company. Nowaday anything goes, and nothing at all might stir only mild surprise, what with the simian craze and everything. But Artist Mechau has swept all criticiMn aside with an elucidation of art analysis .10 clear that even the blind may now go to an ' exhibit and have themselves an excellent time. ' The picture d'nn't need to mcun anything at i all It doesn't have to look like what the land fays it n. Colors don t mailer Peispec live doen't matter. All that miitti-i is that the painter have imagination. IT lie cm understand what his picture portrays that is .sufficient. The appraisal hy the plain people and even tho.se who take lorgnettes to the gallenes count ma at all. Mechau makes all this clear hv leaving that lie put the massacre "into a pattern of forma Mmplified and arranged and classified into plastic plas-tic inevitability." Or, did he mean to .say plastered plas-tered imbecility? If he did well string along with him. This CUari the Air , JOHN COLLIER knows hi Indians and the history his-tory of the west of stage coach days, but as a art critic hi education seems to have been ssdly neglected 1( one listens to Artist Frank V Mechau. The commissioner of Indian affairs has been making the air blue around the new post ' office building by ventilating his opinion of the young Colorado artist's mural depicting "Dangers f the Mail" as "the craziest thing I ever saw." Beason seems to be that the Indians, thera- J f |