Show Eve in Chat L ST B AUTH nu CAMERON CARON I people nowadays wel e loss less arra afraid of bare facts and c of allusions I. I Ii The Thes is s nothing either elhel in Indecent I or 01 O amusing irs Irr the great greal facts of ol life But Dut by circling ln mysteriously ly around them approaching and amid re retreating me- me Il treating lifting the veil eil el and then dropping and away as asIf asit I If it f there ther were something to be afraid of or as if i there theme were something funny our in-our In- In our antics we create the il illusion II- II i- i lusion of at tf indecency and amusement AVe Ve e are like children playing pla-Ing a peel boo AVe We fe peek behind our self erected self Screen and then laugh not nol not because we wesee wesee wesee see anything funn funny but just at at atour our own antics The indecency and the time humor are not in the thin things s themselves but in our way vay of hiding them and then going going and ard taking talc tak ing forbidden peeks at what we have hid hid- den A perfectly naked nake body is not half so immodest as a half-draped half body shrinking shrink In ing and trying to lo hide behind its Is dra dra- I once once attended the performance of Isadora Duncan the great classic dancer J Duncan las aS one ei expresses I. I It dances with limbs bare and acted body draped only with wll blowing gauze which reveals re when she moves every exquisite emotion she she has trained I herself hersel hei self to portray The chorus of the light opera opera that I saw the the- the next evenn evening wore evening 1 wore a gre t many more clothes than she did did- but they Uley were werl far Car less modest One of or the professors where I went to college used to tell tel his classes casses that there was a vast difference between and nd nakedness Nudeness he said was unconscious and unabashed while nakedness was conscious conscious con con- and ashamed The beautiful Greek Greel statues with wih absolutely no dra- dra dr- dr he explained were nude while many of the later r works k of art rt atho although h hIn partially draped rw w were naked a d In the same way it I seemed to ale me that Isadora Duncan with her scant draperies draperies dra dra- perles was less naked than the snore more extensively clothed but more mor suggestive balet ballet dancers And in the same way wayt it I t seems to me that a frankly faced fact facts Is s far more decent than an allusion however howver how- how ever ever- ver carefully clothed I I. I 1 would Infinitely rather A m. m young oung daughter laughter of mine went to a play in which time the facts of sex were dealt with wih franky frank frank- my IY y and fearlessly than to a play or light opera oper filled fled with wih gracefully worded al- al i I would rather she read the novel that I has paragraphs in It that polite society r would shudder at than the book that touches ouches things more gracefully and lightly lighty light light- ly y but leaves one one laughing at sin As a newspaper woman I have sometimes some some- somE somE- times imes been obliged to discuss with wih men facts acts and situations that are not usually usual- usual ly y the subject of conversation between sexes But if the men looked me in the eye ee ye and spoke simply and frankly fraI ly I did didlot not lot mind It I was far far worse to me if a man who vho td not understand me made some suggestive allusion I wish the mothers of the present day would teach their daughters to dislIke nothing so much as allusions however amusing to frown Crown on nothing so much asi is suggest suggestiveness veness however carefully worded and to shun nothing so o much as this his silly Iy boo a peel boo laughter at things that hat faced frankly have nothing in them themo to o laugh at I fan fancy if mothers would cultivate such an in attitude the they v would find they had ore cre- crt crt- a better beter guard for their daughters daughters' morals than any chaperonage or watch- watch watchfulness watchfulness ulness however careful could pos possibly be 2 |