Show The Mod Modern rn Cr Craze ze for Beauty BY DR DIL FRANK PRANK CRANE Poor thing I wrote a woman to me speaking of ot a young girl gin in whom we were both interested a girl of ot talent an and I spirit and little money Poor thing feel sorry for tor her She so 50 loves pretty things and I dont don't see where she is 15 going to get them The poor thing in Ques on ba ba- had merel merely the spirit of her age One of ot the strongest strong strong- est traits trails of the present younger generation genera genera- tion lion is a fierce craving for tor b beauty auty People want to bet be beautiful as ai they never longed for tor personal charm before I cannot annot believe belle our gr great grandparents felt tell the chagrin of ot an unattractive face taco as keenly as our children feel teel It The world todaY wants today wants b beautiful things more than the world orld of or yesterday Not only do omen women crave crae pretty clothes ane and furniture and back ards yards but m men n wish more mOte beauty in the office and the workshop work- work shop chop You do donot not understand this in the least If you ou Interpret It to mean merely a lust for luxury a spendthrift craze crass for tor show It Is not that It itis is the of an Indestructible human Instinct which has b been en long repressed by other forces and andIs andIs andis Is now assorting asserting itself The nineteenth e h. h ce century tur was rIllS the most or of all au Ute me forty centuries or so 30 humanity has eC existed 13 ted It was marked by the advance of ot science the rapid development de de- de- de of ot democracy the Ule final emancipation eman oman from hierarchy the decay of ot war the tho unprecedented growth of ot commercialism com corn and the accumulation of ot wealth It was also probably the ugliest century century cen cen- tury since the stone stonG ag age The Greeks carried th the expression of oC b beauty aut very ery far tar Roman life lite may havo been cruel but It was wall not to the eye ec In its ita costumes and buildings and medievalism was aa as picturesque ue as It was dirty But the tho nineteenth century was as Just Juat 1 plain ugly tho the world orld over The mind of ot man cannot conceive an V artistically more absurd d dress ss than a silk hat dross dress suit and patent leather shoes wb wherein the man arrays himself when he wants ants to be at nt his best Of Ot women women's attire I shall say sa a nothing being a R. prudent man and married AM Mi mod modern rn clU cities are utterly Inartistic all villages s violate every canon of ot good taste and not content with that we daub the landscape with splotches of red fed and yellow billboards Now Noss' human nature cannot endure Vendure this It cannot go 10 on indefinitely making money amassing facts and merely getting get- get Un ting on It has beauty hunger In II it Slowly ly that beauty hunger r Is la beginning to show Itself V Ve Ye are getting more beautiful V chairs tablea tables houses streets and a brIc-a-brac The pro progress ess Is painfully slow and dif dlf- to discern but there Is progress When the great spirit of democracy steadies Itself and gets over its youthful crudities and excesses as s. s It will express Its private and public life lite in clothes dwellings dwell dwell- Ings and cities clUes far tar more beautifully than the he Greek Roman or medieval spirit ever dl did because it is intrinsically a far tar more moro beautiful spirit than their |