Show I I Timely Topics 1 I ARCHITECTURAL L SATIRE Poetical license long ago aso became an old phrase and anda a legitimate practice among rhymesters of ot high and find low degree but until recently few te of ot us knew that there thero Is such a thing as architectural license which permits creators of ot churches and cathedrals to Include in the decorations little Ideas of ot their own not contemplated In the contract and distinctly at variance with Its supposed symbolism Whatever the antiquity of this architectural privilege It ii Is 18 scarcely narrow minded to challenge Its strict morality If It art can be challenged on the ground of or morality mor Tho witticisms In stone stone the caricatures In marble the satires In panels that have Just been dIscovered discovered dis dIs- dis- dis covered on the tho walls of ot St. St Thomas' Thomas church New York are not to be defended from the standpoint of ot moral Integrity However It must be he admitted that the offending architect had a sense of ot fitness even if it he had not a sense of ot obligation Ho lie wrote in stone precisely what man many people think the rich and fashionable church for tor Perhaps the best sermons e ever er r preached from that church are carved on Its outer walls Perhaps the architect unwittingly may perform a n. gr great at service to religion there thre and find wherever his work Is noted b by his thou thought ht arresting figures b figures by his contract between supposed supposed sup sup- posed and real divinities dl In a way the trouble with the modern church Is precisely what Is suggested b by this architectural S satirist Its true gods aro arc too often the gods of ot thIs thia world world- Baltimore Sun Mrs Elinor Glyn Clyn believes that coming film plays will boast a higher motive Many any of ot the ladys lady's works are HO eo high as to be gam gamy Columbia S. S C. C State The Tho loss occasioned b by the death of ot a Caruso Is softened In A l measure me-asure b by the tho fact tact that an Edison lived JIved In the world Seattle Seattle Times Will a three-cent three stamp stand a greater licking than thin a two tWO Scranton Times |