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Show Pe PGuw 3. 5 =z A PICTORIAL MONSTROSITY. taken a sudden jump down behind the banks of the Jordan when he saw the rear elevation of the female monstrosity, for he left comet streaks in the ‘‘sky ’’ showing the rapidity of his hurried descent. ae ERHAPS the most vulgarly suggestive and wretchedly executed effort at pictorial illustration ever made in Utah is demonstrated in eight colors on the alleged lithographic poster that is being printed for the Utah Pioneer Jubilee. As a whole the outrage is so glaring that it is quite impossible to take -hold at any particular point to describe it adequately in proportion to its multiplicity of horrors. Coming around the ‘‘ Point of the Mountain,”’ in the oppesite direction ceme, puberty. maiden who remind words, with the fore- this structure the ‘‘ artist’’ shows his mechanical turpid bosom swims just such sights viewed from a no matter what how superlative where nor when, prettily, degree how of no tersely or adroitness, or a appears to have the poster from whence it came, if no other reason, and and throw a new, it back more appro. priate and properly-spelled sheet should issue in its place. The people who contributed their money to the Jubilee fund are righteously indignant at this flagrant outrage. THE Critic. PREACHING AND For more than a week PRACTICING. the Deseret Evening News has been publishing all the details of the different crimes, scandals and sensations which have shaken Utah from center to border. The Hamilton case has been particularly well handled by the News and nothing in the way of gruesome or scandalous details was left out. For instance, the long story of the implication of Mrs. Hamilton begins with these headlines: ‘‘It was mur- der—John H. Hamilton mysteriously shot dead— His wife suspected—Under arrest, etc.—Signed a written confession of intimacy with W.C. Pavey, the well-known business man,” etc. etc. And so it was issue after issue for more than a week. Then the News published an editorial saying: ‘* There is no denying the fact that the publication of sensational details of crimes effect of familiarizing the public modus operandi in such cases, has mind and the with the in that way serves as an educator to many minds, leading them in the direction of wrongdoing. Of course, a mind that is strongly set against wickedness by training and influences from other directions, is not overcome by the fascinating tendency to evil developed in those who devour with eagerness every published detail of scandal or crime. But those who have not received strong moral training .° | and young:. people - whose judgment -on -such.. Oe ee matters has not becn developed into a strength of character to rise above the evil, are injuriously affected by such publications; and that this effect is operating. disaétrously upon the people at large is clearly manifest: in the increase of the seems to want to hand her fish-horn to the first passer-by, but the right arm is posed too high for even the thirty-foot Indian to reach it with an ex- abdominal bidity in such descriptions; and there should be erected an invincible barrier against admission to the family of the pernicious newspaper novels or stories referred to, the production of which is an assault on the honesty, virtue and integrity of the nation.”’ ; the column account of the murder encroachment. two which fact, when he ‘‘drew”’ the central figure in the poster. It is but charity to say ‘‘he’’ never saw a female figure, either animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. It could not have been a female ‘‘artist,’? for no woman on earth would be so outrageously unkind, heartless and lost to all serise of humanity as to ‘‘cutup’”’ and disfigure the ‘‘ female form divine’’ as has been done in this instance. In the general pose the figure her run on down With and lower, any’ signs of a fulsome“dash terminate two particular class of crimes to» which newspaper sensationalism has given greatest prominence in recent years.”’ The editorial condemns sensational fiction strongly and concludes by suggesting that ‘‘a line should be drawn against every paper that throws down its bars to sensationalism In away in either shame or trembling fear of further back against her surroundings. On the left of the fish-horn held by the figure sun as the is an old waist, her hips burst forth like the apex curve of Niagara Falls, and leap toward the south, almost submerging the Indian, who has his head turned even turiéd up her “Celtic nose and humped her The of heavy swell of the bust, without miles long, viewed by admiring thousands whose hands and kerchiefs are whipping the air with | ecstatic delight. and gardens, Away beyond aseries of roof an uncertain landscape, the Taberseparatedb nacle and Templeare dimly outlined. According here depicted if the ge to the ‘ ct Temple is in its propemmplace the Tabernacle is standing where the MeCornick bank is supposed to stand. But even all this could be overlooked if it were not for that center monstrosity who has few clots of blood. one capacity is startling, to say the least. Starting immediately from under river, down is an Italian sunset done in cheese chrome and perspective of at least fourteen children, and multitude, in the a sea-serpent just behind the central same tension fire ladder. Asa young maiden her bust would indicate that she had nourished a family fiercely, witnessed by thousands gathered around. It is here, also by ‘‘artistic’’ license, that the people, five miles away, appear in regular form whose his tell what was truthfully intended by the ‘‘ artist ”’ ingenuity if nothing of artistic ability, for every joint between the stones of the ornate pile can be distinctly seen three miles away. Even the hands on the dial of the clock are-as plain as the west entrance or a chink in the steps. Immediately behind the Joint Building, partly hidden by the giant ‘* maiden’s ? arm and body, is a splendid reproduction of the ScottAuerbach fire. The conflagration is raging Jordan through In the imme- power_of description, or subtly couched, can even en app ach or come near unto or even circumvent| a thread of thought in any guise expressed, and ground of the vast multitude the forms and heads of humanity drift back into dreamy distance until the people are mere specks, and at that point the Joint City and County building is reached. In the and No language, no matter Strange as these second look Pullman window when erossing the prairies on a hot July day. things may seem in the botch they are not so remarkable as the license the ‘‘artist’’ has taken this to ture, with the twosun-dried ribs near by, actually that keep afloat above their hocks with perfect distance flows trying it, too, is of abnormal size. It isthe skull of a steer. The bleached thing with its white horns and darkened eye-sockets and hollow nose aper- _ Sang froid...... “hen..9n the same limpid stream, following, ‘come two more horses dragging a ‘float’ of about two acres in area. On the float Dividing be Indian a growth of ‘‘sage brush”’ that is fully six feet tall, Just east of the squaw lies the only naturally depicted thing in the whole ensemble, although ous is the depiction of three horses, mounted by British soldiers, one earrying the American flag, further to memmoration,’’ should condemn the foreground, woman that passes current in the ‘‘ drawing ”’ a pappoose. Covering the undulating prairie ‘is and incomparable with this, for not only does this gayly comparisened ten-foot-tall deity walk on the water—and there are no bladders on his feet to deceive the multitude there gathered—but he is followed by a pareel of young Turks wearing fezes and blowing horns. Still more miracul- - again. in mt of Digger Indian buck pointing at the poles of his open-top tepee. The Indian is about thirty-four feet six inches tall, while a like-proportioned squaw sits at his feet near the opening to the tepee, seemingly suffering with a severe pain in her stomach. Strapped to her back is a Japanese Galilee was tame from caravan uniformed deity walking on the water, procession headed by a uniformed deity in drum- Ranging Nearer, vulgarism, and in the Grand Canal, or a languid stream of water. On the surface of the water is marching a phantom with his perspective. seems diate foreground, on the banks of what may have been meant for a rests the ‘‘ Pioneer monument.’’ a bronzed hand and see thecaravan. not of the age of event on way The wagons are all up to date but they mounted on a double-length horse, is am Down beneath where the ‘‘ maiden ’’ stands is a great concourse of people standing in a marsh The from whence they did their are drawn by oxen. But of the ‘‘ maiden ’’ further on. major attire. wending pioneers. But beginning for the moment in the middle, there towers, in an unshapely mass, from a flagstone outcropping jutting out over a stream, far into the clouds, a figure foreign to nature, pur- porting to be a Utah are ' the curves legs Covering, the figure isa thin drapery that con-ceals nothing, but on account of the manner in which the figure is drawn nothing more could be possibly shown. But there are reasons paramount to all the above why the poster should not go before the public. Notwithstanding that the “ maiden’s”’ hair looks as though she had just emegred from a Hot Springs bath after a long series of duckings, giving her the appearance of a cigarette girl after a night’s dance on the Bowery, she, in all her make-up of ill- shapen horror, is not the only typographical error on the unsightly page. The word ‘“‘commemoration ” is spelled ‘‘co, -” same by suggestive issue of the News headlines—‘‘ The is mor- a three trial introduced written confes- sion—Plain admissions of guilt and plea for forgiveness—Hamilton wouldn’t kill Pavey—Mrs. Hamilton youd have suicided—Sad tale of a wrecked home.’’ All from the same paper that issued a special edition. about the prize- fight. long enough for a body twice the length of the poster. the and o-th2. 63-6 Is every deed or other instrument How Is Your Title? in perfect form? Are all the signatures and acknowledgments exactly what they should be? Has there been no deed or other necessary paper ‘in the chain of title lost before it was recorded? Has there been no mertgage given by, or judgment rendered against any of the many prior owners of the land? Have all prior liens been carefully removed? These are simply a few of the suggestions that might be made. We take pleasure in answering questions. Call and see E. W. Genter, Abstracter of Titles, 150 Main Street, (Jones Bank), about your title. Ordinary information will not cost you a cent, and the cost of the abstract is lower now than it ever will be again. tf |