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Show CLOTHED STATUES. I The San Francisco Chrinocle has a Chicago I dispatch to the effect that Banker Farson of that I city is preparing, adjacent to his home in Oak Park, a pretentious garden which will be embellished embel-lished with fountains and statuary in addition to all the loveliness of flowers and trees. The dispatch dis-patch adds, as a joke no doubt, that the rich banker bank-er will on Sundays, that the public taste may not be shocked, have statuary draped; that his Venus , and Diana will wear "pink and blue kimonas and gingham sunbonnets, and white and blue bunting will be tied around their waists, etc. And why not? Is it not the nature of the sex to have on their best clothes on Sunday? The old j play makes Galatea warm into life under the pleading of Pygmaleon, why should not the statue of a beautiful goddess take on a desire for clothes, especially in Chicago? We suspect that banker, while he in his business busi-ness demands ample collaterals on loans and exacts ex-acts full interest as' becomes a business man, has another side to his life and that his draping the statues does not come from a desire to please the public, but in answer to whispers that come to his soul from the intangible outside; that the stone has again warmed to life and that in his dreams the banker hears vague voices, the substance sub-stance of which comes in refrains of "nothing to wear, nothing to wear." We are not sure that a beautiful statue would be safe in Chicago, clothes or no clothes; we are not certain that the clothing cloth-ing will add to the security of the beauties, because be-cause clothes have helped many a Chicago beauty to give herself away. But it is an interesting announcement; an-nouncement; it may vastly impress the Venuses and Dianas that the average Chicago banker would select, for it has been whispered that the bankers of Chicago select pictures and statuary as the Chinese do boots getting the biggest possible pos-sible for the money. This love of art is growing among the rich of our country, and it is a good sign. This last device to clothe Venus and Diana on Sundays and until they can get their washing out on Monday, is a sign of progress and Banker Farson is setting a good example. |