Show I W C T U FROWNS ON SCANT DRAPERIES I The display in the dooryard of a fine residence in Washington of ofa a statue of a young woman attired only ony in the altogether had its echo in a convention of the Womans Woman s Christian Temperance Union at atthe atthe atthe the capital city shortly after Mrs S M Wescott in making the an annual annual annual nual report of the work of the department of purity referred in caus cans caustic caustic tic terms to this statue The society long ago went on record against the display of nude I pictures and statuary as well as human figures that are only scantily i draped Some of the members argue that following along this same line they should now make war on the prevailing fashions I I I in gowns which as all admit are deliberately designed in order to toI I I and make conspicuous the lines of the female form formIn formIn formIn I In the category of condemnation would wOl d also come the advertise advertisements advertisements I i ments of corsets underwear and other articles of feminine makeup which are published so seductively and unblushingly by all the so I called best periodicals in the country If an idealized marble statue i j I is impure they say what term shall shan be applied to the present styles of I i dress as exhibited publicly everywhere The Tho opinion prevails how however however I I I ever that it would not do to attack the fashions as they are altogether I er or too firmly in feminine favor News Item I Hear again the same old question hear the same old row What is modest What is seemly When and where or how I t I Must a statue of a Venus wear a robe de nuit I Or may marble limbs be flaunted happy careless free I May a maiden in a painting unembarrassed look i At her disrobed figure mirrored in a woodland brook May the Turkish lady bathing in her Turkish style i Cast aside her Turkish towels towel wearing nothing but a smile I I 1 May the nymph in Natures garbing gambol by a stream i I Or must she gaze forth in future from behind a pait creen screen M |