Show RURAl KANSAS TIRED TIREO OF SOAP WRAPPER ART Demand Now for Good Copies of High- High Class Pictures for School School- rooms Topeka I Kan an Oct 7 A A demand for tor fora tora a general In the specimens sped sped- incas mens of or art shown In the Kansas schools Is being made by Kansas school teachers It I is possible that an art commission will vIll be asked for at tho the next legislature with Ith powers similar to those of or the tho textbook commission This commission would woul select copies of or real art works suitable for tor hanging inthe In Inthe the he countr country school houses of ot the tho state I Every vcr da day letters Jetters come to the tile state superintendent ent of Instruction asking for or suggestions for suitable pictures The l letters come corne from teachers directors direct direct- I ors and patrons In the tho country countr school chool I I Kansas 8 people are beginning to be- be lien ile that It Is ju just jud t as well weB to have their children taught some omo rudiments of or the fine arts as IS how v to add and subtract or how ho hoto to doctor pigs for tor the cholera an and chickens for tor the tile pip The They want real works of art on the walls of ot the country countr school house houfe In place of or the chromes that have defaced them for many years The They want copies of ot the tho beet best In art to take the place of the thc pictures that come as premiums In 10 a baking powder sale Balo Most of or these pictures are printed on cheap paper with cheap Ink They arc are faded and antI torn and streaked where the water leaked through the roof and ran down own the walls Some Pome of or these thele pictures pic pie tures have ha hun hung In iii the school houses since the fathers an and mothers of or those now attending the schools were vero there playing tricks on the teacher leacher and throwing paper wads at the pictures Art at US 8 cents or as a premium In Ina Ina ina a prize package Is no longer the Ideal o of the Kansas teachers and the patrons of th the schools It Is regarded as certain tam tain that the tile contemplation of ot ota a 11 COP copy cop of a Velasquez a i Corot or Mona II Lisa Ia would be he a benefit to the thc school chil dren Kansas Kansas' selects Its textbooks for the I children In school chool through a commis commis- lon sion A group roup nf rt artists could coul select a dozen or so 80 copies of ot famous paintings s and recommend that these be hung In the countr country school rooms The Tho school directors would purchase only those the they desired three or 01 four for each school but the they would have something t to go by In ln making the selections besides boel bo- bo el sides t the taste of the glib peddlers of f prints and who ho make perlo periodical visits through gh the country countr |