Life — June 22, 1911 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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1198 Life’s Fresh Air Fund Inclusive of 1910, Lire’s Fees Arr Fuxo has been in operation twenty-four years. In that time it has expended $126,447.44 and has given @ fortnight in the country 10 32,730 fuor city children, The Fund is supported entirely by be- ests and voluntary contributions, which are ae wledged in this colw Previously acknowledged... $2122.84 S. Robitschek...... tise 1.00 F OW. Paine.. : 100,00 HH. D, Kountze. 23.00 CU, Dolan EC. Smith.. i Gwendolyn, Audrey “Vivian, Elain “Maud, Myrna and Nona Miss Mildred Green......- 10. ydia Green. . 10.00 t. McElwain Siavsetore “10:00 Snow 2 25.00 Perkins... +--+ TID 100.00 Fanny Haven Wickes...sscscieuee 1:00 “In memory of Alice Welles Mathers 10.00 john Alsop King. « % H 00 Irs, G. G. Haven, ‘ 200 Mrs. Mary K. Foltz... - * Jelterson, Wis.” HH. Cromp...0 “From a Friend Miss Fanny Haven Wickes... Miss Marian Forsyth Wickes. “From a Friend James 1... Thomson. Read.....+- J.C. Nickerson... 67. Alfred C. Boswell... Wilbur Corman: C. Squier. “In” memory erell Algy, Edwin € Caldwell 100.00 100.00 10.00 5-30 100.00 5.00 “N' Friend Howard N._E: “In memorial Maurice I. A. Z ory’ Storer. ‘ott. Benjamin W S. Childs, Jr, tee §.00 Memory’ of Mother? ..000..5°. $00 Hiam Alban Ulman, J [S100 H. B... . 10.00 “A Friend” 10.00 Thos. eee tees 10.00 Sherrill... on 2 10.00 0. D. Duncan. ee 5.00 Louise Wills. .- 3 5.00 Mrs. E. S. Dana 10.00 FW, At, Nutley Not > $00 Miss Juliette G. Hollenback: ..252.) S00 “In memory of Albert Brenners".. 25.00 Port Arthur, Texas..... oe 5.00 A. AL Pearch a : 5.00 Mrs. Eugene Ki 10,00 $3347.34 The Duveens HERE have been many complaints because the elder Duveen was punished by fine instead of imprison ment. But let us not repine. The re- formers are watchful and eager, the Legislatures are responsive, detectives are wonderfully clever, prosecuting offi- cers are ambitious, the standard of con- duct has risen, many actions that used to be shrewd are now improper, and many that used to be improper are now criminal. If our complaining friends will only have a little patience they may and Thomas EXCHANGE OF COURTESIES The Man in the Moon: tue tor o’ THE EVENIN' To YE! be able to get plenty of people into jail. Of course Duveen was guilty ; scandal- ously guilty, but he has been a good deal punished as it is. Allowance might perhaps be made for him on grounds which neither his counsel nor the judge who showed him mercy, seem to have mentioned. The poor man has had to do with collectors. How can a man be expected to make his living trading with collectors and still retain a moral sense? Art has no morals, No one can observe art very much and still be surprised that it is so largely prohibited in the Ten Commandments (Scction 2) as still un- derstood by Jews and Mohammedans. And so many of the collectors are so much like art! There are honest peo- ple who buy pictures and other beautiful things with honest money, but the pas- sion for splendid works of art is apt to be a detail of acquisitiveness, and ac- quisitiveness is apt to have rules of its “poctor, DO You KNOW A Goop cURE FOR FRECKLES?" own, There seems to be nothing about rascality or the most brutal greed that is incompatible with a fine intelligence about art. The same man may be blind to truth, insensible to honor, indifferent to justice and fair dealing, and yet very much ahve to beauty. It is too bad; it makes beauty seem a mere phase of self-indulgence. But after all it may be all for the best, for there are lots of worse things that bad men might do than buy good pictures, But to get back to the Duveens; it has been their misfortune to have to trade chiefly with people who had quan- tities of money, and with many who had got it anyhow. Selling loot to. free- booters can't be really good for the moral sense. Let us make allowance for these merchants. They have brought many beautiful things to our country, and that has been a useful service. They have not lived in a statutory at- mosphere. How could they? Ben- venuto Cellini was not statutory, and yet he had his valuable side. They have had their's. They are convicted scamps, but their taste has been good. We necd, as a people, both taste and morals. They are not incompatible, but it is not unusual to find one without the other. It does not seem entirely consistent with a large appreciation of human needs to lock up people who have taste without morals and let people who have morals without taste go loose. comicbooks.com