Life — August 31, 1911 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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350 -LIFE- What Boston Faces HEY have been having a heated controversy over Boston, whether or not the Legislature should present the Art Museum with some new works of art. Methodist Bishop Willard F. Mallalieu came out so weeks ago stro st the nude pictures and statues which form part of the collection, He is ‘quoted in the New York Tribune as follows: “T hope that not a dollar of public money will go to the museum until there is a decided reform. I should favor taking out all of the nude art in the Boston Art or any other museum in which it is publicly exhib use it for paving the streets. I have visited seum in Europe and Great Britain and I don’t want to sce installed in the museums of America the hideous things t are found there. 1am not in favor of nude art in any form. The Rev. A. Judson Hughes, pastor of the First Baptist Church, said “Like the Greeks of Old” “Tp will never be right or justifiable for nude statues to be on exhibition in art galleries or clsewhere until it is also zht and justifiable for nude men and women to stand on Boston Common.” Undoubtedly Mr. Hughes has hit upon a happy solution © problem It seems an admirable idea, at least in summer, for the art lovers of Back Bay and Beacon street to cast aside the conventional raiment of the day and promenade on the his- toric Common, studying as did the Grecks of old, the human form divine. Not an Ideal Millionaire OHN GATES was much too voleanic a person to be s J fied with mere joys of acquisition, He made (or won Und lost a great deal of moncy and found pleasure in it both coming and going, but it is expected by the newspaper esti mators thai his leavings will not exceed twenty millions. The same estimators expect a show-down of fifty millions from the estate of an unexciting Jewish drygoods merchant—Mr. Abraham—who died, much respected, the other day in Brook lyn, Mr Abraham spent mon to advertise his business. Mr. Gates’s expenditures advertised himself. T= course of andard Oil never did run smooth. Purely Social RS. GILMER wanted to go 10 Europe. “What shall we do with the baby?” asked her hus- band, on his return from Wall Street. He had seen the baby once—by appointment—since that individual had come the world, a matter of four months ago. “Place hin in charge of a trained nurse, of course. It's the only proper thing to do now—everyone docs it—and if t hould stay home and take care of him myself, and endanger 1y own health and happiness, I distinctly would not be doing duty 10 society,” said Mrs. Gilmer, with some asperity. The whole matter, my dear, has been fully discussed in our club, and we have agreed what every young mother should do who has a particle of self-respect You secure the staterooms and I will see to the rest.” Mrs. Gilmer called up the hospital and engaged a fine nurse -recommended by the physician in cha The tickets were bought, and Mr and Mrs. Gilmer set sail the next week. The nurse assured them that everything would be all right On the second day the nurse fell in love with the chauffeur, who had been left in charge of the garage, and every after- noon they went out together, The baby was left in care ef the waitress, who had « kind heart, The waitress—because of her kind heart—was in love with the grocer’s hoy, and on her afternoons out she left the baby with the cook or the laun- dress, who took turns when they wanted to go out themselves. Thé Gilmers were gone three months. When they returned y found the nurse in tears. The baby had died the night before Those things happen without any apparent cause. And she was a splendid nurse! The doctor had every con fidence in her. The cook, the chauffeur, the waitress and the laundress all testified that she had been “on th: job” day and night. She testified that cach one of them had been a great help to her by waiting on her when she had needed anything. It w muttal admiration society ted. At the funeral the minister said quite feclingly : “The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.” The Gilmers will not go into mourning, on account of the extreme youth of the deceased. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE comicbooks -co