CLOTHED STATUES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 15 November 1913, Page 12

CLOTHED STATUES.

A wave of modesty has swept over St. Louis, and the cafes and restaurants have presented an extraordinary spectacle, most of the pictures and statues there being partially covered with some article of clothing. Under a city. ordinance, which has just come into effect, cafe and restaurant proprietors are forbidden to display pictures, paintings, or statues in the nude, a form of decoration which has been almost universally indulged in. The cafe proprietors," says the London Chronicle's Chicago-correspondent, have let their fancy run riot in the matter of clothing their treasures. The "Sleeping Beauty," who has for years slumbered peacefully and unclothed on a slab, now wears a policeman's uniform —the proprietor declaring that he could think of no more fitting garb for a sleeping figure. Another cafe manager in whose place is a bronzs figure taken from the famous "September Morn" picture, has dressed the figure in a short white linen garment, while a statue of a Bacchante, the, original of which was refused by the puritanically inclined of Boston, now wears a complete motoring outfit, including goggles and veil.