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' SAYS THE HUMAN BODY BODY IS THE TRUEST ART Laughter, screarts and almost shrieks of derision came from leading Chicago modistes today when they read the kind wordsjaf Mario Korbel, young Bohemian sculptor, who, com menting upon "the stupidity of those who object to women showing their legs," observed: "If I had my way, instead of sewing up the slits, they would slit them clear to the hip. The human body is the"truest art." One modiste, whose fashionable shop fronts Michigan avenue, where the breezes from Lake Michigan play havoc with the ordinary variety of slit skirt, pointed out what would happen if Chicago women followed the sculptor's advice. "Imagine a pretty young girl emerging from the Art Institute with skirt slit to the hip, no petticoat and a strong nor'easter blowing," she said. "Why her skirt would blow up even to her waist and she"d look like a cross between a sandwich man and a monoplane." o o SAYS MEAT WILL STAY IN REACH OF THE WORKINGMAN Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 27. In an swer to the declaration of American meat packers at the Chicago conven tion that poor people will have to live on nothing but vegetables within ten years, Thomas Carstens, president of a local packing company, stated that the people on the coast will always be able to eat porterhouse steak so long as they have teeth. "Decreased meat production will not cause much trouble in our time," he declared, "so the average man doesn't need to do any worrying. Of course, prices will go up a bit, but not out of reach of the workingman." ' o o TO UNSEAT 8 LEGISLATORS Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 27. Re ported that eight members of the .legislature will be unseated as rebuke "to Go.y. Hopkins in his fight for state wide prohibition laws. As the major ity of the eight legislators involved in the charges that they automatically gave up their seats by becoming dep uty state fire marshals during the factional warfare are fusionists, their unseating would mean defeat, of the Hooper bills. o o MARRIED FOR FOUR DAYS THE GROOM IS MISSING After four days of married life, Ralph Parker, an Indianapolis archi tect, disappeared Wednesday and his young wife believes he is the victim of foul play. Mrs. Parker came into the Court of Domestic Relations this morning and sought the aid of Judge Uhlir and John Gardner, clerk of the court. She didn't wish a warrant for his arrest. The suggestion that he may have de serted her brought a look of coldness to its author. The girl said she and Parker were married in Louisville, Ky., Sunday. Monday they came to Chicago and stopped at the Blackstone Hotel. Wednesday he went out and a short time later he called her on the tele phone and told her he had received a check for $800 and would be back later. He hasn't arrived yet. Mrs. Parker, refusing a warrant, left the courtroom. SCHIFF SAYS 'SERVED ME RIGHT WHEN SHOES WERE STOLEN New York, Sept. 27. Jacob H. Schiff, millionaire banker, who had his shoes stolen from outside his ho tel room in Albany where he testified in the Sulzer trial, said: "Serves me right. Think of leaving even a pair of shoes loose near the statesmen who have been operating in Albany for years. But I did not think busi ness was so bad the crowd would steal shoes." .Later the shoes were found on the hotel roof and expressed here to the banker, nicely cleaned and decorated with a new pair of laces. "