mentioned the Barnes gallery had been reserved for a charity affair by the fashionable suburb in which he lived. This was to be an art exhibit of a somewhat different sort.
If Her Highness must know, he said, it was to be a strip-tease contest for debutantes. And to his distress, he could not invite Her Highness to this event because, out of consideration for the intrinsic modesty of the debs, it had been decided to limit the guests to the boy friends of the contestants.
Whether the lady realized it or not, she was impaled on the most brutal pen of our times. But she need not have felt too bitter. What happened to her, happens regularly to many of the elect in America at the hands of Barnes.
Barnes' victims, nursing ugly wounds to their vanity, are, nevertheless, the first to acknowledge his several distinctions. Barnes is the discoverer of Argyrol, an antiseptic that has done much for humanity while bringing in millions to Barnes. He is an international authority on art,
