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Four Minute Essays By Dr. Frank Crane: 101 total pages.

So, enjoy yourself, youth; eat, drink, and be merry, and let your soul delight itself in fatness and wine, pluck the bloom of beauty, FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 129 and gather the fruits of laughter; but count the cost, beware of the insidious credit sys­tem, and pay cash. At least then you'll know what it costs, 130 ART AND DEMOCRACY W HEN you say "art" most people think of museums, picture-galleries and old masters. It is quite the thing for gentlemen bur­dened with wealth to collect expensive and curious bric-a-brac and, upon the occasion of their death, to leave it to the city, to be known as the Smith-Jones collection. What good is it? Who goes to museums? A very small portion of the people. The effect of the "art-gallery" upon the com­munity is something, but the whole idea is a very poor grasping at the real function of art in democracy. If benevolently inclined folk want to in-crease the ministry of the beautiful, let them FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 131 improve the appearance of the houses of the citizens, the furniture in them and the grounds around them.

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