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‘, BEGGAR'S ARTIST.
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SIGNS FOR MENDICANTS.
fie Makes a Good Living and Would Rather Bea Painter For Beggars Than a Beggar
Painter— tow the Pictures Are Used and
What He Charges For Them.
A new schoo! of art has been discov- ped. $6 far as known, this city has its gle professor, and he is as edd as his art. But this is the source whence come the thrilling pictures which the beggar, maimed, halt or blind, displays when he mournfully relates just how he was injured and strives to impress up ia the charitable how deserving he is of eid.
In one of the shabbiest streets of the rity, away down in a basement, a flick- ering gas flame lights the studio of this qneer genius. It is a place of business sach as would appall the well dressed banker» but it is no exaggeration to say that its occupant has an income which many more pretentious paixters would rejoice to receive. ,
Technique and perspective mect with small consideration at the hands of this king of the beggars, for such he seems tobe. To watch ingress and egress of his patrons would give a stranger the impression that some philanthropist had established a charity hospital in the basement.
When the writer paid a visit to this unique studio the other day, the artist was found attired in a pair of overalls and a greasy woolen shirt, as guiltless of ornamentation at the neck as was the neck itaelf of acquaintance with soap and@’water. A bushy beard that had evi- dently been brown in other days covered the lower portion of the artist’s face, and his shocky hair stood up in indig- nant protest against the possibility of invasion by brush crcomb. TF'rom under rather bushy brows a keen pair of eyes looked out. Miud was decidedly in evi- dence; conventionality was below par. Eoth cleanliness and godliness were quite ignored.
The farniture of the studio consisted of an eld couch covered with a material
nich in days gone by had probably been very pretty chintz. Now it was thoroughly disguised by the accum.- lation of dirt. A real rag carpet cover- ed the fleor, but not a single picture was bung upon the walls, although standing about the room were several
_ pictures in various stages of progress.
Permission was asked to examine them,
an? they were well worth seeing.
One was a lurid representation of a powder explosion. So realistic was the picture that if you cared to place your finger on what were alleged to be burn- ing grains of powder you could feel that the grains were tl:cre, though the artist denied that that was the intention. He said the painting was intended for a
. patron of his with two wooden legs, $ “stitutes forfthe pair that a powder @ wzplc son robed him of. The object of
‘the painting was to show the charitable stranger just how it happened, and the artist said thatin his mind there was ho doubt that his legless patron would greatly benefit by the scene thus plaved on Canvas.
There was another picture, which rep- resented the blowing up of a man-of-war. The flames that spouted from the decks of the unfortunate vessel were far more red than the light that shines from the chimneys of an iron mill at night. Na-
ture has never succeeded in producing anything quite so glowing as unmiti- gated red paint, and there was no lack of it in this picture. The persons who were sailing about in the air seemed to have suffered frightful injuries, and the artist said that this was purely to in- voke sympathy for his customer, who Was supposed to be one of the actors in the scene so graphically portrayed.
The price of such paintings varies from $3 to $12. The artist ean complete ©ne in about 1 1-2 hours, if he does not ourry. If it is a rush order, the work can be concluded within an hour, though in that case the price is increas- ed somewhat. When asked if he made mach money by this sort of work, the artist replied that he did; that he gained more than many painters who were striving todo great things are able to secure. His patrons were generally proiupt pay—indeed the usual terms are ¢ash on delivery, aie for embarking in higher art, the
tist x ould have none of it. He tersely remarxed that he would rather be a ptr fr begs than a gear pai
y and as he wayed a gooilby there was ang eS
Mat he meant exactly what he Said. —Philadelphia Press
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A WOMAN’S LOVE,
fhe View From a Woman's Standpoint Tke Difference With Men, i
The great incident in a woman's life, and therefore an inevitable one in the wo- man of fiction, is love. The most constant slement in woman’s love, in reality or in fiction, is doubt.
Even with utmost confidence in the sin- eerity of the love she has engaged few ywromen do not at times harass themselves with the thought that perhaps the man only fancies that he loves her; that in the depth of his heart is buried some other love that may be quickened; that his love, now fo ardent, may soon grow dim and grad- ually fade away.
They seem never to permit such ques- tioning to test the merit of the love the; give.
To the lover these doubts are never well defined. They come only in the unexpect- ed moods that so perplex all lovers.
She is unhappy, and she does not know why. She is despondent, but cannot de- ‘ine to herself cause for hopelessness. She is wounded, but is unconscious of what hurt her. She feels that her soul has gone put to her love; that she must have it back, but that if it is given back she must die. She is so happy, and she is sosad. She feels that she and her lover are all in all to each other, except that she may not be all in all to him. She is devoted to him, but is he as devoted to her?
And the man, haying no understanding of her consciousness, simply berates him- self for having at some time, somewhere, in some manner, done something to wound the sensitive nature of this dear girl, or, 1@t being able to find any solution of the trouble, he early comes to resolving every shade of difference through the broad, gen- crai principle that all women have their mools; that such mocds do not really be- token diminishment of affection, and that annoysnuees of this sort are part of the pen- alty that ntan has to pay for the happiness of loys.
In the matter of love men and women scem to be essentially different. Man al- wieys shows an abounding joy in being loved... It is never perfect happiness to wo- man uniess she can mingle at times with tho assurance a sweet, gentle melancholy, sprinzing from doubts which, if called to answer, she would indignantly scorn and
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fo it scems ever to have been, and prob- ubly it will ever be, so long as this sweet
infucnes, love, impels men and softens woricn.
Yerhops this enhances the pleasure of love. John Keats, with everything of
beauty that was to have been to him a joy forever tast fading from his vision and his breath almost ready to leave his dying body, left, nearly as his last word, that his dearest hope of love was of a ‘sweet unrost.’’—Philadelphia Times.
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RICHARD Ill.
ilo Was Not, So I$ Is Asserted, a Tump- backed Tyrant.
His deformity is a great Shakespeare
feature in and is used with all Shakes- peare’s knovlede¢s of human nature to ex- plain much of what would be otherwise in- credible, It is the bitterness of the deform- ed which makes Richard hate the world, which hardens his cruelty and sharpens his already keen edged ambition with the de- sire to overcome the scorn of mankind for defects he could not help by reaching a place where he could put the world under his feet. Yet there is but little bettcr evi- dence of his deformity than there is of his having been born with teeth.
It is hardly necessary to call witnesses tc disprove such triviality as this, but it is easily done, and the refutation is eompicte. No contemporary other than Rous even al- iudes to Richard's deformity, and these others who are silent are the only writers of real authority. Fabyan, the Londoner, who must have seen Richard often, and who vas a Lancastrian, says nothing of any deformity. The Croyland Chronicler, &® member of Edward IV’s council, is equally silent, and so, too, is Comines, al- though he twice speaks of Edward as the handsomest prince he had seen, thus show- ing that he noted physical appearance. Stowe said he had talked with old men who had seen Richard, and they declared “that he was of bodily shape comely enough, only of low stature.’’? Even Rous himself, in his portrait of Richard, indi- cates no deformity. The portraits, indeed —and there are several authentic examples —show us a man without any trace, cither in expression or feature, of bodily malfor- mation. The face isa striking ene, strong, high bred, intellectual, rather stern, per- haps, and a little hard in the lines, but not in the least cruel or malignant, and with a prevailing air of sadness.—Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge in Scribner's.
Primitive Incense.
In ancient days sweet odors were ob- tained by burning aromatic gums and woods; hence the word perfume, which is from the Latin per, through, fumus, s@.o0ke or vapor. Fyvom this arose the idea of incense in primitive worship. It was used by the orientals long before it became known tothe western world. People of the east utilized it for sacrifice in their temples. At feasts it enhanced the pleas- ure of the senses. At funerals it was a bribe to appease the manes of the dead, and later, in theaters, a disinfectant against the unpleasant odors of a crowded building. !
Pliny assures us thot incense was not eniployed in sacrifice yatil after the Projan war, when fragrant wouds were applied to give an agreeable smell.
In an ancient megical manuscript it is directed that three grains should be taken, with three fingers, and placed under the threshold to kcep away evil spirits which might come in the form of offensive odors, —London Socirty.
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