photographs and such as adorn the rooms of many other showing lovely woman in her most dress and and the walls of the apartment that they occupied in common was now half covered with these of the and the s tool used to laugh at the enthusiasm with which he would each new beauty declaring it superior to any of its falling into over an arm a shoulder or a bust but he regarded it as a mere on s part and something that might as well be allowed to run its course had very correct ideas on most matters and would have talked seriously to his friend had he discovered anything which he supposed had a really bad tendency but these pictures were too silly to treat as if they were things of importance i have bought the most beautiful photograph this afternoon would say as soon as he entered the door you cannot imagine how lovely it is then as he proceeded to take off the would respond coolly on the contrary i can tell you all about it it is mile chose of the varieties she is dressed low in the neck and her the is high on the side i have seen its a hundred times and they are all as near alike as two peas in a you have never seen this one would answer his face look was there ever such beauty is it not superb i did not think such arms could grow on a mortal creature what perfection of outline what grace of pose you must be stone not to admire that magnificent figure i believe you are pretending a lack of interest just to me i don t see anything to get interested in would be the response i call it the picture of a bold woman who might have been a a month before some one her in that finery there are just as good arms i would be willing to among the who do up the college linen your perfection of outline is all in your vivid imagination you don t mean seriously to think of placing that thing on the walls of our room why it would give me the nightmare toss it into the rubbish like a good fellow then would assume an air of injury and placing the photograph in a good light would sit down before it and rail upon the heart that could address such remarks to its beautiful face forgive me mile chose if that is your divine name for bringing you into the presence of this fix your clear and sparkling eyes upon your admirer who would give all he possesses for one glance of love from them lift those arms and them but for one instant about the neck of him who will ever afterward be your slave open those cherry lips and the girl with the ankles own that you have for me a little of that devotion that i bring to you you do not speak at the sound of my voice you turn your lovely away your arms worthy of a or a lie motionless at your side is it on account of this wretch that you treat me with such cruel disdain say but a word and i will cast him hence that we may live devoted to each other forever as often as this was repeated varying only in form with each new picture that took the attention of the young man could never help laughing at the of it tell her while you are about it he would say that you were quite as enthusiastic over the charms of mile and mile whose still adorn your walls that you pledged to each of them representing not less than three or four hundred individuals the same everlasting love and that you now offer to her tell her that to morrow at precisely this hour you will bring home the likeness of some other peasant girl who has exchanged a doubtful quality of virtue for a place on the stage and over it with equal oh i am getting ashamed of you then would laugh with him but would protest for all that that the picture was a beauty and that if he were not as blind as a bat and as as a block of marble he would know it three days later he would bring home another declaring that this was more lovely than any that had preceded it and the farce would be re with little is there anything in this shop that you do a j mire he asked once as they stood together in the art store of the college town yes replied there are several things these views of the this one of the this of the oh broke in i mean of things feminine what are those horrid old ruins good for a man of sense should be above that sort of thing what i want is for you to tell me candidly whether there is one of these photographs or designed to female beauty that you would think worth turned to the and looked them ever for several minutes yes he said finally which ones these he indicated two female figures one a complete and the other stripped to the waist impossible cried you are too much of a why don t you answer me honestly i mean just what i said i would hang either of these in my room and i would much prefer them to any oi the french you have covered the walls with but said with an air of bewilderment they are not clothed not with garments it is replied slowly but with purity and grace beyond doubt something that cannot be said of most of yours which i have clothes do not of necessity give an air of purity to woman here is a and a half and yet the artists have so 