St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1865-05-18

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SDAY. u ,M.AY Is. 1856
bitter sneors from old professors and
fellow-students,; but they did not care.
They went. on in the road they had
chosen painting life IS they saw it.
They represented humanity, !, in the forms.
Of men snds.women; and did not attempt
to idealizs t iutoa b.dI imitation, If the.
Greek notion Of gods and goddesses.-
When they sat down before >ailandscaps
their first object was to copy nature
honestly, without remoddeliug her form
and color to suit , !"composition.'', And
as time went on, they had their reward.
Yes magma est verttas Ct prevale6it.
At.last their labors we're appreciated !;
and I am proud to think that my 6rst
efforts we're stimulated by the example
Of such men ): as Millais and, Holman
hunt. z.:i .-,.Iso!!9s agl:4s nd IL. se,.::s.
My fathers allowance to me was, Is
/ have said, only a hundred year; and
I soon began TO feel the necessity OF
earning money To a young artist
without patronage that'tis perhapsltan
easier matter in these days than it was
some forty u. Or fifty years ago. Unless
. | man was '*taken up,''' as the phrase
went, BY some wealthy patrons Sir
George Beaumont or Duke Of Devon
shire-he could not then hope to make
2 living by his profession at its outset.
But in these days of cheap illustrated
literature, fair: average ability may often
find field for vcrk in drawing on the
wood ]. vas lucky enough to beeom>
connected with = popular periodical,
aud managed to exc OUT my income by
using my pencil in its service. ..ts 81
There is. something very delightful
in: handling the first money, that one
has earned. = To know that you are un-
der no obligation for it, that it IS yours
by the strictest law Of Justice, that you
have actually turned your brains t.
some account At, last; that your service
in the world was acknowledged snbetan.
tally In those few glittering coins oi
that crisp, pleasant-looking slip of pa.
per; there is charm, I say, about the
first fee or honorarium which We neve1
experience again. Hundreds may be
paid into our bankers when We are fa'
nous. Our great-aunts may shuttle of
this mortal coil, aud leave us untold
treasures in the Three per Cents but
we shall never look upon a guinea or q
Eve pound note with the same degree
of interest which VIC felt in pocketing
the price Of our earliest labor.
Itook care not to let this employ.
ment interfere with my ordinary stud
les. My obje"t was to be painter
not draughtsman and it was perhaps
fortunate that I did not get more mag
azine work than suf6ced to keep me out
Of want, just then, or l might have
neglected my p.lette altogether: :.
One Of the earliest commissions
which l obtained was through the in
fluence Of little lady whose name
have already mentioned Mary Wyll
ford. Within two years after I had
left the Doctors establishment he had
received colonial appointment; and
when he left his native country, deep
" beloved and regretted by his old pu'
pills (whose pioos tribute to his worth
finally took the form Of I silver ink
etand,) Mary came up to town to live
with her mother, q young and still
handsome. widow, of eight-and-thirty
who had just returned from the Cont
nent. i had often felt some surprise
that Mrs. Wyllford should have volun.
:tarily separated, herself for. 50 long ,
time from her, child but Mary nov
made. Nd secret Of the fact. that he'
mother had been in very poor circum,
stances, sud that, as her uncle the doc.
tor had kindly offered to: take charge
Of her, Mrs. Wyllford, unwilling to be-
come = further burden On her brother.
in-law, had accepted the situation o.
companion to , lady Who was. travel
ing: abroad. 81 The unexpected DEATH
however, of . distant relative, had moi
only-.phced them henceforth beyond
the reach Of want, but .ctually wouli
insure for Miss Mary very pretty lit
Tie fortune by the time she came o
age. gaa.>sey @sg". gsg@:4sss .5>3 5....:s...9. !.
The first thing the good little cir
did after they had settled in their nev
house, was to persuade her mother