The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-03-22

lieve?' =
eyes; thought it would please I
him.
Then tell me; if it is no trouble TO
do. is little and does not amount TO {
ANYTHING, what will he care for it!
.Oh. [ don't know, Mr.. Damescino; ?
Int I like little easy sketches; cannot
do such large one; it is so complicat.
ed: it is pretty, but too difficult.
ssIt is pretty. you Think
ooh. yes, it is more; it is beautiful,
but too fine for me to do.
enough! Who is master!
..You. Mr.. Damescino;" and Marion
laughed.
sYou like the picture, but it is too
large and complicated; you are AFRAID
you cannot get through with it!'
Eyes, sir
ssThen it is settled. You will not
miss, draw the whole picture as once
but will do line at a time-a portlon,
day after day. You can draw house!
eyes
sAnd trees?''
Il think So"
And you can draw horse ana
cart!
"If try think can"
s.Then YOU can keep the picture.
You will not do it all in day; but by
doing a little each day, in its proper
place. and doing it well, the whole
will make a picture fit for fathers
New Years gift
Marion looked incredulously at the
picture, as she set to work and COM
planned
cit will take me year to do it.
ssNo. it will not take you a year !;
and suppose it did would it not be
better to have beautiful picture at
the end of that time than to have done
tree on one slip of paper, house on
on another and horse in cart on
, another Great pictures are brought
TO beauty by touch at time. 10
, look at task ard count over it's diff
entities IS to be discouraged in the be-
t Ginning but to take hold and make
. the first line, and meet the dlthcultles
9 as they come. one at a time, Is TO In
\ sure success.
t So Marion measured and looked
9 and thought only about the lines
! of the house, with its pretty odd ga
/ bles, and tried to forget that there
6 we're many other things to look at
a wilderness of other work to do ant
), when the first days lesson was over
n enough os the outlines was on tn!
a card board to give fair promise OF tinlsl
afterward.
cit is too bad - said Marion t
vt mamma, after Mr.. DamesclnO ha
Y, bowed himself out of the room; IN
thinks he is so wise, and that can q
I'd lust what he says. Look here mamma
le he has brought me a picture 81
1e enough for an artist to do, and wit
lie work enough to last a year. l onl
10 wanted little sketch to give papa
New Year"
90 s.New Year is great way off ant
you know perseverance does gre;
;, things. The picture is very beaut
full one"
"Oh. yes, mamma, like it; but
cannot do it. / cannot do it,
'u- ".CannCt' does not seem to me qul
III the right word !; maybe you mean :"
a 10 not"
lis mamma! do you think me perver
NJ. enough for that =
70 "No and expect to see your dra
up ing in a pretty frame, with papa poil
III ing it out, among his other treasure
~. as Marion's picture
ng do YOU think he would like 1T
'eu She smiled, and stood regarding
OF. with an air of half-pleased unc
20 tainty.
%" 81 will do it, anyhow. Mr.. Dam
Ieil cino says by thinking about and wo
ing at only little spot at time,
can will grow, almost without my kno
u. ing it. to be pretty picture
got So, little at time, trying to for
The the greatness of the big task bef'
'ose her, Marion worked away-sometin
my during lesson hour, sometimes aion
ard often getting tired, but as often G
live ting refreshed. so when autu
lere crimsoned the leaves. and winter or
mo- ed its first snow. Marion's picture
rcii beautiful; and when, at New II
lelr papa saw the finished work of so NJ;
we months, and heard how it had b
city done-not by grooming over the WIZ
but by thinking about each part IN
oal, turn-he felt not only pleasure in
fety daughters triumph. in complet
such a beautiful picture, but the
as" ditional pleasure given BY the real
ton Of the lesson she had Learned
X in triumphing over difficulties OF life
the all their varieties for it IS ~
mace nuering obstacles little at time
sur. all obstacles are overcome.
Marion stood on New Years
1;La among her fathers choice pictures
roc hands behind her and her eyes on
: IN m fruits of her labor, her face bea
IF the impress of the high resolves
For > ring at her heart I; and the words ,
hnrn her lips, as she thought OF the W
: ~. she had accomplished. were:
Il win never again say scann
for it seems to me, now, that, little
lsheu little, almost anything can be act
Inc plished and it is 50 pleasant to
severe and to conquer"
= in There are two rival blind men
II he ING aims in front Of one of our chr
into es every Sunday morning, and it
sight to see them eye each
piled. jealousy.