The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-05-04


Trident. leo be - how they amt afore
DOW Perished With age. Is is very
likely"
MARRYING AN ARTIST.
Experiences Of . Lovely Woman
Who Became the Wife off
Sculptor.
Jealous ofa Model, She Disrobee
and Goes into the Model
Line Herself.
The following is part Of . letter
recently picked up in the Rue de
Rivoli BY . lady who has handed it
to this paper for publication:
What it has cost me to have mar.
RED an artist! All. my dear, il I had
only known! But young girls have
such strange ideas about matters in
general. Now At the Exposition,
when / used to see the artists al.
dresses upon the picture caris-fa,
of in quiet streets At the extrvme
corners Of Paris-I would couture up
visions Of peaceful. happy lives. and
of husbands always ut home. knew
that I was Of jrsloss disposition. aud
| said to myself '.Now, that's III.
kind of husband I would like. 1He
would be 1t home al dsy-at work
on his statue or bis painting and /
At his side reading or sewing. drink
ing in his words. And then the
tranquil atmosphere of the -studi"!"
Poor innocent that l was! Little did
| know what q studio was, or its Gin
gulsr visitors Never had l dreamed.
in gazing upon those marble godd-sses
~ lightly cad, that there we're women
bid enough :o-And that ev,n l..
Well. we'll. you must know that had
| not 80 Thought. should never have
married a sculptor. M indeed!
And then all The family were or
p,sed to it. He Was wealthy. Young.
tamous. Yet all were sgsi. st it, @x-
ccpt myself But then h- was such /.
charming fellow. Il j. true, he u--.i
Z" c''ncern himself almost to mucl,
ahont nv dress. NV hair: "W-.r il
little hishrr-so." and he would tov
with nv carls. aud place n 6o~-r in
their midst with the cooIness IL "a
hair dresser. So much experience
aud unmarried. too-lt was alarming.
Was it no:! | should have been
warned. But you .hall zee.
well, ws returned from our we'd
ding journey, and installed ourselves
in the delightful house he had pre-
pared for me-''the cage fur bis bird,
a. be said. Ny husbands studio vas
Immediately adjoining cur house. aud
upon our return he pluageA into his
interrupted work. Every evening he
spike to me with enthusiasm If the Al (.
preaching completion al his statue.
1t represented a "A Roman Lady
Emerging from the Bath" He was
striving. he said. Z" give the skin that
delicate little SILVER which, il Ina upon
encountering the cold sir. the c!ose
clioging of the wei drapery upon the
rounded shoIlders-and-aud oh.
all sort. Vi line things that don't IT.
member. Between you and me, my
dear. when he talks 10 me Of his art,
I do not understand quite so we'll as
| might. But no matter-l always
said, "Oh, it will be splendid :" and
in imagination l saw myself standing
before the completed work in the gal
lery, while the throng behind me
.uumured, Look It's the sculptor's
wife"
At last. one day. being curious to
see how our Roman lady Was getting
along. determined to surprise him
10 bis studio. which ! had not vet
entered. found the door Unattached.
and walked in without knocking.
Judge my amusement, my horror. at
the scene before me. There Was my
husband. with . dirty blcnse like
stonemason's. bis hair every which
gay, his hands covered With clay.
and standing upon . platform rs
TRANQUILITY as you please. And ON .
chair lay the creatures clothes-an
ugly dress. . hat with Q hedrsggl.d
feather. shabby boots. and-and -
forth. All this flashed upon me in
. second. for YOU may imagine how !
dart-d out. Eiieons tried to deisin
me, but with l1,k Of horror. I 6ed
ffom him and l never stopped. l
Promised you. until I reached my
mother's house.
"Ah my pnr child! There. there
don't cry! Tell mother what is the
matter"
And 90 I told mamma oil about
how I had g'ne to the studio. and
shout the awful woman. and how she
had nothing On. Aud oh, how ]
cried
Mamma Vas much moved. and did
al she c,uId Z" cons.,le me. She
.aid il was prohshly . model.
"A mmlel? But. oh. msmms. il j.
perfectly awful. He never s.id any
thing ab.,ut models before We we're
married"
At this moment Etienne arrived.
hreathl~ss. He also niei to make
me u0derstand that . model il MT
like other women. and that they are
indispensable To ecuIp'"rs. But w.s
iu6~xible. ! informed him that !
would have nothing tn d. with . hu.-
hand who paced entire days 9th
creature In such . costume cor rather. |
10 such lack Ut it.
"Wsll we'll. ny dear children.
said pocr mamma. striving 10 hiring |
peace 70 our coovulsed household, |
r.