Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-03-12

Stands in light, while / in darkness
Long to see the work go on
Long for Earth's dark night to vanish 49,
In tho fair, eternal dawn. - -
Closer come, oh! angel builders!
Danish every evil thought. .-
From our inner, spirit temple, !. I>s,$t&. 81
Where the gems of life are wrought
Let the cornerstone be meekness; & Ri z
Let the gates be pearls Of peace
For my human cry of weakness. -,
Never let your labors ceaBe.s -
here Is pain,-the needful suti' ring
Make 1t loves own golden glow; r
Let these tears my Souls dark garments
Whittier wash thap driven snow!
THE ROMANCE OF A STUDIO.
in the everyday working world there
are hot sunshine and rattle of carriages,
the ceaseless tread Of restless feet and
the confused Babel of thousand differ
emit sounds. But in the9yery tbrong of
it one can turn into a long high hall,
climb wide dim stairway, and enter q
totally different place and atmosphere; ;
that is Don Lepel's studio.
-Four easels are in the room, On each
an unfinished picture, and the whole air
of the place is that of still, thoughtful,
purposeful work. Lepel is painter of
the modern school industrious and
thoroughly respectable, with a fashion
able visiting list, and good credit in the
Second National Bank. ......
am sorry to admit that he is not
handsome. People expect beauty of ar
fists; but Lepel is short and rather stout,
and has other deficiencies not worth par
ticular mention. Still, as he stands be-
fore his easel with his palette on his
thumb, calling upon his canvas face of
exquisite beauty, there is a sense Of pow
er about this ordinary man which almost
ennobles him. w - e @''J. e
He has been working this warm June
day since early morning, and he is salts.
fed with himself IL will go to the
Park now" he says, approvingly; ~
shall enjoy stroll, and perhaps may
take pull up the lake, ....,..,.,'
That was Lepel's very sensible idea OF
recreation; and had quite tired himself
with the first part OF his program, i
when he came to little rustic scat un-
der somepines near the upper boat-house.
There was girl sitting reading at. one
end Of the bench, but she was very young
and very shabby, and he did not in the
least fear that she would consider him
an intrusion.
Atfirst he watched the boats, but grad
ually his companion attracted him. Her
form was faultless, and he found himself
dressing and posing it in all the charac-
tiers which then occupied his pencil. Of
her face he could see nothing at all, for
there was a little brown sun-shade be-
tween them. This was so far favorable
that it allowed him to take a thumb-nail
sketch of her attitude, which was extreme
ly natural and graceful; and he had
pleasant trick; the girl, IN attempting to
tear open leaf, let her sun-shade slip; IT
tell to the ground, and Lepel stopped and
lifted it for her.
The next-moment they stood face to
face, and Lepel exclaimed, in tones which
were strange mixture Of pleasure and
annoyance, "Why, Bee! is it possible!''
Bee shrugged her shoulders and said,
petulantly, she supposed it was.
"And I have been sitting beside you
twenty minutes and did not know YOU
II knew you.''
"Why did you not speak?"
my dress was so shabby--and my
shoes. I supposc you have grown rich .
"Do you suppose have grown snob
also, Bee? Sit down; want to talk to
YOU"
"Really9"
Eyes, really. Where is your father
HE died last summer"
"Poor child, what have you been doing
since?''
II can find nothing to do. During the
opera season sang in the chorus, and
made my money last as long as possible
But I am very poor; you can soc that"
''Bee, owed your father some money
for copying"
mo, you did not, Mr.. Lepel. You
cannot offer mo charity on that plea. But
ii you know any way to get me wotk, that
would be great kindness; if not, I must
live as the birds do, from crumb TO crumb
till winter comes"
"Suppose you let me board you with
Signor T.. He would prepare you fol
better engagement, and you could pay
me from your first receipts--for your
fathers sake, Bce?'' ..r..... H..
"Why should you do this TOR fathers
sake7 You were not friends; you had not
been to see us for four years. I heard
that you had rich patrons and had grown
proud"
"Well, Bee, will make yon anothe,
offer. want model, say, from two to
four hours day. You will have to stand
in very fatiguing pastures, and I shall
perhaps get cross and unreasonable, and
forget you are Beatrice Erling; but will
give you the highest terms, and pay you
every day as you earn the money" %
"What will you give met"
"Fifty cents an hour"
"That will do. When shall I Gomez
"To-morrow at ten o'clock"
The conversation had fallen into {
purely business tone, and after these ar
Engagements, ,Lepel handed her his card
and said rather cool 'good evening"
For now the thing was done, he was ur
certain as to its wisdom. In the frs
place, he had offered Bee unusually higi
terms. and in the second, he had vo.un
tarily connected himself again with {
class of artists, for whom he had no re-
spect nor sympathy. He knew that hi
had been influenced by Bees beauty
and that if she had been ugly or illfornl
cd, his remembrance of her would mo-
have led him to any such active sympa
thy. .' %t@' .5' t,., ,, s. S , ~.
ut is a bad plan, said the young mar
to himself, "to analyze ones good deeds
I have not bit of self-complaisance il
what have done for Tom Erings daugh
ter tonight, and suppose now she vii
be q great nuisance to me- - p
This rencoatre compelled him, evel
against his inclination, to recall the gay
clever, idle fellow whom he had SO lon,
forgotten. aWhat an infinite genius tina
man hadl'' he muttered there was moth
ing he couldn't turn his pencil to; and a
for music, il was his native tongue
But, for oil that, Tom Erling had bee
failure and broken promise. II
worked irregularly, he never kept hi
word, he fell into debt, borrowed money
and by continual petty imposltions SHINE
away his most faithful friends. An
vet the man had some excuses; for he ha
been set to fight a battle for which natul
had provided him no weapons. Time
money! obligations! Tom knew the va
ne Of none OF these things. He ought i
have lived in some sunny Italian cit,
and been cared for as the ravens are.
Lepel had ct first been charmed wit
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