Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-09-27
THE FACE AT THE WINDOW.


With bang and a wide throwing
open Of my door, a pair of heads sur
mounted alike by towzled luXuriant
hair, a pair of velyeteen coats, and
finally, two pairs Of inordinately long
legs, were presented TO my view MY
two neighbors the painters, were de
scended upon me for a friendly Wis
it. Alasl for the dream Of fame
and fortune that was beguilulg my
leisure hour wherein |, Maurice Mar
ston, plodding young sculptor, soar
ed far above the sordid surroundings
Of my life into world of beauty aud
rest
pipes, my boy, demanded painter
ono dubbed by his friends Boots, p
because Of a weakness of his for dainty
French art adornment Of his feet and
legs, let his general toilet be ever 50
shabby.
Beer" echoed painter number
two, who had been given the
more pleasing sobriquet of Angelica,
his fayorte pot boilers being copies
of the immortal kaufman "Nestal
Virgin.
waved my hand magnifceutly to-
ward a row Of battered pipes, souyen-
irs Of skctching tours aud holiday
tramps over various odd corners of
the world and set before my guests
broken nosed teapot that contained
my store Of Ralegh's weed Beer !
sadly declared was not TO be thought
of was IL not four flights of stairs to
the street, and did not the tender
green of spring, The twittering of
the birds, and the lax discipline
of our little colony all conduce to
Babette, our handmalden's spoouing
under the chestnut trees with a pud-
dmgfaced soldieri | would not, if !
could. tear her from her warriors fer
vent embrace.
'My little dear, began Boots, 81
entertain the highest respect for your
talents as a sculptor; you are to me "a
Phidias in embryo, but babes would
put yoa TO the blush when meat and
drink are to be procured Do you see
a waiter attitudiniziug in the doorway
of our little cafe over the streets
Throw bit of plaster at him, show
him a coin of the realm, and smile ON
him with your own seductive smile,
while | give my mind to the further
ancc of brilliant conception.
With a pair of old suspeuders, va
rious shoe strings, and odd bits of cur
tain cord ruthlessly cut from my win
dow, DO is the ingenious, aided by
sage suggestions from Angelica ar
ranged "a rope and pulley on which
nay water pitcher was deftly adjusted,
aud soon it went whirllng its way TO
the street. Meantime, | had aimed
deXterously, and the grinning garcon
obeyed our mandate, conveyed by va
rious vigorous signs,
Past perils 10y window shutters and
projecting stones, and toamiug edlic-
iouslv, we watched the ascent of our
beer until noticed through a window
above the little cafe verauda, peepiug
from behind its curtain, laughing
face OF such a face had dreamed,
and for such a face | had longed and
despaired over and over again, and
here 1t was SO mean ne
NV hat is it, Maurice my little dar-
ling} Is it in love with the black eyed
wife of our old cafe kecper} Rather
substantial subject for premicr amour
Whence this rapt eNprcSSiouf
AugelicaS nonsense brought me
suddenly back to my senses, and |
drank and smoked aud gossipod with
my comrades, but my thoughts were
far from their chi t-chat
Boys" exclaimed Boots, later, ~
have mad a vision, nymph has