Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-08-06
ORIGINAL HIGH ART.
Reaiist Comes Down TO the AdOrn.
ncnts Of Commonplace Life.

| hAchtS VI Hs1tcs
lSan Francisco Postl
"Do you ever print any art items in YOU
| paper" asked rather seedy-looking mar
with long hair, a siouch hat, and paint ON hi
fingers edging into The Posts inner sanctun
the other day. Because" continued til,
young man, scowling critically at chea,
chrome on the wall, because / thought i
you cared TO report the progress of a rea
aesthetic art culture ON this coast. You might
send your art critic around to my studio t.
| take some notes.
Might eh!' said the editor.
Yes, sir. For instance, there's a man
moth winter storm landscape I've just finishes
for MIR. Mudd, the bonanza king. It's called
~ Hail Storm in the Adirondack and q
visitor who sat near it the other day caught d
sore throat in less than fifteen minutes The
Illusion is 50 perfect, you understand. Why,
l had TO put on the finishing touches with my
ulster and arctic overshoes on"
Don't say
Fact, sir; and then there's little animal
gem l did for Governor Gerkins the other
day-portrait of his Scotch terrier Snap
The morning it was done a cat got into the
studio, and the minute it saw the picture il
went through the window like ten-inch
shell. And the oldest thing about it was
that when | next looked ut the canvas the
dogs hair was standing up all along his back
like porcupine Now, how do you account
for that
Dunno"
1t just irat Inc. When the governor ex-
annined the work he insisted ON my painting
on apost with the dog chained to it. Said he
didn't know what might happen"
Good scheme!" growled the editor
wasn't it, though, But my best bold,
however, is water views You know Mr..
George Bromley, and how distracted he il
sometimes. Well, he dropped in one morning
and brought up before an eight by twelve of
the San Joaquin river with boat in the fore
ground. I'm blessed if he didn't absentmind-
eddy take off his coat and step clear through
the canvas trying to jump into the boat
thought he'd go out rowing, YOU know
Have they carried out that journeyman
with the smallpox said the editor, winking
at the foreman, who had come in just then
from the composing room TO swear for copy
smallpox! That reminds iIe OF realistiS.
subject I'm engaged on now, entitled The
Plague in Egypt had only completed four
of the principal figures when, last Tuesday,
tne Jailtof, VINO sleeps III the next room. was
taken out to the hospital with the most pro-
nounced case of leprosy you ever saw. and
this morning the boy who mixed the paint.
began 10 scale Off like slate roof. | don't
really know whether to keep on with tbs
work or not. How does it strike your
1T strikes me You had better Slide" said
the una-sthetic moulder of public opinion
Don't care to send u reporter aroundf'
Ne, sir
Wouldn't like 10 order life-size 'Guten
burg Discovering the Printing Press, eh.r
"Nary order"
"Dont want seven-by-nine group of the
staff done in oil or crayon.r
NO." said the editor, as he again lowered
himself into the depths of a leader on the
Roumanian imbroglio; but il you care to
touch up two window frames, some desk legs,
and the fighting editors bIacl, eye for four
bits and Il lot of comic exchange YOU can
sail in"
Its a whackl' promptly CALCULATED the
disciple of aesthetic culture, and, borrowing a
cigarette from the dramatic critic on account,
be driftel off after his brushes