Bismarck weekly tribune., 1884-09-19
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sDo you ever print any art items il your
paperp asked rather seedy looking man
with long hair, a slouch hat, and paint on his
fingers, edging into The Posts inner sanctum
the other day. Because, continued the
young man, scowling critically at q cheap
chrome on the wall, because thought i
you cared to report the progress Of real
estheic art culture on this coast, you might
send your art critic around to my studio to
take some notes 's.
Might, eh?' said the editor. e
Yes, sir. For instance, there's a mann
moth winter storm landscape I've just finished
for Mr.. Mudd, the bonanza king. It's called
"a Hail Storm in the Adirondack, : and 9
visitor who sat near it the other day caught q
sore throat in less than fifteen minutes. The
illusion is SO perfect, you understand. Why,
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 did for Governor Gerkins the other
day-portrait of his Scotch terrier, Snap.
The morning it was done cat got into the
studio, and the minute it saw the picture it
went through the window like a ten-incb
shell. And the oldest thing about it was
that when next looked at the canvas the
dogs hair was standing up all along his back
like a porcupine Now, how do you account
for that!"
Dunno" 5
ut just beat me- When the governor ex-
amined the work he insisted on my painting
on post 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 is
sometimes. Well, he dropped in one morning
and brought up before an eight by twelve OF
the San Joaquin river with g. boat in the fore
ground. I'm blessed if he didn't absentmind-
edly take off his coat and step clear through
the canvas trying to jump into the boat
thought he'd 60 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 me Of a realistic
subject I'm engaged on now, entitled The
Plague in Egypt I had only completed four
Of the principal figures when, last Tuesday,
the janitor, who sleeps in 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 paints
began to scale off like slate roof. I don't
really know whether to keep on with the
work or not. How does it strike you?"
1T strikes me you had better slide," said
the unsesthetic moulder of public opinion.
'tDon't care to send reporter aroundF'
"No, SIR"
"Wouldn't like to order a ifesize 'Guten
burg Discovering the Printing Press, ehs"
"Nary order"
"Don't want seven-by-nine group of the
staff done in oil or crayonW
"No," said the editor, as he again lowered
himself into the depths of a leader on the
Roumanian imbroglio; "but if you care to
touch up two window frames, some desk legs,
and the fighting EDITORS black eye for four
bits and lot Of comic exchanges, you can
sail in"
@It's whackl" promptly CALCULATED the
dis ciple of aesthetic culture, and, borrowing a
cigarette from the dramatic critic on account,
he drifted off after his brushes.