Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-04-23
ART AND LOVE.

w uGH uOdIluS young uau OF
thirty years has sister OF eighteen
ready to graduate from the boarding
school which has conveniently swal-
lowed her up for the last eight years
what is he to do with herr This was
the question that puzzled Frank
Curtis. He remembered his sister as
very pretty little girl, though he had
not seen her for three years. There
was no help for it. Frank saw that
matrimony for him was imminent.
About this time he made trip with
the Cutler family, they we're rich and
self made, worshipping their maker,
and the household consisted of father,
mother, and daughter, still under
twenty-five. Joseph Cutler, of Cut
Ter, Sheffield q CO., was reputed
worth S., 000 600, of which one at least
the golden youth hoped would be set
tied on his daughter Lizzie as bride.
Not very celver, not very pretty, she
at last knew that her money could
buy her whatever she wanted in the
way of husband, and she was con
tent to wait until chance should bring
her the man who most nearly resem-
bled her ideal.
Frank Curtis wooing was brief
after he had once decided that Lizzie
Cutters money would provided luxur-
ious home for himself and his sister.
He had small income of his own,
and was considered clever in his pro-
fession. Congratulations began to
pour in thick and fast on the PAIR
when a hundred thousand dellar
house began to rise at MIR, Cutters
expense, to be ready for the young
couple on their return from their
bridal trip. They were to take in
Clara Curtis commencement as they
travelled, and bring her home with
them.
Frank was agreeably surprised at
his sisters appearance when he and
his bride arrived at hel school In a
vague, masculine way he felt that she
and Lizzie did not seem very con-
genial, but he supposed that would
wear off after little.
'Of course you are coming to-
night" SAID Clara. Its our con.
cert" 81 rlay," she continued,
dimpling and blushing, ga duet for
violin and piano with Mr. Held
manu.
Frank nodded. He was fond of
masic, and to sit through whole
evening of school girl playing and
singing was q sacrifice on the altar of
fraternal affection and the properties.
AS for Lizzie. she always frankly
avowed that good music sent her to
sleep. But she became suddenly at
tentive, and so did Frank, when Clara
ra1 with the vvfnli,,. nd Tho
lessor took the piano. Frank heard
genius in the moaning and waillng
under her hands of that most perfect
instrument If she had been pretty
before, she became TRANSPORTED now.
He wondered how she felt, standing
before all those people of whom, per-
haps, not one in ten understood what
she was playing. But the novelty of
the thing, the sweet face lovingly
pressed against the violin, the delicate
fingers dashing over the strings,
brought down the house She was
the success of the evening, and had
her first taste of that Intoxicating
drink-the applause of the multi~
tude.
II congratulate you" said her
brother. II was proud of you to-
night.
Clara, Professor Max wants us all
IN the music ROOM said one OF her
companions, and Mr.. and Mrs. Cur
It's were left alone, while Clara and
her fellow performers pursued their
way to the presence of the professor
of music and German, a air-haired,
powerfully built man of one or two
and thirty years, known among his
Huttering pupils as Professor Max,
and addressed by them as Mr.. Held
mann. He congratulated them on
their success, and then dismissed all
but Clara
II have told you many times now
already, Miss Curtis, he said. You
have genius thaty you should cultivate.
l advise you that you go to Europe
and study.
Be a professional player" said
Clara, with wide eyes. What would
my brother say}"
Talk to him about If. He will
yield. Break from your friends, love
you were born to be great. Must you
smother such talent2 And for
whatl That foolish men make love
to you in q ball room, and you marry
and die ike othor women. What for
a career is that for your 1 love you.
| tell you so, but you must not love
me- give you to art. You must
love some day, otherwise your playing
will always lack; then you will know
what have done in leaving you free
from ,ay love, for | ask nothing back.
All that | can do to helpyou will do.
You must call on me when you need
me, and when you have the world at
your feet after your triumph, think
once at home of the man who first set
free the hutteriug wings Of your
genius. Remember what | tell you.
Clara, bewildered and frightened,
only saw the tears dim his bright blue
eyes, only felt two bearded lips on her
cold hands, and she was alone with
the memory Of her first love affair.
She went hone with her brother and
his wife, was called upon, went 10