The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-17
HOW SHE WAS CURED.
An Artists Wife Insists on Seeing.
His Model of Venus.

LET me have look at your model
dear. | know she is pretty. All the
world understands how necessary it is
that an artists model should be as near
perfection as possible"
"0h! yoa don't want to see her, Jen-
ME; it would be horrible Nuisance if
you went Ia. You'd get her all out OF
pose, and distract her attention, and l
would never be able to settle her down
to business again." said l, little
amused, and Withal a little annoyed,
for painting pictures is the way earn
my bread and butter, and beautiful
soft light was shining through fhe north
windows of my studio.
Now don't be grumpy, my dear. l
am more than ever convinced that you
have got rara avis shut in behind
that curtain, and you ought to share
the good things of this life with your
friend, you know. An artist who has
discovered q pretty model is beast &c
keep her all to himself. just let me
take one peep"
"But what good will that do your" /
asked. You could net paint her if you
wanted to, and it may do me HARM
Harm? How can it harm you just
to let me have a glimpse of pretty
woman to put me ia good humor with
the world! You are at work on your
academy picture. aren't your"
L knew that question settled the
whole thing, for all my friends knew l
was doing a Venus, and if admitted
that was exactly what was at work
upon, the world might come to an end
before Jennie would bulge one step;
still | kept thinking of Ihat perfect
light, so rare a thing In those dark
winter days, and [ tried TO evade the
question.
1t was no use. The more evasive I
seemed, the more determined she be
came. DID you ever notice how little.
even very little, ill applied opposition
at once rouses all The Obsiuacy IN
human nature?
A woman is simply bound to do
thing when she Is sure somebody else
don't want her to.
If [ had only said at once. Now.
Jennie, | have just the light need to
WOEh vi I1C uOSA Lldbi uOA ACCp AlC q
minute; such light is more precious
quickly would the dear girl have done
me the favor to absent herself. But be-
cause L was a little ill-humored, and
did not proceed in the manner l knew
to be wisest 1 had aroused correspond.
ing ill-temper in Jennie, and this was
no longer a question of go or stay, but
a question of wills. Still thinking OF
that light, said: How do you know
she IS pretty7 give you my word she
isn't"
Hal hap laughed she scornfully
THAT s little too good. I'm more de-
termined than ever not to go without
sight of the vision; a model not pretty,
and model for a Venus not pretty!
You mlght as well stand aside. 1 am
going in now surely"
every we'll" said l, with sardonic
grin, 1.-The result will be on your own
mead; rush hesdlong to your own fate,
but do me the favor when you have
looked your fill to get out"
pulled the curtain, and she stepped
liz. There reelined my model, nice,
fatfaced, comfortable looking German
frau, who, as she saw US come in opened
her lips to speak and displayed double
row of teeth in the most perfect state
of decay. With one look of mingled
disgust and wrath Jennie turned and
fed, and moment later / heard her
ask the elevator boy why he kept peo-
pls in the seventh floor of a building
while he stopped below to read the
Herald
After re- posing my model sat down
to my work, rejoicing to find my good
light not wholly vanished. and in
frame Of mind to morelize over the
stranse ideas people jump at, and which
no amount of argument can drive out.
This train of thocght did not prevent
my giving careful attention of eye AID
hand to the proper drawing of my
Venus feet, for Vunuses have feet you
know. and pretty ones-and some
strange freak of nature had given this
commonplace. midole-aged German
woman, who had probably tramped
aboutin big wooden shoes all her young
life in the mother country, the most
perfectly snapped pair CT feet in all the
city. Every artist knows her. Her
feet serve as the model for all the bare
footed women who are seen on the walls
of the exhibition, from Venus down to
the bare-footed maiden with peilful of
berries.-Chicag0 Herald.