The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-25

youths and damscls, tile whitc-liaircd
squire, the Eizabethnn house in the
background etc. The central figures
were four in number---two men and
two girls--the latter not remarkable
for beauty, but graceful and easy il
attitude.
We'll. mother, and what do sou
think ofite" asked Payne Grey
''The picture is well enoug: in its
way. Payne, replied the lady. ,'but
You know my opinion about the style.
There is nothing elevating;in it, and 1
hold that the main canon of art is to
elevate at the same time that the
mirrorsis held up to nature
For instance, now" she said. these
saucy-looking wenches in the fore
ground, who are tlleyp"
Young women Of the highest re-
spectability, mother"
Perhaps so, but il | were asked
should say that they were those two
impudent servants Of yours Gwen
dolen Smith and Araminta Huggs.'
Quite right! So they are said
Payne Grey calmly. Il am indeed
clad that the likenesses are so faith
full
Mrs. McLatchct uttered cry Of
horror.
do you mean to say, Payne she
exclaimed. ''that you have SO far
lowered yourself us to make your own
servants pose as modelsp"
Yes, Why not?" said the young
artist. You have so continually.
sdinned into my ears the deprayity Of
the professional model; you have told
my wife stories enough ofyoung. paint
ers who have been lured into perdition
by the wiles of the Jezebels who sit to
them to upset any woman who had not
Serphina's sense and confidence; and
so, as | haven't risen high enough in
my profession to have duchesses, and
mayoresses, and millionaires' wives for
my models, I've had recourse to nv
own servants
s 'Tm amazed and disguised beyond
eXpression!" said Mrs McLatchet.
you will fill the heads Of these
ignorant girls with ideas which have
no right to be in them. and make them
think that because you paint them and
there's chance of their portraits ap.
Fearing on the academy walls they
must be beauties. l can only say that
/ should be very sorry for my Hamish
to stoop so low as to paint his own ser
wants. | have seen his .Rosalind,' and
to turn from its grace and refinement
to the circumstances coarseness of these
two wcnches is sad pathos.''
Payne Grey smiled and for two
pence he would have bundled his
mother-in-law, glasses and all, out at
the door and down the stairs in very
quick time-a feeling which, by his
manner he )! pretty clearly expressed.
The public crowded in to see the
pictures Of the Year at the academy
exhibition. Both Payne Grey's vii
lage Festival and Hamish McLatchet's
"Rosalind in Arden" had been honored
by having been hung on the line, and
before long it was evident that the
public had taken a fancy to both Of
them, for they were surrounded by 3
crowd from opening to closing time.
Mrs. McLatchct was annoyed beyond
expression ut Payne Grey's success, but
to some degree consoled by the sensa.
ton which the beauty and grace of
Rosalind had made. People were
dying, they said. to know where MIR.
McLatchet had found his model.
My son." Mrs. McLatchet would
reply, ''does not employ models in the
common sense of the term. His last
picture, Dido at Carthage, contained
the portrait of Lady Ring Trotter; and
l know that he was going to introduce
Lady Windmills into his picture this
year, but she was unfortunately UNI
able to sit for him."
And SO by degrees resemblance
was discovered by the really knowing
ones between McLatchet's Rosalind
and half dozen ladies' of rank and
fashion,; and, although the artist said
nothing about the matter, his mother
soon got into the habit of informing
her questioners that the original Of
Rosalind was. she imagined, a young
lady who would shortly make sensa-
ton by her beauty'in society.
Both pictures were sold, strange to
say. to the same collector, and when
the exhibition closed they were re-
turned to the studios for u short time
in order that certain blemishes pointed
out by the press and public opinion,
might be toned down.
so you've sold your servants hall
ladies, PayneP" she said.
Yes, mother, and Hamish has sold
his 'Rosalind' to the same man." he re-
Piled
We'll, of course he sold his said
Mrs. McLatchet. II never feared
otherwise. No one could look at
'Rosalind without falling in love with
her.
The next morning Payne Grey and
his wife went over to Hamish Nc
Latchet:s studio. Some twenty or
thirty people were there assembled.
and among them of course. was Mrs.
McLatchet, who was the most gorgeous
figure in the room
The company was gathered around
the picture, and during temporary
absence of her son Mrs. McLatchet was
expatiating on It's particular excellence.
My son can not and will not paint
common people, she saba thrust at
Payne Grey. which made that young
gentleman give his wife j. nudge.
Far be it, however. from me to blow
my own sons trumpet. but the pre-
vailing characteristic Of this figure to
me is refinement. Rosalind Of purse,
was a dukes daughter, an1 gentle
blood and gentle breedin are ex-