The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1890-08-15

servants pose as models2"
Eyes. Why notP" said the young
artist. You have SO continually
dinned into my ears the depravity OF
the professional model; you have told
my wife stories enough of young paint
ers who have been lnred into pcrdition
by the wiles of the Jezebcls who sit to
them to upset any woman who had not
Serphina's sense and confidence; and
so, rs 1 1 haven't risen high enough in
my profession to have duchesses, and
mayorcsses, and ~millionaires' wives fol
my models, I've had occurs to my
w servants"
.'I'm amazed aud 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 a chance of their portraits APP
pearing on the academy walls they
must be beauties. can only say that
l should be very sorry for my Hamish
to stoop so low as to paint his own ser.
wants. l have seen his 'Rosalind, and
to tG;n from its grace and refinement
to the clownishness coarseness of these
two wcnches is sad p~athos."
Payne Grey smiled and for two.
pence he would have bundled his
mother-in-law, glasses aud all, out al
the door and down the stairs in very
quick timc-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 wi.
lagc Festival" and Hamish McLatchct'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 n fancy to both o.
them, for they were surrounded by g
crowd from opening to closing time.
Mrs. McLatchet was annoyed beyond
expression at 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 Mr..
McLatchet had found his model.
My son." Mrs. McLatchet would
reply. 'does lot 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 un-
able to sit for him."
And so by degrees n resemblance
was discovered by the really knowing
ones between McLatchet's Rosalind
aud half a dozen ladies of rank and
fashion; and. although the artist said
nothing about the matter. his mothel
soon got into the habit of informing
her qucstioners that the original Of
RosaIind was, she imagined, a young
lady who would shortly make a scnsa.
ton by her beauty in society.
Both pictures were sold, strange to
say, to the same collector. and when
the exhibition closed they we're re-
turned to the studios for Il short time
in order that certain blcmishes pointed
out By the press and public opinion,
might be toned down.
$50 you've sold Your servants hall
ladies, Payne?" she said.
Yes, mother, and Hamish has sold
his 'Rosalind' to the same man." he re.
piled.
"Well. 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 Me-
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 Il temporary
absence of her son Mrs. McLatchet was
expatiating OH its particular excellence.
My son can not and will not paint
common people," she saba thrust ut
Payne Grey. which made that Young
gentleman give his wife II nudge.
'Far he it, however, from me to blow
my own sons trumpet. but the pre-
vailing characteristic OF this figure to
me is refinement. Rosalind, of course,
was Il dukes daughter, and gentle
blood and gentle breeding are ex-
pressed on every line of this face.
Note the nobility of the brow for in-
stance; the refined curve of the upper
lip, the delictcy of the skin. and that
SNASiSSo -AaSC u pOSC WHICH, IO COlll-
mon painters model can assume or
can be taught to assume. but which is
the birthright of the gentle born"
A murmur of acquicsencc followed
this culogium; those who were not
very gentle born sighed in hopeless adj
miration. and those who considered
themselves and We're considered to be
SO nodded and put on their Eyeglasses
and said: Very true!"
Presently Hamish McLatchet re.
appeared aud behind him came PAYNE
Grcy's two servants, Miss Gwcndolcn
Smith and Miss Araminta Hugs. who
modcstly took up their positions in the
background.
Then Mrs. McLatchct caught sight
of the two servants. Her face was
crimson with suppressed indignation as
she pressed to her daughters side and
whispered: Surely Serapnina. your
husband hasn't forgotten himself SC
far as to invite these two impertincnt,
hussics to come here? Or is it that on
the strength of having figured on his
canvas they have actually dared tc
presume that they had u right to be
present."
Mrs. Payne Grey could not explain
and therefore turned away to talk wit!
her neighbor.
But Mrs. McLatchct was not the
woman to suffer in silence. Her sor
might tolerate the presence of two
girls; but that he had asked them te
come, or had any hand in their coming
she could not believe. Now. however,
that they We're present, she determined
to put them TO rs much shame us suCt
coarse-iibered creatures could be cx.
pectcd to feel.
So she stepped up to the most promi
neht old dowagcr, and said in a low
voice to her:
Il was talking just now about the
very different physical results of re.
fined birth, and breeding. aud the re.
verse. 1t so happens that we can have
an excellent proof now, as n couple of
my son-in-law's servants happen to be
in the room. and we can institute, with
their assistance, ourown comparisons
So. while Hamish was still tiddlino
away with IL mysterious piece of velvet,
she went to the servants and said:
just step forward, will youpn