St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-01
a TALE OF ART.

The GLOBE published in its news col
nmnf yesterday morning a pathG ii: &C.
count of the difficulties attending the
higher intellectual life, which some of
Its readers may have overlooked be-
cause of the obscurity of its position. a
minneapolis artist hal renOwn in the
city of his residence, the hope of fame
beyond and genius in his soul. But he
had neither money in his pocket nor
food in his stomach. A Minneapolis
woman had no love for art for its own
sake, and no very good manners nor re-
spect for her contracts, if what is SAID
about her is true. But she had board
Ing house Tor which the artist had a
passionate need. and she had lively
ambition to see her features immortal
lied on canvas in the conventional hues
of pink and white. These two
entered into solemn compact
under their respective hands and
seals of the following nature: He
was to paint her portrait with accurate
tattery, and she, in return. was TO sup
ply him with a place to sleep and food
TO eat for the full term of forty weeks,
and, as he claims, with all the privi-
legeS accorded to her most favored
boarders. 1t is hardly necessary to tell
the story of what ensued to any one
familiar with the history of art and
literature and intellectual pursuits in
general. He, of course, did his part
faithfully. and with deft touches caught
her happieSt expression, and landed it
securely in a shape which her posteIity
In the boarding house line might pre-
serve among their choicest household
relics. She, on the other hand. having
no appreciation of the artistic tempera-
ment, soon tired Of his society. She OBJ
5ected openly to his loafing about the
parlor i'll the day time, and befouling
her -antlmacasSarS with cheap tobacco
smoke, as artists are bound to do if
they would have inspiration for their
work. She criticised the cut of his
clothes and the style in which he wore
his flowing locks. because they differed
from the fashion affected by the gentle
men in trade with whom she was ac-
quainted. But to all these things he
submitted with patience as long as the
food supply was uninterrupted. When,
however, she helped him last at the ia
BILE. and sometimes forgot to help him
at ali, complaining that he had eaten so
much at the previous meal as to need
nothing at this, he left her roof more in
sorrow than in anger. At an earlier
stage of the worlds history there would
be no remedy for one thus crushed TO
earth, but these are happier times. The
courts are open to the soulful and the
intellectual as well as to the vulgar
moneymaker, and he has sued her for
the value of his painting, which he esti-
mates at Ggure arrived at by reckon
Ing her board and lodging as worth Sc
week. She is said to admit the mall
treatment in her answer, but to set I'D as
defense that he did not know his
business, and that the picture is no
good. The GLOBE predicts that Min
neapolls jury will make short work of
the case. In a center of its sort there
are artists and better artists, but it is
not admitted that the poor artists exist.
He will get the price which is due him,
because his craft deserves support and
encouragement, if for no other reason.
1t was all right to trihe with poets and
such in medeaiyal Florence, and to
make them climb back stairs for a liy-
ing, but it will no goa down in Minneap-
oils. All its DANTEs are bound to have
a good time. and if they can not secure
it in any other way the law will look ont
for Them