Chicago eagle., 1893-09-02

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.Jobinard. who was particularly ugly,
thickset, hairy little man, used at first
rather to resent these references to his
personal advantages. His four assist
ants and his cashier would litter, and
Jobinard used to blush, but at length
tho poor fellow fell into the snare laid
for him by the villain DaburoD.
He got to believe himself the perfect
type of manly beauty. When French
man has once come to this conclusion,
there is no folly of which he is not ready
to be guilty
The fact is, Daburon had passed tbc
word round. The Art students, male
and female, invariably stared apprecia-
lively at the little, hairy, thickset JOHN
ard as though he were the glass of fash
ion and the mold of form. Jobinard
now began to give himself airs. He
staggered about the shop, he exhibited
himself in the doorway, he posed and at
titudinized all day long, and then we be-
gan to make it rather warm for John
ard
"Ah, NJ. Jobinard, if you were only
poor man, what thing it would be for
Art All, if we only had you to sit to
us in the nude We are going to do
Ajax defying the lightning next week.
What an Ajax you would make, Jo-
binardl"
''You really ought to sacrifice yourself
in the interests of Art, another would
remark. You'd ruin the professional
model. You would indeed"
Gentlemen, gentlemen" Jobinard
would reply. his hairy, baboonlike face
grinning with delight, "a too benevolent
heaven has made me the man | am, " and
then he struck an attitude.
"What legs" we all cried in a sort of
"Ah, NJ. Jobinard, said pleadingly,
eff you would only permit us to photo
graph your lower extremities"
'Never, gentlemen, neverW replied
the infatuated Jobnard; II care moth
ing for Art. Besides, it would be al
most indecent; could never look into
a print shop without coming face to face
with the evidences of my too fatal
beauty
From that day Jobinard ceased to
wear his professional apron.
1t was about week after this that
Daburon, and another man presented
ourselves at Jobindrd's establishment
We raised our hats to Jobinard as one
man, we smiled, and then we bowed.
The hairy little grocer seemed consid-
erably astonished at our performance
IN. Jobinard," said Daburon. who
was our spokesman, ''you see before you
deputation of three representing the
Art students of Paris, some 800 in num-
Der. We have come to beg favor. We
know, alas too well, that it would be
absolutely impossible to induce a man of
your position in society to sit to us; but,
NJ. Jobinard, man possessing the lower
extremities of Hercules, Farnese
Hercules. NJ. Jobinard--and need hard
ly remind you that Hercules was demi-
god-has his duties as well as his priv
ileges. Those magnificent lower eXtrem-
titles Of his are not his own-they belong
to the public.
Such lower extremities as yours,
I.monsieur, are not for an age, but for all
time. They must be handed down in
marble to posterity. The legs of Jobi-
nard must become a household word in
Art. To refuse our request, monsieur,
would be crime. You would retain
the copyright of your own legs of course.
They would be multiplied in plaster of
paris and become u marketable commod-
ity over the whole civilized world. Such
muscles as these, said Daburon, respect
fully prodding and patting the unfor-
tunate Jobinard, "must not be lost to
the artistic world What biceps, what
deltoid, my frcnds" he continued.
"What magnificent development of the
sternoclidomastodeusW
"You will not refuse Isl" we cried in
chorus.
"You will not dare to refuse u.s." added
Daburon.
gentlemen, yield | see that Art
cannot get on without me. When would
you like to begin2" said poor Jobinard.
Tomorrow at noon. answered Dabu-
ron as he shook hands with the little
grocer rcverentially, and then we took
our leave.
Next day long procession filed into
the shop.
This way, gentlemen, this way, il
you please" said M. Jobinard, as he in
} dicatcd the way to his back yard.
, We must have been at least thirty.
Everybody brought something there
were four sacks of plaster, some paving
stones, bits of broken iron, bricks, and
enough material to have walled up Jobi-
: nard alive. A great mass of moist plas
| ter was prepared, the limbs that hac
become necessary to the world of Ar
were denuded of their covering anc
placed in the moist mass, then larg,
quantities of the liquid plaster was poured
on them, then the scraps of old iron, the
] bars, the paving stones and the bricks
were carefully inserted and built up intJ
l the still soft mass which was at least {
c yard high and u yard thick
Don't move, dear NJ. Jobnard,
. cried Daburon, &" the plaster is about tC
/ set. We shall return in half an hour
D by which time the mods will be com
] pleto'
2 VI. Jobinard, seated in the center of hi
back yard, bolt upright, bowed to eacl
r of Us as we passed out.
o la about quarter of an hour Jobi
Y nard began to feel distinctly uncom
4 Portable. The molds seem gettin
{ terribly heavy" lac shd to one o
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