St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-20
NOT IN THE BARGAIN.

NOT IN THE BARGAIN.
| William Taylor in the American Queen.
Ted and lib cannot be said to have
fallen in love. The cohesion and ANAL
gamation of two such spirits cannot be
defined by an ordinary, everyday, vul-
gar expression. They formed classic
comradeship at the art school, eStab-
lished bond of mutual sympathy I'M
der the benignant. silly-smlling auspices
of Hermes holding an infant Love, or
an immature DionysiuS on his strong,
beautiful, mutilated left arm. The tall,
| burly young man, and the slim, little
young woman calculated his angles with
the plumb line and blocked out his out
lines with charcoal; rubbed in his
shadows with black crayon powder,
and picked out his high lights with
bread pills; and by the time they had
| done with him they began to believe they
were admirably we'll fitted to pass their
| lives together. SO, when they left the
school. they married. Then they sat up
| at No. Studios, and began TO design in
black and white for bread and butter.
| dong well and getting a good many
| commissions. Editors of domestic mag
azines rejoice greatly at Ted's work, it
| is so neat, SO SWeet-So exactly calculat-
| ed to please ninety-nlne subscribers out
of hundred. To be sure, the hundreth
| will be like to scream with agony and
| gnaSh his teeth over Ted's pretty, bone
less, large-eyed young ladies, who are
| invariabiyattired in the newest fashions,
and as invariably sit upon PROSTATE
tree trunks or lean against garden gates,
! looking at nothing in particular; While
| young men with Grecian pr0files, heavy
ders and imp0SSibly small feet, totter
| toWeringIy above them, with nostrils
blown out widely by the identical gales
of passion which bestrew the opposing
pages of type, with points OF eXclama-
ton. stars. dots, dashes and so forth,
| thickly as Vallambrosan leaves.
THIS style is altogether different. She
| works in tint rather than line. and uses
| Chinese white and India ink with
frank, impressionistic brutality of which
she is not little vain. She is never so
completely in her own element as when
she is depicting some scene of murder
Or violence tor the illustrated weekly
paper Of which she is the chief support
and stay.
1t was Ted's boast that lib never re-
! which may be regarded as the flotsam
and jetsam of the shipwrecked age of
chvalry. 1t was THIS pride that she
had never yet waited dinner for Ted, or
| sat up for him in company with cat
when business detained him at the club,
or sewn button on his shirt or darned
a sock for him since they were made
one. At breakfast she took coffee while
Ted drank tea; at dinner she had claret,
while he drank beer. They used to go
away Oh little visit to friends and rela-
tveS without consulting each other, and
the one who was inclined to be saving
went about in street cars while the
other had cabs. As to religion, both
Ted and lib were ardent agn0stcs;
but the ground for doubt was iden
tcai with neither. They disbelieved
in different ways: it would have been
uncharacterstic If they had trodden the
same path of heresy together. One an
tipathy, indeed, the couple had in COM
mon-an intense depreciation of, an ell
thusiastlc objection to the immature
young of the human race. Babies had
never been in the bargain, and both felt
veXed and hurt when their matter-of-
fact, Unconditional, busily employed mat
rimonial duet was turned into trio
TO begin with, there were no nursery
accommodations at No. 0 Studios under
the existing regime. The independent
plan Of exstance pursued by its pro-
prietors naturally included separate
Studios; and lib was not going to part
with her beloved working den. Ted
would see himself some-thinged before
he parted with his-at the dictation of
mere child. Besides, the loathly para
phernalia inSeparable frOmSeXtreme in
fancy-the nurse, the cradle, the sauce
pans, the feeding bottles, and last, but
not least, the vocal demonstrations of
their owner-would forever Danish in
SpiratiOn from the right hand of either
artist and rob life of all aesthetic eX-
quisteness. No. indeed! That baby
was not to be harbored on the premises
at all! A quiet lodging in the neigh
borhood was obtained, where the infant,
under the care of a respectable nurse,
might be reared until it was old enough
to be sent to school out of the way.
1t happened a few weeks later, a
friend, calling in at No. 0, found lib
pretending to be at work upon vivid
piece of realism of the blood and thun-
der school. She looked very pretty
bestowed the finishing touches OIL
gentleman arrayed in accurate evening
dress, with high Japan lacquer lights
about the creases of his knees and
elbows, who, with cleaning teeth and
starting eyebrows, was actively en-
gagged in performing upon young lady
(also in gala attire the operation of as
phXiation. The underline ran as fol-
lows:
Devil contest He grasped her white
throat with nervous sineWy fingers.
A hoarse gurgle was her only answer"
"a hoarse gurgle,' lib quoted, ap-
| difficult to draw than a hOarSe gurgle.
What do you say? Where is Ted?' . l
| had peeped INTO the room on the other
| side of the passage and found it empty.
Gle has gone''-She put ner brush be-
tween her lips and turned her head
| critically upon one side as she thought
fully gazed at her struggling couple
"He has gone over to Rose street to see
| his baby"-almoSt an eXaggeration of
! diSdain accenting the ultimate pronoun.
A heavy footsIep sounded in the pass
age. Ted popped his head in, looking
rather red aud conscious. He greeted
me shortly, and said to lib:
you'd better go over to Rose street
as quick as you can. That baby of
yonrs''- with a laboriously scOrnful
stress upon the words" seems to want
YOU"
Before the full-blown dramatic con-
tempt of Tbs regard the man quailed
and fled, taking me with him. 1t struck
me, as l turned over the drawings that
| lay scattered on his easel desk, that the
homeless young lady was less obtrusive
than usual, and that her delineator was
beginning to develop quite consider
able faculty for the sympathetic define
alton of babies.
AS [ looked up with a question on
my lips. there was frou-frou Of skirts
along the passage parquet-a tread of
hasty light footsteps, followed by tie
bang of the outward door and an I'M
mistakable grunt of relief from Ted. lib
had gone! He worked on in silence
for little while and then observed:
Don't seem to come back, does she?"
returned the irrelative, but custom
airy negative. A moment later Ted
volunteered another observation:
1T was splendid idea, that Rose
street one. But put into actual practice
| it doesn't seem to work. For one thing,
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