Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03
SENTIMENTAL BEINGS
MALE ARTISTS ARE MIGHTY QUEER
 FELLOWS WHEN SINGLE.

Tho Painter of Figures Is Naturally Ro-
 mantle and Very Easily and Very Read
 fly Falls in Love-His Income, However,
 often Serves to Keep Him Single.
 Very few of our younger artists are married. but it tmay be accepted as fact that they all want to be. Cupid finds no mark SO tempting to his shaft as that presented by painter at his easel. Studio life and sentiment are almost synonymous terms. Why this should be so is easily explained. An artists life is almost invariably lonely one No matter how sociable his temperament may be. his working hours are generally spent in silence and seclusion. Being essentially of a sensitive nature he longs for such sympathy as women alone can give. The failure of picture or it's complete success are matters that re- quire more condolence or congratulation than can be expressed by brother painter. The ldndliest of noighbors cam not go further than to say: Look here, old fellow, nm awful sorry that they sent your picture back from the acade- my. It's beaetly shame. That's what callit.p Or; By love, old man, you're in luck ] know lots of fellows with a big name who have been working for year back to catch the Shaw or Evans prize, and ycu got t away from 'em all, But you always were q lucky dog.
 4 woman does these things better. That is the reason he wants 10 marry her The painter is naturally romantic In his opinion girlhood is always an- gelic, He may have individual pref erence for blonds CT brunettes, for little or tall or intellectual or womanly wom- en- but the entire sex is still beautiful to biln. not perhaps in its physical fea- tures, but in its mental possibilities. Hence be is always in love and restrained from matriinony only by the difficulty of supporting two people on an income that is barely sufficient fer one. To be an artist you mGst be an idealist Stu. dio life has extraordinary vicissitudes tt times, but il is always made up more or less of visionary elements. Occasionally the artists dlslms turn iptonightmares, and he has q very bad quarter of an hour. But when events disillusionizo hin he mopes for q short period and pro eeeJs to T.ll in love with q new chaIrner.
 Last spring two young mon, oIe Q painter lis companion a GculptOr. were ieiut occupants of 8 studio in New York These departments of art do Eot always agree. iHasmuch as the dust and dirt of a sculptor's modelling platform in- terfere considerably with Gle purity Of a portrait maber's paints, But neither of the young fellows was rich, and by club ping together they managed to pay the rent of a larger studio than they c0Eid have had separately The sculptor made as little dust $ pcs ibie and kept it well down by frequently using a water sprinkler Not to b5 bchiudhand in courtesy the painter was patient, and by keeping 8 sheet of drapeIy iu constant readiness was euabled instantly to cover his canvas when his comrade unayoid- ably threw ont cloud of powdered plaster of paris They were comrades in every sense of the word and had q union Of poeEetbool,s as well as of sym pathies. On one occasion tho sculptor WAS 80 hard Gp on the final receipt of a commission for large statue that he was unable to buy the clay necessary for his nlo,ioi, Whereup0n tho painter de- uie himself cigars took ta 8 pipe and by ;sis economy got enough money to pay for thuuycc sary materials
 some time afterward the artist re. ceived m important order and hll hot the wEerewithal 10 purchase tho large canvas essential for it's execution. Tho sculptor sail nothing. but putting on his street coat went out fora walk An hgEr later be came back accompanied by boy. and between them they car rjed canvas twelve feet long by six Wila. lt was q windy day. and tho sculptor was quite exhausted by the effort oi getting his unruly burden past guaty corners. But after few minutes breathing spell the two friends em- bracod each other affectionately ane went to work in Retrospective corners. So ideal friendship as this ought to hayu lasted throughout lifetime. But au event happened which changed the current os suitability in tho studio and estrangea the two young men so that at pres, Tt thoy are not even nod ding acquiatauces.
 Ono day the painter received m order for a sketch of man in arnor. The sculptor rep lily consented to pose for bis friend, aad after some effort finally got himself buckled into suit of mail By oue of those accidents that some times occur at the most inopportune times the sculptor's hancee happened to call at the studio chaperoned by a lively married relative. In order to get into the arinor the sculptor, who is of large frame had t0 strip to the skin To get out of the suit of mail was not to be con sidered So he had to stand awlwardly listening to the merry laughter of the la- dies over his eomical appearance. His fancee, encouraged by the witty com Inents of her friend, made such fun Of the unfortunate sculptor that he became furious and broke off the engagement That evening he employed q truckman and removed all his things from the stl- dio without youchsafng as much as good- by to his chuln The experience effected all entire change in his opinion of the la- dies His first inamorata was tall, dis tinguished looking brunette He is now engaged to a little, round faced blond, who. despite her resemblance toa French doll, is declared by him to be the epi- tome of all the charms and graces of womauhood New York Sun