Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-05-26

the artists asked him In which century
the building was erected
: oh, II u from the time OF feudallsm
aud these portraits"
Here he stopped and looked with
nstonishment upon the walls.
sir" suid he after a while, IN
frightened tone, lit seems TO me-or
u II n halluoinatlon2 Please looSl Are
not those portraits lauEhing9"
Seriously the artists looked at the
portraits,
Indeed. you are not mistaken, They
are laughing. and cordially too
The proprietor, frightened. went to
can the other people, but the painters
rubbed out the fresh oolors and the
portraits We're serious as before.
The establishment OF the proprietor
was greater now he wanted to show
ms people tho miracle, and the miracle
did not exist any longer,
but you have seem" he said to
were laughing"
"Hos, we saw, and we can testify to
that with good conscience" was the
serious answer OF both paintera not
showing by any sign that they knew
what was the cause of such a meta
morphosis.
And l. was written In the book OF the
motel that on such and such a date.
IN the presence OF tho proprietor and
Two witnesses, happened an inexplica-
The painters In Munich know tho
story OF the key which was neeeaan,.y
10 everybody, and which was hung in
one place In the hall. And that was
IN the large boarding house. Instead
vi a real Key, one OF the jolly artists
painted Key, but so well that every
body wanted to take II down.
Such artistic jokes are more nrree-
PIE IMAM those OF the German atidonte
me trick OF the "hurshon" come not
from from natural disposition. but mostly
have malicious character
tftiNe VEG f0e 1uf I'm IN the mar
Ium Nl!H-c or ntbl LQranhty. LON. uen-
turtles passed before music began 10 90
Gown TO the deepness OF the human
heart, and make itself the reflection OF
human sentiments aud the expression
or the struggles OF the soul With The
development OF music began TO hl, -
som the humor OF musicians, and IL
ponsesyes special character
II one roads attentiveiy the biogr,.
phies of celebrated mnaicplns he cannot
help making the observation thai thc
more the artist was struggling with
life, onplrins not only to fame. but niao
70 PROPER condition of life, the more
he was full OF humor 1t seems that
humor Is an addition 10 talent, the stn
which lightcns the gray and snd ura
OF the artist and which does moi .ner-
hnlt hinl TO iall N despar at the lime OF
his hard fight for life
NeHr-slghted pc .,.a will cnn ,bn,
lght-heartodnessi but TO understand
the character OF an artist In this wav
~ n mistake. our opinion Is that
humor ia only energy IN a changed
form,
IT artists did not possess what those
so-called honest people' denominnte
light heartednels," said very noted
painter - me once, me VIVA IN hia M,
had had many sad moments; NJ would
be impossible for him 20 endure so
much sunering and Notwithstanding
mat % produce good work"
Optimism IL the inseparable comrade
OF the good humor OF an artist. n is
Impossible TO say II the first IL the con.
sequence or the second. or the contrary.
Anyway, II Is a fact that artists 10 the
future.
When the proposition was made I'd
becthoven TO make new contract
Nth his publisher. the master Thought