The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-07-05

and various smart canoes near boat,
house seemed to testify to the neighhor-
hood Of human beings. But the stream
and It's shores, lovely bits Of level meadow
T ut o shaSs siSs Stiffness. q , w;lGT and lie s
pertinent, putting Of the little launch, were
like Il virgin country. Ny wife and l
wished to enjoy it to perfection, so we
disemharked at the log-boom and told the
captain Of the steamer that we would
wit ever ,,, trip answered .. that if
hour and forty minutes that would COLI
meet, with his boat and with the car back
e3c r. to the ne ne van and T Wished s'd ta
Ne had bF6ught the sketehing ottfit and
then sat dbWn On the grass and made all
an sorts Of plans for otlr future" ESQ.,, =.
aims A. si5N rs s 5fys e tAs s a Me- t.
they loomcd in the backgr6hnd? ,
Not at all. l do not think TINT there
were, any hills in sight. We We're SO
tngrossel that we did not notice the up
rising of a bank Of threatening clouds
"Ah, l see! 1t was their outl:iltest-:.'''
Outlines nothing!' 1t was their Wet
nSt;sl the II, profuss, mPortune, wrung-
ness! In Il monieiit we. were soaked,
our shoes squelehed, the color of tho
blue corntlowers in iils wife's hat dripped
down her neck. We were sight to sec.
| fancy that the captain of the launch
thought of our plight and made all haste
to rescue. us--but the time scented long
to It's. However. we tried to take ii as
u joke. But the jocularity ceased the next
day, when my wife developed case OF
acute bronchitis. A physician was called,
who pronounced it Ii tritle, if treated
promptly. He prescribed mixture for
the cough, and told me to paint her back,
between the shoulders, with iodine.
$50, with phial of tincture of iodine
and small camel's-ha brush, l set to
the impression of the beautiful solitary
landscape that we had seen was fixed
upon my mental retina--,nd, first that l
knew, | was painting that scene in iodine
monochrome on the shoulders of my pa
tient! | declare to you, Ingraham. had
comn|etely forgotten that | was not
painting on canvas instead Of human
surf ace, like 'chcken-skin, delicate white
as Austin Dolson sings of the PomNl-
dour $ fan: My wife, wondering at the
length of the application, at last inquired
But have you not almost finished, Vic
tor" AMI l. still oblvious, replied: a
few morr touches and it will be ready to
frame. She gave Il funny little hoarse
shout of laughter-my wife had sense
u uutIloI. IeH l., 100, SAW Cle JOKE.
She rah to the dressing table, and, by
means of Il hand-mirror, surveyed her
shoulders. Why, this is lovely land
syape!' she said. 1T is too good to lose.
Find my kodak, Victor, it is somewhere
in one of the trunks, and photograph
Your masterpiece before it begins to fade
out She was delighted; the iodine and
the fun together soon cured her cold, so
that, in a few days we came home to New
York
'Of cour se I had the photograph ell
larged, and it succeeded so well that
placed few copies in Goupirs. hoping
that some of my friends would like them.
The original painting has long since disap-
peared: [ sha i'll make your replica from
the photograph. And l shall try to recall
the silvery green's and the son1ber olive
browns which. you rightly attributed to
"Rut all this does not account for those
grandiose. superhuman curves, the visible
presence of the earth goddess
"Ah, rubbed down the outlines all
that | could. But it is not easy to ob-
literate a, photograph. Those curves-I
told you they were owing to the shape of
the canvas. My wife's shoulders, of
course. came Oft large in proportion to
the landscape painted OH them. She is
not titanic, nor even, perhaps, q goddess.
But she is IN extra nice little woman, all
the same