The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-23

JAMES 1PNEI
the man began to SWIVEL. ST have my
own family to keep and my own rent
to pay"
TN tell you what I advise you to
do" Mr.. Whistler returned, as he
gently pushed him out of the room,
you should do as L do, and have a
man in yourselfp'
Soon after this. the man came and
said that if he was not paid, he would
have to put bills UP outside the house,
announcing a sale. And sure enough,
a few days after, great posters We're
stuck up all over the front of the
house, announcing so many tables and
so many chairs and so much old
Nankin china for sale on a given day.
Mr.. Whistler enjoyed the joke highly,
and fastened to send out invitations
to all his friends to a luncheon party,
adding as postscript, you will know
the house by the bills of sale
stuck up outside" And the bailiff
proved an admirable butler, and the
party one of the merriest ever known.
WHISTLER's EXPERIMENT IN
PUTTING A BAILIFF TO SLEEP.
There is another baiIiff story which
Mr.. Whistler is very fond of relating.
Some one had told him that mixture
of snuff and beer had the property of
sending people off to sleep. So he
purchased a large parcel of snuff, and
put the greater part of it into gf
gantic tankard full of beer, which he
sent out to his bailiff in the garden.
1t was a very hot summer afternoon,
and the man eagerly welcomed his re-
freshment- Mr.. Whistler was indoors
painting. and forgot all about him. In
the evening he said to his servant,
Where's the mann" The servant re-
piled, 81 don't know, sir. suppose he
must have gone away"
Next morning Mr.. Whistler got up
very late and went out into the garden,
where he was astounded to see the
bailiff sitting in precisely the same
position as the day before The
empty tankard was on the table be-
side him and his pipe had fallen from
his hand on to the grass.
Halo, my sleeping beauty" said
Mr.. Whistler, "haye you been there all
this While?"
But the man made no answer, and
all Mr. Whistler's efforts to arouse
him were unavailing. Late in the
afternoon he awoke in the most
natural way in the world, excIaiming
that it was deadfully hot weather and
that he must have been asleep over an
hour. Meanwhile Mr.. Whistler had
got some money together, and was
able to pay him off. Some hours later,
when Mr.. Whistler was slipping his
coffee after dinner in a very contented
frame Of mind, a ring was heard at
the door, and the man rushed I'M
tremendously in. He was evidently
in a great state of excitement and be-
gan by asking Mr.. Whistler what day
of the month it was.
IF that's all you want to know
was the reply, you may as we'll go
away again"
well, SIR" the man said, "I can't
make it out at all Here you've paid
me three days possession money. and
could have sworn it was the 18th; but
somehow or other everybody tells me
It's the 18th, and see the evening pa
pers are dated the 18th, and nv
wife's been blowing me up for being
out all last night without being able
to explain it. 1 told her I'd been here:
but she said, If had, that would make
four days possession money So I
thought the only thing was to come
and ask you, sir, what it all meant"
However. Mr., Whistler was not to
be led into a discussion. He gave him
some more money, but he told him that.
now his demands had been satisfied.
the sooner he cleared out the better.
EASY WAY OF PART
ING FROM HIS MONEY.
The secret of Mr. WhistIer's difficult
ties would seem to be rather want OF
judgment than want of money He |
good prices for his pictures,
but of course he is liable to receive |
large sums at certain times and then
receive none during long intervals. |
Like most painters, when he has
plenty of money in his pocket. he
spends it profusely. He never kept
any account in his life, or took the |
trouble to calculate what rate of ex-
penditure fitted in with his income.
He said to me one day, you never
know where you are with these beg
CARS. l believe they are all in league
with one another. Sometimes your are
quite free from them for a long time
Then one comes with his little bill and
you write him cheque Then an
other comes and you tell him it isn't
quite convenient to pay him just now,
but if he'll wait month or two you'll
see what you can do for him. Not a
bit of it. He's as suspicious as an old
crow and says, if you don't pay him
at once, he'll serve you with one of
those yellow papers, don't you know?
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cheque too. This is all very fine, and
you go on writing cheques whenever
they come, for certain time But
there must be limit to all things, and
at last a day comes when you can't
write them any more cheques. Then
It's the very mischief Hal Ha! Ha!
don't you know ?"
WHISTLER'S MOCKING LAUGH
AND SINGING TALK.
Mr. Whistler's laugh is one Of the
most characteristic things about him.
It is q. weird knocking, almost dendish