The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-27

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being able to explain 1t. l tcld her I'd
been here: but she said, IL
had, that would make four
days possession money. So thought
the only thing was to come and ask
you, sir, what 1t all meant
However, Mr.. Whistler was not TO be
led into discussion. Hes gave him
some more money, but he told him
that now his demands had been salts
fed the sooner he cleared out the bet
ter.
WHIsTLER's EASY WAY OF PART
ING FROM HIS MONEY.
The secret of Mr.. Whistler's difficult
ties would seem TO be rather want of
Judgment than want of money. He
commands good prices for his pictures,
but Of course he is liable to receive large
sums ut certain times and then receive
none during long intervals. Like most
painters when he has plenty of money
In his pocket. he spends is profuscly
He never kept any account In his life
or took the trouble to calculate what
rate of expenditure fitted in with his In
come. He said to me one day. You
never know where you are with these
beggars. believe they are all I'm league
with one another. Sometimes you are
quite free from them for some time
Then one comes with a little bill and
IL Z.
comes and you tell him it isn't quite
convenient 10 pay him just now. but IL
he'll wait month or two you will see
what you can do for him. Not IL 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 cf those yellow
papers. don't you know? Then you
grnnble and write him n chequc. too
This is all very fine. and YOU go on writ
w
a certain time. But there must be lir.-
II to all Things, and At last n day comes
when you can't write them any more
cheques. Then It's the very mischief.
la! Ha! Tla! don't you know"
WHlSTLER'S MoCKING LAUGH
AND SINGING TALK.
Mr.. Whistler's laugh is one of the
most characteristic things about him.
1t is Il weird knocking. almost tlendsn
laugh unique OF its kind MIR. Irving
got hold of part of it when he appeared
as Mephistophiles in Faust. ana Mr.
Whlstler's disciples caricature ii as
they do most OF his peculiari; les as we'll
rs his are. But the original Is ininlta-
Die
Much fohis table talk would be point
less in print, as 1t owes it's chief charm
10 his voice and manner and gestures
His great delight is to startlc people
and he will often say things simply be-
cause they are unexpected. There are
certain phrases which he is always us
ing, such as Don't you know" and
What at the end of q sentence; his fla
vorite adjective is "Amazingu' and he
applies 1t TO all manner OF people and
things In really amazing manner. lie
is fully alive to the Importance of n
drawl in giving point to an anccdote
He used constantly TO say to a man
"a n fIl
what makes you SO amazing is that
Stammer OF yours. If II weren't too
late. should try to grow one like il
myself. If could stutter like you do,
| should get off some astounding
things" 1t is impossible to be in Mr.,
WhiStler's society long without hearing
MIN talk Of getting off" amazing or
astounding things, by which he means
epigrams He will spare no pains to
get off good one. and will lead up to
| II with the most painstaking ingenuity
80 that ii may at last be jerked out
n natural way. His best known met
| when Oscar Wilde said to him. Il wish
| ! had said that. Jimmy" and he said,
| oscar, You will" was the result nf
| lays OF prepare ton. and was carefully
| treasured up until the right moment
came to get it off," When an cpi-
gram has once been got off" Mr..
| Whistler Is in the seventh heaven and
goes about repeating it with all the
| attendant circumstances Wherever he
GOES. Ills conversation largely consists
OF He said to me, don't you know"
and Then l said to him" When the
point has been reached he gives vcne 10
one of his long. wild. satanic laughs
ana is bitterly disappointed If every
BODY else does moi laugh too.
ONE OF wHISTLER's BEST
STORIES
Some OF the stories tina, ne !nvents are
| lule up 10 the mark of those which
.cally happen to him. | remcmhnr ono
| about Gis suffering friend lust re-
ferred 10. According to the story this
man was In the habit Of eating mur-
| iins for breakfast. and one morning hp
| called his landlady and said To her. II
| want to have some m NM m-m-'' |,
! was no good. he could not say II So
| as was his wont he began the sentence
| again. Il want to have for my breoE
| fast some m-m-m-m -well hang il III
crumpets." Then he had TO have cr,Im,
| pets for his breakfast every inorninr
| though he hated crumpets AT last he
| could stand it no longer: so h. 500
! for his landlady again. and began dra u.
| ling. Il don't want 10 have any more
| c-c-c-c-c lie Wrestled and struggled
| with his word tcr Il long time buI !,
last had to give up trying To saw :.
in despair; and for the rest Of his st,y
| he had TO 40 on having crumpets far
his breakfast. though he got to detes,
| the sight OF them more and more every
| day.
All through the summer Mr.. Whistler
| holds Il kind OF reception every SIN.
day afternoon in the garden at the