The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-25

said: There's something Will Keep peo-
pie guessing"
Yes; his pictures are puzzles to me.
Is it finished?"
mo. you see Dauber had an accident
at his studio, but with the absolute
frankness that characterizes the man,
| he came Immediately TO the Office TO ex-
| plain the delay Dauber was so busy
that he was working nights, and it
seems the model got mad at something
and kicked over the lamp"
THE model kicked?"
Yes; the young lady who was pos
| ing for Aftermath said he made her
feet too big and it seems she has a
great deal of temperament, and it as
serted itself at this moment and set the
studio on fire.
well, just fancy-I should think it
dangerous to have things like that hap
pen
"Oh. this artistic temperament is a
queer thing to stack up against. But
used to being surprised. You begin not
to count on anything being what you
expect it to be. Then, one of our artists
We have to lock up in a side room
without windows when he starts a
picture, and we have his meals sent in
to him until he finishes. His capacity
is enormous"
NO. for food. He seems to absorb it;
but his pictures have delicacy of feel
! ing, a quivery moonlight effect that
would make you think they evolved
from a rose leaf and dew diet. But
they DON'T
Talking of food said Mrs. Dobley,
when l called at the Office the other
day I noticed a very tired. pale little
girl eating a sandwich in a corner. Who
was she?"
"Oh, that was Rossiter Ross. who
did those spicy sketches signed Racy
Ross in the Tablet before we began to
take her poems on the Giraffe. Her
style is very misleading. She writes en-
tirely about Iacehorses, actresses, men
about town, birds and bottles / fancied
her as dashing person who would
come to the Giraffe Office in a cab with
"a footman.
You can imagine when this pale
little girl came in 1 was stunned. She
was so timid she would hardly speak
above a whisper, but She sat down and
wrote a sketch in ten minutes, Hanson
Land at Midnight that simply reeked
with luxury and magnificence of all
sorts.
I'VE have another interesting charac-
ter on the staff" said Mr.. Dobley; ''he
the enthusiasm engenderer.'
wonderingly.
! Yes, it's an idea of my own. But the
day will come when every magazine
will have an enthusiasm engenderer
OF course he is supposed to be an
editor, but his real work is to get the
writer's and the artists out of a rut
You see, Mrs. Dobley, poets and artists,
like people in other vocations, regard
their days work very much as some
c RI in in
butter and buns. They write for the
market and try to turn out good sellers.
Now, our enthusiasm engenderer is a
young man who knows his business
He talks of art with big a. and con-
dennis everything in sight in the liter
airy and artistic line except the Giraffe
This wakes up all the dormant energies
that have been choked by commercial
ambition. Here, at last, say the poets,
in the Green Giraffe we can put out the
poems that no one will buy. Here, cry
the artists. is haven for that good stuff
that have been piling up at home in
my portfolios. They go away from the
office after an interview with our en-
thusiasm engenderer. walking on air
and generating good ideas. In this way
we have large unconscious staff
working for us without salary"
What a remarkable idea,' said Mrs.
most as odd as artists, aren't they?"
Quite. There's Daisy Dimple. whose
exquisite Lines to a Baby Dewdrop'
you admired so much. She is a stout.
matronly woman, who wears spectacles
and a rainy-day dress"
Il was very much interested in Miss
Barrington's article on the Develop
ment of Infant Mind" said Mrs. Dob
ley. That, will be bound, was writ
ten by a truly feminine, womanly
woman"
Let me see said Dobley mo. that
was written by harrington Chubb, a
poet that we have on salary. He is a
wonder. He can do anything from a
dialect poem to a cooking recipe in
about minute and a half. He wants
US to start a department Hints to
Mothers, but it's hardly artistic enough
for the Giraffe. Don't you agree with
me?"
well, it would be apt to be vague
and symbolic at all events said Mrs.
Dobley, helping her husband on with
his overcoat; but the poor babies
might suffer-
mo; harrington Chubb has six
youngsters of his own. He's brought
them up himself, too. You see. his wife
is literary woman. She writes on golf
and athletics and things
And the editor of the Green Giraffe
left for his office with a dignity that
he had never known in the hardware
business.