The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-10-27

by herself, with Q real easel doing genuine
paintings lot Of loose. noisy tulips in Q
bronze vase. Right at the farther end OF
the classroom was madame. giving her
celebrated imitation of a lady absorbed In
a book. when, as a matter Of fact. she was
watching me ike a cat all the time.
I was not In a very good humor. Tulip
in colors ought to be pretty good fun. and
/ shouldn't have minded doing the cast. but
l did not like the free-hand drawing copies.
The man who invented them must have
had the meanest kind of mind. Some of
them were vases and urns. and some OF
them were like a bit of wallpaper. but ali
cf them had exactly the same trick-the
4, right side was the same as the left. and
you had to make the two match. Also. not
one of them was the kind of thing that
you would want to draw II you we're left
TO yourself. After making the actual draw
ing copies. the mar who invented them
! ceems to have worried himself to find cut
something else which would make them
more annoying. and help to freeze people
off art. so he had printed at the foot OF each
Of them: The pupil must not resort TO
measurement"
l did net take any notice of that piece
OF .diocy. If you want TO copy anything.
ycu want TO make II as like as possible as
easily as possible. So I just took a long
strip Of paper and meacured every little bit
Of the l"r' side of the silly Grecian jampot
that l WAS supposed TO be drawing. ! am
absolutely certain that Mr.. Berlew did not
see me measuring. because he was busy
with Cecily at the time. Presently he came
round the beginners desk. He stopped
only a few seconds with each girl. telling
her where she WAS wrong and Imetines
drawing a little bit himself. 1 noticed that
he could draw without resting his hand on
the board. and holding his pencil overland
or anyhow. | respected that. though ] was
going TO have a row with him. When he
came to me ne just glanced at my drawing.
which was half the Grecisn jamDOt. and
done exactly right. Then he said:
Take that of your board. please"
I took 1t off and he tore It in two. Now
he said. you can start afresh. without
measuring this time"
My idea had been TO let him praise me
and then tell him that i had measured it,
and why l had done 1t. Then I should
have got into an argument with him. But
he didn't begin the way ] had expected.
and l hadn't got anything ready to go on
with. So / Just said nothing. and he went
on TO Jane Desborough. who was sitting
next to me. ! suppose 1t was too good. and
he couldn't believe that I had done II with
out measuring. 1t would have been more
cunning Of me II ] had made II Just a very
little wrong. Or, perhaps. he saw the dots
that I had made when I was measuring:
the lines went over them. but they did
show through a little, and anybody who
was looking out for them might have
spotted them. All he said to Jane Des-
borough was that she was not getting on
very fast
That was the truth. Jane Desborough IL
as lazy as she is beautiful. and that Is say
ing a goo. deal. I do not suppose 1t will
matter much to her. When q girl is as love
ly as that there IL no occasion for her
to know the Kings Of Judah and Israel. or
Go free-hand drawing q well. Then he
went on to lose his temper with the girls
who were drawing from the cast, and to
lose It rather more with poor Cecily. But
from time to time he kept looking at me
suspiciously. As that annoyed me, i be-
gan to pretend to be measuring again. and
to be trying to hide 1t from him. At last
he fell Into tho trap. and rushed round to
where I was sitting. Then he saw that 1
was not measuring. and felt tina he had
Sop 70 oey e0Wetnln8. 70 Ne o4S0: "1ou
seem to have made up your mind to give
as much trouble ~ possible"
I said I hadn't. and that ] wanted TO
learn. and that I was sure I remembered
everything he had told M about drawing
that day. As he had not told me one sin
gle. solitary thing. that smote him In tho
conscience. He said that I was making the
left handle OF the Etruscan pickle-jar con-
/; Germ rather too big. and went back TO
Cecily.
Just about then Jane Desborough fell
asleep. She generally did that II things
didn't interest her much. She did 1t very
neatly, with her elbow on the desk and her
head supported by one hand She was
slightly turned away. 60 that madame
couldn't see her. But Nr. Berlew looked
round to see II I was being guilty of the
heartless crime of measuring. and he most
certainly saw that jan was asleep. Also.
he stepped toward her as IL to speak to
her, and then he seemed to change his
mind. He went to his own desk, which