The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-24

They know nothing Of art. nor do I:
! your style, am sure, Is perfect: but ey-
! erybOdy seems 10 think more of oils: / no.
/ tice they always give oil paintings the
/ you coudn't-just to satisfy their prejudice
take some lessons yourself from Herr
HOfmeyer
| You are so clever you would soon pick
| up his method. which appears to be very
popular one; and 1t would be so much in
! your pocket. We would make secrecy on
! his part a condition. of course; your pres
| uge must not be lowered in the girls
! Elizabeth drew forward her sisters
hand. which stu lay upon her shoulder.
! and pressed 1t against her cheek
You spare me too much dear Anna
GU give me SO little to do that / may wei
try TO do that little in the way most adj
NantaEeous Tor the school I VIII approach
Herr Hoimeyer on the subject myself to-
" Gerr IIormeycr had a g. reputation a.
a prominent artist IS wei as a teacher.
Through the interest of an early rtInil
who had succeeded in his career to The
point Of influencing hanging committees
one of his pictures had been smuggled into
the Neue Pinakuthek OF Munich where its
height above the level of the public gaze
made II innocuOus as i art ensample
The fact. however. Of beinc even 'skIcd'.
In the gallery Of a big city brought lin
wei on L" the line IN his native town. and
there he was potent for harm
His Compositions. which he borrowed
from The old masters, Elizabeth found in.
tolerab!c: IL was the heavy. realistic de-
GIIs ana the brutal color schemes that
reused her antagorism.
To learn and adopt his methods would
mean tnartyrdom to her every art instinct
but she was Of The stun which martyrs
are made.
An English lady boarder. Patricia War
rem by name. had been so obliging as 10 /
escort Herr HOfmeycr's contingent to his I.
studio that morning and began 20 sing his 4
praises during the midday meal
She was a raw-bJned, harsh featured |
young person. with merry Sits of hack
eyes, and as her German was alwqys a |
literal triSslation of her somewhat racy
delight 10 the girls.
'Achi lch He'd Inn grausamr' che ex-
claimed, not meaning, Of course that she
iGVed he professor erewsome, but that she
liked him awlully. Err list so hubsch,'
To hear. in addition to her oddly dcclar !
ed love. that Patricia found the fat old
teacher pretty set the giddy young folk
But among the laughing faces there were
four disturbed and grave ones They he
Iorged 10 Herr Hofneyer's pupils.
inc eldest or them, n pig-tailed tor-ihoy.
with, usually. quite fine taste ror mis-
chief, siEnaled implor!ngIy to nor IN bnid
her tongue ~ ''u
1t is she who for month back had been
ictlng as recruiting sergeant ff.- the class
y oil painting; but this was not known 10
he authorities.
Patricia, however. was too full Of bar
'uhject to be stopped.
He is quite discreet-oh, quite,-but ~
ie weren't t. ~ 81
The suggestion which her grimace cop-
eyed was so outrageously unscholastJ, | ,
hat Anna suspended business ~ the SOM
ureen to turn the conversation irto "a | ,
more profitable channel
But Patricia persisted. And, ahi the
eavenly tenderness of his touchr' which !
lnsually transmitted by her. became a
flhu'e TO the secret tenderness of his
queeze."