Evening journal., 1902-05-06
STORIES FROM
HERE AND THERE

Queen Victoria had as q matter OF
fact, the greatest objection to smok
ing, and would not allow q smoking
room in any of the royal palaces until
comparatively recently. On one occa-
sion, after being received at Windsor
Castle, Bishop Phillips Brooks was
shown to his room and soon proceeded
to light his accustomed cigar.
Presently the smoke reached the
nostrils Of a custodian somewhere not
far away, who came to the door and
asked the guest not to smoke, as it was
forbidden. Bishop Brooks went into
the corridor and continued smoking
there. The custodian again begged
him to desist.
The Bishop went back to his room
and out upon the balcony and resumed
This ciglr thinking that he was now in
the open air
Again the custodian came, this time
passing Through the Bishops room,
and said: Smoking is not permitted,
sir, in any part of the Windsor Castle. q"
Once more he disappeared, and
Brooks, who gave up cigar with great
reluctance when The had once lighted
It, returned to his room.
A happy thought occurred to him
There was an open fireplace in his
room. The Bishop lay down on mis-
back on the floor, put his head up
into the chimney and began to smoke
there. This time he was undisturbed.
Before, the smell of the cigar had be-
trayed him; now, he smoke went up
the chimney.
The cigar was finished in peace.-
Cincinnati Enquirer
The great English artist, Turner,
not only took strange liberties with
the topography and architecture OF the
landscapes he painted, but with the
= materials he employed. Some truly
/, mastery effects he obtained in ways
which. though amusing, were question
I able. since they were not permanent
and must in time impair the value OF
e his pictures. On one occasion he
$ clapped in a setting sun by means OF
d common red wafer, and finding il
looked as he desired left il there anC
painted up to it. Again, wishing tC
procure the contrast of some animated
figure upon terrace in silhouette
;, against a golden sky just put in, h'
Z cut out barking dog in black pape
and applied it by way of experiment
l. 1t proved successful, and the canin
n paper doll was not afterward removed
l. nor replaced.
l. Still more extraordinary is the an
ecdote related by Samuel Palmer, o
lie Turner's invitation to three childrei
n to collaborate with him. The artis
l. was staying at the house of a frien
at Knockholt. and had brought wit
- him a fine drawing, of which the dis
= tance was already carefully outlined
but the foreground remained blank
, One morning, instead of resumin
work himself upon this drawing, h
of called in his hosts children, and 'rut
bing in three separate saucers thre
e. cakes Of paint. red. blue and yellow
IS gave one to each child, telling them [
dabble their fingers in the bright co
- ore. and then amuse themselves
making prints and marks upon his w
finished picture. OF course. they az
coDted the unexpected invitation wit
glee. and presently he was grave
looking on while thirty smeary iinge
ny ltips did their ecstatic best to conve
his exquisite sketch into a crazy rail
IN bow.
ae Suddenly. in the midst of the froli
Iot he cried out: "S;op!" They stopp'
M. is and he took back the drawing, add
imaginary landscape forms suggest
re- bv the accidental coloring. and rapid
le- completed striking and beautif
Ike whole
be Shortly afterward, at dessert O.
Of day. he amused himself by arrangi
bor some vari-colored sugar plums up
his plate. When suddenly disturb
and the pattern scattered, he cried 0
in vexation: THERE You have ma
me lose so guineasi" He had be
evolving a color scheme in candy
Is. his next landscape.