Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-04
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w ly cuSdESu dLU tSdCHSI VI GhC high school, talked over his new field with Mrs. Almira Parsons, at whose beautiful home he had been fortunate enough to hire a room, Mrs. Parsons said: eV 2
 ''Stella Pawling will be in your class. She is real artist. She can model, draw and carve, and has painted some pictures that are hanging in their par Tor at home.. Her people are in very moderate circumstances. Her father and brother are carpenters and her mother keepshouse for them all. Stella is said to be a very ordinary scholar in other things, but nobody can come anywhere near her in the drawing class. There is big publishing house in s., ten miles from here, that gives her orders, and sometime sends things for her to pass on.'
 It was no wonder that, after such eulogy, MT. John Winston should cov- ertly take a good deal of notice of Stella. In fact he did not have very high opinion of his own art talent, and while he could carve some, he could not model at all So he closely inspected all Stella's work in class, also some of the modelling and carving that he found in some of his pupils, homes, gifts of Stella to her friends. He was anxious to see the paintings in her own home parlor at home. He imagined that parlor would be. quite a dainty, artistic affair.
 He was quite surprised, when he. found an opportunity to go there, to find it quite an ordinary parlor indeed, with stuffed furniture, plush albums and cheap lace curtains at the win dows. At his request Stella quietly and reluctantly showed him her paintings, which he recognized as very creditable productions. Then, also at. his request, she ran up to her room and brought down other pieces of work in modelling and carving. Not only had she talent, but she had been we'll taught. It de- veloped that, while waitress two years before, at summer hotel, an artist, to whose children she had done some little favor, taught her and started her in the right way to develop herself
 There was a picture on the parlor wall that puzzled him more than the cheap showy furniture and curtains It was a very large picture and occu- pied the place of honor between the two front windows. ItwAs one of the large. showy landscapes, inimpossible l colors, that a travelling artist, some times with his fingers, sometimes with a coarse brush, paints while you wait" Such '.artists" are often tenn  l stores, and I nres sell, in large showy frames. two dollars apiece, being usually considered bargain. 1 MT. Winston could hardly keep his eyes off that picture. It's incongruities fascinated his attention. He finally looked at it attentively, without know ing what he was doing. He was stand- ing up at the time, ready to leave. The girl suddenly raised the curtain higher.
 "You can see better now" she said, quite composed.
 For moment he wasn't thinking of her as being near him. He was uncon- sciously recollecting that she had been said to have fine taste'' in art, and her evident respect for this coarse pie l ture caused superior, sarcastic ex- < pression in his eyes and mouth.
 ''Ah, a fayorite of yours, see?" he said, lightly.
 There was a moments silence and he looked up quickly at her. I '.Yes, MT. Winston" she said, in a low. quiet tone, ''it is one of my ia vorites.''
 With the superior light still shining in his eyes, he bade her good-by. And sometimes that same expression showed itself when he would ask her an ordinary class question that in- cluded in it's answer original judgment or taste. The girl seemed to pay no attention, but he remembered after ward that she had been very reserved j with him, never speaking to him in class or elsewhere unless he first spoke to her, or unless it was really neces- sary.
 One day the teacher had been led to speak of the value of art in the public schools. In moment of real earnest ness to him he gave expression to the ideas that he held of great moment.
 Children who are taught early the foundation principles of true art, how l VSNA PSOl lhNy# IlSiy USs VIII nave HI their homes only things that are really expressions of artistic beauty, in fur nishings, pictures and decoration. There will be nothing heterogeneous in the homes of even the poorest work men, nothing loud and coarse in col bring, everything will be dainty and tasteful, the judgment being educated Isn't that so, Miss Pawling?"
 He was really not thinking at all oi the coarse picture, the showy furni. ture in the ewell-remembered little par Tor. He was really in his excited en- thusiasm appealing to her as one who of all the class, had superior judgment and whose word, in agreementw with him, would have weight.
 Stella's cheeks reddened and her eyes filled with tears. Butshe quickly over came her sensitiveness and arose.
 II think you are right" she said, ''as far as you go. But sometimes thing that to others seems cheap and loud was gift from a dear friend or rela. tive, meant to please, and so it carries | aT,+i r>f 1,x- f; Ia