Evening star., 1903-07-25

a bath room. Of the ordinary weather.
boarded beach variety. has been placed. AZ
certain hours every day a Eood-lookinH
young woman. carrying n fetching bathing
suit under her arm. and attired in regu-
lar SeaShore raiment. enters this little bat
room by the side door-the side OF the bath
room facing the window is open. The young
woman proceeds "a get ready for a dip. II
is an illusion of the Charmion character.
OF Course-the young woman in the bath
room wears tights. But it Is very startling
IL makes the Charmion exhibition seem old
fashioned. They haven't been able Yet Ia
send enough cops up to Harlem To handle
the mobs that assemble in front of the de-
partment store at the hours when the
young woman goes through her perform
ance.
summer show running at one OF the
variety houses has for one of its SETS a
beach scene with salt water bath houses
arranged on one side of the stage and tha
bathing office down in front a huge sign
painted on the bathing Office reads tits
way:
"Gimlets furnished on application
However. il may be that the extremely
busy little chief agent of the Society for the
Suppression of Vice is away on his va.l-
ton. and somebody seems to have remark
ed before somewhere or another that when
the cats away the mice Will play.
A True Story About Whistler.
They are telling a good many stories
most of which may be politely called
American painter just now. Here Is ono
that has the merit of being true If u,
other. well known New York society w,-
man tells il upon hersclf-She is noted tor
her naive fr,nkneSs.
Before her marriage and conseq,Ian. set
tling down" this society woman who was
and Is very wealthy in her own light b,.t
many fads. She was an enthusiastic, horse
woman and Cross-country rider FOR a while
but gave that up as being too strenuous
Then she went in for tuft-hunting and cor
rallied all of the lions of the hour for tha
salon which she established This ,t
length bored her She took up thu. study
of medicine as a diversion. but medicine
pailed upon her. too. after a time Then
she went in enthusiastically for charity and
church work. She stuck to this for several
years. and became notable for her doings
in the charitable line At the age Of
twenty-five or twentythree. however sl;a
made up her mind that she WAS born to h.,
an artist-a painter-another Rosa Bon
heur She went straight to Paris whore
j. Mcneil Whistler WAS established at that
tirne-it was at the beginning OF Whist lrr'I
three year crouch at London. during which
he lived in Paris altogether and never went
near the English capital. The faddy young
woman called upon Whistler and told him
that she wanted him to instruct her in
drawing and painting Whistler famed
her. He said that he didn't teach-couldut.
and wouldn't. anyhow. He frankly stated
that he had not the patience necessary 10
the teacher.
Bought His Time Outright.
But the young woman offered him terms
that he simply could not refuse The &c
centric American painter took her as a
pupil He told her at the beginning that
she had no talent whatever He said that
Ire might just well try to teach tho
sphinx to draw and paint However,
he added. Il am avaricous. 1 shall teach
you what you can be taught-whiCh is ca
pable of being expressed by "A naught null
tfplied by a zero. for you have no tem2era-
ment-nothing."
Nevertheless. the young woman stuck to
her new fad for nearly three years. uni"r
WhiStlerS constant tuition. Near the clos,
OF the three years she finished picture-a
rural scene, with cows and things which
she herself liked enormously. She declined
To give her Instructor even So much As a
peek at her picture until she had com
pleted it. Then she led him to the picture
with an air Of triumph and pulled tho
cover from Off her great production.
Whistler gazed at the picture sardon-
ically for a while scratching his grizzled
chin and saying nothing.
Il don't care what you say" declared his
enthusiastic young pupil. Il like the pic
ture immensely. / think 1t is fine. It's
full of atmosphere. l didn't expect you to
approve it. of course. But what l want TO
know is. where shall | send it,
Whistler took tug at the white lock in
his mop of front hair and grinned saturn
nely.
''Er-uh-iont they still have rumma ge
sales back in the stateS?" he asked her.
&. L. c.