The Indianapolis journal., 1904-05-15

for a studio The room is bare
and white and inartistically tidy, with only
a few business-like casts, high old-fash-
ioned mahogany chest of drawers full of
working paraphernalia, and lengths of
drapery scattered about It's owner speaks
of it as the workshop" and her friends
find it's atmosphere bright and attractive
in spite of the bare settings.
The other day an intimate friend drop
ped in for few minutes chat friend so
intimate that she rummaged about among
the pile of sketch-books she found on the
table with not so much as a by-your-leave
to the owner working near the window.
"The cunning little bossy.'' she said. as
she turned over the pages of dusty little
leather bound book she unearthed from the
bottom of the pile. when did you go in
for this sort of thing, Carrier"
The gingham-enveloped worker turned
from her drawing board, wiping her pen
up and down the smeared front breadths of
her apron. do you mean aninals?' she
asked, with a flash of white teeth as she
caught sight of the others find. "Oh, ages
ago That's my Holstein model you have
there in your hand. l worked myself i'll
over him. Did / never tell you that animal
pictures was what gave me my gray hairs
You've noticed Rosa Bonheur's gray name,
painting animals was what bleached it,
know it from experience. Did you ever
| try. Alice. to pose a calf. or a pussy. or
| family of living young puppies? 1 mean
| for your camera"
The other shook her head vigorously.
Then, Alice, take my advice-don't It's
the artist. Once / had a call for a pic
| ture of a calf: a nice. pretty. ornamental
| little calf L had been studying animals
for year or more as a speciality and had
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| friends along that line. 1 suppose every
+, child of my acquaintance had brought me
his or her dog or cat in due order to be
pictured-and it was then / first started my
renown for amiability. The commission
came TO me through a friend who knew
| a man who was interested in canned meats
| and this man wanted a series of illustra-
tions of calves as an advertisement. This
4 was my first humble commission, and
entered into it with becoming ardor
II didn't know any calves personally, SC
| likely model and at last / found one. II
| was the property of a widow lady, and il
| proved to be a dear little thing with 9
| comically marked little face, white will
| the exception of one eye and dapple of
| burnt sienna tint over the rest of its body
| put on with no eye tc symmetry. The eye
| gave 1t a rather maudlin expression. bu
as il was the only specimen could un
earth. / dickered with the widow lady fol
| the little creature at the rate of 10 cent:
| per hour. with the services of a freckled
| faced small boy thrown in to tend bossy.
/ 1.-The old COW refused to sanction tn,
| transaction and mooed plaintively as W,
| led her baby down the alley. under gawk,
! protest abetted by four wobbly legs anC
stiffened backbone. II was the mos
! stubborn little animal ever made the ac
| quaintance or. and ii was tug of war get
ting it 10 the pasture l had selected as m,
| outdoor studio.
THAT calf refused to take to posing lik
! duck to water; IL regarded the three
| days' stretch of haltering, / imagine, as tn
gentleman who was chained to the rocl
regarded his punishment. 1t took the com
bined efforts of the small boy and mysel
to get him anchored to the apple tree. TIL
boy said he wasn't halter-broke.' and
didn't think he was. The vim with whicl
| the little beast braced himself away from
| that tree made him blow bubbles through
his nose. / was so frightened for fear h
| would choke that I sent the boy round il
| hurry TO push him till the rope Stacked I
bit and he could get his breath. The bo
obeyed. and the calf cavorted round al
arc and took a turn pulling from the othe
side. l left my sketching things and hur
ried 10 take a hand in pacifying him.
used my stock-in-trade of Establishment
and human infants, two of the most nerve
Finally hit on the discovery that b.
scratching calf the wrong way of tn
hair just back Of the shoulders. you ma
sential TO brute models. / instructed tn
boy and he scratched while l sketched-
by perseverance managed to &c