Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-06

a cat, in all conceivable pastures,
which had happened to be her fellow
prisoner. The mistress could not find
h in her heart to be harsh on the occa-
sion. for it was impossible not to reeog-
nize the excellence of the hastily exc
drawings.
1t seemed to be impossible to curb her
young spirits, or to keep her within the
bounds positively required by school dis
and she was finally sent home
and told that she must not return again.
Her father. at his child's earnest re-
quest, never sent her to school again,
but. seeing upon what her heart was
bent. he set himself to teaching her
drawing. She, in the meantime, taught
herself modelling, and executed a num-
Der of clever designs of animals and hui
man figures, which she sold for whatever
she could get upon the boulevards.
The child was encouraged by even this
trifing success, and set herself indus
triously to work painting her fathers
dom sstic animals, consisting of a large
dog, a cat and an owl. These pictures
were so we'll done that she found a pur-
chaser for the three, who gave her q
hundred francs for them-a small 1or-
unit to her youthful imagination. These
pet animals were reproduced, each time
being better and better represented, I'M
til she got a hundred francs for each.
Then she combined the three pets in one
picture, showing a taste for grouping
that would have done credit to a much
older artist, and these pictures sold as
fast as she finished them. Miss Mischief
was improving daily, and no one real
lied the fact more clearly than her
father, who offered her all the instruc-
ton he was able to give her, and aided
her in seeking further opportunity for
developing the genius which was in her.
He took her often to the Louvre, where
she could see the grandest works OF the
old masters and historical paintings
which fired her imagination and fascl-
mated her eye. But her taste and genius
had been erratic from the outset. 1t was
not in the splendid halls of the Louvre
that she sought to study her art, but out
of doors. She was always at home with
nature, and loved to sketch among the
fields, the flowers and the domestic AMI
mails. She watched the farmers in the
fields, and the oxen at work, the horses
on the boulevards, and purchased a lamt
which ran about with her from morning
until night, and which she painted ant
sold, on canvas, so times.
All this while the young schoolgirl
was developing into the young woman
and in every picture she painted, Away
from life, some decided improvement
was manifest over her previous efforts
She loved her self-imposed task, and fol
lowed it so closely, first in the minutes
observation of her subjects, and then
the patient detail of reproducing 1T, tina
she could not fail of success.
And thus the mischievous little gil
who had been locked up in the schot
cellar to punish her for her roguery an
disregard of all rules of propriety, ha
so improved in her chosen professio
that in 1S4S Horace Vernet, then pres
dent of the Society of Fine Arts in Pari
pronounced her to be the first female a
fist in France-he might have truthful
ly added in the world.
This was Rosa Bonheur.
Her pictures to-day grace the first ga
leries of the world, and command tt
4 highest prices. They are more simp
! and grand than elaborate, while h
| touch is mastery, there being no ira
of a woman's hand in anything s.
paints. She aspired to photograph n
= ture in colors, and her success vas pc
{ feet.
J Rosa did not grow up to be a handsor
woman, though she had a fine brow al
o very expressive and beautiful eyes; b
the face as a whole was rather hars
~ The hands and feet were of the me
petite character. She always wore b
"a hair short, and in many respects II
10 lowed the dress of the sterner sex; but
If her she was refined and lac
like.
In her frequent visits to the cat
or fairs and stockyards, where she select
of her animal models, she always put
,r male attire, and was invariably
ia tended by two huge mastiffs, who col
lv make her respected, if necessary, by
70 sign from their mistress.
mt One day when she was on her way
Al 1,;cit tho oatt1a market tn mako so
studies, and dressed as a man, when
cd maid came suddenly to her and
he nounced the illness of a dear lady frie
We who lived hard by. Rosa fastened III
Dr. see her., and, throwing nerSelT on
he bed. caressed the invalid. Just at t
moment the doctor entered, and, hol
fed at what he saw, made a hasty
treat.
"For PHYS sake, Rosa" cried
friend, "hasten after him and explai,
I'VE ooh, it's no matter" she replied.
"Ah, but he's the greatest gossip
lief, ing, and will spread the report that 1
lea ceive visits from lovers, and all Sc
of horrors"
So Rosa FASTENED after the doctor,
The found it not so easy to convince him '
ris- she a
emit Such is a glance at the romantic
or tory of the most famous female ar
Of of the world.-N. Y. Weekly.
n, necessary. Mrs. Pelham knew a 20