Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-20

but when the famous 'tattooed man carl
catures began to appear he developed a
sensiuveness concerning them that made
him really unhappy and he often used to
speak of them with deep bitterness.
Coming back to present day celebrities, 1t
is understood that former Governor Odell
of the state of New York, who has been one
of the comparatively few governors to be
known throughout the country a state
boss, has generally gloried in the way he
has been caricatured, though how he feels
about II at the present time is not matter
of public knowledge.
Odell has never been chary of being
photographed, though, and the seeker for
material to illustrate different periods of
his life has no difficulty whatever in find
Ing it. The picture with this article show
ing one of the most autocratic bosses the
empire state ever boosted, at the tender
age of six years from an Old daguerreo-
type, is one of the rarest of the Odell pic
lures that offered for sale
Few men were ever thrown into deeper
RACES over unpleasant and uncompHment-
airy cariCatures of himself than was the
late Cecil Rhodes, though like some other
men he didn't object to those cartoons of
him which depicted him in pleasing roles
and postures The accidentally drawn
weekly political cartoons il the London
Punch, which never descended to carica-
ture, and would hardly make any impress
sion at all on this side of the water, used
sometimes to be devoted to him. and when
it was it was easy to see that he was
pleased
Photographs of Mr. Rhodes never were
hard to get for publicatio but they were
mostly from the same negative. He had
none of the frantic objections to being
photographed that some prominent men
display, but he did hate the fuss and bother
of sitting, and opportunities to snap him
We're not plentiful as they are to snap
almost. any given American public man.
Cecil Rhodes and His Portrait.
His aversion to allowing a painter to
portray him was extremely marked, and it
was only after much trouble that sittings
the first accorded to any painter-were
obtained for the miniature of which the
accompanying picture of him is a photo
graph.
Two paintings were made from these sit
tings One was of so-caIIed life siZe-the
canvas was six feet high-while the other,
here reproduced, is painted on piece OF
ivory rather more than six by three inches
In size.
The painter, Miss Mary Helen Carlisle,
born South African colonial but educated
in England, and now in America, tells this
story of the sittings and the negotiations
preliminary thereto:
I'D never have had the chance to paint
Mr.. Rhodes had he not been a friend Of
my father and friendly with many of my
friends. 1 had been hoping for my chance
a long me; it came in London only year
or two before his death.
1T was explained to me that Mr.. Rhodes
couldn't think of taking time enough TO
visit my studio to give sitting, and that
therefore | must go to his hotel. Various
times for us TO meet were set, but the ap-
pointments were broken. Finally Or.
Jameson, his private secretary-the Jane
son raid manifold me one day that my
best plan would be to meet him at break
fast on the following day There would be
a lot of men there, but l wasn't to let that
bother me.
well, | went. The breakfast room was
filled with men-Alfred Bet, Ashmead
Bartlett, Rochefort Mcguire and lot OF
others. To my dlsmay Mr.. Rhodes was
Rhodes would come soon, however, and /
waited; meanwhile the breakfast went on.
Coffee that may have been hot at one time.
but certainly wasn't then, and marmalada
were the most conspicuous features. When
il was about half over Rhodes appeared,
horribly grumpy, as usual, the settled sheer
which had become almost a fixture on his
really most interesting face being very
much in evidence.
A Portrait Under Difficulties.
HE hadn't time for a sitting that morn
ing evidently, but seeing me there he de-
cided to take 1t and asked me to begin at
once, leading the way to a small, wretched-
ly lighted room in the rear of the break
fast room where he seated himself in the
attitude shown in the portrait.
"Of course. l didn't progress very far at
that sitting, but an appointment was made
for another one and l wasn't altogether
discouraged When / went the next time,
though, it was quite clear from the number
of men who were waiting TO see him in the