The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-26

Chicago, Ill.,, Feb l9-To the editor
of The News: DO YOU know what
rudimencc means? Wisht | new Just
eggsacktly. My teacher told me yes.
tcrday that | mite of mastered the
rudimcncc of drawing before cunning
to Chicago. She scd It was like waist.
ing money to cum to Chicago to learn
sumthing | cudye learnt in high
school
DO they teach rudimence of drawing
at the Norfolk high?
told her | didont care for money,
that | ownd Nebraska farm that
was getting $500 valubler every year.
Nou know city people think lots
more of YOU if they think you've got
money! | told her Uncle Oscar had
so much money he dident know what
to do with it all and he was thinking
of buying house on Lake Shore
Drive next to Ogdon Armurs and get
ting married.
She asst me how old Uncle Oscar
was and If he'd ever bin married, and
| sed not that | knowd of.
| saw she was interested and that
I'd have smoother sleddin' with my
rudimence if | KEEP on the good side
of her. so sed I'd bring Uncle Oscar
up to school to see how we did it at
illustrating school and I'd interduce
her to him.
She seemd tickled and | asst her if
she'd ever bin married and she sed
no with far away look in her eyes
toward Lake Shore Drive.
She sed she'd follered the beck of
the muses. and had bin several years
in Paris but financial rcverces had
cum to her and she had had to go &c
teaching.
| asst her if the muses. livd in Paris
and If they was emmy relaShun to her
and she laft like every thing and scd
you silly boy"
But she's bin awful good to me sin?
told her about Uncle Oscar and his
money and I've learnt more about
drawing sins yesterday then | learnt
all the time before.
She's a awful nice looking woman
and looks almost like them fashul
picktures in Harper's bazar that's
drawed by Ethel Rose, Paris. She
looks all drawd up around the waist
and yips and when she sits down she
sits on the edg of the chair like as if
she was afrade sumthing wud bust
if she set clear down.
INF hn
erl of her piCktures on the walls here
at school The he'd man of the school
Sed they were for us to emyoulate. |
thot emyoulate mite be the latin for
copy, but my, if they intend me to
emyoulate such picktures very soon
they'll get left Why sum of them
piCktures are almost as good as =
fotygraf and in one cow-seen where
the lead COW has a bell on, you can
acktually heer that bell ring if you
look long enuf. And there's a pick
ture of a, dog that's so life-lke that
when one woman brot in her pet bull
dog for a visit, the dog growld and
showd his teeth at the pickture dog.
I've learnt just lot about drawing
that / never new before and my pen
drawing teacher ses there's quite a
Dit more for me to learn yet You've
got to draw the foreground before
you draw the background or if you
don't the background will be in frunt
of the foreground. Isn't that funny?
A person that's never bin to Chicago
wud think that you ought to draw
the background furst for a kind of a
foundashun, but it aiut that way. If
you draw a man setting on chair
your machurally think you'd haf to
make the chair furst so the man wud
have sumthing to set on when you
make him. but it aint that way. You
draw the man furst and then put the
chair under him and then draw the
floor under the chair.
When | furst started pen-drawing
the teacher, who is a cheap cartoon