The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-27
SOME INDICATIONS
 OF TIE ARTISTS Other Thing They Do Well
 Besides Painting A VERNAL STUDIO CHAT Some Are Orators, Yacht Designers, Inventors, Writers and Good 6us- ness men-Instances Con-
 tributed In New York.
A VERNAL STUDIO CHAT
Prom the New Tor. Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 If there is one time when the atmos- phere of a studio may be better enjoyed than at another it is now at the end of the season, when work is lessening or over and the artists are comfortably look ing forward to the months wherein they can live closer to nature and get rest and recreation and inspiration and do a lit- tie work for fun's sake at the same time.
 Every one has time now to visit a lit tie more without either the fear of inter- rupting another's labors or an unquiet consciousness of blinking his own To- bacco is the incense of the studio ban shing the smell of paint and the de- canters and glasses come to the service of sOcability. A complete painting Is on one easel, a sketch or a, painters pie ture'-quite a different thing from some of the canvases the public likes-is on another, rich and ancient hangings give an air of affluence to the room and i color notes or delectable forms appear here and there in metals. porcelains. carvings. Under the spell of genial com panionship in the agreeable surroundings conversation takes many an interesting turn.
 A group of painters were having such a spring end chat the other day when the talk turned upon the ability of ar fists in lines of endeavor other than their own art, a fact overlooked by the gen eral community and not often dwelt upon among the artists themselves in their modesty. Part of the conversation was too interesting to die in the studio. It is the habit of artists to speak of one another by their last names, but for the benefit of the uninitiate the first names are here inserted. The talk started when one of the men remarked:
 "J. Carroll Beckwith asked me the other day if@I had ever stopped to think how curious it was that artists could almost always do something else we'll beside practice their own art. It seems to be true in a surprising number of instances and is all the more strange when you remember that business men nearly al- ways know only their own business sometimes taking pride in it, sometimes regretting that they are so circum- scribed"
 Yes" said another, "and that may be
 
 ing artists that artists are poor business men. It's regrettably true to be sure, but the implication is that art Is the less important pursuit and that artists can't rise to the heights of business.
 Yet when Kenyon Cox made his speech to the Economic club the other evening at its big dinner at the Astor and told the diners and guests that artists were of the belief that many of their own number might be successful in bus mess if they gave themselves to it, I mo- ticed that many of those business men seemed very much interested, as though a new thought had been given them"
 ''True" put In a third speaker. De cidedly true and it's been demonstrated Take shining example in the founder of one of our biggest banking houses. Anthony Drexel was an artist and I am told that not feeling that he was suc- cessful, he said to friends that he be- lieved that if he could get some capital together he could run a successful bank ing house. Behold he did so.''
 "Take Cox himself" said the second speaker. He can do more than paint He Is an excellent platform speaker-and CTS you will find that they are lawyers; in other words, men trained to talk, not business men. At that Economic dinner Cox made the best speech, although pre- ceded and followed by recognized speak CTS, among them the professional orator Bourke Cochran"