The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-02-04

ingly. And if you'll try those mittens
you'll be a good deal warmer. They
beat castor gloves all hollow and
they're only one-tenth of the price.
Twelve and a half cents for each NIT
ten.
l tell you that Just as soon as you
get to the point where you don't care
whether you make a guy Of yourself
or not you find that you can put
money in the bank even on your slen-
der salary. That is, you can if you
don't have to blow it in on bread for
the children. This bread for the chill
dren is what is keeping thousands of
men in the straight and narrow way.
There'd be more drunkards and more
merry-making of all kinds if it wasn't
for this eternal bread-buying.
This talk of college is foolishness.
Let a young man begin by supporting
the old man, and when he has sup
piled him with the luxuries that the
father went without in order that the
boy might have bread, and inciden-
tally has learned a great deal more of
the world than they teach at most COL
leges, then let him take a term or
two at Harvard, SO as to give him the
ability to move easily about in one
of those high-priced stores among the
princesses But the knowledge of the
world should come first along with the
daily roll for the old gentleman.
And if after reading this n n
can see through me it proves what
started Out to prove-that I'm invis.
ible.
a CERTAIN enormously wealthy
L Y parvenu, who thought he had a
love for art, but who bought by name
and fame only, expended 100000 for
which he secured five small, but fine,
examples of the Rarbizon school. And
as 0 O as the French pictures were
hung in his d~rawing-room there ap-
peared to him out of the everywhere
a man who said:
You have five magnificent paint
ings for which you paid magnificent
prices. It will doubtless console the
painters, who are wandering in Shad-
oWland, to know that the work that
would hardly buy them bread when
they We're upon earth will now keep
an art dealer in plenty for a lifetime.
But why have you not bought beau
THU American pictures? You are not
french. 1t is true that art has no
nationality, but you should foster the
art Of the men who live under the
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to protect the interests of your work.
ingmen."
And the Parvenu said: g" am an
American of he Americans and be.
lleVe in American engines and Ameri-
can pluck and American brains, but
those French make a business of art,
and | am told that American artists
are merely imitators."
"Fool!" said the ghostly visitor.
"Look."
And a vision appeared before the
parVenu and he saw a lover of art
clad in the peculiar fashion of so
years hence. And he was buying five
small American pictures, for which he
willingly paid $4,000.
And when the parvenu saw tie
prices they had fetched he said:
when were those painted and by
whom, for they must be beautiful to
be worth so much"
beautiful were they before ever a
price was set on Them" said the
ghostly visitor. beautiful, also, were
these, for which you have expended a
fortune, when their creators finished
them and sold them for a handful Of
francs to keep the pot boiling. These
pictures that you see being bought so
years hence are the works of Ameri-
can contemporaries of yours. To-day
they are picking up a living in the
west, in New York, in New England,
and are thankful to keep body and
soul together that they may work at
the art they love. Fancy what they
would think if a millionaire of feeling,
having eyes to see and an understand
ing to appreciate the poetry of their
landscapes, should pay generous prices
for these painted poems that are 60
ing for little more than the cost of the
paint hat is in them. For then, my
friend, these artists would not need
to wait until they reached Shadow
land before they heard that their
names had become famous"
Lord, give me eyes to see," said
the paryenu, as the vision vanished.