Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-09
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Meanwhile they say that with the money
he has married. he will undertake GER
tain secret searches for old parchments
in Constantinople. They require money
and burrow deep in old Byzantium.
At the Agile Rabbit. they judge him
| gently too strenuous. Long ago 30
! hernia quit the Latin Quarter for the
hgh-perched Montmatre section of north
| Paris. where a man can walk about in
carpet slippers. long hair, velveteen suit
that lasts forever and live his own life''
which means. very much. to SIT and
talk
| Such a one is Philogone. VINO after two
Years talking produced in one month a
painting of such glorious coloring and
unearthly charm that a collector offered
him 1000 francs for it just as it hung
in the Independent salon
Unhappily, Philogone had just sold II
to dealer for 300 francs, but the col
lector. having conscience to give ar.
fists their dues. refused to treat, and
commissioned the Bohemian to reproduce
The Thirst for Gold
Philogone's course was plain. He had
only TO repaint the picture and get his
ssOO-enough to keep him in luxury for
six months. 1t was a wonderful picture
and has since been initiated. Men and
women furiously rushed up pointed rocks
from which the fascinating metal shone.
to a dazzling idol that smiled impassively
on their wounds. Beyond, gold lit cloud
archangels quit an accursed earth. in
CLEANS of gold and vermillion. shadows
of mauve and purple-a terrific allegory
of The Thirst for Gold" which only the
Bohemian and clustered monk seem free
from.
Philogone was only thirsty for beer.
He got $50 advance: bought canvas and
coors: talked and daubed about-and
TRANQUILITY fell down. The collector handed
him 500 more; but Philogone lad new
ideas. The thirst for gold now appeared
to him as legless beggar and blind
one refusing to help each other get a
$2-piece cleaning on the sidewalk. yet
each in agony lest third party happen
along and pick it up. The collector re-
fused it: and the painter with gold-hydrO-
phObia sold il to another dealer for 40.
Among these fitful ones. Bibaine goes
his tranquil way. a pure Of the pure. The
term applies to the uncomprOmising ones
who ride life hobby and turn out just
work enough to keep body and soul to-
gether.
Bibane's idea is to reform society by
changing one small detail. Abolish money
the circulating medium-and all ills dis
appear.
But who would keep shops?" YOU ask
THE shopkeepers." he replies lazy
folks who like 10 handle nice things"
And any one could take a dozen shirts
without a penny
They could not sell tn I'M. Whey take
more tnan one, when it is easy to go
back and take another? Cupidity would
die, acquisition fever would COOL because
every one would have a practically un-
limited bank account to take what he
needed-nOt to hoard but use The rest
would be always waiting for US in the
shops. Let them stay there.
And the farmers" YOU ask
THE same" he says.
And would not every one be lazy
No, he answers Are the rich lazy?
Only the poor are lazy, because they are
always tired
At this point they choke him off with:
Are YOU working on the romance?''
HIS face clouds. and he gets busy In a
corner, making copy. He is always at
the same kind the rough draft of his
tOrical or other novel. to be finished up,
weeded out revamped and signed by one
Of three high-paid. feuille;on writers for
whom Bibaine works-partly to live, but
much to- teach the world.
'I put sane ideas about money into
them all" he exults. land those fash
ionable writer's cannot get them out
They are cemented in.''
Yet he has never made a success in
his own name So with all. Some one is
always making a profit from them, and
they do not care. Witness the foreign
and Sisowath.
1t began by Guinchard taking the I'M
worldly Bibaine Ito see life in the cos
mopolitan center. At the Grand Cafe, in
the Green Hour, when the mauve twilight
wanes to purple evening and the terraces
are perfumed with the paregoric smell of
absinthe. they discovered that they owed
81 4O-and that neither had cent to
pay it.