The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-06
sv LAWRENCE ALFRED CLAY.
Copyright, 1912, by the Associated
Literary Press)

Copyright, 1912, by the Associated
Literary Press,)
And. mother, you ought to have
seen that room when We got through
with it," >.
But don't get excited, Cherry
cautioned the mother.
How can / help it when I'm going
to earn fifty dollars a week ana
at the end OF IA year take us both to
Europe
You mustn't be too sure about it,.
20, but / am. Sadie said was a
natural born artists. Why, l was
painting cherub within half day.
Miss Cherry kinseil was a happy
looking young girl. Her mother was
IL widow with a moderate income,
and the daughter had often wished
that she could find some oongenial
employment to earn her own way.
Nothing had come of 1t until she
had paid her chum, Sadie Newhall, a
visit at Fall River. Fall River Is
noted for Its great cotton mills; also
for new and startling ideas. The idea
that wouldn't come TO Miss Cherry at
Albany came to her before she had
been in Fall River two days.
The Newhall mansion had a large
and liberal garnet. That was before
the lumber trust got in its work. Such
garrett nowadays would cost as much
as a steam yacht. OF course Miss
Sadie took Miss Cherry up to see that
garnet with Its cobwebs. old trunks,
broken chairs and romantic atmos-
phere. Miss Cherry gazed around her
and felt inspiration clawing at the
roots OF her hair. A few hours later
she had developed the grand idea.
That garnet, which looked to be two
II Low IL =,
10, be decorated.
The trunk was hauled into a corner
and paints and brushes bought. and
the circus opened with grand over
ture. The performance lasted three
weeks. and the work went on days
and1n1ghts and Sundays. Young men
called, but the young ladies were not
at home. The minister called to pay
MS respects to the visitor and ask
after the heather of Albany. but he
didn't get to see her. She was Just
beginning TO paint the ears on her
third cheruh and she wouldn't have
stopped work for all the good men In
the cotton town.
The TWO artists couldn't quite agree
as TO the general plan of decoration
ana so they did very sensible thing
IheF divided off the garnet and took
about mile apiece as a share. The
groundwork OF one part was q vivid
green and the other a vivid red. There
was to be no monotony up there Miss
SADIE decided to decorate her mile
with roses. and Miss Cherry went in
for eherahs. What they did agree
on II Hi II was artistic tfi tha core.
was that the cherubs should seem TO
be trying 10 overtake the roses as they
Hed around the garrett
II was no easy matter to try to
pant cherub on the plastered wall
OF garnet while standing on the
mead of an empty barrel that threat
ened to collapse at any moment. One
who has not done this has not felt
the real joys that now and then wal
Top the soul of a born artist. cheruh
after eherah Was developed ny the,
hands OF genius
Some smiled and some wept Some
walked and some flew. Some grim
ned and some frowned. Some of the
flyers had legs long enough for
eiethes-props. while others had legs
sawed off at the knees to save cloth.
IN making up the trousers. BY what
appeared to be an error OF Judgment
at first, bur which later on turned
out 10 be happy thought. some Of
the cherubs were painted standing on
their heads. This broke up what
might have been a monotony There's
many family portrait by an artist
that has been on the Job for twenty
Years that would look better II turn
ed bottom side up.
Days and days--from ten to four
teen hours a day. and no strike talk,
and the garnet was finally finished.
One first coming into 1t thought he
had struck Paradise. After a look
around he thought he had struck the
other place. The cheruhs were a sun
flower yellow on the green ground.
They stood out. They geckoned.
They flew and frisked and gamboled.
1t was free exhibition, with pink
lemonade and peanuts thrown In.
Nothing Is said about the roses. be-
cause they might have been holly
hooks when finished.
Finished at last and praised by
every member OF the family, even to
the baby. Miss Sadie insisted that her
young man must be shown. He was
solemn young man who iabored In
an undertaker'a shop. and he could
re6d all the jokes In a family alma
mac and sigh over them. but when