Bisbee daily review., 1913-09-07
His
 Start

uAlras n4Aal tue dilAaAf as 4-@ put Au1A finishing touches to a soap advertise ment sketch of bathroom interior. T was not always famous and pros porous have known the time when a sudden sight draft for less than four figures would have seriously enbar- rassed me"
 You figure in the cents in that statement, I suppose said the studio loafer
 T might even go as far as that" as- sented the artist Did ever tell you how ! got my start?" he continued. ''Well, I'll tell you; it was in triplicate portrait work"
 Portraits of triplets?" inquired the studio loafer. "Dobber told me he did dime museum posters. too, at enc time"
 He ought to have stuck 10 that | branch of art" remarked the artist. | No, you misunderstood me. I'll tell | you how it was. There was one win ter l was pretty well on. my uppers. At 1 that time l got acquainted with Giotto | Parkinson, and l tell you he was a | godsend- He had a studio in the Gros- N fNAA0A eAAA AAE A-AAAA ~1- It AAEzAANH. BE~ ] sides having a samoYar that he got in | the Ghetto and plenty Of alcohol. The | Grcsyenor doesn't favor light house l keeping, but l was pretty careful how threw my scraps out of the window. | "One day Parkinson gave an exhib- t | it. lie knew quite 9 few people in re- ] spectable circles and he thought theres ] was a chance that some one of them might buy picture of his if they gots | we'll under the influence of a proper art atmosphere and Russian tea. It stuck up few little things of mys ! own with his to furnish the art at | ! mosphere and he provided the tea and { | the scnovar. It turned out all right. 1 1 There was a coal baroness among ! t those present and I got her worked up Q the point Of ordering from me a portrait of her ten-year-old son for $50. She brought him around the very
 oext day. Parkinson was a good fel- low and he let me have the use of his shop for the job We had a bully good dinner on the strength of the condi-
 tions anyway. The kid was a sallow-
 laced, skinny-like monkey, not at all | tAsAE A-eaAAAAAAGAf bAL NeANAAdAtu GO4lu
 idealize him by wide stretch of my
 welIknown imaginative faculty. He
 had one sitting that day The next
 day and for several other sittings his
 nurse brought him, and l want to say
 that had the dickens own time get
 ting that imp to keep still It didn't
 do any good to talk 10 hiu All got
 by that was sass-oh, the worst sort. just sweat blood for four days trying
 to get some sort of expression on that portrait that wasn't exactly diabolical
 and yet resembled the kid. At last I got it.
 Two days later the picture was done and the sigh of relief that I heayed made the windows rattle. I
 notified the baroness and she and the
 baron came to look at it. He seemed
 to have been brought under compul. l sion and to be but mildly interested.
 had learned that he was merely
 stepfather to the brat, so didn't won
 der so much at it. But the baroness
 threw fits of ecstasy over the picture
 and ordered two more at the same - price, after trying in vain to beat me
 down.
 ' T won't tell you what I went : through within the next month with the heir apparent. how day by day
 grew to loathe the little wretch more , and more The dear angel had per
 formed a large variety of interesting
 tricks around the place to relieve the - monOtony Of the sittings, and he F wound up by coming early one after ] noon and coloring Parkinson's cher ished FloreDdae prints in oil iu our 3 absence. When I renonstated he 1. gave me a choice line of sass, where upon I took my little man across my 2 knee and laid merrily on. Nearly two weeks later the coal baron caught me in.
 Don't be alarmed he said, as , retr-etCd 10 the window T ori- called 1, to pay "a fc- t5e pictures 1 believe
 this is the right amount He laid a slip of paper on the ta- [ ole t was check for S100.
 T gasped.
 . eff you don't mind would like to | shake hands with you he continued. T backed away.
 see tudI you sL4l lt-l 10 ulldGf- stand he said I want 70 tell you, . sir, that you have my entire sympathy and heartfelt thanks for the basting z you gave that young one. I've often , longed to do it myself Frankly, sir, !. [ envy you. By the way, f you can
 nsEe 1t convenient to call at my of-
 fee I have something there I would
 like 10 talk to you about. No, don't
 say ycu are sorry. Please don't say 1 that. I'm pressed for time now, but [ hope to see you soon. think the check is right. isn't it? Thank you
 very much Good day.
 He shook hands with me soIemaly
 but vigorously and then turned sud
 denly and bolted. I called on him and
 we got quite ehummy. He had some ! illustrating for a railroad that he ran
 as @ side issue and did it for him.
 may say that he discovered me. [.
 know that if 1t hadn't been for ths
 way he boosted me among his mon
 -H. E.