Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-03-05


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 week and at the
end Of year take us both to Europe"
you mustn't be too sure about it."
20, but | am. Sadie said was a
natural born artist. Why, was
painting a cherub within half day."
Miss Cherry Kinsell was happy
looking young girl. Her mother was
widow with moderate income
and the daughter had often wished
that she could find some congenial
employment to earn her own way.
Nothing had come of it 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 It's work.
Such garnet nowadays would cost
as much as steam yacht. OF course
Miss Sadie took Miss Cherry up to see
that garnet with it's cobwebs, old
trunks, broken chairs and romantic
atmosphere. Miss Cherry gazed
around her and felt inspiration claw
ing at the roots OF her hair. A few
hours later she had developed the
grand idea. That garrett. which look.
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width. was to 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
and nights and Sundays. Young men
called, but the young ladies' We're not
at home The minister called to pay
his 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 cherub, 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,
and so they did a very sensible thing.
They divided off the garnet and took
about "a mile apiece as share. The
groundwork of one part was a vivid
green and the other 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 cherubs. What they did agree on,
and it was artistic to the core, was
lI,~@ a. ~I oh Ill n
trying to overtake the roses as they
fed around the garnet.
1t was no easy matter to try to
paint cherub on the plastered wall
of a. garnet while standing on the
head Of an empty barrel that threat
aned to collapse at any moment. One
who has not done this has not felt
the real joys that now and then wal
lop the soul Of born artist. Cherub
after cherub was developed by the
hands Of genius
Some smiled and some wept. Some
walked and some flew. Some grin
ned and some frowned. Some of the
flyers had legs long enough for
clothes-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, but which later on turned
out to be a 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 If turn
ed bottom side UP. n.
Days and days-from ten to four
teen hours day and no strike talk,
and the garnet was finally finished.
One first coming into 1t thought he
had struck paradise After look
around he thought he had struck the
other place. The cherubs were a sun
flower yellow on the green ground.
They stood out. They beckoned.
They flew and frisked and gamboled
It 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 nuSL DE 6uO"u. I1c "do
solemn young man who labored in
an undertaker's shop, and he could
read all the jokes in mily almanac
and sigh over them, but when led
into that garrett by the ear he gave a
snort like river horse.
Good Lord but have you swal-
lowed your gum" exclaimed Miss
Sadie as she thumped him on the
back.
The solemn young man lied about
it. He said he had. He snorted sew
eral times more, and then he set in
and told such whooping big lie that
satan wrote his name down on the
records. He said the effect Of that
garre+ on him was soothing, placid,
restful and complacent. He said there
was no mistaking those cherubs for
live goldfish He said the expression
of each and every one Of them was
even more natural than life. He said
that some low-down, beetle-browed
villain might declare they had goose
wings instead of those OF angels, but
let him come face to face with that
man and the lie should be crammed