The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23

Percy Christopher, a prominent
restauranteur, is noted lover of
the beautiful. He dotes on Art for
Arts Sake. He even maintains
his own private art studio. The
famous Latin Quarter Of Paree,
Little Hungary in New York or
even the harems Of the Orient
have nothing on Percy and his
atelier over the classic Boston
beanery.
The police, however, get a sur
felt of the beautiful, thanks to the
flocks Of half-naked chickens that
swarm up and down the town
after "our dear soldier boys
The practical police have no great
love Of art for arts sake. Art is
apt to give them a pain.
The inartistic police recently
pinched Peter Christopherson,
alias Percy Christopher, alias
Percy the Painter.
Four half-naked, palpitating,
passionate goddesses, direct from
Broadway, shrieked when the po-
lice pinched Percy for they were
pinched at the same time. Incl
dentally, they were very, very
much overflowing with the spark
ling, bubbling juice Of that grape
grown on the hillsides Of Cham
pagne, in war-torn France.
Percy the Painter was charged
with furnishing women liquor and
was released on $100 bail. The
four famous Broadway models
were charged with being drunk
and were released on $40 bail,
each.
In his student days as a restau-
rant cook, Peter Percy revelled
in the riot of colorful products of
the kitchen. The pies, raspberry,
blueberry, pumpkin, lemon and
cranberry, fairly screamed to him
the colors that might be used to
paint a canvas or even a town. In
parsley he saw Emerald green.
The mustard of the sandwich
meant amber. Even the hair Of the
waitress was a study in Titan red.
Peter Percy cooked not because
Of epicurean tastes but as means
to get money that he might buy
the sparkling diamond, the ancient
tapestry, the Moorish mosaic, the
Dutch tile, the priced paintings,
the sculpture in Italian and Gre
clan marble, the sparkling, bub-
bling wines Of sunny France and
the choicest, most beautiful edi-
tions Of the human form divine
pink, palpitating, passionate
human volumes, bound in velvety,
milk-white leather.
Peter Percy's bank account
prospered. Over the Boston beam
cry on the Bowery, he established
a study, studio, atelier, whatever
the name, surprising in some
ways, that of Stanford White,
whom Harry Thaw so suddenly
and insanely slew.
One cultured Hibernian flatfoot
called it a ''joint." Another
termed it a "den.' A dreamy
Turk might have considered it a
"harem." Whatever the proper
name may have been, the place is
credited with making DR.. Salter
and Sergeant Englert very, very
jealous.
There, when not dispensing the
Boston baked bean, the ham sand
wich and the lemon cream pie,
Peter Christopherson, alias Percy
Christopher, alias Percy the
Painter, chased Art to the limit.
He lectured on the different
schools Of painting, the Flemish,
Florentine, Byzantine, Au Ell
Fresco and even the Goulash.
Often a tribute to Bacchusxwas
offered by pouring out libations
of sparkling. bubbling wine. Moth
ing but wine ever was allowed in
that atelier.
The recent arrest of Percy the
Painter was due to his love and
zeal for Art.
An alleged theatrical amuse-
ment was holding the boards at
the Lyceum. Percy the Painter
learned that four famous Broad
way models were with the show
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