The Washington herald., 1921-10-16

ONE ONE who wanted to say the
pretty thing about hise latest girl
L started the idea about beauty
drawing BY single hair" Since
that moment cofffsurs have been subjected to
an enormous strain in the .haulage Of love.
But hair doesn't do il every time, unless
you drag in camel,s- hair. Love has mil
lion business methods. am rather inclined
to advance paint tubes as a good PROPOSE
ton. Rose madden has surely united as
many hearts as the Marcel wave. Anyhow,
Il was Mignon and madder-but, III tell
you about that.
Mignon had a large japanned box fun of
the most expensive tubes Of canvas mess.
The contents added to a brush produced
many Of those profound works Of celebrity
known Is Tulips Leaning on Old Cup and
Two Onions and Head Of Celery Showing
Great Courage in the Presence Of Stew
pan" and "The Old NIL and Mud Shore
Ssableak." che Old Mn can be detected
By the sfoor-a armed linen -airer1 at top.)
MiEnoa ridded her mind Of many Of these
grave things, and hey found their way into
tAe srvants', sitting room and the dining
halls ef relatives who were poor but strong
minded, and other quarters where art Is
truly revereneed.
MiEnon's mother said that she was =
truly talented girl. Mignon's father said
anyhow 1t kept her out Of mischief and was
cheaper than letting her drive the automo-
bfIe And Misnon's brother said, Huh"
What Mignon thought Of it all is not quite
certain. She was a nice girl; crisp, sure
and sparkling. and she never let art
eurtal her eostumer's account. Somehow
"studies Of Quartz and Pickle forks never
led her to dress the part
Well, not until she saw her Velasquez.
IT WAS at Q one-man show. There Is
L something logical and humane about
Sne-man shows. You know that the artist
who Is behind it Is q kindly fellow; he
Knows better than any one how impossible
life would be If you had to face two of him.
On that day when q e-man shower should
prove q twin-that will be the abomination
II desolation. This enc man was q Quadrif-
atersler. There are ''cubers'' and spot
ters' and 'lozengers," but this fellow was
new. BE showed through the human fea-
lures and the inhuman landscape how thrill
ing the world would be If Providence had
only had a Quadilateral bulge when it had
worked out its plans. 1t was a universe
disturbing exhibition, it-but, really, don't
think that matters, It was Mignon's
Vessques who does.
he was q large man, slim, with q dreamy
Etr. II he had been one Of q crowd Of
handsome young men with dreamy airs you
would not have been able to pick him out.
Unless you had been Mignon. The special
something in him leaped out and captured
BY assault the soul Of Mignon. One look
ut him and her heart WIS OF at that pace
With which the Queen Of the Movies sets
cut on her 2000-mile trip to stop him taking
poison before the half hour is through. Her
mind said Ooh" Then it said, 81 must
know him." And then it said, ''If don't
get to know him die" And then, as the
daughter Of her father, and he had made q
million, she said, I'm going to know him,
that's settled"
kn eye. She blushed. Really, she was
Eoing TO know him. This was not Paris,
Of course. But it had its quarter of para
sites. She would descend to him. They
would meet on level terms. She could not
let him 90. They would meet perhaps on
some topmost floors that let out studios
already she had q most romantical idea.
She had q good allowance, she was indie
pendent, she could always stiie family curl
ssity BY saying that she was going to take
her art seriously. Already, though 30
young, she had come to learn that one in
faIlfble way to produce a permanent drought.
! in personal interest in herself and her doinEs
was to talk about her art
TT HAPPENED. The best thing about life
L is that most things do happen. True, he
was a trf1e backward in getting of the mark,
but in the end he did. Mignon, feeling that
both she and the pictures were bit too con-
spicuous, had drifted outside to wait for
him there. By the greatest of luck, he. after
. long, concentrated pause before another
quadrilateraI, had torn himself away and
come out Immediately after her.
But even then he was a laggard. He
seemed In no hurry to return to his art.
His walk was very htful. True, he drifted
steadily toward the holy land Of Bronx, as
she had expected Of him; but there were mo-
nents when, sure Of her destination, she
had TO pass him and 20 ahead, for fear OF
appearing too conspicuous. Then, in q pleas
mt, sun washed antique road, he seemed to
dawdle deliberately, As though loath to 70
eat Of the sun and the air to the attic,
where his hard labor was only softened by
his high and magnificent dreams.
This is his street." thought Mignon.
eft is his sort Of street. 1t suits him. Be
ides. feel it is his; IL is in the air.
But art is trying and temperamental. His
hesitation to rejoin his muse was provoking.
II Mignon stood about in this fashion he
would be bound to notice her, become sus-
picious. She had nous. She found the door
way of block Of studios.
I'm stand inside this IN be able to see