HIE T!!!!!G HUT
JfftS BEST,
They Concluded It Was Above
Even Music or Painting.
By VIRGINIA LEILA WENTZ.
ICopyrlyht. by As.sociateil LUernry
He luiU not come to the little seaside
place for idleness, although it was
true, because be was tiled and over
worked, lie had come for rest and re
cuperation, lie had brought with him
cnnvHK and colors, and by permission
of Ills In mi i:icly he was allowed to im
provise a tiny studio lu a building out
side the boarding house.
She, too. because ebe was uervous
and restless, had come for change aud
tuiet. Like him, nlso, because she
loved lier art. the Hummer could not
bo enjoyed to the exclusion of that art.
Hers was music. She had an exquisite
voice aud was studying for the oper
, atic KtaRe. The landlady considered
t beni both an addition to her little sea
side place.
To lie a really great painter was the
man's highest aim. To be a singer, iu
the same mmisc, was hers. And there j
was one other point of si !iiil;i l ity for '
(lie furtlieriinie of their respective i
arts love and marriage hd been quite
laid by.
On the veranda of the cottage the
ladles who knitted and embroidered' j
railed him hard names because he
chose rather to be alone In the boat or
strolling on the sands or cooped up in
his six foot studio than to mingle with
them. Hut this was before she came.
The night that she arrived he did an
unusual thing, lie took a rocker on
he veranda, and he keep It In the
simile of the vines, whence he could
see her face, often, nfter that, he
watched her furtively as he heard her
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practicing.
Yet he evinced no interest
in her voice.
ills omission nnd his commission
both were observed by her. ami both
were resented. If she was beautiful
at all. she thought, she was n musi
cian tirst and a beauty afterward. It
gave her no pleasure to be admired for
her itppetiritnce ly one who had uo
ni l -rei latloti of the urn -Uv
One day one of I lie ladles who knit
ted told her that Max Hurgess bad
paid her a compliment.
Yes?" asked .Iinllih. with a delicate
uplll'tlng of her eyebrows. Hut It was
wllh dllllcully that she concealed her
expectation.
The woman clicked her needle sev
eral limes. "He hti'd he would love
to paint you as you looked when you
Hang." was her answer.
"Thanks!" returned .Imlllh, flushl'ii
crimson and raising her dainty chin lu
the air. "I do not aspire to be an
Hl'lHt's model."
The next morning nt breakfast Mr.
I'.urgess Inquired If kIii'
would care to
come to his studio and look at some
canvases Now. If Max Hurgess look
Utile Interest In her art, she. in turn,
took as little lu his. P!ie knew nothing
(if Iclurcs. Nevertheless she went.
"Yon sny nothing." he observed, with
a straivre. slow smile after sho bad
made a survey of his work.
"1 don't know good pictures from
l nd." answered she. "To me. person
ally, they are equally unappealing."
"Not seriously?" The smile had dis
appeared. "Oh, seriously. You see." with -a
t rovoklni'ly cqulMto gesture of her
slender hand, "It's much the same as
jour hid I Terence to music. Fancy
yi ur liking music, for example, simply
for Its visible effect on a singer's face!"
She was rapidly crowing- Indignant.
He felt the justuess of her rebuke.
1 tit Hie nrtlst in him was awake.
"Ah. It Is as a singer that I wish to
paint you!" he cried. "You know, peo
ple forgive artists for personalities).
The other dav, when you were sing
ing that thing that made your color
play und your eyes gleam, 1 veritably
tingled for my brushes. Would you
r crimps some tlme"-
' I'ecidedly not," answered she. "I
-
could r.ot (Irentn of so !p?rnding my
irt. Von wmiid like me to sin-', to let
my soul utter itself in my voice so
that you mislit get the effect on can
vas'" There was no mistaking the
rlnj-'Intr scorn in her voice.
"Indeed. I am very sorry, if I have
offended you." said he.
After lie had seen her to the house
he enme back Into the studio. One
after nnolher. slowly nnd discontent
edly, he examined his pictures. One
after another he laid them down wltb
n sense of disappointment nnd unde
fined lonplnp.
"I wonder?" he tiestloned vast eiy,
;olng to the window and looking
toward I h sea. "1 wonder"
Hut the sea rolled on and on, under
the expanse of enigmatical sky, and
pave bitn no answer.
One day, some weeks later. Judith
was on the solitary little pier when
Mat Durness came for his Unit. That
morning she bud happened to hear
lull) speaking to tt seivanl. Ue was
jiving some orders about the packing
of his effects. And now, as she stood
on the hot sands, a reckless Impulse
eauie to her.
"Why are you leaving?" said she.
"My work here doesn't get on very
well. I'm falling back, somehow."
Ills eyes were on the horizon.
"Would you still care about painting
me?"
"Would I care?" His eyes were no
uniei' on the horizon. It must have
,.X) t,llt ,vblch made the blood fly to
m.r C.,.k9.
"Well." said she, "if you ask me to
,. iit witli vou In vour bout we
mlsht talk It over."
So they rowed out and presently
they were far. far from shore. He
must have been looking at her hands
Instead of the land, or he would have
seen that they were getting into a
very heavy sea: that each moment the
ikies were growing darker. Spray
wet Judith's dink hair and gleamed
there Just for an appreciable fraction
nf a second like milky agates in the
bed of a black stream.
"Isn't it glorious?" cried she. with
sudden joy.
His eyes questioned her keenly. She
challenged, and tlieu he understood.
With an effort he brought the boat
jiroiiiid and pulled for surety. Ills
jtliln Jersey showed the lines of his
jtrong, supple body. The muscles of his
! inns and chest rose superbly. Judith
, watched him. fascinated. Then the
j rotten oar cracked.
i She tore off a strip of her petticoat to
'hind it and make it strong enough
j for work.
I lie (nit an oilskin about her. Her
vialr brushed his face. He kissed It
'furtively, but she detected him. Wil
lfully she drew n damp curl forth from
lander the edge of the oilskin where he
Jiad tucked It u ml then she laughed
I it the look in his eyes.
"Attend to the boat!" cried she. And
jlho oilskin was new-rich yellow: the
hood was scarlet lined, her hair was
.like midnight, and her face was a
llower. Yet he, the artist, the lover
Df color, must needs attend to the
boat:.
! When they were safe at last, when
he was helping her ashore, he looked
Ut her with a protecting tenderness she
had never Imagined him capable of.
! "Ah," crhd she, "if only you cured
for my tu t!" She looked on "Tit him.
Ills hand masterfully sought hers,
tlieu:
"Hut there's something better, sweet-lieiirt-there's
something better than
pven music or painting. Have we
found it. do you think?"
j "I think," she admitted, reflectively
i"1 demurely
while a smile was run-
nlng riot over her piquant face "I
think we've found the thing that Is
'best."
The Sort of Table He Wantad.
The follow ing conversation was over
heard between a Joiner and his cus
tomer ii short time ago:
J. her Please, sir, I've brought the
table you ordered me to make.
Customer Well, put it down here,
n iy man, aud let's R.'e what sort of
Ub you've made of it.
I The man set it dowu in the middle
! of the room, and the customer exuru-
1 med it with the air of a critic.
Customer Why, my man, there is
j here a crack 11 1 led up with putty.
J Jollier Yes, sir. Well, sir, I know
about that, but it won't be noticed
when it sots hard.
Customer tcoming across some more
putty!-Hut here's some more, my
j man. What Is the meaning of tills?
' Joiner-Well, sir, you see. a little bit
of wood chipped off the corner, and I
Just put a little putty there to till up.
It won't do no harm, sir, when it's set
hard.
Customer (finding some more putty
patches) iAiok here, my man, this
won't do. Why, here's a big lump
right lu the middle of this leg. What
can you say about that?
Joiner (scratching his head and try
ing hard to find some excuse by which
to retrieve his honor) Well. sir. that's
uo harm whatever, ar.d the putty when
It sets hard will be tinner and harder
than the wood. So, you see, It will lie
all the better If you wait a bit, sir.
Customer (sarcastically) Here, my
good man. Just take this table home
and bring me one made of putty alto-
aether. I want a good strong one. and
you can fill up the cracks with wood.
London Tit-I'.iU.
The Cent nd Half Cent.
First coined in 17S7 by the United
States government.; the federal one
cent piece was antedated by copper
cents struck by several states. Ver
mont before being admitted to the
Union coined the first cents in the
country in June. 1"HT. Connecticut.
Massachusetts. New York and New
Jersey also put the copper coins into
circulation. Under the constitution
the first coinage act. passed In 1792
authorized a cent of 2U grain3. In
I7!i3 It was reduced to 2' grains and
In 1700 to 1(!S grains. The 108 grain
"copper" remained unchanged, except
in pattern, until is", passing through
seven designs. Until 1S."7 half cents
also were coined. In that year the
half cent was abolished and n new
cent was ordered, weighing only seventy-!
Wfl grains and composed of 8S
per cent of copper and 12 per cent of
nickel. In 1s(U the present bronze cent
was authorized. This weighs forty
eight grains and is composed of 95
per cent copper nnd ! per cent tin
nnd zinc Argonaut.
A MONSTER WHALE.
One Way In Which It Resembled a
Tiny Species of Fish.
One winter some years ago a large
whale was killed near one of the At-
' lantic seaports. Its carcass was taken
j ashore, loaded on two Hat cars and
! transported far inland to cities where
a whale was a curiosity that people
j would pay to see It was necessary, of
' course, that the exhibitions should be
given in unhealed halls, and as it was
a cold winter the whale kept In a fair
ly good state ut preservation for a con
siderable number of weeks before it
became Imperative to close the amuse
ment season so far as that particular
; cetacean was concerned. While It
I was on exhibition In Chicago a mer
chant from a little town in southern
Illinois, who happened to be iu the city
i on business, went to see It. When he
returned home he could talk of noth
ing else.
"You may think you've seeu big fish,"
j he said, "but unless you've come across
a whale somewhere you haven't."
"How long was it, Jeff?" somebody
; asked him
j "It was mighty close to ulnety feet
and about fifteen feet thick. It was
the biggest thing I ever saw out of the
water Hint swims in the water."
"Well," said the village doctor, "you
dldu't expect to Hud it a smelt, did
you?"
"No." he answered hesitatingly, "but
j it did, Just a little."-Echaiige.
FACE PATCHES.
They Became a Society Craze at One
Time In England.
Plaster patches were Introduced In
England in the reign of Kdward VI.
by a foreign lady w ho lu this manner
Ingeniously concealed a wen on her
neck. They became such a craze and
were curried to such exaggerated
lengths that they were finally lam
pooned out of sight. The nieu, as well
I as the women, stuck themselves over
with these beauty spots. No lady of
fashion considered her toilet complete
until she was equipped with her little
box of patches cut iu her favorite de
sign. If one happened to come off lu
company she hurriedly replaced It
with a fresh one from the box.
At length patching iu Euglaud went
so far that party spirit was symbo
lized by the position of the patches.
A letter In the paper on June 2, 1711,
tells of a visit to the Hayniarket and
the discovery by the writer of three
classes of women in the boxes all dif
ferently patched Upou Inquiry he
discovered 'hat those who patched on
the right side of the forehead were
Whigs and those who favored the left
were Tories, while those who patched
Indifferently on either side were a
neutral party, whose faces had not
yet declared themselves. London Sat
turday Heview.
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