Show JTeniale Art Students in Paris In some few studios proprietor or patron supplies a piano for the use oC the students There is always a musical element in every studio During the pause some enthusiast produces pro-duces a ragged copy of Beethovens Symphonies a quarter mains a fellow genius who reads music at sight is evolved from the crowd by themere opening of the piano and then as Kingsley says somewhere there I begins a mnrder grim and great The executants both count out loud each indifferent in-different languages Beethoven is battered about the keyboard by the lighthearted players whose one object seems to be to out din the dm of talk which arises the moment the music 1ft o tJhft fto UC6U u U4UUdUII until some one fortunately notices that the ten minutes of grace have expired and manages to shriek above the turmoil CTesi Iheurc when the uproar subsides Now and then some quiet Russian or Swede or Pole will plav charmingly when for once tile indefatigable duettists have left the piano in peace and sometimes happens hap-pens that a sternfaced English or Scotch woman will sit down and un i flinchingly go through all the known variations upon Home Sweet Home or Ye Banks and Braes But the execution is not generally equal to the intention There is very little time for practice when you have to be at work from S to 12 and from 1 to 5 every day Then after work there is always some shopping to be done i canvases to be ordered brushes to be chosen or possible pos-sible dinners to be buught Numbers of students whose means would not permit them to live in a hotel or pension find that by taking a room and buying and cook ing their own victuals thev can live better and for far less than they would have to pay en pension Generally two or three girls club together and while one undertakes the important position of cook the others act as kitchen maid and caterer respectively What triumphs tri-umphs of the art haVe I no seen pro duced upon a small petroleum cooking stove And how admirable is the chop which ycoi have cooked yourself over a fire which is also the work of your own hands and whose building is the iron basket which is the Parisian apology for an open grate requires as much architectural skill as that of cathedral I The cost of living this way is more than onethird less than the prices of the cheapest petition and there is a delight ful picknickish handtomouth flavor about it that gives a peculiar interest to I every meal Magazine of Art |