| Show J t J Thrice Told Tales i iA A THE STUDIO TEA O ONE J GUEST SAID 5 I went to Lonton's tea It was the first studio affair I ever attended and if Y it-Y I follow m my own inclinations ons and Ideas of or sanity Ill I'll not g gp to another There mn may bo be something tho tim matter with my artistic sensibilities I I guess they're petrified petrIfied but but Ill I'll be bl blessed J If I can can- see Bee what they're there getting getlin at atwith with all this near What hat else elso can you call all half haIr Ji light ht no air ah Incense cushioned cushion ell divans and moon eyed men mEm with t Valois ties and a super-caressing super manner Ono hears Tom Dick and nat Harry discussing dig dig- cussing art Frequently little effervescent offer effer ve cent spasms concerning the names of ot Corot labs Hals Monet etc break loose from a 11 dusl dusky corner where a half fed soaked cigarette cd member of or the tribe Is initiating a a. fluffy lu t idiotic female into the tho possibilities or of artistic atmosphere atmos atmos- phere phero Tho The Piece do Resistance Lonton's salon alon picture wa was as pervading all as asa asa asa a sore Bore thumb the the subject a a. woman putting potatoes Into a sack anck It Itma ma may have been well done but If you ou could havo have heard them gush over the luminous quality of the potato skins etc bah bah I 1 think thc they're re craz crazy ANOTHER GUEST SAID S. Frances darling you missed the op opportunity opportunity op op- of at your life when you ou stayed ed away aay from Lonton's tea Oh my dear such uch beautiful people Such understanding understanding under under- standing standing- of or tile the higher things of or life It was really a liberal education Lonton himself Is a perfect prince m my dear an adorable creature who dresses like a twentieth century matinee matinee mati mati- nee flee Idol has the tho hair hall of a a. and lives JIves In a medieval medle atmosphere The Tho room was a picture as I went in Very dimly and colorfully lighted and the air all just saturated with that In Intoxicating intoxicating In- In Incense the they use Its It's only after one has been In a place of or that sort that one ono realizes tho the blatant t vulgarity vulgarity ul garity of ot a n blaze of or lights And the little cups CUP no two alike and each a gem dear Just a suggestion of If food too No h heaping nauseating amounts sandwiches t that at were wre merely merely mere mere- ly artl artistic tic livers and Just a few Cew of ot them you know Oh I LOVE the atmosphere of ot a n studio And nd then I had the most moat fascinating fas fas- man who just devoted the en en- en tire afternoon to met mt met to to to all intents and purposes discussing art art but my mr dear he tva was absolutely Irresistible TIlE THE ARTIST SAID SUD This is the first free tree breath Ive I've drawn for tor a week weel Now ow that the darned thing Is over I feel reel as though e I just escaped a heavy y sentence But It made a hit kid Gee the preliminaries were toro great s-reat I 1 Iwas Iwas was f going to use uso candles s 's anyway be because because be- be cause causo I wouldn't dare show that mob timo tho moth eaten scarred battle-scarred condition condition condi condi- tion of ot this joint and the whiskers on the cushions In Jn full light But I wa was afraid someone might ask for tor the elec dee trio Then to get the dough for the sandwiches sand sand- iches etc I 1 had to rush that ad I was wa doing for fop soap and the fixative left such a fierce odor In the place I had to set loose about a gross of ot those Joss jos sticks lUcks to drown It Jt Jinks loaned me a flossy waistcoat but aut lies lie's about twenty pounds lighter back thap I and am ami i hold 8 So we we had to split It ll UP the It together with a latticework latticework lat lat- work tice-work of ot shoestrings And then Jack and I x went through v th the K building and took up a tion or of cups P V ye Wo We got Kot 1 one from Crom each studio except Greens Green's Greens he he had bad two t Finally I took that 1111 long suffering can cnn vas I lId did id In Paris wa way tray back in the old days when fathers father's fathers checks were coming regularly and stuck It li up with nil all the Sa Say I haven't done dono but canned soup and hair hall tonic ads since then but it did the trick all rJ right right right- ht- ht orders order for tor two portraits already r. r Beans Deane tor or mine But until SiT ready for 11 ey cry But say Bay a the way oay to get em all 1 a studio toa tea |
