Show ARTIST AND MODEL A Remarkable Episode in the life of a Young American Artists are supposed to I e naturally natur-ally romantic Perhaps they are I but it has yet to be demonstrated that they as a class fall in love more readily than other men And yet is continually hearing of affairs one among tbe knights ot the damour become brush at Paris They rarely c enamoured of their models that is rarely seriously enamoured Modelf not as a rule of a lovable or lov are kind But there was a case of lug love between an atiifat we will true call him Palette rather than use own nameand a damsel who niB sat for Mm in figure pieces J was an American young 3 lie whole soultd and successfully She was an Alsatienne rising I handsome and poorer than the young proverbial church mouse Her parent had iost their little property 4 in the FrancoPiussian war when the the hungry German gobbled up and Lor fair provinces of Alsace raine Bather than swear fealty to the Kaiser they had sacrificed everything and Had eventually turning up in Paris where they had managed to wring out a meagre living in various honest ways Mar the daughter had been endowed guerite dowed by nature with a splendid face and form and she was as good I as she was beautiful By and bye her father was disabled and the mother had to devote to him her shoul care so that on Marguerites ders fell the burden of supporting the little family All went well for a while and then bad times came 1 There was no work to be had A I friend of the family one Mons I the frequenter of I I N a i studios suggested sitting for J i the artists No It could not bethought J 1 be-thought of At last necessity com pelled some action There were tara 1 landlords and implacable tradesmen 1 to face Palette was looking for a model He was painting a claescal picture He wanted an Athenian girl but he could not find any one L who satlfied him in the Greek ccs tume He pressed N whom he knew well and N pressed Mar gurite who in the end consented Palette was enchanted The very I thicg and he painted away for lear Jife S jmehow the picture was an unconsciously long time in the s finishing there was always some ting to be done to the figure of thee the-e Greek girl And Palette was a eapi 45 tal talker and he drew from Marguerite she had It guerite her history First his sympathy then his friendship I She sat for him often in other pictures He assisted her fam r discovered ily in various ways and he covered that she was a very uncommon uncom-mon girl To make a ton g story gvr sViQTTUe oed herdevoutlyltoi and fa the loved him And they were th marriedo cUrs ol There is nc happy ending to this tale there = was no ring of merry bells Marguerite guerite fell ill and died And Palette S Pal-ette Well ha will never marry He keeps her memory sacred lie painte with a sadder and more effective ef-fective touch now and people say there is a wonderful deal of heart lnd and poetry in his work He supports sup-ports the mother and makes her old age free from care The father died not long after his daughter It is a I sad story it ia a story of romance but such things show the better 3 y nature of our race |