Show THE BOXAXCK OF A MODEL Wayward Hatband Find Uia Wife b7Xeaua or Floe Tainting One of the ruosti remarkable incidents inci-dents happened to an artist friend of mine who has since moved to Boston I said a prominent painter He had i I just opened a studio on Fourteenth Street and not knowing the ropes very well advertised for a model They came in shoals from all quarters of the cityold young and indifferentbut none of them seemed suited for the figure he had in view One day when he was Retting about tired out hunting around fur a subject a young woman dressed entirely in black applied to him for work She said she had never posed before but was very destitute and would gladly work for most anything to support herself and little girl There was something about her face that pleased him so he engaged her on the spot though not half believing the story she told him But he grew interested inter-ested m her case any way and decided on making use other services The subject of the picture was Night and represented a female figure with black draperies half reclining on the moon with stars on either hand The picture was completed and was a fine piece of work It hung in a Broadway I Broad-way dealers store for several weeks and then sol for 1500 to an Englishman English-man The purchaser came around to lee the artist a few days later to give him an order for a companion picture to represent M rning He remarked casually that the first work interested I him strangely inasmuch as the lace reminded him of a friend be had known some veara ago He asked the artist if the face wasstekenrfrom life and being assured that it was and getting the address of the model set out to find her I Well the upshot of the matter was the purchaser of the picture turned out to be none other than her husband who had deserted her in South America some years ago and who repenting of his drtlon hAd been hunting high and low for her several years I think this story is good enough for a novel said the artist as he lit a fresh cigarette cigar-ette Some facts in the lives of our beat artists would make excellent pictures pic-tures |