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Show FIERCE FIGHT WITH SNAKE IN STUDIO OF ARTIST BERLIN, April 25. Tho studio of Professor Pro-fessor Julius Kraut, one of Berlin's leading lead-ing portrait painters, lias been the scene of a thrilling battle with a snake. The artist had given a sitting to Mmc. Madlah Surith, a snake charmer from the Caucasus, Cau-casus, who is appearing at. a local circus. She arrived at tho studio with a thirteen-foot long boa constrictor, her largest and most powerful net. The snake beeame excited by the strango surroundings, and as soon as its sparkling eyes caught a glimpse of tho place tho reptile sprang from its box and attacked the attendant who had accompanied accom-panied Mine, Surith. She succeeded in quieting and overcoming the constrictor and proceeded to entwine it around her neck In an artistic; pose for the sitting to Ihe painter, which presently bcuan. With a terrible lunge and a hiss of rage, tho snake released itself from Mmc, Surith's embraces and took up a, menacing men-acing position behind a pair of curtains. Professor Kraut, with presence of mind, crouched for an attack on the reptile and succeeded in pressing his knees squarely against its head, while Mme. Surith's attendant at-tendant held its tail fast. She herself, with the aid of scissors, then proceeded to free the body of the constrictor from the tangled curtains, which had wrapped themselves around tho snake, and had to be entirely cut to pieces. Mine. Surith was finally able to subdue her pot's wrath and restore it to its box. The sitting, however, came to an abrupt end. |