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Show Mkhxti Life K the Third' 1Mt,a Studio Tea Wtielen Meets the Jm!i?oseurs a,, qmihe''Hangers-on" JHBERT URNER. lyrical "slagc-scl" studio m JXo works. iSE? -inor. and the countless cu-3KS cu-3KS nJcK things that arc bup- jEli The ,I5Ual carcfu1, care,csa ! EteWaflcd, and tho place was dK dusty and stifling with the jjHc ? ckawltcs. burnlnff lnconao iKff seated on a couch cov-ftlian cov-ftlian Indian blanket- Iho ?B?wtre broken and. Bagged In K and she kept sliding down SEAe Mjaentlc young man who 1JKher. He Had been talking JKil fervor about a volume of fjKSSn nnnets, that were In tho SEjf jut staling lo repeat some .JK !St he I"1 tossed oft" tho iKteforc, wheu there was a hush uK bos of conversation. And iitKoM announced that Professor Kfi wwld play one of his own se-!E-i nocturne In A minor. ' lKfc2J0r Purcaro, with bushy hair, 1 tM coat low collar and broad Ktl down' at the plan?., He first & floors through his hair in Kget approved niannor, and then '.JBrM Impressive pause made a tHKfe. and wild onslaught at the "iiHLfl)r a moment he banged with isttBk vfror and then as suddenly Em to a faint twiddlc-de-de on flBlgz. Asaln the wild, deafening 'SBsdfc? and again tho faint twld-1 twld-1 IKfe-de. Once more the Infuriated hJKriK and still again the caress-MpiSsjtrJiig caress-MpiSsjtrJiig twlddle-dc-de. Nearly Laughs. Ertrj' one seemed profoundly Im-fBee. Im-fBee. Bui Helen thought of how jjKrea bid once Imitated just such . Kforn 'tee. and there came over AEl bystarical desiro to laugh. fcl7 Jhs took a gulp of tea from jJMwjB her hand and then almost 4Ev the music had settled down jH & tad' thunderous stampede. yK' professor, with his head thrown jfc ud the Ehaggj' locks a-wave, Ktia be finally ended with 2 last Hg chord, everyone applauded 'mBi mumiun of "How exquisite! jlKU perfect technique! What won -naHd expression." Then as though biJiEt from the enforced silence. m$mi of conversation began ;iPoo't you have another sand-tOlB?' sand-tOlB?' uked the poet, who had tt!Bi hlmitlf liberally several times, of these with nuts." ilncc Helen had entered there ttri a crowd around the refresh -"jBt.U'oI?. and tho paper-thin 6and-irjBM 6and-irjBM d weak claret punch rapidly rmKKixtA. She had heard that there ZfjMi certain class of artists and (Tlo lived mostly on what they B"Ht teas, and now as sho enw '"J of them hungrily boiling tha tnfWdict and ma.caroon3, she won- HijKit could be tnic. 'iWf one announced that Mn?. tjHfu Berk-Reed would glvo some . JB taptrsonatlons. lira. Burk-it Burk-it iM;' in -spite of her rouge and her llHp wxjuctry, looked fully thirty-iJmL thirty-iJmL chaira were crowded back 3Kill space cleared by the .!H ? affectation that would have ll'IBWte'Jietic lmd it not been so rid-.we rid-.we ofan lisping " "ittle Or-With Or-With her head held shvly Jili. her finger in hor mouth, w.-in? ,nlJt hor skirt in front, H"d l,ack and forth in the il'IB110"" are always impersonated VjBr cfilld ever acts, w fhe had lisped, through this L!?R??;i; 'ncm with "The goblins'll 00 don't wntch out." After H39jV'tt pei-ted "Little Bov Blue" , jijmfimn-Wb was somewhat weak pr were spared that. Bm?'!!,,'10 was another rush on ,JBh5W, 0,,o peciled a glass rBBS'.y after Mrs. Kathleen ifiHten.r-rMrm,;i5!!' 't'hn the iiLgK? "l Reside Helen was casllv Il !,catl " 01 oto eK; n!2l? il n?em w'Hi liim. of llmkrA -hT ,ad a with mHtaint uSr Poasill- he thought i IHHSudMr. the normous quan-rtd quan-rtd 1 an1 m,lcaron that tee,0n'e' lo-vel one? Art thou '0fc(Sire the sphero y raptures Hfefap3rt-.h!ne wn G0U1 haBt I4-KlswAhcr8 the Joy thou I UP m ten'der Cy: oh. cruel ISf SSett?" Am 1 nc J K rrsot th ocslacics that I Ut us 'hen our souls sua- I'B'hI? nmnlEhcd the tfthat h3l& 'nu,nciioun ap- lEM$w Jtt-!W s?",,ot ven MBfrtiior. . ''npasaloncd. .and Kit Z 'neanlnslesa. li wai Sk'" s thc attcnuon HwBfc ,M- ,l55y couch flMWimured mna cmbarraaMd BB'AiSll1'-..8!'.'. attraellvc stu-BJHfeSe!!?'d,os stu-BJHfeSe!!?'d,os are lh moat IKniiy a'STL ';!lVJn 0V(J arid WJfc1 to lillrtH, offS'e Va mlKVii ul?L "'kford," a Kroup TUUB "rtudlo than to JKr '"ttliONpl'.11' " ,I"at" HK,,ptrCo!!,R " w THn- horror nr ' ,a"'1 "hc l'ad MBg , Vro,?, t,f0 who did F.flrW f llai ii'J "Vnifi"io"ini 1 11 around teas. It Is only the "poseur" and tho "hanger-on" who does that. And yot. curiously enough, It is these very Idlers who aro always criticising criticis-ing the work of others, particularly If tho work Is of a- commercial ua-tur. ua-tur. II. was growing late and Helen war. anxious to got home. But she hsid come with Mrs. Slovens, who was now in tho midst of an tmlniated group at tho other side- or thc studio. Hevnral times Helen triod vainly to catch her attention, but she hp.-.dtatrjd to cross over and Interrupt her. At length the group broke up and Mrs. Stevens came over with a smiling, smil-ing, "noudy. dear?" "Oh, yes." and Helen rone cugorly; 'quite roady." By tho tlmo they had told thdr host wlml. a "charming" t?a It lmd been, what a "very delightful" studio ho had. and lh"ii mado tholr way down llirno flight? of stairs, it was after fi. When Helen reached home "Warren was already thre. Ho was vending, his feot propped up on their Ta-vorlte restinc plaijr thc window nlll. "Hello. Kitten." lighting a i'tosh cigar "Been galavanting around lh nhopK?" "Oh. nil no. and l in no sorry to be bite! But J went wllli Mrs- Stevens tu a. Ktudlc tea. Oh. dear." nestling down bopide him on tho arm of tho 'hair. "Pin :o thankful that you don't wi-nr long hsilr and a flowing tl! And oh. VVarron. smoothing pruudlv liln clofii'ly rroppod brown hair "I UI ho glad that yoiU'n not an artlnt or a musician r PocL! |