Show A TRIBUTE TO ART the maid of milchia and alio beautiful venus do medici somewhere in washington just where is not necessary to the main point at issue in this short article on the de and of art in the national capital is a mansion presided over bya by a woman of wealth and refinement sho is a most artistic woman too anden herh are somo unusually fine pieces of painting and statuary there is also a maid by name maggie who knows a deal more about than she doea about sculpture and imaggio has been trying for a long tima to cultivate her taste up to tho point of properly appreciating the painted and carved beauty with which she daily comes in contact not many days ago tho mistress aud the maid were going over tho house with brush and broom putting it in especial order for a musicale that was to be given to a few artists and fashionables fashio nables and the mistress observed that the maid on three several occasions passed by with cold neglect of cloth and brush a beautiful figure odthe venus de medici in an alcove just off the hall here maggie 1 she called why dont you brush the dust off this figure which wan mem inquired maggie with great innocence the venus there in the alcove of course see and the lady touched it with her finger you havo loft dust all over it mem confessed maggie but I 1 do be thinking for a long time mem that there to be something on it mem it was a delightful and logical excuse perhaps but the lady could scarcely accept it and baggies Mag gies brush removed even the dusty drapery she wished to leave washington star |