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Show A VISIX TO AN ANIMAL PAINTEfl. Am AMUt'i rikhop 1h it.tomhlM m ItuMam Hr(u. of u CanUult. J II. Dolph'i studio Isonoof tlioee great, ugly hout culled studio build lng ever fti many ttoriee liljfh. which rich mm build forartlttato live In, If they can put ft good lilli rent If you wero to are one you would know without with-out Mug told that It is not nn ordinary horn, for It baa great, htfh wlndnwr, rnch one m Urge m thrco or four of the window In yotir Immw. And when Mr Dolph'a door It open to )oti you think o( somo fairy tAloyou mo re.vli prrhnp of some kindly spirit who takes the 11 n fortunate prln ccm through sloomy dark (wsigft, and tlieu at tho "Open 8tniner brllign her suddenly Into a bAutlful pnlacot for hvn oiiiv In the studio, you think that you nrr In one of tho rooms of I aomn old wUro away In Kurop-i. I Hero are benutlful eiwtern earteta In the soft, rich colon whlcli arllU ae, great, high backed ehab, nil carved. brought from Italy, chairs on whlrli knfghts an 1 lo'IIt-s hnve tat hundred of yean ngaj old, curious muIcal In stjnunentA, which make you wimdrr what they would sonod llkt nnd how they were ployed; n carved chctt ! which som old Venetian noble gne to his daughtT rilled with Lrcadod ! rirnts and dreici of cloth of gold i nnd silver, table linen nml so on, not forgetting tho tittle silver casket fitted with money end JoucU, hir wed ling dower when she lot married, perhaps 400 years agui gnus swords, dageni, pl'tols, from Arabki, Tenln and other faraway coiintrlre, of ctiriims sbapqnnd so wonderfully wrought nnd Inlaid with gold andslhcraml precious stoma tu to mako you womkr why tool fur Lining (opIi wero made so beautiul. Hut thofuutitott things aroUhind an oil HHinbh aereen of unuy fo!d whero you ml.' I it think the artM'a wlfo kerpi her gowns for skirt nn 1 robe linng there, so miuy tint alio might change Iierdrc-is three tlnm a day for AinontlL Hut should Mr Dolpliglto you permlMlon to take tin m down And examine them ywu would know Ih it tho does not wear them, and that any body who ahould nowias would Iw well laughed at, for tin. wero ull mode for kn!o who died befon) jourgtvot-grtvit jourgtvot-grtvit grandmother wn boni. 1 fancy that soma of ) oil think title mutt boa iiiuteum. Well, )eit In one way It K beraum the thing) nre nil curious and Interest lug nnd out of the way. Hut n museum U n plaro where toople go to look at filings, and this It n place whero everything yoti seo It maooor r "Wiiy, you syf "jir, Didpti iloos iiot drct up In the funny drcMc nnd wear armor nnd carry theo odd slutted guntaiid pltolr Oh, not but lie paints them hi hit picture. 'J hey nro his patternsthat It, they ore the thing lio works from, jiut tie the plans nnd sketches and photographs In an architect's workroom ure thoorchl tect's models. That la tho reason why In IVnnee n studio Is called an atelier, which U Trench for w urLahov V I l'rar In St. Mcholas. |