Show PARADISE FOR THE ARTIST devotees of the brush are arc accorded accommodations without price at inn at capri capri beautiful in itself as a winter resort offers an irresistible invitation to artists since elace it has an inn whore anyone by painting a picture on tho the wall can got free board to the lovely island ot of capri with its ita perennial summer its blue grotto and its lemon groves came some fifty years ago it a ruined artist lie ho opened an inn and died rich in his will leaving the inn to his heirs he ha mado made these conditions the charge per day two bottles ot of red capri wine included to la never to bo be more than six francs it if any artist to Is too poor to pay lie he shall paint a picture upon some wall space receiving nil all tho the accommodation accorded to those paying tho the highest price if any german artist shall come to the inn lie he shall bo be accommodated and shall receive the amount ot of his bis faro fare to germany upon his promising never to return to italy the inn Is conducted today on these conditions its walls are covered with paintings now and then a german gets ills his fare home ray rais of humor from underneath tho war cloud little gashes flashes of humor escape now and again two irish sergeants brought wounded to paris are reported as saying that they did not know exactly where the battle was but they had bad just boon fighting at copenhagen they probably meant Comp eign but it made no difference in their willingness to fight the paris figaro pictures na as a common sight on the streets street two men reading their respective newspapers through to the tha end and then exchanging a P figaro lor for a matin and absorbingly rereading in the second newspaper the identical official announcement which they had read in the fairst life retains its shades ol of fun even in the darkest shadow of trouble |