Show A noted rai painters ro poverty verty the exhibition of J F millets pictures which constitutes for the moment the loading leading artistic attraction in paris has set french journalists iiD ginging ging the changes once more on the familiar story of the artists poverty and struggles it is satisfactory is to hear on the authority of mine the painters daughter that the facts of the case have been grossly exaggerated millet sho dio says not only never knew anything approaching want but was always in a position to entertain his bils friends hospitably and to relieve the file necessities of his poorer neighbors which lie he did habitually and regularly it is true that lie was poorly paid for his work but he was rarely paid less than lie he asked at once a remarkably modest and a honest man lie ho never could ho be brought to ask prices for his pictures which his brother artists and even the dealers themselves told ili him in they were worth lie ile himself was perfectly satisfied with his artistic gains and his life v was as on oil the whole as tranquil and happy as any man could desire the future of his children no doubt cost him anxious thought but lie lived to see his sons all settled in life and liis his daught daughters erswell well and happily married boston globe |