Show Tragic Victims of the Artistic Temperament T Our London Landon Literary Lefler Lell Special r DefILO Dec II Kow the great LO I need for tor Ute Oie t e loft l Its hi patience J J patience and again patience and ami b he may be sure u that tut If It his hLa work be ba meritorious It will eventually secure Neure publication Such was warn aa the concluding counsel given by b Alexander Good in to ina toa a little book hook he published some years Yah ago alrO entitled Why Your Manuscripts Return Retura The other day two bodies were In Teddington ln look tied together by b a rope rop They Titer were weta w those of ot Alexander Good and hi his hLa wife They I lad Iad ud committed suicide together It was AJI another 1101 her proof of that trite truth that It ls Is vastly easier eselar to 10 give 11 good I 11 Ire I than to follow It oneself pfd Had Go in G f Coed and hi his wife possessed a II lit little littie lith tie tle moss more of 01 f Ya patience and h hopeful hopefulness o I Inh ness nh n u wt Yh th he ta counselled as u so 0 essen eIt essential tl to 1 success 1111 one of the tM m most et able Irad tr that the Thames i h has yielded a ir In Its It II lung long Jon and miserable toll tull of ol I the hi dead dad would never have oc oe occurred T TO LITERATURE Alexander lM led d ens a na still mill mi W 1 the ue shady bady side leSe of to Id At one unu nil time II he hs held Id a us es superintendent dent of oC an m e company In I Card Car lit tK But business though he h hood wade A rood living by tJ II it HS was a hil to toMm Mm Im He Me H hud hall the I h literary and artistic temperament li ita i wrote Tolf and he paint painted ed ad And he hI mai a harming young our oho 1 ho Isla h wool I nil and HII iI painted dad and shared brad III his Uj t I the dull routine of t work s So Good I de As elIded to I h quit the thu th insurance company that he and nII hl bl his self wIfe might devote th themselves to art and literature They were w devoted lIvo tt lit each ach other and It wa wu an Ideal life they led for fur a time Those ThoM who knew them spoke poke of ot them as the most moet de delightful delightful delightful couple they th had ever ev met to They both worked slid and nd by their writings and paintings painting managed to 10 make nuke enough to support themselves comfortably Mrs I Good published a little book now How to Paint Faint In Oils Ola which was wan very vf favorably received roald though thou of course coule It was not net the th sort of 01 work which commends com eom commands mends mands a big bl sale aale and aDd nuke makes k a tot lot t of or money moner Pilled with bright dreams II of the Sall leid they UlI would find nd In the metropolis tot for their talents they the came eam to London that thai graveyard of ut so many man hopes and aspirations and London swallowed allowed them up The Th pictures they tha painted did slid not Mil seU 11 nearly so eo o well as lb they had Jaad hadIn hadIn In the country The dealers told them bent tha thathy they thy would have haV to get reputations reputatIon In to order to 10 command any anything thing like Uku decent de decent d dt cent t prices for tor them And their manu mane manuscript nu script 1111 earn came back butk k in to t them with heart heartbreaking heartbreaking breaking frequency Hided Good tried bust busi business ness neat 1 again ala and opened a tobacconists shop hop but it II proved a failure They renewed the struggle lr le to make moke a liv hv living ing by art und and literature lit FROWN Fortune continued to Ie I frown upon u on them theirs lb Their means mean dwindled d They Thy moved noved HIO to 10 o a 1 couple cuu l of 01 modestly fury fur rooms roo In Islington and did their own housekeeping ho IO SUIT they found they lb could not make both ends meet haslet t Friends they Ih bad who would have hav help helped Ip i ed HI d them t willingly had bad they known or their dire din Ire need nd but ul they tile were wars w too tic to proud to ask uk for assistance taace They kept their troubles to I r themselves and ad fared faced the lb world that 11 was dealing so u harshly with 1111 h hem m with alma Saver facet f People II b met milt them at this UIl ti QI they were u a 1 particularly happy I lr II situ lit Saturday tur they the walked out of iK ir lodging mid and II lid disappeared Tty They y left several bekie them A and addressed 1 fen fn postage Jn On On 1 in I contained thesis u h ur rd n If I ever ver v you think f r un u 0 IN w I it tt du io not do lIu se sadly 1 Fie es lt r that Ii u e a a are all i asleep aseep P and II d Ih sisal et en HI r i MI MII aiA what Is II bettor better than Iaan sleep after fi r A tone long days dari da work THE For nearly tIr three weeks their IU p r n rm a mystery m nry Then the Ilis nv tJ t gae t 68 io D u t str scare l y f |