Show STUDENTS IN COLOR rough fun that helps would be ba art masters to beguile odd 1106 moments ments the most curious of the many practical jokes perpetrated by the art students in fit the latin quarter Is ia a kind of initiatory ordeal bilich the two newest newcomers of a class aro are come sometimes times compelled to undergo by their fellow students of tho beaux arts it Is a painters duel in which neither combatant no matter how small ills his experience nor how haw great ills his nervousness need fear for a fatal termination the reluctant duelists are provided with tall stools and seated opposite op each cadi other at arms length they wear old clothes and in tho the hand of each la Is placed a large paint brush charged with color the one dipped in prussian bluethe blue the strongest and most vivid of 0 azure tints and the other in carmine lake which Is a fine rich crimson the word is given and tho the two men begin to daub being usually strangers to one another and without the least cause of 0 quarrel they commonly show abow at first a great deal or of caution and consideration not to say timidity and do net mako make much effort to inflict conspicuous streaks or to touch each others face soon however one or the other gets a smear which he be does not like and attempts to retaliate upon his opponent then the contest waxes warm arm the spectators spectators hasten to take sides and urge on their favorites with shouts and encouraging cries the tall stools totter the wet brushes spatter the antagonists daub more and more fiercely and furiously until frequently men stools and ill all so go down together in a struggling red and bauo heap upon the floor the duelists are then assisted to their feet shake hands laugh at each ot others fiers appearance Pear pe arance arce and adjourn to the lavatory where they good help each other to remove the traces of the conflict the knight height of the red brush is found to have smeared his big adversary until he might pass for a hero of the goriest foriest held field of history whilo while the victim of the blue brush if only blue blood were a fact instead of a fi figure ure might poso pose for a survivor of 0 an equally desperate fight it speaks well tor for the temper and good comradeship of the students that so rough a kind of tun run ends where it begins in t the he mock duel and never it Is said eaid leads to resentment or ill will |