Eureka Reporter | 1905-06-02 | Page 6 | She Was Not Beautiful

she was not beautiful at the whistler exhibition in lon don said a tourist I 1 had a chate with joseph pennell the well known artist pennell had spent his boyhood in germantown with me and so we talked of our old germantown friends we talked of a boy who had become an artist and married a rich woman pennell said this chap was not altogether happy he said he would tell me a story about him that would reveal subtly in a henry james man ner the cause of his unhappiness A stranger visited the man s studio one day and paused full of a onder before a life size f ill length picture of a woman in a white greek dress Is this said the stranger in a tone of amazement your ideal no the artist answered its my wife