Show A students home in paris latterly the studio had been turn d from its original purpose and made into a delightfully impractical home for students like ourselves the interior was one room with a closet tor the sink and running water across the end opposite the door bung an inside balcony so irresistible that we engaged the studio on s of it the furnishings of the room consisted of a large table and three common chairs in one corner a dis cou raged little stove like a mustard pot in shape stood at the end of yards and yards of unromantic stovepipe this rusty cylinder fol lowed the outline of the room up the wall along the root to the apex then through an opening strayed outdoors where at last it became a thing ot beauty robed in trailing vines an rid easel served as hatrack and um brella stand with a peg near the stove reserved as the proper place on which to hang the coffee pot to dry A short flight of steps led directly from the room to the balcony this was broad enough tor the ta sleep ing couches and a narrow passage in front an artistic railing ran across the balcony and down either side of the steps that on company occasions arved for seats under the balcony a model s stand had been left caroline domett in donahoe s |