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Show VICTORY FOR' FUTURIST ART Painter Found Himself Famous at Moment Mo-ment When He Feared That All Was Lost. ltuthsbano lluuiiiini'k struggled wen illy up tho nineteen flights of stnlrs to his droughty gariet studio. Xo food hail pusicd his lips that day except twenty hariMiollcil eggs anil six en in of spoiled Mirdlues originally packed in lard, "I was a brute to marry Kmuinlluc before I was able to provide for her," he thought bitterly. "Xo man ought to marry on Icns than an assured Income In-come of four dollars nnd fifty a week. I wonder if tho cxXressiimn has come to take 'Skeolmw llrldge In a Drizzle' to the Futurist exhibition. If that, my masterpiece, falls to win n pilo, I four we all must starve or cut sauerkraut all winter." The tlrM thing thai met hW eye ho had hut ono left when he entered the studio wiis "Skeehnvv Hrldge. In u Dilzzle." "Tho oxprosNtiian ciiiuo and look nwny tho picture." his wlfo told him with n giggle. "1 hope 1 gave him tho right one tho little square canvas one tho lIMle square canvas lu tho corner? cor-ner? Those futurist things nil look ' so iillko." Hummock burled his tvnrrod feii-l tures In his uiiwnxhcil hands. I "You gave them that old Hawed canvas can-vas 1 gave tho baby to daub mil" ho moaned. "Wo are ruined l Ruined!" Hut ut that moment it messenger boy nrrlvod with u telegram from the judges. It rend: "First prize of 1!." cents for our oiin i without title. Wo have taken the tiliei ,, of niuilug It 'Opening Oysters Oys-ters in the 'iloauilng' us that was so obviously your subject " Hummock rushed out with n glad yell to buy a lemon, Detroit Free Press. mi i immi i i ill |