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Show I ELISE'5 EEAUTlrUL ARMS. 1 ITio Grant Triumph and Tra-lc End of an ArtUt's luili-l lu li.-rllu. i Two years ago LUse Kemmlcr, then 18 j j years old, was a waitress at a restaurant , in the students' quarter in Berlin. She ! was not pretty. She was freckled, ! square shouldered and dumpy. She was so plain that she did nut even get tho . usual careases aud love pats which tlie German wait resets almost invariably get i from every man they serve. She had, ' however, one beauty of form her arms. 1 They were large, white and exquisitely ' molded. A young artist noticed them one day as Elise, with her sleeves rolled up, brought him his beer and roast goose, i From that day on Elise was probably , ' more sought after by young men than anv other waitress in Berlin. Every 1 I artist wished her to sit for him, so that 1 he could paint her beautiful anus. j After tlie young artist who discovered ; her arms had given their counterparts to 1 his llebes and Venuses and Dianas. ' dozeus of other artists wished to repro- ! duce them on their canvases. Ab a ; model Elise made double and treble the money tliat she had earned as a waitress 1 She spent it all upon her person and be- came immediately vain. By means of a bit of lacing, a free use of cosmetics, and a lot of new gowns, she made herself 1 over into a very attractive young wo- j man. Slio had lovers by the dozen, i , Hardly an evening passed for tho noxt I two years but that she drank wine with an artist or student in a fine Berlin res- ! 1 taurant, or sat beside him in Borne aec-i aec-i ond class theatre, A few weeks ago Elise had an engage-, engage-, merit to sit for the young artist who discovered dis-covered her. She went to his room and ; prepared to reveal tho beautiful arms which ho had wished to paint. He told i her, however, that she need not take the i trouble. lie had found a woman with more finely molded arms than hera. She threw herself on the iloor and wept. He tossed her some money to comfort her. i She threw it back to him and hurried off , home. There she locked herself in her j rooms. For two days Bhe refused ad-j ad-j mittance to every one and ate nothing. ! On the morning of the third day her 1 landlady was attracted to her bedroom I by groans. On tho bed lay Elise in con- vulsions. She confessed that she had 1 poisoned herself, but begged the landlady land-lady not to summon a doctor, as she j wished to die. A physician who was 1 called in considered her incurable She j was sent to the Charite hospital, whero she died two days later. Now York Sun. Seeking nis Own Huppliiusi at La.it- A tall, fine looking man of distinguished distin-guished appearance and clerical air stepped into the office of Clerk of Courts Hewitt yesterday and asked with great dignity if Mr. Hewitt were the one who made folks happy. Mr. Hewitt joined him in a little blush, and shyly admitted ! that he sometimes distributed great I chunks of happiness to young men for ! a consideration. ! "I want a marriage lioense, then," the ; Btrangcr remarked. I "What is the name?" asked Mr. Hew-' Hew-' Itt J "Spratt Rev. G. M. Spratt, of Phila-delDhia." After the usual questions required by law to bo asked of those who come there for tickets in the lottery, Mr. Hewitt ob- i served; "Of course I can see that you are of age, but," in an apologetical tone, "I am required to ask your exact age." "Certainly, certainly, sir," responded tho clerical visitor. "I know how it is. I have officiated at a large number of : weddings since the law went into effect lam 75." The bride Mr. Spratt was to lead to tho altar was Mrs. Amelia Down Whee-j Whee-j ler, of Corry, whose ago is G7, so that the combined ages of the bride and groom reach the almost unprecedented ago of 142 years, an even century moro than tho ngo of the average bride and groom. Erie Gazette. |