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Show PARADISE FOR THE ARTIST Devotees of the Brush Are Accorded Accommodations Without Prlco at Inn at Capri. Capri, beautiful In Itself as r winter resort, offers nn lrrcslstlblo Invitation to artists, Binco it has nn Inn where anyone, by painting a picture un tho wall, can get freo board. To tho lovely Island of Cnprl, with Its perennial summer, Its blue grotto, nnd Its lemon groves, came, somo llfty years ago, a ruined artist. Ho opened an Inn, mid died rich. In his will, leaving the Inn to his heirs, ho mado thoso conditions: "Tho charge per day, two bottles ol red Capri wlno Included, Is never to bo moro than six francs. "If nny artist Is too poor to pay ho shall paint n plcluro upon somo wnll-s wnll-s pace, receiving nil tho accommodation accommoda-tion accorded to thoso paying tho highest high-est prlco. "If any German artist shall como to tho Inn ho almll bo accommodated, and shall receive the amount of his faro to Gcrmnny upon his promising never to return to Itnly." Tha Inn is conducted today on theso conditions, Its wnlls are covered with paintings. Now nnd thon n Gorman gets tils faro home. |