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Show Monarch's Compliment. A pretty rompllnfrnt wns that Philip IV of Spnln, himself a painter, tendered ten-dered to n greater urtlst. Velasquez. When Velasquez had finished his famous fa-mous picture "Lu Menlnas," which Includes not-only I'htllp ami his queen, hut the iirtist himself, hruh In hnnd. he nsked of the Mng, "U nnythtng wnntlugl" "One thing only." answered answer-ed Philip; nnd tailing the palette from Veliisquex's hmids, he p.ilnted on tho brenst of the artist' figure In the picture pic-ture the Cross of the Order of Santiago, Santi-ago, the mott distinguished' In Spain. |