| Show i alnlt in Three Ihun IWnltl I lluntlncton former prnldtnl o Iunh National aeadem rrlalrd re ctntly an odd nrt experience The eon flrmtlun had teen on Hlr John Mlllalt old hli portrait work and thli re mTnJid Mr Ilunllnglon of how at one lime ho painted a portrait In three hour hourI I dont recall all the clrciiniitaiirm exactly began the derail ol the cacti hut I do remember that the limn came Pry hurriedly lo my Ilullo ono rooming He announced hit ho lad Jut come from the meat that lie had beard of mo and anlrd me to paint hli portrait It was to Le a prei tnt lit I remember for hli wife Hut he told 1 Inking out hla watch I lull for Kuropo toils nfUrnoon All m Y biiilneii him been flnlihrd and l I can Clio youlet me ice three hour Of coune I declared that painting a portrait under such condition was ab MiluUljr Impoiilhle Hut he rrfuieil tn accept my refusal lie declared that he had cotnv lo New York lame hour aliNtd of limo especially for toll that te would hate nobody clue paint him and that lie would not bo dliappolnted I could hate n wick lo flnlih the portrait por-trait utter he had gone I madu the experiment but decllnril to be iriponilblo for too picture iiie m Never before had I painted no rapidly and never ilncr During the Liltir part ot the limo my Kilter held all watch In hla hand Irrcliely at the riplrallon ot tho three hour he left nf Iron memory I flnlintJ It within n few day and It pleaded the Demons It went to Hut It was a itrante ei perlenccNVw York Herald |
