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Show MODEL ONLY LOOKED THE PART. Was Different When He Came Down from the Pedestal. Tho model had sat, with the necessary neces-sary rests, for three hours In one position, the pose of a splendid senator sena-tor of Washington, elegant, aristocratic. aristocrat-ic. He had a fine head. Ho was quite noted for that. He had been model for Illustrations of many htrolo figures. But the model with the fine hoad-wore hoad-wore about the rustiest suit of clotheB you ever saw. His cuffs were frayed. His collar stayed up with difficulty, It was so old. When the three hours were up ho gave a sigh of relief, for poslug Is hard work. There is no work harder. The artl6t drew forth his wad and paid him. The model thanked him with a grateful smile. "He Is down and out." 6ald the artist art-ist when ho had gone. "He hadn't a penny to get his lunch with," And ho looked at the picture he had drawn of him as a splendid senator sen-ator of Washington with a complacent smile of satisfaction with the fine dignity of It. I |