Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-06-03 | Page 3 | Raised Funds and had Joke

RAISED FUNDS AND HAD JOKE. Typical Anecdote Concerning Whistler, the Eccentric Artist. Whistler's most recent biography has this to say of his early life in Paris: "Though frequently hard np. Whistler had an income which seemed princely to students who lived on nothing noth-ing at ail. If Whistler had money In his pockets, Mr. Ionires says, he spent it royally on others If his pockets were empty he r.anaged to refill them in. a way that still amazes M. Oulevey. who, in proof cf It, told us of the night when, after the cafe where they had squandered their last sous on klrsch had closed, he and Lambrt and Whistler adjourned to the Halles for supper, ordered the best and ate It. Then he and Lambert stayed In the restaurant as hostages, while Whistler, at dawn, went off to find money to pay. He was back when they awoke with 300 or 400 francs in his pocket. He had been to see an American friend, he said, a painter. 'And, do you know, ho had the bad manners to abuse the situation situa-tion he insisted on my looking at bis pictures.' "