| Show lord leighton rud ami children even under the social storm and stress of studio sunday when hen his picturesque house was vas crowded with oil nu exact ing and brilliant leighton could make time lima to to the wants of any little visitors nl who ho might accompany their elders orio ono charin charming mg in instance stanco of this comes to my mind iu in reference to a reception at his house some seven or eight years ngo ago A pretty little trying to edge her wee poison through tho the crowd to get a glimpse of tho the presidents pictures but without success in III tin an instant lie grasped the situation raised her to his shoulder nud and tho the two were chatting gleefully together its as if they had bad been friends for life au AD ex of his gerlo generous rons slid pit pa trout self belt restraint I 1 saw on another occasion when tile the accident of his high official position brought him in into willing touch with a wealthy parve parvenu du this magnate knew little of art but prided himself on his choice collection which only a moderate share of critical critic nl knowledge might havo have seriously discounted over tho the dining room loom mantelpiece was a very doubtful old waster master over which its master waxed enthusiastic in thu the presence of his guest praising its alleged points of merit in ill no measured terms and generally explaining the why and the wherefore with the fluency of I 1 self complacent ignorance The president listened with the suspicion of a snails on his handsome features but his few words were wise generalities and I 1 a as 8 soon as courtesy courte sy would permit a tactful silence prompted by those rare diplomatic powers with which lie he was so richly gifted london times |
