Show PARADISE FOR THE ARTIST devotees of the brush are accorded accommodations without price at inn at capri capri beautiful in itself itsek as a winter resort offers an irresistible invitation to artists since it has an inn where anyone by painting a picture on the wall can get free board to the lovely island of 0 capri with its perennial summer its blue grotto and its lemon groves came some fifty years ago a ruined artist lie he opened an inn and died rich in his will leaving the inn to his heirs he made these thesa conditions the charge per day clay two bottles ot of red capri wine included is never t be more than six francs it if any artist is too poor to pay he shall paint a picture upon some wall space receiving all the accommodation accorded to those paying the highest price if any german artist shall come to the inn he shall be accommodated and shall receive the amount ot of his iara fara to germany upon his promising never to return to italy the inn is conducted today on these conditions its walls are covered with paintings now and then a german gets his tare fare home |