Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1914 — PARADISE FOR THE ARTIST [ARTICLE]

PARADISE FOR THE ARTIST

Devotee* of the Brush Are Accorded Accommodations Without Price at Inn at Capri. Capri, beautiful in itself 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 Capri, with its perennial summer, its blue grotto, and its lemon groves, came, some fifty .years ago, a ruined artist. He opened an inn, and died rich. In his .win," leaving the inn to his heirs, he made these conditions: ‘‘The charge per day, two bottle* of red Capri wine included, is never to be more than six francs. “If any artist is too poor'to pay he shall paint a picture upon some wallspace, 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 of bls fare 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 fare home.