Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1915 — A Good Portrait. [ARTICLE]

A Good Portrait.

A great many ambitious young Americans go to France to learn the fine arts, especially painting, and the majority have a hard scramble to live while learning. They have to study economy in all its branches and eke out a living as best they can. One these young men, before his fame came, painted portraits In a common lodging-house at an altitude of seven stories. Fearing he could not induce the public to come so high, he put up a placard on the basement of the house; "Portraits taken here. Only ten francs. Studio on third floor." On reaching the third floor, a placard, “Ten-franc portraits. The studio has been removed to the fifth floor," would greet the eye. Up the portrait seeker would puff and pant to the fifth floor, and there would be greeted with, "Teh-franc portraits. Owing to the rebuilding of the premises, the studio bm» been temporarily removed to the seventh floor." The customer did not wiitwi suffering menu after he had reached that period of ascent, and the artist got his patron.