Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1919 — TOILED HARD FOR SUCCESS [ARTICLE]

TOILED HARD FOR SUCCESS

Great Sculptor Knew Many Vicissitudes Before His Genius Compelled World’s Acknowledgment.

The old. old story of genius lolling against adversity and Winning the struggle is ever repeating Itself—and : Is ever Interesting. Rodin, the great | French sculptor, climbed the ladder , laboriously, but with such a persist- | ence that fame could not escape him. ! In “Rodin, the Man and His Art,” Miss Judith Cladel tells how the young artist, in order to live, applied himself to varied occupations. He chipped at stone and marble, he drew sketches for the fashionable Jewelers of Paris, and he made articles’ of decorative art ordered by manufacturers. Despite a considerable loss of time he obtained by that means a true apprenticeship in art. and finally was able to realize his first dream —to have an atelier of his own. His atelier! It was a stable in the j Rue Lebrun. In the quarter of the Gobelins, where he was born, ft was > a cold hovel-cave, with a well sunk in the angle of the wall that, at every se-tison, exhaled its chilling breath. It did not matter. The place was sufficiently large and well lighted. There Rodin accumulated his studies and works until the place became so crowded that he could hardly turn himself about, but, being too poor to have them east. he lost the greater; part of them. Sometimes the soft clay I settled and fell asunder; sometimes, becoming.too dry. it cracked and crumbled. —Youth’s Companion.