Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 66, 22 January 1912 — Page 8

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THE BICmiOND PALLADIUM A XD SUX-TELEGRA3I, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1912.

MJ1IIY UNGRATEFUL PERSONS 1(1 THIS WORLD

People You Work for and Defend Will Turn and Rend You the First Opportunity. Artists Are the Greatest Egotists Living.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. "There is no gratitude in this world," Mid tbe other person. "What's tbe matter now," asked tbe cynic. "Well, you know all tbe trouble I took to defend Dauberton when everybody was kicking him round like a football, don't you?" "I remember I told you you'd have your trouble for your pains," paid the cynic. "You needn't throw that at me," replied tbe other person resentfully. "I'm not throwing it at you but I knew Dauberton. Dauberton's out for himself. When be gets through with you be makes no bones of pitching you into the discard." "You know," said tbe other person artlessly, "that's a human trait I simply cannot understand." "All the worse for you," said the cynic carelessly, "for Its one of the commonest. Nobody really cares for anybody but himself." "I can't agree with you not at all," cried the other erson. "Why, it destroys your faith in evrything." "Better not have any faith In the beginning," said the cynic, "then you're In the way of being disappointed now

and then by finding that there are a few righteous souls in Sodom." "Oh, I like to have faith in people and things," said the other person. "Its so charming even if you do get the chilly heart sometimes." "Like Dauberton," grinned the cynic. And by the way," he went on, "what was Dauberton's special defection?" "You know what perfectly awful things be paints don't you?" r "My dear they give me a pale blue nightmare," said the cynic. "They look like they'd been painted out back of the barn." "That's just the way they make me feel," said the other person, triumphantly. "Never have I seen more perfectly awful frights and yet don't you remember the things I used to write about 'cm in 'The Forum of the Peo.plo?' " "Short on technique but long on color yes, I remember," puffed the cynic. "But then you called attention to the fact that Turner mas also so ranked. Indeed, while you didn't say so you delicately Intimated that Dauberton was an embryonic Turner." "I know I did and I wish I hadn't now." "Your regret does you no credit," said the cynic.

"Why what do you mean!" "You committed artistic perjury when you wrote those things about Dauberton," said the cynic, "even though you did it with a noble motive. Now If Dauberton hadn't given you tbe cold handout, you'd have continued writing letters to the paper calling attention to his masterpieces and the fact that he was un unappreciated genius and hoo-dooing people into the same belief. All this was wrong, my dear most reprehensible." "I don't like the way you're talking," sulked the other person. "I know you don't. But I'm doing it for you're own good," said the cynic solemnly. "I know how people like to have things told to them for their own good," he went on. "When people want to be particularly nasty and disagreeable they will always says 'but I'm telling you this for your own good.' Not that they really mean it. They generally are taking it out on you for

j things in you they envy not detest." , "Yes," said the other person momenj tarily diverted from disgust over the i lecture directed toward her, "Maria always talks that way to me when I get ja new dress I look nice in. She will

write me a letter, or take me aside mysteriously closing doors and drawing down blinds and say "My dear girl, you know how fond I am of you. You know I have always been your best friend a disinterested one. I have your best interests at heart and I think too much of you to allow you to go on making an object of yourself. I hate to see you so misunderstood. I know how modest and unassuming you are and therefore I dislike to see you the object of unmerited criticism " " 'For heaven's sake, Maria,' I murmur, 'whatever in the world are you talking about!'" " 'Simply this, my dear,' and, by the way, did you ever notice that people always call you 'my dear when they are saying something mean ' "I protest!" exclaimed the cynic. "When I call you 'my dear' I feel " "Call it off," said the other person. "Well, as I was saying. Maria says Blmply this, my dear. That dress you are wearing is causing you to be severely criticised. In the first place it is too short and, in addition the color is highly unbecoming it does not suit your complexion at all. It Is made too long in the waist and is too tight round the neck. I really must ask you, dear,

jfor the reputation of the family to 'atop wearing it" ! "Its the most charming dress I ever saw you have on," said tbe cynic "Why, of coarse stupid! That's the reason Maria didn't want me to wear it. She knows I took awfully nice In it and she knows you think I do, too. Besides Sal told her that Ed and Sam said I looked perfectly stunning in it and so "

"Does Maria do me the honor of being jealous?" again grinned the cynic. "She does me the honor of being jealous of my new dress," said the other person. "To return to Dauberton," interpolated the cynic. "I'd hate to have such 'a methodical mind." "Passing that lightly up," deployed the cynic, "it really isn't fair to the undiscriminating public to write eulogies of the undeserving. Now you know that Dauberton Is just a common every-day messer with paint. That he thinks that, if he had enough courage to give up selling shoe-strings and paper collars, he would go skyrocketing across the flrmanent like a sublimated Rembrandt. That he would

have Velasquez skinned a city block and Reynolds done to a finish. "He really thinks that. All artists do. There is 90 class so engulfed in wallowing egotism as artists unless its musicians, or actors " "Or men," said the other person. "I did not notice that last," smoked the cynic. "Well, anyway, Dauberton is as contemptible as anybody you can imagine," said the other person. "You know the local art syndicate would never let him in on the ground floor, so to speak in fact crowded him to the wall. Wouldn't let him exhibit except at the side-shows and ridiculed him to the finish. "He used to come to me and weep briny tears," said the other person. "And beg me to write letters to the papers. He said I was his only, his true, his perfect friend. That I recognized his real artistic soul. That he was more grateful to me than I would ever know and all that kind of Etuff, you know. "Then when the art syndicate fell several points in the local market and looked about it for a lever for reinstatement it seized on Dauberton neglected, misunderstood, excommunicated. It saw an opportunity to exploit itself back into local favor and so it bought off Dauberton with a first prize or some kind of second hand reward." "Well?" inquired the cynic. WANTED YOUR MACHINE AND REPAIR WORK BALLINGER A GIBB8 MACHINISTS REAR 220 LINCOLN 8TREET Phone 3040 or 3158

"And then Brassley, head of the syndicate, you know, linked his arm in that of Dauberton and told him he was hia great and good friend and he would like to have a private conference with the latter on whose judgment he would hereafter entirely rely In the matter of local aspects that he had always had an admiration for Dauberton but that events over which be had no control had so shaped themselves that he had been unable to overcome a certain opposition to Dauberton but that he had triumphed at last and so on. "And what do you think;" said the other person. "If the next thing I knew Dauberton and Brassley hadn't gone to the school board to tell them that I was an unfit person to teach the youth of the town and that Dauberton wouldn't use his influence to re-elect Slipperton, whose term was about to expire, unless they threw me out Brassley thus taking revenge on me for writing letters to the papers about Dauberton." "Well what would you expect from such a pair of jacks?" said the cynic. "I'm glad, anyway, you didn't call 'em aces," said the other person.

A Business SuggMtien. Bobby bad worn bis mother's patience to the limit. "Yon are a perfect little heathen!" he remarked, giving way at last. "Do you mean it?" demanded Bobby. "I do indeed." said bis mother. Then, say, ma," said Bobby, "why can't I . keep that 10 cents a week you gimme for the Sunday school collection? I guess I'm as hard up as any of the rest of 'em.' Harper's Weekly.

Things Ha Knew. His Wife Why don't you .go to the doctor and find out just what you ought to eat and what you ought to aroid? Dyspeptic Oh, I know all that now. I ought to eat everything I don't like and avoid everything 1 do. Exchange.

All Sound. Fred What do you think of my argument? Will Sound; most certainly sound. Fred What else? Will Nothing else; merely sound.

OUR BETTER NATURE. The better nature in us exults over hardship and privation as a seal of its divinity. Men spring with a deeper joy to man a lifeboat in a raging sea than they fed at the thought of a pleasure voyage. Henry Wilder Foote.

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UNDERWEAR, MEN'S FURNISHINGS, ETC., EVERYTHING REDUCED Men's Shirts, $1.00 grade, Sale 75c Men's Shirts, 50c grade, Sale, 2 for ... 65c Men's Fur Gloves at 20 per cent discount. Boys' Union Suits, 50c value :.39c DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT French Challies, worth 58c, January Sale price 30c plack Heatherbloom, the perfect material for petticoats, 35c grade, Sale 29c Mirage SilkRegular price $1.35, remarkable bargain at Sale price QQc Rubber Coating: Silk, rubber coated, worth $2 and $2.50, Sale price per yard. SI. 1 3 General 10 Per Cent Discount en Sllke and Wool Goods.

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BLANKETS AND CURTAINS ANNEX, SECOND FLOOR 40-inch Scrim, figured or plain center, with border, worth 25c and 30c yard, January Sale 0e Yd. Roman Stripe Couch Covers, worth $1.25, January Sale, each C00 Woolnap Blankets, extra close fleece, worth $3.00, Sale Z2M Crochet Bed Spreads, size 72x84, regular $1.25 grade, Sale ... ...........OOc WHITE GOODS, MUSLIN UNDERWEAR, ETC. Fancy Colored Taffeta and Messaline Petticoats, $5.00 value, Sale price . . . .. $2.00 Embroidered White and Colored Semi-made Batiste Robes, during Sale at Half Regular Prices. One lot of 27-inch Swiss Flouncings. 50c to 75c value, January Sale, per yard. . , -20c One case Imperial Long Cloth, 12 yard lengths, Sale price, per bolt. 8le26 Many short lengths and remnants in Lawns, Poplins, etc., at unusually low prices;

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