rilE C1TIZKX, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1000.
II SERVICE OF LOVE
Story of Two Art Students Who
Toiled For Each Other".
By O. HENRY.
ICopyright, I'M, by i.tcCltire. Phillips &
Co. J
When one loves uru'rf art no rervl i
seems too hard.
That is our premise. This story shall
draw n conclusion from It and show in
the same time that tins preiuUo U In
correct. That will be n new thing in
logic and n feat In story telling some
what older than the great wall of
China.
Joe Larrabee came out of the liost
oak flats of the middle west pulsing
with n genius for pictorial art. At sis
lie drew a picture of the town pump
with a prominent citizen passing it
hastily. This effort wag framed and
hung in the drug store window by the
side of the eur of corn with an uneven
number of rows. At twenty he loft
for New York with a flowing necktie
iiud a capital tied up somewhat
closer.
Delia Caruthcrs did things in sis
octaves so promisingly in a pine tree
village in the south that her relatives
chipped In enough in her chip hat for
her to go "north" and "iiulsh." They
could not sec her f But that Is our
sfory.
t Joe and Delia met in an atelier
where u number of art nnd music stu
dents had gathered to discuss chiaros
curo, Wagner, music, Rembrandt's
works, pictures, Waldteufel, wall pa
per, Chopin and oolong.
Joe and Delia became enamored one
of the other or each of the other, ns
you please, and in a short time were
married, for (see above) when one
loves one's art no service seems too
bard.
Mr. and Mrs. Larrabee began house
keeping in a Hat. It was u lonesome
flat something like the A sharp way
down at the left hand end of the key
board. And they were happy, for they
had their art, and they had each other.
And my advice to the rich young man
would be sell nil thou hast and give
It to the poor janitor for tho privilege
of living in a flat with your art and
your Delia.
Flat dwellers shall Indorse my dic
tum that theirs Is the only true happi
ness. If a home is happy It cannot tit
too close. Let the dresser collapse
and become a billiard table; let the
mantel turn to a rowing machine, Jin
escritoire to a spare bedchamber, the
washstand to an upright piano; let the
four walls come together. If they will.
so you and your Delia are between.
But if home be the other kind let it U
wide and long enter you at the Gold
en (!ate, hung your hat on IIatter.u,
your cape on Capo Horn and go mu
by the Labrador.
Joe was painting in the cla&s of tho
great Maglster you know his fame.
Ills fees are high, his lessons are light,
ills high lishts have brought bltn re
nown. Delia was studying under I!o
nenstock you know his repute as a
disturber of the piano keys.
They were mighty happy as long as
their money lasted. So is every But
, 1 will not be cynical. Their aims were
' very clear and dellned. Joe was to be
come capable very soon of turning out
pictures that old gentlemen with thin
side whiskers and thick pocketbooks
would sandbag one another in his stu
dio for the privilege of buying. Delia
was to become familiar and then con
temptuous with music, so that when
the saw tho orchestra seats and boxes
unsold she could have soro throat and
lobster in n private dining room and
refuse to go on tho stage.
But the best, in my opinion, was the
home life in the little flat the ardent
voluble chats after the day's study
DELIA CAME AND IICKO ABOUT niS NECK.
the cozy dinners and fresh, light
breakfasts, the interchange of ambi
tious ambitions interwoven each with
the other's or else inconsiderable tho
mutual help and inspiration, and
overlook my artlcssness stuffed olives
and cheese sandwiches at 11 p. m.
Hut after awhile art flagged. It
sometimes does, even If some switch
man doesu't flag It everything going
out and nothing coming In, as the vul
garians say. Money was lacking to
pay Mr, Maglster and Ilerr Roscnstocl;
their prices. When one loves one's art
no service seems too hard. So Delhi
said she must glvo music lessons to
keep the chilling dish bubbling.
For two or threo days sho went out
canvassing for pupils. One evening
she came homo elated.
"Joe, dear," sho said gleofully, "I've
n pupil, and, oh, tho loveliest people
General General A. B. rinkney'a
daughter, ou Seventy-first street.
n f-.-ii! 1 h-.-isi". Joe. Y-! "
pee tlii. rii! c or' It; zamlue 1 1 '
I fori would call it. And inside ob, 1
' Joe, I never saw anything like It be I
I forcl J
I "My pupil is his daughter, Clemen- i
tlna. I dearly love her already. She's
a delicate thing dresses always in
white, and tho sweetest, simplest man- j
ners! Only eighteen years old. I'm I
to give three lessons a week, and just
think, Joe, $5 a lesson! 1 don't mind
it it bit, for when I get two or three
nioro pupils 1 can resume my lessons
with Ilerr Rosenstoek. Now, smooth
out that wrinkle between your brows,
dear, and let's have a nice supper."
"That's nil right for you, Dele," said
Joe, attacking a can of peas with a
carving knlfo and n hatchet, "but how
about me? Do you think I'm going to
let you hustle for wages while 1 phi
lander in tho regions of high art? Not
by the bones of Bonvenuto Cclllntl I
guess I cau sell papers or lay cobble
stones and bring in a dollar or two."
Delia canio nnd hung about his neck.
"Joe, dear, you are silly. You must
keep on at your studies. It is not as
if I had quit my music nnd gone to
work at something else. While I teach
I learn. I am always with my music.
And we can live as happily ns million
aires on $15 a week. You mustn't think
of leaving Mr. Maglster."
"All right," said Joe, reaching for
tho blue scalloped vegetable dish. "But
I hate for you to be giving lessons. It
isn't art. But yoiVre a trump and a
dear to do it."
"When one lores one's art no serv
ice seems too hard," said Delia.
"Maglster praised tho sliy in that
sketch I made In the park," said Joe.
"And Tinkle gave me permission to
hang two of them In his window. I
may sell one if the right kind of
moneyed Idiot sees them."
"I'm sure you will," said Delia
sweetly. "And now let's be thankful
for Genera! IMnkney nnd this veal
roast."
During all of the next week the
Lnrrabecs had early breakfasts. Joe
was enthusiastic about some morning
effect sketches ho was doing in Central
park, nnd Delia packed him off break
fasted, coddled, praised and kissed at
7 o'clock. Art is an engaging mis-
tross. It was most times 7 o'clock i
when ho returned in the evening.
At tho end of the week Delia, sweet
ly proud, but languid, triumphantly
tossed three five-dollar bills on tho
8 by 10 (Inches) center table of the
8 by 10 (feet) flat parlor.
"Sometimes," she said, a little weari
ly, "Clementina tries me. I'm afraid
sho doesn't practice enough, and I
have to toll her the same things so
often. And then she always dresses
entirely in white, and that does get
monotonous. But General IMnkney Is
the dearest old man! I wlsdi you could
know him, Joe. lie comes In some- I
times when I am with Clementina at
the piano ho Is a widower, you know
and stands there pulling his white
goatee. 'And how are the semiquavers
and the denilsemiquavers progress
ing?' lie always asks.
"I wish you could sec tho wainscot
ing in that drawing room, Joe, and
those astrakhan rug portieres. And
Clementina has such a funny little
cough. I hope sho is stronger than
she looks. Oh, I really am getting at
tached to her, she is so gentle and high
bred. General Pinkney's brother was
once minister to Bolivia."
And then Joe, with the air of a
Monte Crlsto, drew forth a ten, a five,
n two and a one all legal tender notes
nnd laid them beside Delia's earn
ings.
"Sold that water color of tho obelisk
to a man from Peoria," he aunouueed
overwhelmingly.
"Don't joke with me," said Della
"not from Peoria."
"All the way. I wish you could see
him, Dele. Fat man with a woolen
muiller and a quill toothpick. Ho saw
tho sketch In Tinkle's window and
thought it was a windmill nt first. He
was game, though, and bought it any
how. Ho ordered another an oil
sketch of the Lackawanna freight de
potto take back with him. Musk
lessons! Oh, I guess art is still in it."
"I'm so glad you've kept on," said
Delia heartily. "You're bound to win,
dear. Thirty-three dollars! Wo never
had so much to spend before. We'll
have oysters tonight."
"And filet mlgnon with champi
gnons," said Joe. "Where is tho ollvis
fork?"
On the next Saturday evening Joo
reached homo first, ne spread his
$18 on the parlor table and washed
what seemed to bo a great deal of
dark paint from his hands.
Half an hour later Delia nrrlved.
her right hand tied up in a shapeless
bundle of wraps and bandages.
"now is this?" asked Joo after the
usual greetings. Delia laughed, but
not very joyously.
"Clementina," she explained, "Insist
ed upon a Welsh rabbit after her les
sen. Sho is such a queer girl. Welsh
rabbits at !i in the afternoon! Tho
general was there. You should have
seen lilni run for tho dialing dish, Joe,
just ns if thero wasn't a servant In
the house. I know Clementina Isn't in
good health. She's so nervous. In
serving the rabbit sho spilled a great
lot of It, boiling hot, over my hand
nnd wrist. It hurt awfully, Joe. And
tho dear girl was so sorry! But Gen
eral IMnkney! Joe, that old man near
ly went distracted. He rushed down
stairs and sent somebody they said
the furnace man or somebody in tho
basement out to a drug store for
some oil and things to bind it up with.
It doesn't hurt so much now."
"What's this?" nsked Joe, taking tho
hand tenderly and pulling nt sorao
white strands beneath tho bandages.
"It's something soft," said Delia,
"that had oil on it. Oh, Joe. did you
sell another sketch?" She had seen
the mmiev on the table.
"Did I?" said Joe. "Just ask th
mrir from Peoria. Ho got his deprt to
day, and he isn't sine but ho thlnus
ho wants another parki-cape ami a
view on the Hudson. What time thl.s
afternoon did you burn your band,
Dele?"
"Five o'clock, 1 think," said Delia
plaintively. "Tho iron 1 mean the
rabbit canio off the lire about that
time. 1'ou ought to have seen General
IMnkney, Joe, when"
"Sit down here a moment. Dele."
said Joe. He drew her to the couch,
sat beside her and put ills arm across
her shoulders.
"What have you been doing for the
last two weeks, Dele?" he asked.
Sho braved It for a moment or two
with nu eye full of love nnd stubborn
ness nnd murmured a phrase or two
OUT CAME THE TRUTH AND TEARS.
vaguely of General IMnkney, but at
length down went her head and out
came the truth and tears.
"I couldn't get any pupils," she con
fessed, "and I couldn't bear to have
you give up your lessons, and I got a
placo ironing shirts In that big Twenty-fourth
street laundry. And I think
I did very well to make up both Gen
erul IMnkney and Clementina, don't
you, Joe? And when a girl in the laun
dry sot down a hot Iron on my hand
this afternoon I was all the way homo
making up that story about the Welsh
rabbit. You're not angry, are you,
Joe? And if I hadn't got the work you
mightn't have sold your sketches to
that man from Peoria."
"Ha wasn't from Peoria," said Joe
slowly.
"Well, it doesn't matter where he
was from. How clover you are, Joe
and kiss me, Joe and what made you
over suspect that 1 wasn't giving mu
sic lessons to Clementina?"
"I didn't," said Joe, "uutil tonight.
And I wouldn't have then only I sent
til) this cotton waste and oil from the
engine room this afternoon for a girl
upstairs who had her hand burned
with a smoothing Iron. I've been tir
ing the engine in that laundry for the
last two weeks."
"And then you didn't"
"My purchaser from Peoria," said
Joe, "and General Pinkney are both
creations of the same nrt, but you
wouldn't call it either painting or mu
sic." And then they both laughed, and Joe
began:
"When one loves one's art no service
seems"
But Delia stopped him with her hand
on his lips. "No," sho said. "Just
'when oue loves.' "
He Barred Newcastle.
When Edward VII. as prince of
Wales visited America in 1800, Can
ada went wild over him, and in De
troit and Chicago tho crowds were so
dense that the party could scarcely
reach their hotel. So many were the
receptions, dinners and other social
functions in which the prince partici
pated that ho Anally broke down
through sheer fatigue and overexcite
ment. The Duke of Newcastle, who
was the prince's companion, decided,
therefore, to stop oXC on their way to
St. Louis sit Dwight Station, a quiet
village famous for its shooting. Tho
prince brought down a bag of fourteen
brace of quail and four rabbits. But
tho pleasure of the day was marred by
the following incident:
As tho royal party approached a
farmhouse an unmistakably British
settler appeared nt tho door and In
vited every one except the Duke of
Newcastle to enter.
"Not you, Newcastle!" he shouted.
"I have been a tennut of yours and
have sworn that you shall never set a
foot on my land."
Accordingly tho party passed on, and
the farmer, though revenged on h.i
old landlord, had to forego tho honor
of entertaining royalty under his roof.
The Conundrum Fiend.
The man with tho red bald spot
came aud hung over tho desk of the
man with tho oorrugated brow and
observed:
"I've got a dandy. AVliat is the dif
ference between a man with a wooden
leg riding n bicycle on a tight rope ou
a hot summer day and a woman S.oou
feet In tho air over a county fair
ground swinging from n trapeze and
trying to mend a rip in a balloon with
n broken safety r,Ir.V"
"That's easy," quickly answered the
corrugated browed man, "Iich of
them has to worry with a damaged
pin."
' "No. Tho question is"
"I know what tho question is. The
answer is that the man is always one
foot loss than tho woman."
"No. Not yet."
"Then tho woman is What Is tho
niiswor anyhow?"
"Ono is qullo a feat; tho otlfor hasn't
feet."
As tho man with the red bald spot
flosed tho io"r luinied!," rn his 'vp-r
aut two inkwells, a p'iper v.vlghr .vi 1
n ledgoi- crashed against It .'hle
Tost.
MANAGER LAJOIE RESIGNS.
Criticism of Cleveland's American
League Team Too Much For Him.
Cleveland, O., Aug. 18. Manager La
Jolo has resigned as manager of the
Cleveland American league baseball
team to take effect as soon as a suc
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continue to play with the team.
I.ajole's resignation Is due to tho
criticism he lias been subjected to on
account of his failure to make a better
showing with the team this year. Ru
mors of dissension among the players
i on account ot I.ajole s alleged personal
, unpopularity have been rife. Tills,
; coupled with the team's losing streak
on the last eastern Invasion, caused
! many patrons of the game to demand
Ills resignation.
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