The Kaiser And Mr. Frith

Although Prof. Knackfuss is usually credited witU assisting the kaiser in the production of his surprising pictures, the Germán monarch owes his eariiest introduction to the mysteries of art to an English painter, says the London Chronicle. The first time the kaiser handled a brush was at Windsor, when Jlr. Prith was the picture of the prince of Wales' marriage for the queeu. All the royal personases gave sittings to the artist and the kaiser, then a little four-year-old prince, spent several mornings in the room where the picture was being poiuted. To keep the child quiet Mr. Friih gave him sonie paints and brushes and allowed him to dabble on one of the unfinished corners of the canvas. As a natural result of this very injudicious proceeding the prince's face was in a very few minutes covered with streaka of green, blue and vermilion. The sight of his smeared face terrified his governess, who begged the artist to remove the colors; and Mr. Frith, armed with rags and turpentine, had nearly completed his task when the pungent spirit found its way into a scratch upon the child's cheek. The future kaiser sereamed with pain, assaulted the eminent painter with his fists and hid himself under a large table, where he yelled until he was tired. Mr. Frith declares in his "Peminiscences" that the little prince showed a most unforgiving spirit and revenged himself afterward by sitting so badly that the painter failed altogether to produce a satisfactory likeness.