High Art And Its Dodges

A well-known Parisian portralt painter was not always the reccirer of such liandsome honorariums as aro now paid for his portaits. Time waa when he lived in a common lodging house near the Pantheon. Necessity is them other of invention; but how to induce a discriminating public to climb seven pairs of stairs? He put up a piacard on the basement of tha house: "Portraits taken herO; only ten francs; studio on the third fioor." When the ■would-be purchaser had arrived at the studio designated, he found nimself confronted by a piacard, "Ten-franc portraits; the studio has tjeen removed to the flfth floor." After much pufflng and panting the fifth floor was reached where a new bill met the inquiring eye: "Ten-franc portraits; the studio has, owing to rebuilding of the premises, been temporarily removed to the se enth floor." Having suffered so much the victim rtid not mind suffering more: ad the aspiring artist got another customer. -