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EXPERIENCE OF *A MODEL.
A Woman in Boston Who Has
Fosed Lop Famous Artists.
S!'<* Wiv* Mawlonnn, Wnn*, Helen, Magda
len and Other Celebrities—Other
Women’* Ueadnon Her Shoulders.
A homely visaged. well formed Italian
woman, about 85 years of age, occupies
a suit of rooms on Greene street, and
Rets-a living by doing fancy needle work
and taking lodgers. Her name is Mar
gharita Campelii. Her husband, form
erly a tenor singer, but latterly an organ
grinder, died two years ago, leaving her
his name and just enough money to buy
a black veil. As for his burial, that was
paid by the city. But Margharita was
not to be cast down. She had seen bet
ter .days. She would see them again.
The result is that she is now comfortably
situated, and is growing more prosperous
every year.
Years ago, before time cross plowed
her face with wrinkles, Margharita was
the pride of Paris, and earned a luxuri
ous. living by posing as a, model for
sculptors and painters. She was able
to earn anywhere from 100 to 500 francs
a week “on her shape" alone, and on her
rounded shoulders and above her well
molded limbs, rest the faces of some of
the most celebrated belles and heiresses,
and, for that matter, queens and prin
cesses of Europe,. In short, her body
was the form in which the celebrated
Parisian artists breathed the breath of
life and beauty, and having done this,
they surmounted the trunk with the
liea/is of their patrons, all of whom wer#
pleased to he associated with her sym
metry, which none of them possessed.
TIir.EE DOZEN MADONNAS.
When a reporter called she was en
gaged in the agreeable occupation of
washing the dinner dishes, hut, although
attired in a simple “Mother Hubbard"
satire wrapper, the “human form di
vine” which she possessed was so very
apparent that it was quite evident the
artists had made no mistake in their se
lection.
“i don't look much like a Madonna,
do I?" was her smiling greeting as she
stuck out a wet hand for the reporter to
grasp. “1 think lam more nearly akin
to Venus rising from the sea just now,
and 1 1 have sat for both many a day.”
“Which do you like the better, Venus
or the Madonna?” asked the reporter.
“Oh, Venus, to he sure, though Ma
donna posings paid me better; but they
were too stilt'. 1 don’t like standing all
the forenoon on a marble slab holding a
‘dummy’ baby to iuv breast. It makes
my arms ache. 1 was never lucky
enough to be a mother, and this fond
ling of infants comes hard. Still, 1 did
pretty well. 1 have been the model lor
at least three dozen Madonnas in my
day. Six of them are now in Rome.
Nearly twenty are still in France, and
the rest have gone to England and
America. Last year 1 saw myself in
three different attitudes in as many
paintings at a ‘loan exhibit’ in New
York. I was told the cost of those three
pictures was $20,000. I wish I had the
money, blit lam no artist. lam only a
model. Still, 1 like to know that the
xich people admire me, even if they do
not know who I am.”
►“Now teil me about the Venus,” said
tiie reporter.
“My ! but that was gay. I liked to be
Tonus. I acted natural, you see. I just
*at down and threw Out my arms and
gave myself up to love. One artist paid
me 500 francs for six days’ sitting for
Venus. One hundred dollars! Just
think of it! It was the easiest money I
eVer earned. But he got 40,000 francs
for the job, so .lie need not complain.”
“Have you been a model for any tiling
iait Madonnas and Venuses?” was asked.
WELL LOADED SHOULDERS.
“Yes, indeed. Let me tell you. I
went to Paris in 1873 and danced in a
theatre. Daytimes I sat as a model for
at least twenty artists, and had my lig
are painted in all kinds of postures and
attitudes. I was Proserpine in two pict
ures, Helen of Troy in live, CEnone in
two, Hecuba in three, Rachel in one,
Minerva in four, Andromeda in one, and
oon through all the list of celebrated
historical, biblical and mythologic char
acters. I worked as a model and got
good pay until 1884, when I was mar
ried. and my husband objected to my
getting a living that way.”
“What was your husband’s oecu-
pat ion?"
“He was a musician.”
“How long ago did he die?”
“Last year. He heard there was a big
field for musicians in America, and came
wer, hoping to make a fortune. His
failure broke his heart. Since his death
3 have tried to get work as a model here,
but your artists do not seem to care for
me. Jam afraid lam getting old and
embonpoint.”
“How many faces are now on your
shoulders, do you suppose? ’ was asked.
“Over 800. it is somewhere near 400,
if I remember rightly. There are three
of the Rothschild women, Mrs. Mackay,
Judic and the ex-Em press Victoria of
Germany among them. Bernhardt
wanted me to act as a model for her pic
tures. but the artist convinced her that
she was too skinny. Sarah Bernhardt is
a beautiful woman for ail that, and just
as liberal as sunlight.”
“Did you ever act as a model for an
American woman?”
“Yes, five or six in ajl. Mr. Bennett
brought a woman to Palero’s studio while
I was a model. I think her name was
Bell, and she was a sister or relative of
Mr. Bennett. 1 also sat as a model for a
relative of Minister Bancroft when he
was in Germany.”
“Anybody else?”
“I remember a few more, but the
names are gone. The Americans who
go to Paris to get their portraits made do
not patronize the best artists as a rale,
though they pay big prices. It is shame
ful now you people are deceived by
cheap artists. They have plenty of
money, and should get the best. The
fact is, they are imposed upon by cheap
work.” She chatted pleasantly about
French art for a few mmutes longer and
then resumed her household duties.—
Boston Cor. Globe-Democrat.
The Supremo Court Bible.
„ The supreme court Bible is a small,
black, velvet covered octave. It lias
been used in the administration of every
oath since 1808. Every chief iusticeand
every associate justice of the United
States has held this little sacred tome in
taking oath of office. Many thousands
of lawyers have held it, and to write the
names of the men who have touched its
covers would bo to name the men who
have made the bench and bar of the
United States illustrious. It was printed
In London in 1799, and is today hut little
the worse for wear. —Pittsburg Dispatch.
A toi or e <r.u ? i.
She who sleep* upon this heart
Was the first to win it.
She w ho dreams u|ioo this breast
Ever reigns within it.
She who kisses oft these lips
Wakes their fondest blessing.
SRi- who rests within these urius
Feels their closest pressings.
Other hours than these may cuie.
Hours that may he weary;
Other days shall greet us yet.
Days that may lie dreary
StiiJ this heart shall Is* thy home.
Still this breast thy pillow.
StiiJ these lif*s meet thine as oft
Billow meeteth billow
Sleep then on this happy heart.
Since thy love hath won it;
Dream then on this loyal breast.
None but thou hath done it.
And when age our bloom shall change,
With its wintry weather.
May we In the self same grave
Sleep and dream together.
No Respect for Fogeys.
The bogey and the bad man have
paused finally out of the lives of children.
You cannot scare the small hoy any more
with any such imaginative terrors. An
anxious mother has just lost her last hit
of control over her child by a “bluff”
which did not work. She did not know
her hoy. She quite undervalued his ex
perience in human nature. The boy was
naughty.
She had exhausted all appeals to his
imagination, and finally she had recourse
to practical terrors. She threatened to
call the policeman, and she painted the
prison cell and the dock, and all sorts of
things.
“Yah!” said the hoy. “Mamma, you
can't play the policeman on me. Me gave
me a lot of candy yesterday. He
wouldn't run me in for anything.”—San
Francisco Chronicle.
The Traffic In Indian Girls.
When questioned about the allegations
of Mrs. E. B. Yoorhees concerning the
outrageous traffic in Indian women in
Alaska, Bishop Vladimir, of the Russian
Orthodox church, just returned from
Sitka, said: “Though 1 went on another
mission I, of course, heard of the system
of office contract, as it is there termed.
There are a large number of miners,
shop keepers, factory hands and persons
in similar pursuits in different parts of
the Alaskan territory, and I was told
that they were most immoral. They
usually have no wives of their own. so
they go to depraved Indians, buy their
young daughters for money or liquor,
and after living with the pool girls a
while cast them adrift.” —San Francisco
Cor. Chicago Tribune.
No Round Dances.
Since the marriagoa-failure topic has
been worn out and reduced to a pulp, the
country is now to be dob); ed with this
question of dancing. Whcßior dancing
is proper or not; ii so, when, where, <sl
what charnels;-, h r how many hours,
and what eagle t.f t ress? r i Re Rev. C. B>.
Nickerson opens the lrail, r.s ii most
proper, with r n indorsement cl * lanc
ing ‘ Ho sags it is natural, innocent,
beautiful. That is. square dances, where
people move gracefully and merely
touch finger tips. Ho says hugging
should be done at home; therefore the
waltz is banished from Mr. Nickerson’s
congregation. But high necked, eleven
o’clock, square cornered, long meter
dancing he thoroughly approves. —Min-
neapolis Tribune.
• Magnetic Oxide.
It has long been known that rails of
tracks in actual use oxidate much slower
than those of dead tracks, but so far no
satisfactory explanation has been found.
W. Spring, in The Bulletin of the Royal
Belgian academy, shows that this is due
to the formation of a coating of mag
netic oxide of iron under the influence of
humidity and pressure. In order to
prove the correctness of this view, Mr.
Spring has brought moistened rust and
a clean plate of iron under a pressure of
from a thousand to twelve hundred at
mospheres, which corresponds to that of
tho wheels of a locomotive of a thousand
hundredweights. He found that the
rust powder had penetrated the iron, and
formed a coating of magnetic oxide. —
Science.
A Novel Hotel Swindle.
“A fellow with an English accent
worked anew racket on me the other
day,” said a New York hotel man. “He
registered, got a good room and threw
down two railroad checks for his ‘lug
gage,’ which he ordered sent upstairs to
him. After some hours spent in looking
for the trunks, the clerk reported that
they could not bo found. This threw the
Englishman into a towering rage, and lie
was with difficulty persuaded that no
doubt they could be found by next morn
ing. Next morning lie went himself to
complain at the station about the trunks,
and never came back. The checks were
bogus and had secured for the scamp
two meals and a Lied.”
Fox and Hound.
A fox hound belonging to Cgpt. Mark
Percy, of Cox's Head, near Fort Pop ham,
chased a fox for two days. The dog
was seen in pursuit of the fox several
times during the two days, and his deep
baying was frequently heard. Finally
the fox tired out, and fell to the ground
exhausted. The dog, knowing that he
had not sufficient strength left to fight
the fox, sat down near him and watched
him. In this condition the fox and the
hound were found by a man who lived
near, and the fox was so exhausted that
the man easily killed him with a club. —
Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
A Clever Salesman.
“Yes, madam, it is rather costly. Y T ou
see it was made for the Duchess of
Tweedledum by special order, and it was
so small she could never get it around
her wrist. Wo have had it three years,
and have never found any one but you
who could wear it.”
“Did you say it is $2,000? Well, I
guess I will take it.” —Jewellers’ Weekly.
Sarah Winnemucca, the Indian prin
cess who attended Wellesley college,
and under the nom do plume of
“Bright Eyes” has written several fron
tier stories, is now teaching an Indian
school of her own. She reports that she
lias fifteen or sixteen pupils, and is get
ting along nicely.
A survivor of the Light. Brigade is
said to be a plumber in Indianapolis. Of
course it has occurred to everybody that
he learned how to charge in the Crimea.
The charges of the electric light brigado
have astonished Boston and promise to
become historical. —Boston Transcript.
Don’t water house plants too often in
cold weather. A mistake of too Little
water is not so bad as too much.
BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
J*.
Attorney-:-at~:-Law.
Special attention given to litigation in real es
tate in the administration of estates of deceased
persons, and in cases in equity.
office on Public Square, uorth of St. .Tames
Hotel. 24febl.v
Dr. J. G. Greene
having located in Cartersville for the purpose of
practicing medicine a> and surgery, offers his pro
fessional services to the public. Calls promptly
answered. Office up-st ** overCourant-American
office; residence on tne < orner of Market and
Stonewall streets. junl3-t>m
DOUGLAS WIKLE
ATTORNEY - AT - LAW,
Office In the Court House.
Practices in all the courts of the Cherokee cir
cuit. Special attention given to thecollection of
claims and the abstracting of titles.
~ "AriffTFotr rs,
..attorney -.- at -:- Law.
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office up-staxrs, corner Main and firwin sts.
Special attention given to collections and Com
mercial Law.
JOHN T. OWEN,
M Estate and Firs and Lift tones Agsnt.
The interest of patrons carefully considere.d
♦
Terms reasonable.
LOANS NEGOTIATED
TO BE SECURED BY
First Mortgage os Plantations and Faros,
Apply to JOF HI. MOON, Att’y. at Law,
Cartersville, Georgia.
THE BOOZ HOTEL,
CEDARTOWN, GA.
M. A. Booz, - - Proprietor.
Recently enlarged. Ample accommodations
for the traveling pu aic.
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Photographs! Photographs!
I have engaged Mr. "F. H. Simpson to as-ist me
for this season. Mr. Simpson has had 30 years
experience, and was the first to work the new
process in the United States. Call and examine
work. Am prepared to compete with anybody
n work and prices. A. M. TOMLINSON.
W. C. ESdwaxds, S’. D.
UNDERTAKER AND EMBALMER.
Repository in new storeroom on West Main
Sreet, Cartersville, da. jaa27-ly
NOTICE.
I manufacture Trusses for every kind of rup
ture, which are worn with ease and safety,
have been wearing one of m.y own make for
three years. Orders solicited.
N. GILREATH.
Cartersville, Nov. 2Gth, 1888.
VAUJABLE CITY PROPERTY
FOB SALB-
I will sell my house and lot in Cartersville, lo
cated on Ca Seville street. Good dwelling- and
outhouses, lot containing five and a half acres.
Fruits of all kinds on the place. A most conven
ient residence. Also one lot containing one acre
on which there is a 3 room house.
TERMS REASONABLE.
feb3-tf J. T. OWEN.
FRED M. REEVES,
SURGEON.
Practices general surgery. Gives special at
tention to disorders of the eye,
Office for the present
AT CALHOUN HOTEL,
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Sold for 9100. until lawly. |i l J L Jj
t £ cst watch In the world. IJ| *l*
Eerfecl timekeeper. I j lJu
gents' sizes, with works
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Y- \ One Pcr*Oß in each lo-
can secure one free,
t'Jibr together with our large and val -
uablc linn of Household
Samples. These samples, as
if? well as the watch, we send
Free, and after you have kept
them in vonr home for £ months and shown them to those
who may have called, they become your own property. Those
who write at once can be sure of receiving the Watch
and Samples. We pay all express, freight, etc. Address
Stiusou A Cos., liox 813, l*ortlnl, Maine.
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ARTISTIC STORE FIXTURES. CABINET WORK,
CEDAR CHEST. State Wants. Ask for Pamphlet. Address
TERRY SHOW CASE CO., Nashville, Tenn.
Road notice. Georgia baii
tow County.—D. O. McDaniel and others
have mu.de application for a second class public
road out of the settlement road from the Gordon
county line, near A. Rogers’ through the lands
of D. O. McDaniel, W. A. Floyd and Geo. Peace
and Mrs. C. Bray, to the Adairsville and Rome
road at the corner of the farm of .J. P, Hatchett,
whieh has been marked out by the Commission
ers and report thereof made on oath by them.
All persons are notified that said new road will,
on and after the first Tuesday in February
next, bv the Commissioners of Roads and Rev
enues of said county, be finally granted, if no
new cause cause be shown to the contrary.
This January 1. 18S9. J. C. MILAM,
Clerk Commissioners Roads and Revenues.
JONES & MONFORT.
Goal and Wood.
We are Headquarters lor
Wool, tel isiFMisJ.
A GOOD SUPPLY
Always on hand.
I any dealer says lie has the \Y. X.. Douglas
shoes without name and prico stamped CTI
ihe bottom, put him down as a fraud.
w^-4
W. DOUGLAS
$3 SHOE GENTLEMEN.
Best in the world. Examine his
95.00 GENUINE HAND-SEWED SHOE.
94.00 HAND-SEWED WELT SHOE.
95.50 POLICE AND FARMERS’ SHOE.
93.50 EXTRA VALUE CALF SHOE.
93.35 WORKINGMAN’S SHOE.
93.00 and 91.75 BOYS’ SCHOOL SHOES:
All made in Congress, Button and Laee.
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3S SHOt L A S.
Best Material. Best Style. Best Fitting:,
tf not sold by your dealer, write
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1 O l SALE BY
,T P .TON? S, Cartersville.
W. F. prORFTT. Stilesboro.
Sfilaslioro to the Front.
W A PUCKETT,
DEALER IN
GENERA MERCHANDISE.
Wishes to announce to his many friends and
customers that he will be in the field for 1888 with
ncreased facilities for handling; a big business.
COTTON AND COM? PRODUCE,
He handles nothing-but the best goods at the
cheapest prices and gives nothing but the best
prices for totton and all kinds of country produce.
Guanos and Fertilizers.
T will handle the best grades of Guanos and
will be enabled to give the farmers ol this section
the very best terms.
Thanking the people for their past patronage
and hoping fo,r a continuance of the some, I am,
Yours to command,
\V. E. PUCKETT,
Merchant and Cotton Buyer of Stilesboro.
dec 2-I. v
New Hack Line!
Between Cartersville f Erwin.
21 MILES AND RETURN DAILY.
Having provided myself with a comfortable
new hack and safe team, with careful driver, 1
am prepared to carry passengers between this
city and Erwin, (!a., and intermediate points,
and solicit the patronage of the public.
Fare: 5 cents a mile. Children half price.
SCHEDULE.
Leave Cartersville 6 a. m.
Arrive at Erwin 12 m.
Leave Erwin 1:15 p. m.
Arrive at Cartersville 7 p. m.
Respectfully,
A. G. B. VANDIVERE.
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