Gardnerville Record

HER SON'S MODEL.
A Mother's Devotion Sends Her Artist Boy to Paris for a Two-Years' Course.

A young student at one of the large art institutions decided last winter to try for a prize, says Harper's Bazar. He was under 20, and his competitors were all older than he. He wrote his mother about it, begging her to come and pose for him, saying that he knew he could win if only she were his subject. She had a large family at home to look after, and a small boy hardly two months old. Moreover, the spring had come, never an easy time for a mother to break away, pick up a small baby and establish herself alone in a distant town, merely to sit as a model for a son. Most women would have hesitated, as hoped-for prizes being uncertain quantities, particularly for boys still in their teens, and present home duties being, according to all rules of logic, paramount. But this mother did not hesitate. Her son had asked her to come, and so proved a rare loyalty. That was enough for her. At great inconvenience to herself she went, though cheerfully, and the picture was painted. Now the papers announce that the young boy painter has won the prize! This will send him for a two years' course of study to Paris.

It is like some old story of the masters, and certainly few sweeter stories of painters and their mothers have ever been told.