. St. Nicholas [serial]. rt f/ii^ronker SOME OF THE ARTISTS MODELS. (A SKETCH FROM LIFE.) her easel always before her, sat a dear old ladywith pink cheeks and snow-white hair, and eyesso kind and gentle that you feel sure they mustsee the best, not only in cats and dogs, but ineverything. This was Mme. Ronner, whose lifehas been a very simple one; for, although theartistic world is proud to do her homage, hernature is strangely retiring and unaffected, fmd- ferent countries, including the cross of the Orderof Leopold, conferred by the King of Belgium, adistinction which few women possess. Holl
. St. Nicholas [serial]. rt f/ii^ronker SOME OF THE ARTISTS MODELS. (A SKETCH FROM LIFE.) her easel always before her, sat a dear old ladywith pink cheeks and snow-white hair, and eyesso kind and gentle that you feel sure they mustsee the best, not only in cats and dogs, but ineverything. This was Mme. Ronner, whose lifehas been a very simple one; for, although theartistic world is proud to do her homage, hernature is strangely retiring and unaffected, fmd- ferent countries, including the cross of the Orderof Leopold, conferred by the King of Belgium, adistinction which few women possess. Holland,her own land, has not been behindhand in do-ing her justice, for in the magnificent museumopened a few years ago in Amsterdam, the nameof Henriette Ronner is inscribed among themost illustrious painters of her native country. KIBUN DAIZIN OR FROM SHARK-BOY TO MERCHANT PRINCE. By Gensai Murai. Chapter VIII. AN ECCENTRIC FELLOW. When all the wholesale dealers in oranges inthe vast city of Yedo heard that an orange-ship. MATAHACHI IN THE GREAT FIRE AT YEDO. (SEE PAGE 1102.) I096 had at last arrived from Kishu, they vied withone another in coming to Bunkichis ship andbuying up his oranges. The inevitable result ofthe rise in the price of oranges was to make hima gainer of more than fifty thousand rio. Bunkichi, after this,carefully reasoned outthat on account of therecent continuance ofthe west wind no shipcould possibly havesailed from Yedo toOsaka, so that theremust be a scarcity ofsalted salmon in thatcity, while there wasnow an abundant andspecially cheap supplyof them in Yedo. Sohe thought he wouldtake a supply over toOsaka and make an-other great profit. When he spoke ofthis plan to his menthey were ready to go,for his sake. There-upon Bunkichi boughtup a cargo of saltedsalmon, and, putting iton board, waited forthe return of betterweather. Nor had helong to wait. As a reac-tion, as it were, to thestormy westerly wind,in a few days an eastwind began to blow,and, availing
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