MISS MARION ASCOUGH
ARTIST
Orders taken for all kinds of work.
I got the landlady to put it in the front window.
There were a lot of crayon family portraits on my walls, and they looked very bad. I covered them over with draperies, and when Madame Lavalle, my landlady, came in she exclaimed:
“Why you dat? Am I and my family so hugly then?”
I assured her that I covered them to protect
If you decide to take this room, I’ll make a reduction, and I don’t mind gentlemen callers if you leave the door open.
them from the turpentine that I used in my oil paints. She came to me later and said:
“Mamselle, I am tell my husband you say the turpentine it may be will spoil the portraits of my familee. He’s telling me dat will not spoil it. But if mamselle will not be offend, I the pictures will put in my own parlor, and if some time mamselle she have company, and wish her room to look more elegant, I will give ze permission to hang them on her walls again.”