Apropos of money-making here is fan extraordinary story from Lambeth, The vicar of St. Philip's wishing to pay off a debt'on his church got together 160 of his parishioners, gave them each a shilling, read them the parable of the talents and told them to go and do likewise and come back to him a month later. For, his £9 they brought him 262.
Everyone had made some profit, some of them quite a lot. One gift made a gake with her shilling, took it to the office and had a guessing competition as to Its weight at 2d. a guess. Another bought soap, did ber neighbours' washing, bought more soap with the profits and did more washing and so on. Another, remembering that people often want tooth Among the rebels who have ultimo ately made their peace with the Academy, Mr. Walter Sickert figures in the new Civil List (with another R.A, lr. Julius Olson) for a pension. Pleture-making is a risky trade, but one would searcely have thought that Mr. Sickert, by many Jaccounted the greatest of modern English painters, was in need of a pension—or Mr. Olson either, whose beautiful studies of the sea and headlands in Cornwall are always fresh and stimulating. Mr. Sickert has been to say that he can paint three pictures a week and no picture ought cost more than guineas. Yet 600 guineas Is not unusual for one of his paintings, and in a one-man show that he held last year, he valued 24 pie~ tures at £4,000, 'At the age of 80 Mr. Sickert is extraordinarily vigorous. He attributes this to his habit of drinking jsour goats' milk every day. Some people might think he was paying rather a high price for his longevity.
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