Jewel Mason is an inveterate reader of cheap novels. It has fired her with numerous false ideals and she longs for the big city where she believes her ideals exist; so she hies herself to ... See full summary
Simple Lives (1912) Online
Jewel Mason is an inveterate reader of cheap novels. It has fired her with numerous false ideals and she longs for the big city where she believes her ideals exist; so she hies herself to New York and secures a position as waitress in a large lunch room. Her first customer is William Carleton, a young artist, who asks her to pose for him. She comes to his studio and is so successful that she is regularly employed. Jewel has a sweetheart in the country named Raymond. Raymond imagines that he is cut out to be a painter and comes to the city to have his ambitions realized. He visits various artists and by a singular coincidence calls on Carleton. Jewel has just finished posing and is behind the screen dressing for the street. Raymond shows Carleton a sample of his work, which the latter condemns forthwith. He tells Raymond to immediately give up the idea of becoming an artist as he does not possess any talent and that further attention to the profession would be a waste of time. When ...