PERSECUTION OP AN ARTIST.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2809, 25 March 1882, Page 2

PERSECUTION OP AN ARTIST.

Mrs Mary Catherine Knight Bruce has evidently been attempting to imitate Hook's Great Berners street joke. It appears (says the writer in “ Truth ”) that the lady recently inserted advertisements in which Jlr Geojge.Bflfrahle ah artist was represented as requiting a secretary, a governess,, a lady-house-keeper, and so on, in consequence of which he was i yifjutpd,, by,...relays of importunate applicants. Not content with this the' ingenious Mary warned him that 100. sandwich men had been hired to parade the streets with bills to the effect that his studio would be open free from ten to four. It is ten to'one that the gentleman; in question would have borne this annoyance rather than court publicity, if it had ended there; but the worst was yet to come. He was warned that an advertisement would bo put in the daily papers for 2QO, pretty firls for a pantomine.. It was top much, to turned and fled—to a magistrate; and there he got little comfort, for ho could not swear that ho went in “ bodily fear ’ of his: perseoutrir, although I can believe that he could ; truthfully have asseverated that he did go in daily and k° url y dread of the 200 pretty girls. Ine whole affair is merely a Very vulgar practical joke, but it sems tome that the would-be .secretaries, governesses, lady-housekeepers, and pretty girls have most cause to complain.