TADEMA AND VEDDER.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 478, 7 June 1890, Page 6

TADEMA AND VEDDER.

A Goon Story on tiie Prince of Walks’ Artist Friend.

Alma Tadema is, perhaps, the most swell artist in London, writes Eugene Field in the Chicago ‘News, 1 He lives in princely style, is much courted and is quite chummy with the Prince of Wales. He is not so very prepossessing in his appearance ; in fact, he looks quite like the prosperous tradesman. Bub he is exceedingly swell and is correspondingly proud of his social position. They tell a good story about Tadoma’s experience with Elihu Vedder. The latter is a thoroughly rough-and-tumble character, careless as to dress, indifferent to usages and traditions, wholly insensible to the nice requirements of society—a Bohemian to a degree. At one time he visited the Taderoas, and the morning after his arrival at their house Mrs Tadema was awakened by a rude knocking at her chamber door. Much alarmed, she groused her husband, who demanded in fjerce tones what was wanted. It was Vedder who was at the door, and ho answered in a voice loud enough to be heard all through the house : ‘ I say, Tadema, old chap, where do you keep the scissors that you trim your cuffs with ?' You can, perhaps, fanpy the horror that this blatant inquiry produced upon the sensitive, the finical Tadema, the boon companion of the Prince of Wales.