Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1885 — Almost Too Venusy. [ARTICLE]

Almost Too Venusy.

Once in a "while amateur artists venture upon very delicate ground* A lad} not far from this city, who is olevei with the brush, not long ago painted s tapestry of Tannhauser and Venus. “Well, my dear,” she said to a female friend, “how do you like it? Do you think I have got Venus Venusy enough?” “Well, I don’t know what you think, of course,” was the reply, “but if she were any more Venusy”— with severity—“you couldn’t show it.” —New York Tribune. In poetry, as elsewhere, those who forget themselves ai\e the last to be forgotten by others. Covetousness, like a candle smothers the splendor of a. happy fortune in its own grease.