Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1895 — No Wonder He Changed. [ARTICLE]

No Wonder He Changed.

“Are you the man who painted that ’er picture of ‘Moses in the Bullrushes?’ ” asked a countryman of an artist, who had recently startled the town by an exhibition of oil paintings. “Yes,” replied the artist. “All right; then I want you to paint my father.” “Certainly, if he gives me a few sittings.” “Can’t do it; he’s dead." “Let me have a photograph of him.” “Can’t do that neither; he never had his picture taken." “I am afraid, then, I must decline.” “Decline? What for? Haven’t you painted Moses? You didn’t have a photograph of him, did you? No, I thought not Well, my father hain t been dead nearly so long as Moses. If you can paint Moses you ought to know enough to paint my father.” Appreciating the situation, the artist went to work and evolved such a portrait as he thought might satisfy so original a son. . “Crikey!” exclaimed this art patron on seeing the completed painting. “That almost knocks the stuffing out of Moses; but, I say, how he has changed!"