Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1897 — His First Extravagance. [ARTICLE]

His First Extravagance.

A story is told of a now famous American artist, who was seen, one day during his struggling days in Paris, with his clothes in the last stage of dissolution, and his shoes tied up with twine. But there was a wild gleam in his eye. “I’ve got a hundred dollars!” he shouted to a friend across the street, quite oblivious of the crowd—“a hundred dob lars, and I’m going to bny some shoestrings!”