Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1911 — An Eye for Composition. [ARTICLE]

An Eye for Composition.

An artist in Chicago tells of a woman in that town, who, with her maid, went to purchase a still-life picture for her dining room. She selected a canvas on which were painted a bunch of flowers, a pie qut in two, and a roll, and was about to pay |26 for ft, when her maid approached to whisper id her ear. “Excuse me, ma’am," said the servant, “but you are making a bad bar gain. I saw a picture very much like this sold the other day for $15.” “And was it as good as this?” “Better, ma’am. There wax a good deal more pie In it.”—Llpplncott’s.