Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1912 — Got His Answer. [ARTICLE]

Got His Answer.

When Oscar Wilde came to the United States jo lecture on aesthetics in his highly aesthetic velvet costume —and incidentally to prepare the public mind for the proper appreciation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s "Patience,” in which the aesthetic movement was held up to ridicule —be used to complain that America was very unintersting since it had “no antiquities and no curiosities.” But he ventured on this disparagement once too often, for in the course at his travels he uttered it to the American Girl, and she replied with the demure depravity of candid innocent that this was not quite a fair reproach, since “we shall have the antiquities in time, and we are already importing the curiosities.”