Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1912 — It Might Be Either. [ARTICLE]

It Might Be Either.

A bony, lank village youth of artistic bent, who was sniffed at by his fellow natives, finally disappeared from his usual haunts. He was missed chiefly because his peculiar personal appearance was bound to attract attention wherever it was exhibited. No one seemed to know whither the lad had gone, till the storekeeper, returning from a visit to a near-by city, announced that he had discovered his whereabouts. “I found him!” he proclaimed. “He was in the art museum.” “As a curio,” inquired one, “or as an object of art?”