Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1914 — HAD THE PICTURE’S MEANING [ARTICLE]

HAD THE PICTURE’S MEANING

Spectators at Least Formed Some Idea What Famous Painting Represented. Two men stood before a painting in a store the other day gazing wonderingly at a picture of an equestrian statue of General Lafayette. The famous Frenchman was represented on a prancing steed. Over his arm he carried a robe. At his feet stood an allegorical figure es Victory extending a sword toward him as a mark of homage. I wonder what that picture means?’ asked one of the men. “1 don’t know,” replied the other. “1 was just trying to make out what season of the year it was when a woman could go around with so little clothing while a man was dressed up ’in a heavy suit like that.” “Oh, I see what it is now," cried the first one. “You see the soldier stole the woman’s cloak and when he took it from her he dropped his sword, and now the woman is trying to trade him*back the sword for her clothing.”