Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1917 — HE DIDN’T UNDERSTAND THEM [ARTICLE]

HE DIDN’T UNDERSTAND THEM

But He Could Tell Folks at Home That He Had Seen Exhibits in Art Museum, Anyway. He was little and bent and aged and a queer old felt hat flopped about his ears. But his eyes were bright and his chin stuck out at an aggressive angle. He evidently was on the home stretch through the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He stood gazing with a puzzled -expression at a Venus de Milo. Then he passed on to -a. piece of fine art, a pair of sculptured legs which apparently were speeding through mid air for no reason at all and with no body to support. After gazing at these for some time the little man from Hi Holier or some such point scratched his head, then turned and made a bee line for the outside door, a relieved expression on his face.

“Well, doggone! I give ’em the once over, anyhow,” he was heard to mutter. “And I can tell that to the folks at hum !”—New York Herald.