Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1919 — Can Only Quess at History. [ARTICLE]

Can Only Quess at History.

Now that the Venus of Milo, back from Toulouse, whither she went on an indefinite visit four years ago last August, is at home in the Louvre, she is entertaining a more cosmopolitan company of guests than has ever before thronged the galleries of that famous museum. ' Among those present are soldiers and civilians of all the allied nations. Her flight from Paris adds another notable episode, but her whole eventful history, from about the fourth century B. C„ when she is held to have been sculptured, to 1820, when she was found by a farmer in the island of Melos, can apparently never be written. It must remain problematical. like the much discussed question as to .what she was doing with her hands.? ,