Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1903 — The Decadence. [ARTICLE]

The Decadence.

Mr. Herlihy looked at his latest photograph, taken in his Sunday clothes, and his gaze bespoke keen disappointment. "Oi’d never ’a’ had this tuk if it hadn’t been for thim children telling me about the improvements in photographing,” he muttered, holding the card upon which his likeness was mounted farther and farther away. “Improvements Is it? Oi’d loike to show this plctur’ soide be soide wid the wan Oi had twinty years ago and lave It to annybody which o’ thim two made the betther man o’ me. There’s an old, anxious, toired out look to this new wan that was nlver in the other. “There may be improvements in photographing,” said Mr. Herlihy as he deposited the cabinet Bized card face down in his table drawer, “but Oi’ve yit to see thim.”—Youth’s Companion.