People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1893 — Not Going to Waste the Picture. [ARTICLE]

Not Going to Waste the Picture.

An artist declares that a newly-be-trothed lover commissioned him to paint a certain secluded nook in the rocks on the shore, because there he had declared his passion. The picture was painted, but before it was done the lover said to the artist: “Of course I will see you through on that picture, but my engagement is off, and, of course, it would be painfully suggestive to me. If you can sell it to somebody else I will take another picture, and be extremely obliged besides.” The painter assented to the arrangement, but within a week his patron presented himself. ‘‘lt is all right,” he announced joyously. ‘Til take that picture.” “Am I to congratulate you on the renewal of your engagement?” the artist asked. The other seemed a little confused, but quickly recovered his self-posses-sion, and grinned as he said: “Well, not exactly. It was the same place, but the girl was different”— Pearson’s Weekly.