Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1884 — Nature and Art. [ARTICLE]

Nature and Art.

A lady artist, who had painted a smiling cherub on her canvas, remarked to a gentleman observer: “Do you know, sir, that with one stroke I can change this smiling boy into a weeping one?” “That’s nothing,” said the gentleman. “At home, when my boy makes too much of a racket, I can, with one stroke of my cane, make him weep, and howl, top, instantly.— Texas Siftings.