Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1884 — Successful High Art. [ARTICLE]

Successful High Art.

“Talk about ile painters,” said Mr. Saunders, as he threw an armful of weeds over the fence into the pig pen, “why, you should a seed one that my ole woman draw’d with a pound of tea she bought of Alec. Vitties last summer. That actually beat anything since Moses smote the waters and drownded the Pharosees. ” ~ “What was the design—that is—what did the picture represent?” asked the citv boarder, timidly. “Rainstorms just cornin’ on from the northwest,” replied the old man. “When my wife first brought tliat magnificent specimen into the family it actually made everything moldy in the room where it was hung; so moldy that we had to take it out. We hung it in the children’s bed-room next time, and before we know’d it every last one of ’em bad the eroupwHd (our of ’em came near dyin’. The last night we had the picture in the house we stood it on a chair in the kitchen and the stove was crusted over with a quarter of an inch of rust next morning—clean, clear rust And the sugar and salt and soap was all melted and everything in the room sweating so that you would a sworn that it bad rained all night and had been followed by a heavy fog. But the skies were as clear as a bell and there was no gettin’ around but what the picture done the business.” — Detroit Free Press.