Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1886 — Shocking. [ARTICLE]

Shocking.

A-prominent New York theatrical man who is quite homely, but very conceited, went into a photograph gallery to get some photographs lie had had taken. The photographer produced them, and the man declared them excellent. Said he: “It is an excellent picture. It is me all over. It is life itself.” —- ,4i Ehat i9-sor”-r?spohded the candid artist, with a dismal expression of countenance; “they are so life-like that I can’t afford to put one of them in the show case, as I intended to. I can’t afford to shock the public that way.”— Texas Siftings. , ■ 7