Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1893 — Pa’s Picture. [ARTICLE]

Pa’s Picture.

Kate Field's Washington. •‘Are you the man that painted that ere pictue of Moses in the bulrushes?” asked a countryman of sd artist who had recently'startled the town with an exhibition of oil paintings. ‘Yes,” replied the artist. “All right; then I want you to paint my father.” “Certainly, if he gives* me a few sittings. “Can't do it, he’s dead.” “Let me have a photograph of him.” Can’t do that neither He never had his picture taken. “I’m afraid, then, I must decline.” “Decline ! What for ? Haven’t you painted Moses? You didn’t have a photograph of him, did you? No? I thought not. Well, my father has not been dead nearly as long as Moses. If .you can paint Moses vou ought to know enough to paint *my father.” Appreciating the situation, the artist went to work and evolved such a portrait as he thought might satisfy so original a gon. “Bully!” exclaimed this art patron on seeing the completed painting. “That almosl knocks the stuffin’ out of Moses; but I say, how he has changed! The Good Templars’ grand lodge voted down, at Des Moines, Saturday, a resolution to investigate the Keeley cure.