Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1893 — Trying to Please. [ARTICLE]

Trying to Please.

New York Weekly. Visiting Brother—What's this fishy smell? Struggling Artist - Fish-oil and salt. I’m mixing my colors with it. “Phew! What for?” “I’m painting a marine for the exhibition, and though these hanging committees don’t seem to have eves, they must certainly have noses.”