Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1902 — Art and Nature. [ARTICLE]

Art and Nature.

It Is hard to embarrass a qulek-M’lt* tod man. A lecturer was once descanting on the superiority of nature over art, when an Irreverent listener In the audience fired thnt old question at him, “How M’ould you look, sir, without your wig?” "Young man,” Instantly replied the lecturer, pointing his huger at him, “you have furnished me an apt Illustration for my argument. My baldness can he traced to the artificial habits of our modern civilization, M’bile the v.lg I am wearing? -hei> In* raised his voice till the M’indoM's shook—“U mnde of natural 1»alr!” The audience testified Its appreciation of the point by loud applause, and the speaker was uot interrupted again.