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Show A' REAL CRITIC. A well-known artist overheard a countryman coun-tryman and his wife ridiculing his picture, which represented a farm scene. He was so Indignant that he at last Interposed with this remark: "That painting is valued at a hundred pounds. Allow me to ask if you are familiar fa-miliar with works of art?" "Not very familiar with art." replied the farmer, "but I know something about nature, na-ture, young man. When you make a cow that gets up from the ground by putting her fore feet first you do something that nature never did." Chicago Journal |