Show tribute to painters skill one of the still life paintings by jan van huysen in the museum at the hague was waa recently injured but it la Is believed the perpetrator was neither vandal nor thief tho the picture represents a basket ot of fruit on which a number of insects have gathered on a pale yellow apple which Is the centerpiece in the cluster of fruit Is a largo large fly painted so true to nature so say the officials of the gallery that the canvas was injured ly by some one who endeavored to ahoo shoo it and brought his cane or hand too close to the canvas A tribute to the painters genius says the letter recording the fact for which the work had bad to suffer |