HAND-PAINTED PICTURES.
T • \c a pretty story in connection with; : , .nco-British Exhibition which has tho ■' Vgo of being true (says tho corresi> . it of "an Australian paper). A lady, finuiiig convenient opportunity, gave her cooli and housemaid an afternoon off to visit the exhibition. " She presented them with ,fivo shillings each, so ,that they might not miss anything in the sido shows. On their return she inquired whether they had seen everything, and had enjoyed themselves. The reply was an enthusiastic affirmativo. "Did you go to tho picture gallery?" "Oh yes, ma'am," replied the cook, "and it was r.oal beautiful. Wo wero told that most of the pictures were hand-painted." Prejudices aro liko the knots in tho glass of our window. They . alter the shapo of everything that wo chooso to look at through them; they mako straight things crooked and everything indistinct.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 282, 21 August 1908, Page 5
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