QUIPS AND CRANKS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 889, 15 March 1889, Page 7

QUIPS AND CRANKS.

A CONVINCING PORTRAITHarry Furniss, the well known caricaturist on the staff of Punch, tells the following anecdote, which amusingly illustrates some of the troubles of the harassed portrait painter. A man once called upon a portrait painter and asked him to paint his father. ‘ But where is your father ?’ asked he of the brush. ‘ Oh, he died ten years ago.’ * Then how can I paint him ?’ asked the artist. * Why,’ was the reply, ‘I have just seen your portrait of Moses. Surely, if you can paint the portrait of a man who died thousands of years ago, you can more easily paint the portrait of my father, who has only been dead ten years.’ Seeing the sort of man with whom, he had to deal, the artist undertook the work. When the picture was finished the newlyblossomed art-patron was called in to see it. He gazed at it in silence for some time, his eyes filling with tears, and then softly and reverently said : ‘So, that is my father ? Ah, how he is changed !’

After their return.—The Baronet—l see there has been a great fire in New York. The Lady Frances. -In New York ? Fancy ! We saw New York, didn’t we ? The Baronet.—Why, of course, my dear. We were there a week. Don’t you remember an enormous town with ash barrels and garbage in front of the houses.—London Life. First Shop Girl (going home at 10 pm).— Just think of Kate Workland degrading herself so as to go out and be a housemaid for the sake of double pay and two halfholidays a week! It’s so un-American. Second Shop Girl.—Yes 1 she never showed a proper spirit of independence 1 By the way, I suppose we must pay something toward the forelady’s Christmas present if we want a chance to keep our places.