An Artist's Fad, and Wycliffe's Bible

1916

An Artist's Fad

A Parisian artist in lieu of a picture gallery has a collection of great painters' palettes, some 500 in number, among them being Corot's, Isabey's and Theodore Rousseau's. On many of the palettes are sketches by the painters who used them.


Wycliffe's Bible

John Wycliffe completed the translation of the whole Bible for the first time into the language of the English people. He was born near Richmond, in Yorkshire, about 1324.


A Case of Fifty-Fifty

"Half the world doesn't know how the other half lives."
That's the half that minds its own business probably." — Philadelphia Ledger.


Fair Enough

"Yes," we admitted, "it's a fine car. and we'd be glad to own it but we can't afford to buy it, and there's no use wasting your breath trying to persuade us."
"Listen," pleaded the agent, "this car isn't going to cost you a cent. All you've got to do is to take out an accident policy in our favor and the car is yours. We'll even pay the premium on the policy. Can anything be fairer than that?" — St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Comment: I'll admit it, I don't get that last one. It must be a comment on the high cost of car insurance, that they'll give you a free car just to take your money on a policy. It's sort of like with instant cameras a few years ago; they were very cheap but the film's what got you.