Improving On Nature

"Horrors!" exclairued the beautiful society wonian. "Do you rnean to try to sell me that picture as an artistic presentation of a group of horses?" The great artist paused a moment bewildered. Then a light broke in tipon him, and with a few rapid strokes he painted out all the loug, graeeful tails on the horses and substituted for each a docked tuft that stuck out straight like a pump handle. "Ah," said the society woman, clapDine her hands with üleasure, "now that