The Young Art Critic

A bright youngster who visited the Corcorai) art gallery the other day was apparently very deeply Impressed with tftat famou8 little example of Italian aculpture, "The Forced Prayer. " It will he remembered that the statue represents a small boy in a very abbreviated garment who bolds his chubby hands together in front of him ín an attitude of prayer, while his smal] face representa every possibie shade of disgust and rebellion. But our youngster had a different explanatioa of the motive of the statue, which he tersely stated to his father on hls return home somewhat ba this wise: "An', papa. I sawed a little Image of a boy what had been chasin' a little chicken In nis night gown. An' he des catch de little chicken nv in his hands an' he squoshed