_Hew to the Line, let the quips fall where they may._
An artist friend, back from the Land of Taos, brings word of another
artist who is achieving influence by raising hogs--or "picture buyers,"
as he sardonically calls them. This set us to wondering what had become
of Arthur Dove, one of the first of the Einstein school to exhibit in
this town. Despairing of the public intelligence, Mr. Dove took up the
raising of chickens, and very old readers of this column may recall the
verses in which we celebrated his withdrawal from art: