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Evening Star, Issue 3278, 22 August 1873, Page 3

A professor’s wif#, who occupied herself sometimes with assisting her husband in making casts of interesting objects of geology and natural history (says a scientific contemporary), also for her own pleasure sometimes made flowers and fruit of other materials; but, notwithstanding that she had become quite successful in this line, she found that almost all her efforts were criticised by her friends. Once, at a tea party, she passed a large apple round, and stated her confidence that this time she had been quite successful in her imitation of Nature’s product; but her friends were, as usual, not of her own opinion. One criticised tie shape, saying it would be more natural if it were not so globular ; another criticised the colors, and said it was better than other imitations, but that she had not quite hit that natural indescribable peculiarity which distinguishes the natural apples from the imitations ; almost everyone had some fault to find. After the apple had been passed round and had come into her hands again, she ate it, without saying anything. Her friends had been criticising a real apple, but never afterwards criticised her imitations of fruit.