THE SOWER
An old woman has just died in France who never reaped what she sowed. When she was a girl a famous artist was caught by the sight of her lissom figure as she strewed the seed in the furrows of the plough. The artist gave her a franc or two to pose for him, and the farm girl became immortalised in Roty’s design for the figure which for ever sows the seed on French postage stamps. But, though immortal on the stamps, in real life she experienced the ups and downs of mere mortals, and as she grew older there were fewer ups than downs, and she fell into poverty. When she was an old woman she tried to get an allowance from the State on the strength of her story. But nobody could believe that the poor old crone of Le Creusot, which was her village, was the same as the splendid vital figure who sows the seeds of prosperity—-on the stamps.
Only when she was gone, and somebody was at the pains to find out the truth of her stqry, was it established that she had really been the original of the famous La Semeuse, the Sower.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 901, 19 February 1930, Page 14
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201THE SOWER Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 901, 19 February 1930, Page 14
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