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222STANTON BIBLE FOR WOMEN It Is to Be the Work of the Sex for Whom It Is Prepared. Will Explain Away All Inconsistencies and Have “No Masculine Finger in the Pie.” One Woman Who Takes Issue With the Venerable Editor of the Publication—Why She Objects. A bible for women—that is what Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in her 80th year, is about to prepare as a monument to her life work. The one explanation that thus far has been offered for this extraordinary undertaking is that Mrs Stanton is 80 years of age. But, unfortunately there are many women associated with her in this work, who cannot be defended with the plea that their resolution is the whim of dotage. The ladies who have consented to act on a committee to prepare an exegesis of those passages in the bible that relate to woman s position in the church and state are said to be Lady Henry Somerset, Miss Frances Willard, Mrs Stanton Blatch Mrs. Alice Cliff Scratcher, Rev Pheobe Hannaford, Rev. Olympia Brown. Mrs Robert Ingersoll, Ellen B Dietrick Frances E Burr, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Sarah A Underwood Mary A Livermore Little D Blake, Mrs L B Chandler, Josephine K Henry, C A [F?] Stebbins Helen M Gardener Clara Bewick Colby and Mrs E B Granni Now here are names respectable for the energy, intelligence and bravery with which they are associated And in the lend of Mrs Stanton the persons who bear them propose to prepare a bible containing only those parts of the book as reference to women, revised and altered to meet the demands of Mrs Stanton and her colaborers Mrs Stanton says that the revision of the bible which was completed a few years ago leaves woman's position in the scriptures far inferior to that of man She feels that the worst foe the woman has to advancement is the misconception of the bible as regards woman This venerable woman will herself, revise Genesis delegating the task of other of the books to her co-laborers. The following letter written by Mrs Stanton to Mrs Chandler will explain better than anything else can, the manner in which she proposes in work Mrs Chandler is it will be noticed, to be given the epistles of St Paul to St. Timothy in which are contained a number of the passages which have most been quoted by the churchly for the discountenancing of women Mrs Stanton says Dear Mrs Chandler You will please take Timothy but do not abuse him It is my hope to have the book finished before I die, and as I shall be 80 in November the time for me maybe short The Woman's Bible as the work is by women commenting on women no masculine finger in the pie it seems to me that is the best title. One of the essentials in a title is to have it as short as possible commentaries or interpretations would a title too long In the preface or introduction we can explain whatever seems inconsistent My idea is to have all schools of religion and thought represented—Protestant-Catholic Jew and gentile evangelical and liberal Fach one over her own signature shall be responsible for her message. Question its inspiration its allegories its preambles, in fact say what you think in as choice and beautiful and refined language as you can command I wonder that so many revising committees of man should have repeated from time to time the indecent language and indecent scenes they have left in the book Buy a cheap bl[?] the revised edition of 1888 cut out the texts on which you wish to comment, then head your chapters thus THE WOMAN S BIBLE The Apostle Paul to Timothy, By The chapter and verses will be in fine print and changes in coarse print CREEDS AND DOGMAS LET ALONE As we comment on nothing but women no creeds or dogmas neither authority nor inspiration except as it touches women it seems to me we could not get a better title than The Woman s Bible What is a sail of us occupies just one-eleventh part of the oil and new testaments. As we shall comment on only one-eleventh commentaries would not do. All that is said of us we can put into a nutshell I think we shall make a small book of about 400 pages. Our comments should be short, clear pointed. We must not write essays but sprightly comment[ades?]. No matter about Hebrew or Greek roots unless you know all about them or Hunters in translation We a state in plain English that the bible does not dignify our sex Even a female lamb or kid was not fit for sacrifice In Deborah [Huldah?]. Yashi[?] and Mirlam it gives us a few grand characters We can accept its general principles, Love thy neighbor as thyself are, etc, but that God talked to the Jew officer to face and told them to kill and slay all the Hittites and do a thousand other outrageous things we do not believe If we can get any learned woman to point out errors in translations touching women we should like to have that done but if we cannot we will do the work with plain fluent English Yours sincerely ELIZABETH CADY STANTON I have always had a good deal of respect for Mrs Stanton. She has done something toward paving the way toward that large degree of liberty which American women enjoy. But the latter transcribed above is that of an ignorant and egotistical old woman who has placed herself in an absurdly inconsistent position. If Mrs. Stanton really supposes that the words of the bible are inspired sacred and unalterable then she should submit herself to the teachings and insist that others do the same. If on the other hand, she supposes that the world has outgrown the ideas of the men of past ages that we cannot take the actions of the half naked semi barbarians of the time of Abraham as our guides nowadays then should say ‘If the bible does not sustain the self respect old woman then so much the worse for the bible. Either she should submit to it or disregard. If to suggest that women should make such alterations as seems to them consistent with nineteenth century ideas, and yet to maintain the absolute inspirational character of the book is an inconsistency and absurdity that must draw ridicule upon Mrs Stanton's very beautiful white hairs and place all women who are working for a fuller development for their sex in danger of being thought equally ridiculous. If she does not believe in its absolute inspirational character then its out-grown theories may be passed by. Mrs Stanton being asked of what utility the new revision would be, said WILL RESTORE RESPECT It will restore the self-respect of women I have seen that women believed themselves cursed of God that they are the origin of sin and that maternity is a condition slavery. If they could only be brought to see that instead of that, they were represented in the Godhead at creation, that woman was consulted and woman was created in the image of the motherhead then they might regain their self-respect This it seemed to me could only be accomplished by a recision of the bible and while the work proceeded only [?] ultimate necessity for it never left me. [?] to take a materialistic view of the matter in the progress of the race from savagery to civilization, woman has been kept in an inferior position. She still occupies it now that an advanced state of civilization has been attained. One thing that keeps her there is the misinterpretation of the bible as regards woman The correction of this will restore her and deprive her enemy man of a reason for his oppression and a weapon of attack. Restore out self-respect Does Mrs Stanton suppose we ever lose it except through our own sin Does she suppose we find it any curse to beat children or ever think of that tradition of the garden of Eden any more than any other old tradition of the beginning of man? Does she imagine that what has been to us the greatest blessing and joy of life can even seem a curse? Mrs Stanton claims that woman has always held an inferior position Ah, the centuries that have passed have been full of vissicitudes for men and women There has been fighting, labor, toil, har sin joy truth. home happiness and change Both men and women have suffered much enslavement in different ways Women have been governed, they say They have submitted to be ruled Well, perhaps But have they ever grieviously objected? If at any time they had greatly objected could they not have had their way Women make up half the world If they then represent half the force of the world, they need not ask, they can take what they want The women who are today helping on the evolution of women are not those who theorize fret fume and lecture They are the women who are doing their work well in homes schools farms factories shoes stores laboratories offices professions and arts. While WALKING COSTUMES AND MOURNING GOWN. At the right is a Paris walking gown of fine copper colored broadcloth. The bretelles are of green [faile?] over white silk. Down the sides in front are apple green [faille?] bands At the left is another Paris gown of pale biscuit diagonal cheviot with old gold velvet bows on the skirt In the center is a French mourning gown. these foolish and clamorous women are talking about their rights the other women are taking them Women are not worrying about what Faul thought of them or directed them to do The wrongs of Vashti make pretty reading—a sad and quaint old tale—but there s no need to fret about them now Eve—if, indeed the dear woman ever lived—may have been cursed for her mysterious sin and banished from Eden but she took an Eden with her when she went, in the man she loved and the little boys whose naked limbs she kissed and pinched and tickled as they lay in the long grass of the green fresh world at twilight, when the day s toil was done ONE GETS COMFORT There s one tremendous comfort about all this enslavement It hasn't felt half as bad as it sound The changes have often been of flowers And even when they have been of iron they have been no heavier than those men had to bear Besides we are not so much enslaved, either to living men or dead traditions as Mrs Stanton seems to think We will inspect garbage for the good of our cities without looking to see what St Paul through about the matter We will enjoy en low instruct in and create universities without a thought of what Abraham would have thought of such proceedings We will speak, write do what we have the ability and desire to do without any hesitation, because of an apprehension that the Corinthian ladies might not have been permitted to do such things Mrs Stanton has been frightened by such words as these The wife hath not power of her own holy b[ it?] the husband . . . The head of the omen is the man . . . for the man is not of the woman but the woman of the man Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man THREE STYLISH TOILETTES. In the center is a skirt of elephant gray crepon with fur English jacket of gray Persian fastened by enormous silver hooks and eyes At the left is a tan cloth box jacket with piping of bias brown velvet There are perforated velvet plastrons on the sleeves and back At the right is a stylish skirt and cape. liberties with ladies, calling them by their first names and inviting them to wreathe his bowl for him—when he [?]ught to have been attending primaries with them and securing them seats in the legislative halls of their country WHAT A PROSPECT A woman s bible’ A woman s heaven to Mrs Stanton ‘ What a prospect You can t imagine can you Miss Stanton that any woman would ever go to it’ No more would any sensible woman divorce her religious belief from that of man, or set apart the portion of the sacred book that deals with her Has not man outgrown the vengeance of the old testament? Has he not outgrown slavery and polygamy? Has he not almost outgrown war? Has not the delightful companionship of men and women in the nineteenth century triumphed over all the old laws, traditions and superstitions? The day of fuller liberty dawns for all But it dawns, esteemed lady, in the human comprehension—in the expanding desire Leave the chronicles of the dead past in the past taking with you that which the inner consciousness holds still to be true and fair But do not slay men of straw, or light windmills Do not become ridiculous in your venerable years Do not offend literature with a vandal and unscholarly act ELIA W PEATTIE. (South Omaha Tribune) We want a girl’ Not a girl to love, to fill with ice cream and soda water, to act as bookkeeper, typewriter, or check drawer nor one to wear bloomers and show us how to ride a bicycle read Ibsen and “Coin’s Financial School,’ or to teach us lawn tennis, the Rye waltz or the sublimity of the sublime but a plain, everyday maiden, who has a face that would scorch the sun a hand that would WALKING COSTUMES AND MOURNING GOWN. At the right is a Paris walking gown of fine copper colored broadcloth. The beetles are of green [faile?] over white silk. Down the sides in front are apple green [faille?] bands At the left is another Paris gown of pale biscuit diagonal cheviot with old gold velvet bows on the skirt In the center is a French mourning gown. act as a stove lid and a foot that would give the Goddess of Liberty odds and then beat her in the race for the prize as a Triliby model She need not be as tender as a newly cut onion or a restaurant porterhouse nor as pert nor as flippant as the wren or as intelligent as the lady’s maid who plays the piano and goes into ecstasy over the latest foreign arrival while the baby of the house is upsetting the spittoon and lacquering its angleic face with the nicotinic comments or trying to imitate the ostrich in filling its stomach full of tacks or mamma’s hair pins but we would like to see her as tough as the trunk of an elephant or a heavy tragedian, that she may look on a little work without experiencing an attack of vertigo or a desire to marry an Italian nobleman, as lively as is necessary for one to be to arise before sun up to cook a plate of ham and eggs or a dish of summer flap-jacks by the time the family arose at 8 o clock or thereabouts, and intelligent enough to distinguish a napkin from a baby’s hood or to tell the ward policeman that it is the parlor and not the kitchen where she receives her company She is not supposed to sleep over fourteen hours a day, as there are times when we might want her to go out and tell the tramp to levant or to assist us in getting up a lunch when our restaurant asks for a small payment on account or to entertain our unexpected friends while we are changing our toilet As there are only seven evenings in the week we can allow her only that many off to take in Manawa or the ball game while we unable to raise car fare sit at home and wonder when our landlord intends to send us our usual notice If the girl we ask for will come to this office and satisfactorily answer a few orthodox questions put to her by the religious brownie his political leg-pulling partner may afford her a position of ease and refinement in his kitchen provided her ideas of a good salary are limited and not subjected to union rules P S –Wanted—A good servant girl Apply at this office Good wages (Buffalo Express) - “Do you ever sell these photographs that you keep in your show case? ‘ I asked of my friend, the photographer THREE STYLISH TOILETTES. In the center is a skirt of elephant gray crepon with fur English jacket of gray Persian fastened by enormous silver hooks and eyes At the left is a tan cloth box jacket with piping of bias brown velvet There are perforated velvet plastrons on the sleeves and back At the right is a stylish skirt and cape. You see,” he continued It was the picture of a very pretty girl, whose father was rich and who moved in good society The fellow I sold it to used it on an advertising calendar, and it made her father mad He sued me for $5 000 damages and got a judgment But I got the money back all right” How so?’ Why you see the case got the girl so much notoriety that she went on the stage on the strength of it Then I sued for $10,000 for advertising “ | 222STANTION BIBLE FOR WOMEN It Is to Be the Work of the Sex for Whom It Is Prepared. Will Explain Away All Inconsistencies and Have “No Masculine Finger in the Pie.” One Woman Who Takes Issue With the Venerable Editor of the Publication—Why She Objects. A bible for women—that is what Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in her 80th year, is about to prepare as a monument to her life work. The one explanation that thus far has been offered for this extraordinary undertaking is that Mrs Stanton is 80 years of age. But, unfortunately there are many women associated with her in this work, who cannot be defended with the plea that their resolution is the whim of dotage. The ladies who have consented to act on a committee to prepare an exegesis of those passages in the bible that relate to woman s position in the church and state are said to be Lady Henry Somerset, Miss Frances Willard, Mrs Stanton Blatch Mrs. Alice Cliff Scratcher, Rev Pheobe Hannaford, Rev. Olympia Brown. Mrs Robert Ingersoll, Ellen B Dietrick Frances E Burr, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Sarah A Underwood Mary A Livermore Little D Blake, Mrs L B Chandler, Jospehine K Henry, C A [F?] Stebbins Helen M Gardener Clara Bewick Colby and Mrs E B Granni Now here are names respectable for the energy, intelligence and bravery with which they are associated And in the lend of Mrs Stanton the persons who bear them propose to prepare a bible containing only those parts of the book as refer to women, revised and altered to meet the demands of Mrs Stanton and her colaborers Mrs Stanton says that the revision of the bible which was completed a few years ago leaves woman's position in the scriptures far inferior to that of man She feels that the worst foe the woman has to advancement is the misconception of the bible as regards woman This venerable woman will herself, revise Genesis delegating the task of other of the books to her co laborers. The following letter written by Mrs Stanton to Mrs Chandler will explain better than anything else can, the manner in which she proposes in work Mrs Chandler is it will be noticed, to be given the epistles of St Paul to St. Timothy in which are contained a number of the passages which have most been quoted by the churchly for the discountenancing of women Mrs Stanton says Dear Mrs Chandler You will please take Timothy but do not abuse him It is my hope to have the book finished before I die, and as I shall be 80 in November the time for me may be short The Woman's Bible as the work is by women commenting on women no masculine finger in the pie it seems to me that is the best title. One of the essentials in a title is to have it as short as possible commentaries or interpretations would a title too long In the preface or introduction we can explain whatever seems inconsistent My idea is to have all schools of religion and thought represented—Protestant Catholic Jew and gentile evangelical and liberal Fach one over her own signature shall be responsible for her message. Question its inspiration its allegories its preambles, in fact say what you think in as choice and beautiful and refined language as you can command I wonder that so many revising committees of man should have repeated from time to time the indecent language and indecent scenes they have left in the book Buy a cheap bl[?] the revised edition of 1888 cut out the texts on which you wish to comment, then head your chapters thus THE WOMAN S BIBLE The Apostle Paul to Timothy, By The chapter and verses will be in fine print and changes in coarse print CREEDS AND DOGMAS LET ALONE As we comment on nothing but women no creeds or dogmas neither authority nor inspiration except as it touches women it seems to me we could not get a better title than The Woman s Bible What is sail of us occupies just one-eleventh part of the oil and new testaments. As we shall comment on only one-eleventh commentaries would not do. All that is said of us we can put into a nutshell I think we shall make a small book of about 400 pages. Our comments should be short, clear pointed. We must not write essays but sprightly comment[ades?]. No matter about Hebrew or Greek roots unless you know all about them or Hunters in translation We an state in plain English that the bible does not dignify our sex Even a female lamb or kid was not fit for sacrifice In Deborah [Huldah?]. Yashi[?] and Mirlam it gives us a few grand characters We can accept its general principles, Love thy neighbor as thyself are, etc, but that God talked to the Jew officer to face and told them to kill and slay all the Hittites and do a thousand other outrageous things we do not believe If we can get any learned woman to point out errors in translations touching women we should like to have that done but if we cannot we will do the work with plain fluent English Yours sincerely ELIZABETH CADY STANTON I have always had a good deal of respect for Mrs Stanton. She has done something toward paving the way toward that large degree of liberty which American women enjoy. But the latter transcribed above is that of an ignorant and egotistical old woman who has placed herself in an absurdly inconsistent position. If Mrs. Stanton really supposes that the words of the bible are inspired sacred and unalterable then she should submit herself to the teachings and insist that others do the same. If on the other hand, she supposes that the world has outgrown the ideas of the men of past ages that we cannot take the actions of the half naked semi barbarians of the time of Abraham as our guides nowadays then should say ‘If the bible does not sustain the self respect old woman then so much the worse for the bible. Either she should submit to it or disregard. If to suggest that women should make such alterations as seems to them consistent with nineteenth century ideas, and yet to maintain the absolute inspirational character of the book is an inconsistency and absurdity that must draw ridicule upon Mrs Stanton's very beautiful white hairs and place all women who are working for a fuller development for their sex in danger of being thought equally ridiculous. If she does not believe in its absolute inspirational character then its out-grown theories may be passed by. Mrs Stanton being asked of what utility the new revision would be, said WILL RESTORE RESPECT It will restore the self-respect of women I have seen that women believed themselves cursed of God that they are the origin of sin and that maternity is a condition slavery. If they could only be brought to see that instead of that, they were represented in the Godhead at creation, that woman was consulted and woman was created in the image of the motherhead then they might regain their self-respect This it seemed to me could only be accomplished by a recision of the bible and while the work proceeded only [?] ultimate necessity for it never left me. [?] to take a materialistic view of the matter in the progress of the race from savagery to civilization, woman has been kept in an inferior position. She still occupies it now that an advanced state of civilization has been attained. One thing that keeps her there is the misinterpretation of the bible as regards woman The correction of this will restore her and deprive her enemy man of a reason for his oppression and a weapon of attack. Restore out self-respect Does Mrs Stanton suppose we ever lose it except through our own sin Does she suppose we find it any curse to beat children or ever think of that tradition of the garden of Eden any more than any other old tradition of the beginning of man? Does she imagine that what has been to us the greatest blessing and joy of life can even seem a curse? Mrs Stanton claims that woman has always held an inferior position Ah, the centuries that have passed have been full of vissicitudes for men and women There has been fighting, labor, toil, har sin joy truth. home happiness and change Both men and women have suffered much enslavement in different ways Women have been governed, they say They have submitted to be ruled Well, perhaps But have they ever grieviously objected? If at any time they had greatly objected could they not have had their way Women make up half the world If they then represent half the force of the world, they need not ask, they can take what they want The women who are today helping on the evolution of women are not those who theorize fret fume and lecture They are the women who are doing their work well in homes schools farms factories shoes stores laboratories offices professions and arts. While WALKING COSTUMES AND MOURNING GOWN. At the right is a Paris walking gown of fine copper colored broadcloth. The bretelles are of green [faile?] over white silk. Down the sides in front are apple green [faille?] bands At the left is another Paris gown of pale biscuit diagonal cheviot with old gold velvet bows on the skirt In the center is a French mourning gown. these foolish and clamorous women are talking about their rights the other women are taking them Women are not worrying about what Faul thought of them or directed them to do The wrongs of Vashti make pretty reading—a sad and quaint old tale—but there s no need to fret about them now Eve—if, indeed the dear woman ever lived—may have been cursed for her mysterious sin and banished from Eden but she took an Eden with her when she went, in the man she loved and the little boys whose naked limbs she kissed and pinched and tickled as they lay in the long grass of the green fresh world at twilight, when the day s toil was done ONE GETS COMFORT There s one tremendous comfort about all this enslavement It hasn t felt half as bad as it sound The chaings have often been of flowers And even when they have been of iron they have been no heavier than those men had to bear Besides we are not so much enslaved, either to living men or dead traditions as Mrs Stanton seems to think We will inspect garbage for the good of our cities without looking to see what St Paul trhough about the matter We will enjoy en low instruct in and create universities without a thought of what Abraham would have thought of what Abraham would have thought of such proceedings We will speak, write do what we have the ability and desire to do without any hesitation, because of an apprehension that the Corinthian ladies might not have been permitted to do such things Mrs Stanton has been frightened by such words as these The wife hath not power of her own holy b[ it?] the husband . . . The head of the omwan is the man . . . for the man is not of the woman but the woman of the man Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man THREE STYLISH TOILETTES. In the center is a skirt of elephant gray crepon with fur English jacket of gray Persian fastened by enormous silver hooks and eyes At the left is a tan cloth box jacket with piping of bias brown velvet There are perforated velvet plastrons on the sleeves and back At the right is a stylish skirt and cape. liberties with ladies, calling them by their first names and inviting them to wreathe his bowl for him—when he [?]ught to have been attending primaries with them and securing them seats in the legislative halls of their country WHAT A PROSPECT A woman s bible’ A woman s heaven too Mrs Stanton ‘ What a prospect You can t imagine can you Miss Stanton that any woman would ever go to it’ No more would any sensible woman divorce her religious belief from that of man, or set apart the portion of the sacred book that deals with her Has not man outgrown the vengeance of the old testament? Has he not outgrown slavery and polygamy? Has he not almost outgrown war? Has not the delightful companionship of men and women in the nineteenth century triumphed over all the old laws, traditions and superstitions? The day of fuller liberty dawns for all But it dawns, esteemed lady, in the human comprehension—in the expanding desire Leave the chronicles of the dead past in the past taking with you that which the inner consciousness holds still to be true and fair But do not slay men of straw, or light windmills Do not become ridiculous in your venerable years Do not offend literature with a vandal and unscholarly act ELIA W PEATTIE. (South Omaha Tribune) We want a girl’ Not a girl to love, to fill with ice cream and soda water, to act as bookkeeper, typewriter, or check drawer nor one to wear bloomers and show us how to ride a bicycle read Ibsen and “Coin’s Financial School,’ or to teach us lawn tennis, the Rye waltz or the sublimity of the sublime but a plain, everyday maiden, who has a face that would scorch the usn a hand that would WALKING COSTUMES AND MOURNING GOWN. At the right is a Paris walking gown of fine copper colored broadcloth. The bretelles are of green [faile?] over white silk. Down the sides in front are apple green [faille?] bands At the left is another Paris gown of pale biscuit diagonal cheviot with old gold velvet bows on the skirt In the center is a French mourning gown. act as a stove lid and a foot that would give the Goddess of Liberty odds and then beat her in the race for the prize as a Triliby model She need not be as tender as a newly cut onion or a restaurant porterhouse nor as pert nor as flippant as the wren or as intelligent as the lady’s maid who plays the piano and goes into ecstasy over the latest foreign arrival while the baby of the house is upsetting the spittoon and lacquering its angleic face with the nicotinic comments or trying to imitate the ostrich in filling its stomach full of tacks or mamma’s hair pins but we would like to see her as tough as the trunk of an elephant or a heavy tragedian, that she may look on a little work without experiencing an attack of vertigo or a desire to marry an Italian nobleman, as lively as is necessary for one to be to arise before sun up to cook a plate of ham and eggs or a dish of summer flap-jacks by the time the family arose at 8 o clock or thereabouts, and intelligent enough to distinguish a napkin from a baby’s hood or to tell the ward policeman that it is the parlor and not the kitchen where she receives her company She is not supposed to sleep over fourteen hours a day, as there are times when we might want her to go out and tell the tramp to levant or to assist us in getting up a lunch when our restaurant asks for a small payment on account or to entertain our unexpected friends while we are changing our toilet As there are only seven evenings in the week we can allow her only that many off to take in Manawa or the ball game while we unable to raise car fare sit at home and wonder when our landlord intends to send us our usual notice If the girl we ask for will come to this office and satisfactorily answer a few orthodox questions put to her by the religious brownie his political leg-pulling partner may afford her a position of ease and refinement in his kitchen provided her ideas of a good salary are limited and not subjected to union rules P S –Wanted—A good servant girl Apply at this office Good wages (Buffalo Express) - “Do you ever sell these photographs that you keep in your show case? ‘ I asked of my friend, the photographer THREE STYLISH TOILETTES. In the center is a skirt of elephant gray crepon with fur English jacket of gray Persian fastened by enormous silver hooks and eyes At the left is a tan cloth box jacket with piping of bias brown velvet There are perforated velvet plastrons on the sleeves and back At the right is a stylish skirt and cape. You see,” he continued It was the picture of a very pretty girl, whose father was rich and who moved in good society The fellow I sold it to used it on an advertising calendar, and it made her father mad He sued me for $5 000 damages and got a judgment But I got the money back all right” How so?’ Why you see the case got the girl so much notoriety that she went on the stage on the strength of it Then I sued for $10,000 for advertising “ |