The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-04-20
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out OF the custody Oh CuO SIloTllL loI
"famiIy portraits" They had been seized
several weeks ago from her bedroom
which adjoins her establishment, a
fancy custom store on lower sixteenth
street for an alleged debt, and she APP
piled to the county court for an order
for their return.
Il began them myself ten years ago,
she pleaded, "and it took me four years
to complete them. They were en-
broidered by me on machine"
The pictures are huge affairs encased
in elaborate gilt frames.
In one the subject seemed to picture
Adam and Eve in Paradise before the
fig leaf dress was ordered, and in the
other the same first parents just out of
Paradise after the eviction proceedings
and similarly clotheless.
"Humph," said Judge Steele, "who are
those nude people?'
"They are my father and MOTHER
answered Mrs. SOmer with great en-
phasis.
Indeed! \ ude like that :"
"WelI, they are also my grandfather
and grandmother. They are the father
and mother of the human race and are
everyb0dy's parents. They are family
portraits. They are painted nude. They
didn'G wear clothes those days, you
KNOW she added.
You don't mean to rule, judge, that
work of art like these pictures repre-
senting Adam and Eve before and after
eviction from Paradise, are family por-
traits" asked Attorney Tanquarp.
well, the law says family portraits
are exempt from seizure to satisfy a
debt Of the kind in this case. and as she
says they are her family portraits they
are portraits, and SO are exempt. Thus
The court rules
Mrs Somer had triumphed and an
eXpressman took the family portraits"
back to their hanging places, the pic
lures making a good sized Ioad.-Denver
Evening Post.
Counsel insist on an answer to my
question. You have not told me all the
conversation. | want to know every
thing that passed between you and
Mr.. Jones on the occasion to which you
refer
Reluctant Witness-I've told you
everything of any consequence.
"You have told me that you said to
him: Jones, this case will get into court
some day. Now want to know what
he said in reply"
swell, he said: Brown, there isn't
anything in this business that I'm
ashamed Of, and if any snoopin', little,
you hawkin', four by-six, gimblet-eyed
lawyer, with half pound of brains and
sixteen pounds Of jaw, ever wants to
know what I've been talking about, you
can tell him the whole story"
One evening young lady abruptly
turned the corner and ran againsta boy
who was small and ragged and freckled.
Stopping as soon as she could, she
turned to him and said: 81 beg your
pardon, indeed l am very sorry" The
small, ragged and tracked boy looked
up in blank amaZement for an instant;
then, taking off about three-tourths of
cap, he answered very politely: "You
can have my parding, and welcome,
miss, and you may run ag'in me and
knock me lean over, and l won't say
word" After the young lady passed
on, he turned to cOmrade and said: 81
never had any one ask my parding be-
fore. and it kind of took me off my
t."2ChatterbOx.
gloomy to hear the wind bowling about
on wild night?"
NO." answered the man with a care
worn look. 81 rather like to hear it.
The wind doesn't come up and ring
your door bell and ask how about that
bill, or tell you you'll get arrested if
you don't tag your dog. 1t doesn't sing
Il won't go home till morning away
off the key and disgrace the neighbor
hood. 1t bowls because it enjoys it.
But it never says anything to hurt any
body's feelings. l sometimes honestly
wish that there was more wind in this
hfeand less people" Washington Post.
o X o
Jay Gould worked as boy on a
small dairy farm, and afterward as
clerk in country store.
The nursery of the Astor estates was
q small plot of land on Broadway,
bo,,rbt INV tha fOuD6or of tho family