The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-24

/ help but enjoy the test of your knowl-
edge of the Bible history and fiction.
Thinking the time appropriate, with
the coming showing the week OF
AprfI 30 at Polls theatre of the Carl
TaemmIe picture. Foolish Wives"
the Times will conduct contest.
S45 IN PRIZES.
First prize 90 s1o
Second prize S1O
Ten prizes of pair of tickets to
the motion picture, Foolish
Total ..... s45
Who were the twelve most Fool
tsh Wives" that ever lived?
And don't forget one thing: If you
are going to win one of the prizes,
from $40 down, making S45 all told.
it's up to you to supply a suggestion
for the missing 50th wife. So while
you are looking through those books
to identity the picture of the IL
FrFooIish Wives the second of which
appears today. give all the women
YOU read about the careful once-over,
and pick out a candidate for the oVth
Foolish Wdfe-'
Read the rules of the contest care
fully, and get aboard at once. Clip
or else write the name on separate
piece of paper, together with the
number of the picture it is supposed
to describe
TIL, ALI. TWELVE HAVE BEEN
PUBLISHED. then send them all in,
together, with a letter of not more
than SO words. containing your sug-
You can send in as many sets of
. answers as you like, but each set
must be complete.
IF you have any questions to ask,
address them to the Contest Editor
OF The Times.
Following are the names of 40
famous Foolish Wives of history.
mythology and fiction. One of these
is represented in the accompanying
picture. If you familiarize yourself
with the principal facts in the lives
of the following 40 you will be able
to identify easily the figure in the
illustration.
The fftieth Foolish Wife" is
+ missing. you will notice. Each CON
/ testant is asked to suggest iftieth
name.
1. AdrIana wife of Antipholus, in
shakespeare's Comedy of Errors"
2. Alceste, wife of Admentus and
daughter of Pelias, who was brought
, back from Hades by Hercules
g. Alamena. wife of the Thebian
general. Amphitryon. and mother of
4. Anime. sister of Zobeide and
wife of the son of Haroun ell Rasehid,
in the Arabian Nights" entertain
s. Amytis. wife of Nehuchadnezzar.
- 6. Ann Boelyn. wife OF Henry VII
Pickwick for breach of promise in
Dickens .'Pickwick Papers"
s. Candour, Mrs, in Sheridan's
"School for Scandal"
9. Causubon. Dorothea. in George
Ehots .'Middlemarch."
10. Cleopatra. the Serpent of the
Nile
memnon. in Greek mythology.
H. CoDperfeld, Dora, in Dickens
David Copperfield.'
Ia. Dejanira, wife of Hercules, IN
"a Desdemona, in Shakespeare
.'O,heHo."
10. Dido. queen of Carthage. in
VirgiPs ''Aeneid."
Legend
II. Eve. the first woman.
49, Fatima seventh wife of Blue
beard.
10. Flanders. Mon, in Defoe's Mob
Flanders"
20. Gradgrind, Louisa, in Dickens
Hard Times"
81. Guinevere Queen. wife OF
King Arthur. in medieval romances
20. Helen. wife of Menelaus, and
the cause of the Trojan war. in Greek
mythology
IS. Hermione. wife Of Gadmus,
daughter of Mars and Venus. in
Greek mythology
"a. Herodias. the mother of Salome
and wife of Herod.
IS. -ezebel. wife of King Ahab OF
Israel.
26. Juno. wife of Jupiter. in Greek
mythology.
81. Kepnicott, Carol in Main
Street"
%. Karenina. Anna, in Tolstoi's
Anna Karenina-"
% Katherine. wife of Petruchio. in
Shskespeare's THE Tanning of q
Shrew."
80. Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare
.sMacbeth.''
81. Lots wife. who fed from So
dom, and disobeyed the Lords in
structions-
80. Luerezia di Borgia, daughter OF
Pope Alexander VI and duchess o.
-Ferrara-
SO. Malaprop. Mrs. in sheridan's
The Rivals
"A. Mary Stuart. queen Of Scotland