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Show THE SEX OF AN ECHO. The painting which attracted the most attention In a certain art exhibition exhibi-tion in Philadelphia was entitled "Echo." It showed a mountain gorge with a female figure typifying echo swinging out mistily and gracefully from the rocky steeps. It was very pretty, and the local critics heaped praises upon the artist. Former Gov. "Billy" Burns studied it seriously for ten minutes and then turned to' his companion and said: "It's queer how they have all gone daft over that picture when there is a vital defect in It." "How so? I can't see anything but beauty." "How so? Plain as can be. How can an echo be a woman? Why, an echo nevr speaks until it is spoken to, and every time It repeats what It has heard continues to make it les. Now, how could a woman typify anything like that? No, sir; that picture is a libel on womankind and that artist don't know human nature. The thing's a fraud." |