Show he meant all right in connection with the annual spring exposition of the pennsylvania academy of fine arts which drew only the other day to so successful a close are hearing a story which Is almost too good to be true though it arrives well vouched tor according to this the young and decidedly pretty wife of one of the un successful applicants for admission to the gallery s walls called upon a tain highly talented and well known member of the jury to plead her hus band s cause she was sincere she was eloquent the great man s heart was touched baj what could he do tor he remembered only too well the huge and glaringly colored canvas which had been turned down at last he said madam go bach and tell your good husband that when he will send us in a picture as small and as charming as pretty and well painted as you there the story ends with not a word as to what followed the speech philadelphia ledger |