A PERFECT WOMAN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 275, 19 November 1908, Page 2

A PERFECT WOMAN.

Sam P. Jones,, the/revivalist, about whom rovolye a legion of anecdotes, was preaching in Dallas, Texas, on the rarity of a perfect life. He suddenly interrupted his discourse with the query, 'How many of you have ever known a perfect man; entirely perfect, without any fault at all.?' He glanced fiercely at his silent audience that made no sign. ' • Then, evidently to show his fairness,, he asked, 'Well, who ever has seen a perfect woman please rise.' To the evangelist's utter amazement, a tall, middle-aged ,woman, whose big, dark eyes set in her sallow face were fixed upon the preacher, arose from her seat on the front bench.

'Madam,' he thundered, 'do you mean to tell me you've seen a perfect woman that never did no wrong at all."

'Wall,' she said, slowly, gazing at her interlocutor with the air of one who feels that she has the basic truth on her side, and is solemnly conscious that she should adhere to the letter of it, 'wall, I can't say as I ever did 'xactly see' her, but I hearn tell a powerful sight about her—she war my ole man's first wife!'