TWENTY TALES
BY
Twenty Women

From Real Life in Chicago

ANONYMOUS
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

FOR SALE ONLY
BY
NOVELTY PUBLISHING CO.
CHICAGO, ILL.

COPYRIGHT, 1903
BY
NOVELTY PUBLISHING CO.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
Preface[3]
Introduction[5]
A Woman’s Anguish[13]
Tale One—The Diary of a Chicago Girl[17]
Tale Two—The Life Story of a Southern Widow[33]
Tale Three—A Story of the Chicago Ghetto[53]
Tale Four—A Woman of Thirty-eight[71]
Tale Five—A Forecast[89]
Tale Six—A Daughter of Proud Kentucky[103]
Tale Seven—My Lover’s Bequest[129]
Tale Eight—The Victim of a Drug[145]
Tale Nine—What Happened to a Girl Who Flirted[163]
Tale Ten—Sold at a Fixed Price[173]
Tale Eleven—A Story of Suicide Bridge[181]
Tale Twelve—Two Babes and Two Mothers[193]
Tale Thirteen—Not Guilty[205]
Tale Fourteen—My Lover’s Daughter[215]
Tale Fifteen—As Told to a Clergyman[221]
Tale Sixteen—A Story of Stage Life[231]
Tale Seventeen—A Trip Across the Lake[261]
Tale Eighteen—One Woman’s Way[269]
Tale Nineteen—A Story of the Levee[291]
Tale Twenty—A Scientific Phenomenon[305]