A portrait painter was very much worried because no customers had ever come to him. A friend of his advised him to make a painting of himself and his wife and hang it outside his studio as an ad. The poor painter did so. The next day his father-in-law came to see him.
“Who is that woman?” asked the old man as he saw the painter.
“Don't you recognize your daughter?” replied the artist, feeling somewhat annoyed.
“Hm,” said the father-in-law. “Then why have you painted her sitting together with that ugly stranger?”
