Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1880 — An Extraordinary Question. [ARTICLE]

An Extraordinary Question.

“Emma R.” asks the Springfield (Ohio) Tribune this extraordinary question : “Do you think it right for a girl to sit on a young man’s lap, even if she is engaged to him ?” Whereupon the editor gets off a very extraordinary lie : “We have had no experience in the matter referred to. ” Why didn’t he say, “If it was our girl and our lap, yes ; if it was another girl and our lap, yes ; but if it was our girl and another fellow’s lap, never.”— Chicago Tribune.