Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1885 — The Force of Habit. [ARTICLE]

The Force of Habit.

“I’ll never go out with Charley Briggs again as long as I live, the insulting, mean thing. That’s just what he is,” sputtered a Lee avenue girl, as she rushed into the house. “Why, how did he insult you?” queried her brother. “I’ll punch his measly head for him.” “Oh, he asked me into the drug store to have soda, and when we got it he blew over the top of his glass and said, ‘Here’s the hair all off your head.’ The idea!” “Force of habit,” muttered the brother, as he turned on his heel and smiled.— Brooklyn Times.