Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1888 — DELUDED SPOONS. [ARTICLE]

DELUDED SPOONS.

“And what shall I get my little girly-girl for Christmas?” he asked, stealing one arm around the little girly-girl’s waist and otherwise misbehaving himself. “Oh, anything, George.” she whispered, “any simple little gift, coming from you. would be precious to me.” “My darling!” he gasped, with both arms now in use. “I wish that 1 might lay aN the jewels and beautiful things of the world at your feet; the gift then would be small.” And when he went out into the night she softly murmured: “Well, I think I’ll get a diamond pin if nothing else.” And he— ? “ Well,” he said on his way home, “I think one of the dollar Mda half picture cards or a box of bon-bons will let me out there; she’s the kind of a girl to have.” But the star that shines in Bethlehem Shines still, and shall not cease; And we listen still to the tidings Of glory and of peace. —[Adelaide Proctor.