Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1889 — Mere Sympathy. [ARTICLE]

Mere Sympathy.

Augustus (after tlie ordeal) —Now that we are engaged, I want to ask you a question. Why did you rush out of the room when I began to propose ? Alvira—3 Et—it made me feel sorry for the two : girls down in the kitchen, whose lovers are too bashful and too awkward to propose; so I hurried down and invited the two couples up in the back parlor where the men could hear how the thing is done. “Eh ? Then they must have heard every word.” “That doesn’t matter, dear. There is no danger of any breach of promise suit between tus, yon know” —New York Weekly.