Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1889 — Never. [ARTICLE]

Never.

A young lady asked an editor this extraordinary question: “Do you think it right for a girl to sit on a young man’s lap, even if she is engaged?” Whereupon the editor told this 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! never! never!”— New Mississippian.