Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1890 — The Took Them Back. [ARTICLE]

The Took Them Back.

They had quarreled, and the highspirited girt said, as she handed him a small package: “There, Mr. Ferguson, are the presents you have given me. Now that all iaover between us, sir, there should be no reminders of the foolish past.” “You are right. Miss Keener.” he said, humbly, “and I suppose I must return the gifts yon have presented me. ” “I never gave you anything, sir, that I remember.” “Indeed you did." “Sir, I ” “Miss Keeter—Katie!" he exclaimed, with something that sounded like a sob, “I value them beyond everything else in this world! It will break my heart to return them, but there is nothing left for me to do. ” ‘ “Will you kindly tell me, sir, what things you speak of?” “I am speaking, Katie, of the kissesy you have given me. They are not mine now. It is my duty to restore them. Forgive me, darling, but I cannot go away without .’V “Oh, George!” ******* When the clock struck eleven, about three hours later, George was still returning them. Ladies, attention 1 If any readers of this paper are wearing the shoulder cape, now in fashion, we hereby advise them to make dog blankets of them—or throw them to the dogs—and adopt a more sensible and safe outer garment. These abominable abridgments of hygienic decency invite intercostal neuralgia, lumbago, pleurisy, rheumatism, consumption, and pneumonia, and already promise to make more business for physicians than any othe' folly or fashion for a long time.— Dr. Foote's Health Monthly.