Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1893 — He Didn’t Laugh. [ARTICLE]

He Didn’t Laugh.

An idle London fop who had recently married a lady with a large income accidentally met an old sweetheart who had jilted him some time before on account of his idleness. Thinking to have a laugh out of her, he remarked: “And so you are not married yet, Miss Jones?’ 1 “No, not yet." “Why did you not take advantage of leap year?” “Beoause I am not able to earn enough to support a husband, ” was her unexpected and cutting reply.