Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1893 — Unsatisfied Curiosity. [ARTICLE]

Unsatisfied Curiosity.

Every instructor at Chautauqua I* required to fill out a paper answering a number of necessary and unnecessary questions. One year there was a remarkably handsome male member of the faculty in whom all the girl students were much interested. “Is he married or unmarried?” became an all-absorbing question. Finally some oi 'them had the courage to approach tie college secretary and ask if the files might be looked over. And there the handsome professor anticipating, perhaps, some such investigation, bad recorded his matrimonial pretensions as follows: “Married or single?—Yes.”