Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1910 — Slightly Acquainted. [ARTICLE]

Slightly Acquainted.

As an instance of the “marrying in haste” principle that obtains in some American cities an English lady who visited Chicago relates how her maid, who accompanied her, quickly became imbued with the desire to oecome Mrs. Somebody. One morning She appeared before her mistress and, with glowing eyes, announced that she had named the day and would become a wife at the end of the week. “Are you going back home, then?” the lady asked. “Oh, no, ma’am; it’s an American gentleman,” replied the maid. “But,” remonstrated her mistress, “we’ve only been here a fortnight.” "That’s no matter. He wants the wedding to be on Saturday.” “Well, can’t you get him to postpone the marriage just a little till I can get another maid?” “Well, ma'am, I’d like to oblige you; but, you see, I don’t feel well enough acquainted to ask him to do that.”— London Answers.