Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1911 — GATHERED SMILE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GATHERED SMILE

WITHOUT AVAIL.

1 thought Maude had a pretty face, hut now she doesn’t please, because (oh, horrors, that grimace!) I saw the maiden sneeze. Then Violet, I used to muse, would be a dainty wife; but one sad day I saw her use, for eating beans, her knife. And Isabelle was true and square, as honest as the day, I thought, until her russet hair worked loose and blew away. But recently appeared Jennetts, in whom 1 could descry, no blemish, and my hopes were set in the most cloudless Bky; but there were heartless clouds ahead. Bill Bromley came to me. "I want to tell you sir,” he said, * "Jeannette’s my fiancee.” Despairing now, I seek retreat in monastery cell, where woman I shall never meet, and in sweet peace may dwell.