Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1911 — RUDE AWAKENING FOR ELIZA [ARTICLE]

RUDE AWAKENING FOR ELIZA

Too Late She Discovered That Visitor Was Not the Object of Her Adoration. I ’ The gentle Eliza was sitting drearily in the darkened room, waiting miser ably for a visitor, whom she feared would never come. To tell the truth, Eliza and William had quarreled bitterly the night before. But what is that? A ring, a step, a masculine voice. She waited not, but threw herself into the visitor’s arms. “Oh, my darling.” she sobbed, with her head upon his. bosom. “I am so glad you have called. I did so long to make up and do my best to pay you for bringing light into my life. Let us settle peacefully onoe more with each other.” r “Well, miss,” said a strange voice, "I’m willin’, I’m sure. But my Instructions is that if you don’t I’m to cut off the gas!” i And it was only then that Eliza found out she had mistaken a common gas person for her William.— London Tit-Bits.