Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1911 — Game and Set; Or, The Man Who Lost [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Game and Set; Or, The Man Who Lost

Though she was a typical athletic girl, she appeared to distinct advantage in a kimono. With his nose red from the sun and love shining from either eye. he strove delicately to tell of his passion as he opposed her at tennis. She was not in a*kimono. “Ah,” ebo elghed. “Think of a bachelor's lonely misery, solitary at ,the breakfast table —” “Serve!” She commanded. “Twice you have refused me and that is-—” “Doubles!” said the maiden, briskly.

“Have you no pity as you think of me 20 years from now—- “ Forty love!” called she, triumphantly, and smote the hall so that It struck him even on the burnished tip of his blistered noee, making him to see many stars in a comparatively limited area. (For the benefit of readers with no knowledge of the noble game of tennis the terms used in this story will he explained in the issue appearing three weeks from today or later.)