Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1912 — Unusual Occurrence. [ARTICLE]

Unusual Occurrence.

Richard Harding Davis, during his Atlantic City honeymon, said at a fish luncheon; “I confess that I am not pleased with the modern trend of fiction. The newest fiction leaves a bad taste in the mouth. It is full of double entendre —like the parlor maid’s remark. “A gentleman came down to breakfast one morning with bloodshot eyes. He drank eight glasses of ice water hurriedly, then he muttered hoarsely to the pretty parlor maid: “ ‘Tell me, Adele, did I reach home last night very much under the weather?’ “ ‘lndeed you did, sir,’ the maid replied. ‘Whw. sir, you kissed the missis!’” —Washington Star.