Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1913 — What She Meant. [ARTICLE]

What She Meant.

“So you think I smoke too much?” he asked, just to keep up a conversation that seemed to be languishing. “Not at all,” she answered, not very skillfully concealing a yawn. . “Yousaid you thought so.” "Pardon me. I don’t think you are smoking too much.” "Didn’t you say that I’d die if I didn’t cut it down?" “Yes —that’s what I said.” It took him a long to get it, and then he was quite angry.