Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1913 — HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES

Spanking Ends Romance; Girl, 15, Doesn’t Elope

eICAGO. —Susie didn't elope after all. Instead she Is now at home, a well-spanked girl, who has no such Illusions regarding Joe, the handsome merry-go-round ticket taker, as she formerly had. ; Susie, who 1b only fifteen years old, would hare had a perfectly successful elopement, and Joe would not have been arrested if Susie hadn’t failed to let one of her little chums in on the secret. Her whole name is Susie Dovenmuehm and she lives —more contentedly now—with her parents at 1831 "West Chicago avenue. I* was just after the first merry-go-round of the spring had been set up at West Huron and North Hoyne streets. Susie went. So did Irene Hiller, twelve years old, and Marie Comisky, of equal age."" It was Marie who threw the monkey wrench in the machinery of the merry-go-round elopement, figuratively speaking. Joe —he said his name was Baer —

thought Susie was pretty and said sb. He let her ride free. That very night Joe took home. Irene walked with them, but Marie was left out. Leaving Marie out was a fatal blunder. Marie learned that Susie had arranged to elope to Milwaukee with Jos the very next night. Indeed, Marie came to Susie’s house as Sußie was heaving a suitcase out of a window and Irene was keeping Susie’s mothfer interested in front of the house. When Susie and Irene slipped away Marie told her mother what she had seen and heard. Mrs. Comifeky told Mrs. Dovenmuehn. • At the merry-go-round was Susie and her “whirligig” herb. They had sll and quantities of air castles—that is, before Susie’s mother arrived. x After the mother arrived, they had a ride in the patrol wagon. Susie also had—painful to say—a sound spanking from her father. Susie’s distressing experience with her father, as a result of the otherwise unfruitful experience, leaves her one consolation. She learned from the police station records that the name 6he was about to bear wah not Baer at all. She would have been Mrs. Joe Borzonarznok.